Anyone remember TFX?

[mytai01]

DiD's Tactical Fighter Experimental was pretty fun as long as you didn't die ever! It didn't have a save game feature and if your pilot died or was captured you had to restart the whole campaign from the beginning! The game featured the EF2000, a Naval version of the F22, and the F117.

[dotChuckles]

"Looks like the Lizard!"

[Mustang]

Yeah i remember this game very well, i waited very patiently for it to be released for my Commodore Amiga but it never came :doh:

 

However i did get it for the first PC i owned, had to install it from 8 1.44mb floppies lol

[Corvus]

Good old 486 times- oh those memories... Tracking... Looks like the Lizard!

[JustVisiting]

I remember TFX a little. I just checked its release date and that one came out in 1993. Two programs that actually came out that year that I played even more were Aces over Europe (Dynamix) and Tornado (DI).

[Dudikoff]

Loved the music, but the game itself was a bit of a mess (AI, FM..), like it was unfinished and lacked focus. It was fun to mark targets and hit them with LGB's, but that was pretty much that.

 

IMHO, the only fully developed sims of that early age (up to mid-90's) were the Fleet Defender and Tornado. I could never get into the Falcon 3 for some reason; I guess the graphics (especially of the terrain) were below acceptable bringing the whole immersion down; if it came a few years later and looked like Tornado at least, it would have helped it immensely.

[cobragva]

DiD's Tactical Fighter Experimental was pretty fun as long as you didn't die ever! It didn't have a save game feature and if your pilot died or was captured you had to restart the whole campaign from the beginning! The game featured the EF2000, a Naval version of the F22, and the F117.

I totally loved ef2000 . It did turn me into sim

Good memories :-)

[Eihort]

I played the living daylights out of this thing with a wingman extreme. Managed to get a repackaged CD version of it.

 

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[Capt_Haddock]

Of course! I looked stunning at the time. And it still holds quite well on the visuals if you ask me... The colour palettes are simply great.

[will-]

tfx and strike commander were my favorites growing up. X-wing was amazing as well.

[St3v3f]

Loved that game. Found it a few months ago as abandonware and ran it through dosbox, worked really great and brought back memories :)

[Aries]

Yeah i remember this game very well, i waited very patiently for it to be released for my Commodore Amiga but it never came :doh:

 

I feel you there bro... but...

It eventually came out in a semi-finished form on an CU Amiga magazine CUCD:

 

[Suchacz]

Maybe Im wrong, but imho it was the first game/sim that introduced the 3d/virtual cockpit. I was stunned by the graphics at those times... But I wasnt playing it much

[rajdary]

I loved TFX, i still owe my Original copy for the Amiga!

[X93355]

Oh the memories - DI's Tornado followed by DI's Hind and DI's Apache were the main ones for me. Oh and then there was DI's F16Fighting Falcom as well (forgot that one).

Before that was F117 on a 286

Also Syndicate was another massive time waster for me (non flight sim game)

Mucking around with DOS to get enough free memory to run games.

Edited June 15, 2016 by X93355

[The LT]

Oh the memories - DI's Tornado followed by DI's Hind and DI's Apache were the main ones for me. Oh and then there was DI's F16Fighting Falcom as well (forgot that one).

Before that was F117 on a 286

Also Syndicate was another massive time waster for me (non flight sim game)

Mucking around with DOS to get enough free memory to run games.

 

Mujahedeen soldier? FIRING NOW! :)

 

On-topic, though, TFX was my favourite combat sim at the time (1994) and I used to play it for MONTHS. The soundtrack contributed a lot to the immersion, maginficient work by Barry Leitsch.

 

A truly memorable game. "Tracking... Looks like the lizard!"