1942: The Pacific Air War

Do not waste your money on this game. It was great back in the day, but will not run on modern systems running Windows 10...

I played this game a lot in the mid-90s. Seeing this on sale I had to grab it. Sadly the SVGA graphics that I remember have been replaced by some terrible EGA quality graphics that make this game unplayable. I love to revisit old classics and primitive graphics have their charms but this one has been very poorly re-implemented. Refund requested.

The Game NEEDS to be remastered. The flight simulator and gameplay are excellent. However, the game must be upgraded to be compatible with all the latest and legacy Flight Controllers.

以二战的美日太平洋战役为背景的飞行模拟游戏 年代太久远。。。说实话。。除非入包+1否则真的不推荐这种游戏

I bought this game back in the 90's running on my crapp y little 386 with 4mb raam and 120mb hard disk and (while I was only 13) I thought it was the best damn game ever. The the flight sim was challenging, the combat was interesting and the naval strategy was compelling and quite deep for the simplicity of the interface even though I didn't really know what I was doing. This game got me hooked not just on flight sims but strategy and real world history too. Now 20 years on I still remember this game and play it now and again because I STILL have not found a modern game that offers as much as this does. Everything else is either really arcadey or is a grand strategy that doesn't incoporate the sim elements. Protip: If a studio (I could see Gaijin doing well with this) picked this up and modernised it while keeping all the gameplay and sim elements they'd be on to a winner. P.S. Still the best game ever.

I think i got this for my 10th birthday. i played it for hours every day. when i saw it on steam i had to get it. back in the day this was an awesome game, still is. plays just like it did. i dont remember the graphics as retro (bad) as they are but i think in the early 90s it was high end. If you like old flight sims youll love this. you can play it as a RTS and when your planes get in dogfights or about to bomb you can jump in and fly your self. it really is a good game.

This is a golden oldie game from the early 90's. I got in in a package deal so can not complain for the price I got it. Generally love a number of sims from that time, F-15 Strike Eagle, F-111 Stealth fighter and and Gunship 2000 all MicroProse titles and I spent 100 plus of hours playing and enjoying those games. The graphics were as good as they get then. I think that some of these MicroProse aviation titles re-released need a reboot graphically as the Scenarios, campaigns, and progressing in your career were great. They are not ARMA III or DCS online and basically ARMY FPS Games and then study sims when they throw Helicopters/aircraft in. If these were re-released as a download once game. Plug and Play. Then you could and get your up dates as required when you reconnect. But you did not not have to have internet connectivity to play these back in the day. These were realistic enough to jump in and play for an hour. I think we need something like that you can take on your lap top and play at the cottage or where ever with out being connected wifi or a road tip in the back of a vehicle or plane. lol I play MSFS FSX and MSFS2020 currently and the graphics here, well it kind of kills it for me. I can read the chunky graphic instruments in this sim. I could fly it. The views are forward, sides, back, using the key pad. But its not fun now. I was able to fly around in it but just not enjoyable enough to stay. I miss using a POV hat switch to look around. As someone said good to poke around for a few minutes but frustrating. AS I said before upgrade the cockpit instrument graphics slightly, tie in a joystick with a point a of view hat switch to change view and be able to program the keys strokes to the joysticks this game be still playable and enjoyable. I am not recommending the game because the basic Idea of it is good, but the current play ability is not, It needs a graphics upgrade.

MicroProse <3 NightDive

I'm going to give this golden oldie at least a positive vote. It doesn't look that great but at least give it a try and maybe you'll enjoy this one too. I expected more but I'm still pleased with my purchase.

As you can imagine the main obstacle to play the game is its age. There are 3 main game modes Single missions: Dogfights, bombing, torpedo attack, and ground attacks. Career Pilot: You create your character, flight missions and make yourself a name. Carrier Battle: You control the carrier and send air patrols, search missions and strike groups to enemy carriers and bases. This mode is kind of secondary given that the main point of the game is obviously the flight simulation. Its indispensable to check the manual (225 pages) for the controls list and interface explanation. The main fault of this game is that there is no tutorial nor in game nor in manual (unlike in Task Force 1942: Surface Naval Action in the South Pacific) I have not much experience with flight sims, but I find the controls confuse even after reading the manual, the old graphics and interface makes difficult to have situation awareness in the mission. Regarding the Carrier Battle mode, it feels too minimalistic, this is understandable given that this is a flight sim not a ship or strategy game.