1942: The Pacific Air War

Nostalgic =)

Все мы были там, в крови наших дедов

Eu vi esse jogo pela primeira vez no shopping Iguatemi em Campinas em 1995, era tão caro que só pude joga-lo dois anos depois quando um amigo abastado me vendeu sua cópia usada, porém completa, com caixa grande, disquetes, manuais e folhetos, ainda a tenho até hoje. É um jogo muito realista para sua época, o modelo de voo é caprichado como tudo que a Microprose fazia, seu sucessor (European Air War) é considerado uma obra prima. Infelizmente esse jogo sofre de sérios problemas na emulação do som digital (metralhadoras por ex) no DOSBOX. Dá para resolver, mas é preciso recorrer a um programa externo gerenciador de memória (procure nos comentários em inglês um passo a passo). Achei que por ser uma cópia legalizada vendida nas plataformas digitais, a Retroism teria resolvido esse contratempo, enfim, parece ser uma falta de esmero com todos jogos de MS-DOS que necessitem do DOSBOX. É um jogo antigo, os jovens certamente devem passar longe, os mais velhos que queiram reviver os bons tempos de jogatina nos PCs amarelos tem que estar prontos para alguns ajustes braçais para deixar o jogo "jogável". Simuladores de combate aéreo para PC eram muito populares até o começo dos anos 2000, 1942 PAW certamente está entre os top 5 da primeira metade dos anos 90.

The times before Steam were wild. I miss those days a little. Anyway, this is a Strategy game I played decades ago. Thankfully, in my ability to think ahead, I even wrote my own review of it at that time. Unfortunately that review was just some wildly ridiculously complicated recipe for a sandwich. I won't include that recipe, because it obviously has nothing to do with the game. I will tell you that I made that sandwich, ate the sandwich, and despite the complicated requirements in making it... It was delicious. What I had to say about the game is that I found the graphics to be really great at certain points, especially for the time period. What I didn't like is that the whole strategy element felt like you were so far removed from the process despite actively making choices. Perhaps it was watching dots move that I didn't like. I wasn't too clear on it. Essentially at this point in time, all the way here in 2026, I can honestly say I was unable to get into it now. I tried. I loaded it up. Relished a little bit on the nostalgia. Made that sandwich, ate it, and made a couple of decisions in game that had woefully slow results. I miss that sandwich now, but I do not miss this game.

Tato hra je sice už stará spustitelná pod režimem DOS a proto ta grafika na dnešní dobu nepůsobí lákavě a to nepočítám jiné funkce, ale na tu dobu a i dnes se mi líbí děj hratelnost je velice promyšlená ať už je to pro samostatnou misi, kariéra pilota anebo přímo bitvu. Velice dobře promyšlené mise a i práce s mapou , to je to co mi dneska v nových hrách chybí, u nových her je sice grafika nádherná , ale místo místo simulátoru je to pouze střílečka, arkáda a ta reálnost simulátorů chybí (jsou výjimky, ale bohužel jich moc není) tahle hra by si zasloužila nějakou podobu remastru , ale né arkády prostě vylepšení grafiky , zvuku a pod. věcí, ale ten děj a kampaně nechat jak je to by bylo velice super, kdyby se toho někdo ujal. Akorát aby to nedopadlo jako u remastru Wings Of Glory to mě hodně zklamalo kdy ze simuláturu z WWI DOS udělali arkádovou střílečku ... ale to je jen můj názor.

I honestly did not like it and found it confusing on what was happening and the sound was buggy af.

Broken out of the box. Could not get sound and music to work no matter what solution I tried. As a result the game has horrific garbled sound that replays over and over and makes it impossible to hear anything. Sorry, but 'turning the sound and music off' is not a solution.... that's just absurd.

還不錯，古老的遊戲，操控很靈活