Talk of Falcon 5 and Microprose nostalgia

[+MigBuster]

https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/06/how-microprose-returned-to-making-military-sim-games/amp/

How MicroProse returned to making military sim games

 

I was delighted to discover that MicroProse, the military simulation game company that was once the pillar of the war game community, was reborn under the leadership of game developers David Lagettie and John “Wild Bill” Stealey.

Hoping to capitalize on nostalgia and the hole in the market left by the dearth of military strategy games, the new MicroProse has announced three games coming to Steam soon, with more on the way.

This is another post for the geriatric gamers crowd, like my interview with Joe Kucan of Command & Conquer fame. I first interviewed Kucan, who plays the villain Kane, more than two decades ago. The same is true for my first interview with Stealey, who was the cofounder of MicroProse. Stealey taught me how to fly WWII airplanes in the simulation game Warbirds from.....................

[+Stratos]

I love the ideas of cardboard boxes and big printed manuals, even If I need to make some room on my shelves.

[JosefK]

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Edited June 8, 2020 by JosefK