Flying Nightmares
Flying Nightmares is a flight simulator published by Domark for the Power Macintosh running classic Mac OS. It was a port of the almost identical IBM PC version, SVGA Harrier. It was one of the first commercial PPC native games. It was later ported to the 3DO by Lifelike Productions.
Flying Nightmares
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- 1994
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Released on compact disk, it was notable for having a 10 MB introduction video that was not based on actual in-game footage, while the game itself was only 3 MB and was based on SVGA graphics ported from the PC.
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• Title — Flying Nightmares • Developer — Simis Limited Likelike Productions (3DO) • Publisher — Domark Software, Inc. • Producer — John Kavanagh • Designer — Chris Tubbs David W. Payne Jonathan Newth • Programmer — Colin Boswell • Artist — Alan Tomkins Tony West • Writer — Doug Richardson • Platforms — 3DO Interactive Multiplayer Macintosh • Released — Macintosh1 January 1994 3DO1 January 1995 • Genre — Combat flight simulator • Modes — Single-player
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Flying Nightmares is a combat flight simulator in a Harrier jump jet. It is combined with a theatre-scale strategic layer.
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Next Generation reviewed the 3DO version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "this is as good as the 3DO is likely to see, but still not recommended for everyone."
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- “Flying Nightmares”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Imagine Media. Finals. Next Generation. 12. 185. December 1995.
- 2.Power Unlimited Game Database. Power Unlimited.
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