Talk:Air Warrior (video game)

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Notorious for its sheep? Drutt (talk) 06:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

this article is seriously erroneous

AW wasn't remotely close to the first graphical multi-player online dogfight. PLATO had that in the seventies. -- Akb4 (talk) 09:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Airfight was the first networked dogfight program, but it can hardly be considered online or multi-player by the terms in use when Air Warrior arrived on the scene. Airfight allowed two players, which any console game system will allow. --Born2flie (talk) 09:10, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Airfight was online to a single timesharing system. Airfight was a serious multiplayer game! I recall playing Airfight in the mid 1970s and seeing 20 or so different orange specks on my screen representing other jet fighters. Airfight's predecessor, dogfight, was only two players. My big problem with Airfight is that I always got shot down before I could practice landing, so I never learned to land. The X15 was the only noncombatant plane available, and it tended to stall if you tried any manuvers at all. That plane was a killer. -- Douglas Jones 128.255.45.57 (talk) 22:56, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Okay, but back on topic, the article is not only erroneous but incomplete. The article only mentions WWII combat simulation, but says nothing about the WWI and Korean War simulations that were part of both the offline and online versions of the game, and nothing about combat ladders, historical accuracy, and the realism scale. It doesn't mention flying clubs, squadrons, country vs. country and squadron vs. squadron combat. It also doesn't mention that many players were RL licensed pilots (some of them employed commercially) who played because of the attention to realistic detail. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 00:36, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Screeies

Article needs screenshots. Drutt (talk) 07:45, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Missed much

Never a game gave so much satisfaction to so many. We want it baaack....--Murat (talk) 22:38, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. AirWarrior3 you are missed. Those nightly group games trying to intercept the bomber streams crossing the Channel were the best of times.

a dedication please in memory of that user of air warrior that passed away

"cheers, Ho next: The SCAVENGER Remembered

Terry Naughton (Scavenger) died, suddenly and unexpectedly, just a few months after he was inducted into the Turkey Ham squad. But not before he became known throughout Air Warrior as the man who spoke so eloquently from the heart and shared the fun, the wisecracks, the tremendous egos so easily spoofed and the hidden dreams that many of us live out through the toughest and greatest air combat simulation ever created.

Air Warrior had never seen a guy like Scav. There won't be another. He loved this game but he loved something even more. He loved the company of other dreamers. He loved the camaraderie, the boasting, the passion and the friendship. Scav though we were just about the best bunch of idiots he'd ever met in his all-too-brief life. He was right. We are. It was.

- Slug *TH*"

"A tribute to Terry Naughton (a.k.a. Scavenger)

Terry Naughton passed away July 2nd 1994, he was in the mid-fifties. I never had the chance of meeting him personally, i only knew him from his many and often funny messages on the GEnie electronical bulliten board and from some "radio messages" on a game called Air Warrior. We were both AW pilots, like hundreds of other flight-sim fans, we were enjoying recreating what it was like to be a World War II pilot, we fought for a Country, we were part of a Squadron, we were flying electronic replicas of WW II planes in a cyber sky. All in the comfort of our homes but it was the closest we could get to live.... our common dream.

Terry Naughton was known in the AW community as "Scavenger" of the Turkey Ham squadron. He wasn't the best 'pilot' in terms of flyin skills but he was the most universally liked person online. The announcement of his death brought sadness to all who had the chance to knew him, many of us felt we had lost a close friend.

His messages on the bulliten board were often funny, sometimes moving, and always friendly. It came as a fresh breeze after all the eggo-bashing, flame-throwing, chest-pounding messages that pretty much were the norm, at least in the famous Crash & Burn Cafe :)

It's been nearly two years now that he left us, but the posts are still in the memories of those who knew him... They always are a pleasure to re-read and they still bring us emotions. I decided to put some of them on my Web pages so to make them even more present to people who already have them on disks and to make them available to new flight-sim enthusiasts who didn't had the priviledge of being there.

Thank you again Scav!

Christian Labelle"

from http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/avia/scav.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guesters (talk • contribs) 14:27, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Community

More important than the aircraft modeling, the graphics (not the best, but frame rates were more important than eye-candy when engaged in a 20 pile-it fur ball), the historical or geographic accuracy, was the AW community. During the long, boring climb after taking off, it was the opportunity to socialize with the other players. it was a big chatroom, basically. People of all ages, from all over the globe would get together to dogfight in a virtual sky. Three different "countries" "A" (white or blue), "B" (Red), and "C"(Green). Players formed lasting friendships and bond. I have never seen any other gaming community as warm and tight-knit. The annual Air-Warrior Convention was an opportunity to meet the people you knew only by their "handle" and their online persona.

I was "Frenchy", A moderator on AOL and Gamestorm, and C.O. of the "Gargoyles" squadron. We specialized in the A26-B Invader. with 8 50-cal machine guns in the nose and a sick amount of ammo, we would go hover over an enemy base and leisurely wait for the unsuspecting to climb up to get us. They would soon learn that big lumbering bomber they assumed was an easy target, was one of the best stall-fighters in the sky.

<<S>> to all the old Air Warriors - Moggy, Vet, Tiff, and all who's names I've forgotten.

Frenchy - "C'est la mort - C'est la guerre - C'est la vie!" Frenchyaw (talk) 16:12, 3 May 2023 (UTC)