The MicroProse brand was licensed to the Legacy Engineering Group for consumer electronics. The brand was revived in 2007 when Interactive Game Group acquired it from Atari Interactive, formerly Infogrames. MicroProse UK's former main office in Chipping Sodbury was closed in 2002, followed by the company's former headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland in 2003. In 2001, MicroProse ceased to exist as an entity and Hasbro Interactive sold the MicroProse intellectual properties to Infogrames Entertainment, SA. In 1998, following an unsuccessful buyout attempt by GT Interactive Software, the struggling MicroProse (Spectrum HoloByte) became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hasbro Interactive and its development studios in Alameda, California and Chapel Hill, North Carolina were closed the following year. Subsequent cuts and corporate policies led to Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds leaving and forming Firaxis Games in 1996, as MicroProse closed its ex- Simtex development studio in Austin, Texas. In 1993, the company lost most of its UK-based personnel and became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte. Most of their internally developed titles were vehicle simulation and strategy games. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the Civilization and X-COM series. Dude gave me an appreciative nod.MicroProse is an American video game publisher and developer founded by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982. I remember telling him it's cool but not as cool as the P-51 Mustang around the corner. Airforce jock there was eager to show off his modern F-15 and asked me whether I thought it was cool. 10 year old me went to an air show one year.
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Aces like Erich Hartmann, Johnnie Johnson, Saburo Sakai, etc. Famous operations like the Dambusters Raid and the Doolittle Raid. P-51 Mustangs, BF109s, Spitfires, Zeros, etc. As a kid I was obsessed about WW2 era planes. In a war where soldiers and civilians were experiencing unimaginable suffering on the ground, the pilots in the air where someone above it ( even though they themselves suffered greatly). This was a time when pilots could actually see their opponents instead of knocking them out 50 miles away.
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It truly was the golden age of air to air combat. Yeah there's just something legendary.if not noble about air combat in that era.
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It all comes around full circle.Īnywho.yeah I loved Microprose back in the day and will look at this project with great interest. The turret designs in ships like the Millennium Falcon in turn was inspired by none other than bombers like the B17. I mean turret gameplay in this game is heavily inspired by what we saw in Star Wars. Click to expand.Yeah there's just something legendary.if not noble about air combat in that era.