If you had 4-color CGA graphics as opposed to a display with nothing but green and black you were the coolest kid on the block. I still remember my dad coming back from Egghead (a software store of the era) with a copy of Falcon. That was how it all began for me. As the flyer in the box says "Head-to-Head (Two-Player) Dogfight Option!", was exactly what I did with my friends once I was back home in our basement connecting two PCs that would be considered ancient by today's standards via their serial ports. Mind you, LAN wasn't even available and this was still roughly a full decade before the internet even became mildly usable and probably about a dozen plus years before any kind of real online gaming started taking place, and then only via dial-up modem. Still, this game is as impressive to me now as it was back then. Whenever I look at the box art I get nostalgic! The simplicity, yet beauty and depth of this title is hard to match in my mind. For its time it was so far ahead of anything else...
A nice touch: CDs/DVDs? Try a 5 1/4 inch floppy and 3 1/2 inch disk! (See the system requirements - bottom left in the picture).
A few other items I found:
- My grandfather's rank insignia.
- P-38 pin and AAF pilot wings.
- AAF cloth map of China from WWII. Crews were issued maps of cloth rather than paper in case they had to bail out over the Pacific Ocean, they'd still have a useable map.
- Rand McNally Air-age map of the world from 1943 with distances table on the back and a "new way of projecting the world".
- Jeppesen E6B from 1961 with instruction manual. This one is high quality!