This was also the first Sim I'd encountered in which you could actually refuel in mid air. You could drop supplies from your Hercules, or strafe an area with the A-10's big gun.
You could mount attacks on ships, factories, and tank batallions. Handling was appropriate in pretty much all cases and the 3D engine suitably slick. You could pick a mission to suit and get into the cockpit of just about anything going, for either side. Surprisingly, although perhaps not given their involvement with Armour Geddon, this was a Psygnosis effort.īirds of Prey was definitely one for the aircraft fancier. Here's a more in-depth look at the game from a review at Amiga Games Database: "What did involve was just about every jet the US and USSR had at the time, with C130 Hercules transports and the X rockets the US used to run supersonic tests on.
The PC conversion was done by Chris Sawyer of Transport Tycoon fame. The Amiga version contained a breathtaking intro that is sadly completely missing in the PC version of the game. But after a survey of potential clients, it turned out Xbox was the preferred name for the console and it became its official name.Birds of Prey is a fairly complex combat flight simulator by Argonaut Software, featuring a lot of different planes and missions. The team disassembled a few Dell laptops and used the hardware for making the prototype console, which passed the engineering team and went into development, though the name was shortened to Xbox.Īnother interesting fact is that the high-ranking officials and the marketing team of Microsoft did not like the name of the Xbox and presented many alternatives, including the Microsoft Action Experience (MAX), Microsoft Action Reality Center (MARC), and Microsoft Play and Action Center (M-PAC). DID YOU KNOW?ĭid you know that the first Xbox was made from the pieces of a few disassembled Dell laptops? It was reported that Microsoft wanted to create a competitive, affordable, and powerful gaming console that can compete with Sony's upcoming PlayStation 2, so a team of engineers from their DirectX department got together to hatch plans for the gaming equipment they wanted to call the DirectXbox. Microsoft's gaming consoles are called Xbox, as a shortened term for DirectXbox, based on the names of the console's four developers: Otto Berkes, Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase, all members of Microsoft's DirectX team.
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