Dogfight for the Sinclair Spectrum

Dogfight

Year of Release

1984

The Advertising Blurb

'Dogfight' is an exciting 2 player, real time game with 8 levels of difficulty. It's true to life action including moving aircraft, rotating propellers, explosions, sun, moving cloud, lightning and ground effects, aid you in your objective to shoot down or out-manoeuvre your enemy, simulating real aircraft movement through keyboard or joystick.

Compatibility

48K Required

Number of Levels

8 Levels of Difficulty

Original Price

£6.95

Comments

One of the 'features' of the game is that it sometimes displays the sun on screen. Bizarrely, the aircraft actually manage to fly behind the sun!

Controls

1,0 - Dive, Q,P - Climb, Caps&Sym Shift - Slow, Z&Break - Fast, A&Enter - Fire

Original Rating

Crash 47%

Review:

This is a very ambitious two player game based on a simple arcade game. The playing area is very small in comparison to the size of the player's aircraft graphics and it struggles to display both at the same time, as seen in the screen shot.

For those willing to master the controls and find a suitable human opponent, there is some entertainment to be had. Whether this is worth it is debatable.

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