The Falcon line of computer games is a series of simulations of the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft. The games were developed and published by Spectrum HoloByte (later MicroProse). They were noted for their high level of realism unseen in contemporary simulation games.
There were seven major versions of Falcon:
Falcon was originally designed and produced by Gilman Louie and programmed by Les Watts for the MSX (1984), under title of "F-16 Fi...
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The Falcon line of computer games is a series of simulations of the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft. The games were developed and published by Spectrum HoloByte (later MicroProse). They were noted for their high level of realism unseen in contemporary simulation games.
There were seven major versions of Falcon:
Falcon was originally designed and produced by Gilman Louie and programmed by Les Watts for the MSX (1984), under title of "F-16 Fighting Falcon") and Macintosh (1987 as "Falcon"), and used bitmapped 3D MiG-21s as adversaries. This was several years before Origin's Wing Commander used a similar graphics engine. It was ported to the PC later, but no longer used bitmapped graphics. Instead, the adversaries became primitive polygons instead.
In the original Falcon, users had their choice of flying one of 12 missions - with awards for flying missions at higher skill levels. The user had a choice of different ground attack and air-to-air weapons, although these were also...
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