1942: The Pacific Air War

Played today after some 24 years of really good moments by 1994-1995. OK, graphics is very old but the game is still very good. We can dream of the same game with the actual technology. Some recomenations if you find this problems. With the mouse of joystick in promenade by the left of the screen, edit dosbox_1942paw(config file) [joystick] section, and changed "timed" from timed=true" to timed=false". Then is OK and you can calibrated the Joystick normally. If you flaps dont extend try Alt Gr + [ Happy flights.

I kept trying to play the game but the configuration screen won't let me calibrate the joystick or gamepad. The cursor is impossible to control no matter how many times I try to drag it over the calibrate joystick option. Then I tried to just play with either mouse or keyboard control, both of which were useless so it looks like no trip down memory lane for me.

This game, from 1994, is excelent for its time. Of course the graphics look poor compared to today, but the game play is excellent. You will enjoy it.

In this GOG review climate of "good reviews only cronyism, shillism and fanboism posrepped to buggery by said giant clique of "cronies, shills and fanbois" there is little point me giving a critical review. It will only be negrepped by those shits. But I will have my say and up yours to anyone negrepping it. This is just too old. The VGA graphics are terrible. It's difficult enough to identify what it is right in your gunsights on much higher res sims such as IL2 1946 (when info labels are turned off), but on this blocky mess it is impossible. Scenery is either a dire mush of green pixels or blue pixels, depending on whether you are over land or water. It is also very slow with barely 5FPS. Good job this was just 60p or so. In fact just buy IL2 1946 instead, that has everything 1942 has - except for the "carrier battle" mode, and another 100x more besides. You won't miss "carrier battles" as the omniscient cheating enemy AI renders it unplayably difficult and unfair.