The "Old Fashioned" Sims

[The Ruptured Duck]

I was looking on youtube today and I came across the trailer for Janes F-15 Strike Eagle and remembered how much I miss all the games back then which placed accuracy over that horrible concept of "gameplay."  Why did this happen?  Why did the evil corporations s*** all over the loyal sim fans at the turn of the century?

Since EA ditched Janes way back then, how cool would it be to have a new CFS developed by Microsoft and Janes Intelligence Group?  I would love to see the open enviroment of CFS2 mixed with the technical overload of F-15/ FA/18.

Also, I wonder if theres anywhere out there that will allow you to download any one of the Janes Combat Sims in its entirety?

[WebbPA]

Thanks for the memory.

I loved Jane's F-15 and I still have it installed along with all sorts of addons.

It was the first Windows game I ever bought after I finally gave up my Commodore 64 and bought a machine with Windows 95.

There may be something to be said about gameplay over realism, though.  Every time I play it I have to pull out several pages of keyboard commands.

You can still find addons for it but they are becoming fewer and farther between.

F-15 Missions Page

[Mobius]

All hope is not lost.

There's a few coming out (soon hopefully):

http://www.fighterops.com/

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Simple. They sell more stock that way and generally the games can be on the shelf that much earlier because the programming isn't as comlex.
 A simple case of quality over quantity.

[JBaymore]

[quote]Why did this happen?