A-10 Cuba! Gameplay "Airstrike"

Some more gameplay from an old game all the way back in 96 called A-10 Cuba. I did a video a few years of the same game but did not do any more because of some troubles recording it.
Anyways, in this mission we have to take out a few Mig-29s and bomb their runway before moving on to destroy a few ammo dumps.

[@MajinLiveTV]

LOL true 90s kids only ever had the demo of this game. By the end of the summer we: - Were all in love with the A-10 - Knew all the switches in the cockpit like the back of our hands - Could blow up the airfield and ammo depots before the other A10s even got there - Followed the B52s out to sea just to shoot their engines out and watch the crews bail out - Loaded as many Mk84s and Mk83s as we could just to dummy bomb the crap out of that little town next to the bay - Could do the tunnel run with our eyes closed - Would see how low you could fly without being disintegrated by the 2000 pounder you just dropped - Would take off with an empty loadout just to see how far, how high or how fast we could go Summer 1997 - Goosebumps by R.L Stine and A-10 Cuba!

[@Badjoe117]

Pretty much did the same thing haha

[@dashingeduardosuarez]

You forgot the cherry on top: Ejecting the pilot while inverted at really low altitude. That glorious scream of agony as he became one with the dirt.

[@Youtub3rh4x0r]

As a kid, this game was 70% of my day.. I LOVED everything, from the way the AI A-10s only light up one engine sometimes, the sound of the F-15s afterburners, following the B-52s out in the sea, flying to the (For some reason half-Bulgarian?) MiG-29s before they turn on their engines or waiting them to actually take off so I can engage in dogfights, sometimes blasting them with Mk83s, shooting AGM-65s up into the sky to see how far they went, selecting empty loadout and reaching as far up north into the map as I could before running out of fuel.. It was just something else, it was FS98 (Which I also loved) but with guns and growing up in those days that sounded like the coolest game ever made. Wish I could get this to run in Windows 10, but unfortunately not even the original CD would work.. Only through VMs but that's a hustle. BTW, If anyone lurks in the comment section and knows a way around this, please let me know!

[@Badjoe117]

It was indeed a fun game to play as a kid, it was different then when everything was just exiting. And there was a way to make this run perfectly on Windows 10(It is what I recorded it on after all) but I'm not sure if the link is still up. But there should be some game files out there somewhere if you look around on google or something like that.

[@Youtub3rh4x0r]

​@@Badjoe117 I know I'm the 1,032,536th dude who says this but.. I pity the kids growing up today because while they have it better in some regards, I wouldn't trade growing up with classic games for nothing! Also, I'll look it up then! I had googled it when I tried to get it running last time, extensively, but this was years ago, I think I'll give it a shot one of these days because if you recorded this on Win10, surely someone has figured it out! I hadn't even expected a reply TBH, no less from the uploader himself! Cool video and subbed! :)

[@Badjoe117]

@@Youtub3rh4x0r I don't get a whole lot of comments so I always reply to each one, especially if it has a question. And thanks for subscribing!

[@educationalvideos4151]

Oh I forgot to mention the scream if you eject too close to the ground and hit the ground too hard.

[@GuilhermeMaia100]

So true! A-10 was a good part of my days. I did all types of experiments, doing everything that my imagination could come off.

[@mxrclxst]

Man I remember receiving a demo disc of this and discovering that it had the data for the whole game. Copying the disc to the program files folder after install unlocked the full game.

[@Badjoe117]

Nice, that's pretty weird haha

[@darrenprentice7934]

I spent approximately half my childhood in Guantanamo Bay. Casually strolling down mainstreet in my A-10, trying to fit in with the other car traffic until leveling the whole place to the ground. Not even the cigar billboard was left standing.

[@Badjoe117]

I did the same thing as a kid as well haha. Just driving through the various cities to get a closer look.

[@dannycookedanny5940]

Fantastic game, I played this nearly all my life and never get bored of it

[@mrbricky100]

Hey man just wanted to say thank you! This game is what got me into aviation, I would play this on my grandfather's PC growing up as a kid, he has now passed away so watching this always brings me close to him and im so glad thia video exists. Thank you for uploading something that means a whole load to me!

[@Badjoe117]

Not sure what to say, but I am glad it reminds you of him and that the game itself got you into aviation!

[@Nervegas]

Funny seeing this recommended on YT, my dad wrote these games by himself. Hellcats/A10 Attack/A 10 cuba were all a one man team. Screamin demons over europe (his last flight sim) was the first one to have an entire team behind it. He was and is immensely proud of those first 3, especially the flight model. We had stacks of aeroengineering textbooks and encyclopedias of plane data he would use to build it. I'm glad people enjoyed the games, I still fire cuba up from time to time. Hellcats Parker is alive and well, he went on to develop a soft body physics system called digital molecular matter and is now working in the engineering space with machine learning for rapid prototyping. I will let him know there are still fans of his work out there!

[@Badjoe117]

That's really cool to hear and definitely a great few games I enjoyed as a kid and much later as an adult where you get a new appreciation for the attention to detail. Send him my regards!

[@petem6755]

Late 90s I wrote a letter to Parasoft telling them how exciting A10 Attack! and A10 Cuba were to play (I was in 6th grade when I started playing). And they wrote me back. I wonder if it was your father that did. I was so grateful they wrote me back, but I dont think I have that letter anymore

[@Nervegas]

@@petem6755 If it was in that timeframe it would have been him or my mom writing back. He did all of the development out of a one-bedroom apartment a mile or so from our house that was basically a live in office. They didn't have any other employees until well after A-10 cuba when he was working on screamin demons. I'll ask and see if he remembers, we didn't get a ton of fan mail from what I can remember.

[@will9357]

Your father's games have certainly aged gracefully; a lot of games don't!

[@terribletom1145]

HUGE FAN! I spent hours (EDIT: more like endless hours up many many late nights as a teenager in the 90s playing this game) In fact any time I taste semi-sweet chocolate it throws me back to this game. I used to swipe a bag of chocolate chips from my moms baking goods cabinet and snack on hands fulls of them while I played this game. I would LOVE to see another A-10 game like this. This is when PC games were games. The graphics might look archaic to kids these days, but back then it was top of the line and I wouldn't trade my A-10 for anything in the world. It was and still is a masterpiece. When I ran through all the missions I didn't run out of things to do! I used to fly all over the place... fly at night... take that plane anywhere I could make it fit, used the indestructible cheat and altitude climb cheat and rocketed back down to earth as fast as I could... lol.... used the network feature and played against a friend of mine in the dogfight game.... man I would give anything to be able to play it again. I still have a couple old Macs laying around from the 1990s. Wonder if I can get one fired up again LOL

[@chimchim2_]

Loved this game as a kid. Played the demo repeatedly until I found the game at an Office Depot one day for $10. It was the only flight sim I actually owned that wasn't just a demo. Fond memories...

[@motormusique]

I think I only had the demo...was obsessed with the physics and damage!

[@iphoneupdate]

I prepared for my aviation career with this game, the physics are still ahead of their times

[@intel2133]

Wow, well done !

[@Panzerfan93]

That cockpit looks surprisingly crisp and readable for a game this old and the graphics also aged really well

[@Badjoe117]

Yeah it is quite a good looking game for its time. And the style of graphics with the sharp edges and colours has also aged pretty well. It is from that time in the 90s when textures were getting more detailed while still being pixelated. Before the smoothing effect from Texture filtering made things a bit blurry.

[@will9357]

It's running in a higher resolution than 320x200.

[@darrenprentice7934]

They sacrificed graphics for more accurate flight models. Wise choice - as Badjoe117 said, textures still looked like garbage back then. It looked "dated" at the time to many people unfortunately. I always loved the look. Tiny Combat Arena is carrying the torch today with cell shading.

[@wun1gee]

I played this on my Mac back in like 96 or 97 and even today I think it has excellent flight models and sound design. They did a fantastic job on this game way back then. To be honest it doesn't even LOOK absolutely awful. The visuals actually aged pretty well.

[@Badjoe117]

Yeah I agree that the style of the game has a pleasant sort of thing to it. And the flight model also feels fairly authentic, especially for the time too.

[@Zach-sg3ro]

Alt+Tab was king here if you know what I mean. :))

[@WesleyPacheco-Gameplays]

This was the first game I've ever experienced, I have a photo of me about 2 years old playing this on a old PC my dad used to have in '99 lol

[@Badjoe117]

This was definitely one of my first 10 real games as well. Also one of the few that stuck with me the most I'd say.

[@WesleyPacheco-Gameplays]

@@Badjoe117 I think I still have it on my OneDrive but I can't remember the controls on keyboard lol

[@Badjoe117]

@@WesleyPacheco-Gameplays I remember seeing the controls somewhere on the internet. Though many of them are pretty self explanatory if I remember right. With some that are a bit more odd.

[@owainevans89]

So many memories of me and my dad playing this. Taking it in turns. I used to sit on his lap to be able to reach the joystick. Awesome game

[@leststoner]

Love this game!!

[@AD-mk2ut]

Sheesh I use to do some terrible things ejecting the pilot in the hanger. Very very bad.

[@lilbigmorgan]

Hahahaha. He would scream for days lmfao.

[@AD-mk2ut]

@@lilbigmorgan lol why did I forget about that scream

[@DiegoJFCampos]

Man when I was kid I use to play that and it's awesome honeslty I never found a game about air fight like that.

[@obliteron]

Wow! What a cool game! I'd love to have played this back in the day.

[@Badjoe117]

It is a pretty cool game for it's time. Graphics may be very simple but the way the plane handles feels pretty good.

[@obliteron]

I'm surprised by how much it's like DCS World. If DCS had a software rendering mode I imagine it would look just like this.

[@Badjoe117]

@@obliteron Might be haha. Would be funny to see DCS with those graphics.

[@KegPatcha]

This is awesome. When is it coming out? I can't wait.

[@Badjoe117]

Been out for about 24 years, as to where you could find a place to download it you might have to look around as I don't remember where I got mine from.

[@simonnomis5302]

such good dynamics back then...

[@Badjoe117]

It was quite impressive for the time, kind of is still today in a way somehow haha.

[@matthewwiddows6319]

amazing game, such simple graphics but totally immersive. played really well on basic hardware. flight dynamics really good. still play now on windows 10, on big screens with a wrapper to upscale.

[@TM_Stone]

I loved this game. I believe it came with a joystick I got for my Mac. I would spend hours blowing up the C5 either in the air or when it was landing.

[@JonhsKitsune]

This was my favorite mission, I remember pressing N and flying it at different times of the day and even at Night, it was a great challenge! XDDD

[@Badjoe117]

It was pretty fun to just fly around at random like that at night and all, using the IR mode of the maverick to see better haha.

[@nastyaromanova5902]

Ah, dropping Mk84s on cargo ships and also on top of the B-52s during flight and max out the bomb load trying to bust the dam (which I never achieved, if its even possible). I'm no english native so I had to trial and error through the game as a young child which was part of the fun! Only had the demo version with this one mission but I played it uncountable times. I even tried to reach florida one time because my young mind didn't understand that the game didn't modell the whole planet :) As someone mentioned already, it was more of a physics sandbox than a game.

[@Badjoe117]

I used to do alot of those things as well as I kid, was pretty fun to just fly around the map and see all the things.

[@krislampe7244]

Ever since i got the demo of this Game Back in the day, i was looking for the full Version. And one day i found it in a flight Sim compilation. I found it Always interesting what happens when i Blow Up all friendly and let the Bad Guys win. Like the Mission with the an124 and the Para troops. Or shoot the ships with Mavericks Out of the Hangar :D.

[@gleisonmartins7245]

The best.... Ever....

[@Badjoe117]

Indeed, it is a pretty good game for it's time.

[@boludoshablando5184]

hii! nice gamplay! i have question how did you change the resolution to that high?

[@Badjoe117]

Hello, and unfortunately I don't actually remember as it was so many years ago I played it. But someone had made a version of it that ran better on modern computers. No idea if the file is still around though.

[@kronk3892]

The memories

[@ibizenco]

I remember being able to actually playing this only after I bought a joystick. That's a long time ago.

[@Badjoe117]

I never really had a joystick for the game unfortunately. I had to play with mouse and keyboard. Though I got my first joystick for DCS about 10 years ago.

[@theeltea]

Check out TINY COMBAT ARENA.

[@theeltea]

Did you check it out?

[@abizair1832]

Hell yeah!

[@LEOROBTWARHAWK]

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! Been looking for a "sequel" for A-10 Cuba! for several years, thank you so much for the suggestion!

[@theeltea]

@@LEOROBTWARHAWK Heheh, you're welcome. The release is in a few months.

[@ger_airfighter]

@@theeltea Sep 2021

[@PANTYEATR1]

i still have this game. i wish it could be made to work with the PS2 or PS3. and i need a book to read to know what everything means in the cockpit

[@Badjoe117]

Would be cool to see these old games re-released at some point with some improvements to make them run on older computers, as well as some more missions. And most of the cockpit is relatively self explanatory. Though some things you definitely need to look up in the manual to understand what they are.

[@PANTYEATR1]

@@Badjoe117 my disk didn't come with a manual😔 i agree i would like to see games like A10 Cuba and postal re-released

[@Badjoe117]

@@PANTYEATR1 Oh, should be a manual somewhere in the game files if I remember right.

[@perplexedmoth]

Thanks for no commentary... It's sad that I can't run this on my Windows 10 box.

[@Badjoe117]

A guy commented on one of my old vids where I ran the game on Win 7. This link leads to a download for a version of A-10 Cuba that runs on Windows 10 which is what I recorded this video on. drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Z3xHob-t29ay1SSmVsU0xEUmM/view Not my files though so I'd still recommend doing a quick scan of it if you choose to download it from there just to make sure. Hope that helps and good hunting!

[@jamestoto6480]

@@Badjoe117 thanks . ;)

[@Bhatt_Hole]

@@Badjoe117 The file can't be downloaded anymore. Anyone got a link?

[@Badjoe117]

@@Bhatt_Hole Unfortunately I don't have any new link for the game. But there must be one out there somewhere if you search for it.

[@abizair1832]

Just try Tiny Combat Arena by @Why485

[@dashingeduardosuarez]

I have this on my PC, runs fine on Windows 10

[@GugilusVugilusMagnus]

It’s a bombing mission and the B-52s just fly away…

[@Badjoe117]

It is a bit weird yeah, I was going to say that there was a reason for it in the briefing but I must remember a different mission. Probably just there to look cool when you load into the mission.

[@MisterDozer]

I came here to see if this is the game I was trying to remember if I played as as a kid. And immediately with the “A10” music,😅 yep this is the game. 😂

[@Badjoe117]

It is a pretty recognizable theme song, a pretty good one too I think haha

[@Alex3110a]

I would pay for this on iPad or Mac today

[@fabiomedsou]

Win 7 or 10?

[@Badjoe117]

I think I was doing this on Win 10.

[@pressstart.multiverse]

What local from download inglês tais game full? I Love He, i played Michael in The my past.

[@GlitchedBlox]

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[@stephenhampton7444]

I forget the key to press where you jump in the air ?

[@Badjoe117]

If you mean Eject, then I think it is Ctrl+E or Alt+E.

[@stephenhampton7444]

@@Badjoe117 no its like you take off with out taking off on the runway like your VTOL harrier jump in the air i forget the keys for it lol.

[@stephenhampton7444]

Found it its [Ctrl] + Tab - Add 500 feet to altitude

[@Badjoe117]

@@stephenhampton7444 Oh yeah forgot that was a thing as well haha

[@stephenhampton7444]

@@Badjoe117 Have you tried the f-15E on DCS yet ?

[@Daimo83]

10:06 is that the KZbin HQ? 😂

[@Badjoe117]

Never noticed that, might be! lol

[@RedPandaFennec]

i use maverick and harm missile for air to air strike XD

[@Badjoe117]

Never actually tried it in this game but that is a pretty funny way to take down another aircraft haha

[@RedPandaFennec]

in this game. AIM 9 missile does less damage. But Maverick missile is powerful and will take down any enemy plane

[@Badjoe117]

@@RedPandaFennec I'd imagine it would take down anything in one hit for sure haha

[@RedPandaFennec]

only 1 problem. maverick and harm turns slowly. But aim9 turns fast

[@Badjoe117]

@@RedPandaFennec Thats true, the Sidewinder is ofcourse a much lighter missile.

[@zzodr]

Well you made that look easy, and you're just a kid too..

[@Badjoe117]

Thanks, I still have the original disk, though the box and manual is gone. It was part of some 5 or 10 pack of activision games or something like that I think.

[@zzodr]

@@Badjoe117 Do you remember the game used to say that after a successful mission. Great! I still have the CD and manual.. somehow survived all the moves since 1996. :-)

[@Badjoe117]

@@zzodr Yeah I remember the baby voice at the end as well haha