Strike Commander Mission-1 (CD Version) PC, DOS, MT32, 1993, Origin Systems

Strike Commander - Mission-1 - Origin Systems - A Chris Roberts Game '1993, PC, DOS, CD-ROM, MT32 / SB - DOSBox 0,74 svn, Keyboard , scanlines (best viewed in 720p)
"just practice gameplay with unlimited bullets"
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Strike Commander is a combat flight simulator video game designed by Chris Roberts and released by Origin Systems for the PC DOS in 1993. Its 3D graphics-engine used both gouraud shading and texture-mapping on both aircraft-models and terrain, an impressive feat at the time. Significant plot elements were presented through in-game cut-scene animations, a hallmark storytelling vehicle from Chris Robert's previous Wing Commander games. Strike Commander has been called "Privateer on Earth," due to the mercenary role-playing in the game.
The game was mass released in 1994 as part of a Creative Labs bundle pack with Syndicate Plus, Ultima VIII: Pagan and Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi. It was also available in a CD bundle with Wing Commander: Privateer; both games included the core game, the expansion pack and voice pack on a single CD-ROM disc
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[@theversatileartist6446]

What made this game truly great was the combination of unique game play and great story mode, I still remember the campaign after 23 years.

[@mizzyroro]

Great story line plus you have to make choices that can affect the outcome. Excellent flying and combat quality too.

[@knutpohl339]

Don't forget the manual! A story to get lost in on its own - in AFK mode. Building up gigatons of hype and excitement before even installing a single byte. Strike Commander was probably the peak of box content in the game industry. Sometimes I am truly sad that games don't come with manuals and stuff any more.

[@cameronjenkins5304]

I think I still remember all the missions.

[@OpenGL4ever]

@@knutpohl339 Falcon 4.0 had a large manual too.

[@VandyMan84LA]

I remember how bad I was, and how I couldn't figure out how to lock onto targets...

[@DarkElfDiva]

For 1993, these graphics were incredible. I remember reading an article on it. Nearly everyone who stopped and saw it at the show was like, "How the hell did they DO that?"

[@rasz]

The answer was you needed top of the line 486dx2-66 to even start thinking about playing this game when it came out. Same like playing Gunship 2000 on Amiga 500 - 5 fps land.

[@robertraman6307]

I played it on my Dell 486sx2-50hz with pci graphics. Cd rom edition. All this gives me so much memories !

[@sinoperture]

The images of gameplay on the box were insane!

[@DarkElfDiva]

@@sinoperture The Sudden Death magazine that came with it was great, too. I read it so many times it fell apart.

[@OpenGL4ever]

@@robertraman6307 When 486 mainboards with PCI BUS were released, there were already Pentium CPUs available and 486DX4 CPUs running at 100 MHz. Thus your machine must be one of the late 486. The 486SX2 also didn't have an FPU which was required to run Quake later.

[@jiveturkeylive]

This was one of the most anticipated games of 1993. I remember it kept being delayed and pushed back from 1992 to 1993. Finally when it came out, you needed 486 or better to run it. It was a beast of a game for it's day. Thanks for call back to my youth.

[@rofofo2000]

OMG, I loved this game, I spent part of my childhood playing this. I thought the graphics were the coolest and at that time I did not speak english so the story did not matter. But I spent hours and hours killing bandits . Nostalgia...

[@Stymnus1]

Dating myself a wee bit, but I bought this game back when it first came out...then I ended up getting the speech upgrade. Came on a bunch of 3.5 disks. Later released all on a single CD-ROM. I played the heck out of it at the time.

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

I had the CD version, I ended up copying the whole CD to my HDD (Ate most of my space) so I could unload the CD-ROM driver because I needed the memory to run the game :D Good ol' days

[@faustopacheco120]

i bought it and one of the disks was bad had to wait until it came out on gog

[@bartdereu9267]

We are still waiting for a game like this

[@nutty11b15]

I miss games like this. A classic.

[@elonbaartar9468]

its amazing of how basic it looks today, I can tell you for sure it was as detailed as DCS to me back in the day! at least in memories

[@Nick_Whiskey]

having just tried the training package for the mustang in DCS i can tell you that the first thing that went through my mind was playing this game when I was kid and thinking how "real" it felt.

[@cleberalves1702]

For a 1993 game, this was way more impressive than DCS. I wish today's games still had the depth of those DOS games.

[@KvltKommando]

3d cockpit with freelook is pretty impressive to me having never seen this game. most pc driving games didn't have 3d cockpits til after the mid 2000's at least

[@OpenGL4ever]

@@cleberalves1702 DCS is the much better simulation on a much deeper level. The only thing that it lacks is a great story and that is what you want.

[@cleberalves1702]

​@@OpenGL4ever You didn't really understand my point. I said this is more impressive for what it did in its own time. This game is a whole experience while DCS is just your standard raw simulation of Physics and Avionics.

[@maxgra78]

Awesome Game! One of my favourite in the 90s! :D

[@user-uc9bc9jt3b]

yes bro! I was be a colonel with purple heart!

[@xenimaging]

I used to freaking love this game! The airshow mission was awesome

[@radioface86]

Holy crap.. So much nostalgia.

[@zagor1974]

for years that was one of the best games

[@silviutudorescu8114]

I remember my PC was struggling to play this game, especially over large cities

[@Vbluguitar]

I remember playing this and my joystick suction cups kept popping off the desk I was pulling so hard.

[@unicusDOTcom]

I played this game from start to finish back in summer of 1993, I remember shooting at the commanders plane, he would say "What are you doing son" then he would shoot you down if you didn't stop attacking him.

[@DarkElfDiva]

Same. And I always jumped in to shoot down the TWP Learjet even though it was going down no matter what. And the manual had like, an entire magazine in the front, with cool stories and shit.

[@robertraman6307]

I accidently attacked the Hercules plane :/

[@robertraman6307]

The manual was awsome, explaining different dog-fight tactics and manuevers

[@matousekdusan]

one of the best in 90th Weapon view,several angles view ,speed and very playable The main core of game was about 50MB!!!!!!!!! Incredible job.I think it was time where programmers were really programmers.

[@ughettapbacon]

I owned this game but could never get it to run on my PC. However I remember one bit from the manual when describing the handling characteristics of the AWACS 737 as "turns like a pregnant yak." and I've used that line for decades since.

[@robertmiles9942]

But how does a pregnant Yak turn? "Like an AWACS 737"

[@knutpohl339]

The manual was entirely as awesome as the game itself. Mine fell apart from reading the heck out of it

[@Pluskat78]

I was 15 years old when this came out and when i installed it i was so amezed :) 40 mgbyte and i tought jezz this size of a game is enourmos :D

[@SNARC15]

And then the CD version came out and only needed about 1MB of storage space.

[@BantuMadikizela]

90s was grand!

[@ILVBIGBUTS]

If any game needs to be revitalized and brought current - it's this one. I haven't come across a solid air sim like this in a long time! Great story! Killer gameplay and just a ton of fun!

[@OpenGL4ever]

There are plenty of great air sims available. Think of DCS or Falcon 4.0. If any game needs to be revitalized and brought current, than i would say the Wing Commander and X-Wing games are more important.

[@sMooVe1982]

@@OpenGL4ever That's the problem exactly. They're pure sims. This wasn't a sim. It was just arcade enough to be approachable without reading a handbook or having to at least half-ass learning how to fly an actual combat jet.

[@karl6657]

Nobody with a brain ever cared for DCS or Falcon 4.0, not to mention Wing Commanders and X-Wings who are trash important only for some nerd trekkers and neckbeards who play with toy figurines. Unlike all the shitty run of the mill games you mention Strike Commander was a masterpiece and is a classic. Do you get it, jarjar brain? @@OpenGL4ever

[@tube01]

This was the first game I had to buy ram for so the upgrades begin and have never stopped.

[@lotaloi]

Thanks a lot for uploading. It is a nostalgic game for sure. I still love it. :-D

[@blinx99]

I used to love playing this game as a kid.

[@haskam9615]

Great game for its time...I still have the cd so now I'm tempted to dosbox it and give it a whirl. Thanks for posting....having flashbacks now! ;-)

[@bobh64]

Thanks for the memories loved playing this on my 486 chip

[@negan7370]

music from Strike is great! Never bored:)

[@SNARC15]

Sounds amazing with General MIDI, I play the GOG version and modified it to you an MT-32 emulator (with the Timbres of Heaven soundfont) and it's unbelievable.

[@rossliebenberg4171]

Geez he almost hit that C-130s belly with that stunt

[@ReeLesTReaLisT]

Loved this game as a kid growing up

[@BantuMadikizela]

i loved this game! need to find my old CDs & emulate!!!

[@Erik-vp5bm]

I had forgotten about this game between its launch and until I saw an ad on GOG this morning. I somehow feel like I missed out.

[@trottheblackdog]

I loved this game so much!

[@MaxiZamac]

Good old times playing it!

[@jagvillani338]

This game came bundled with my 2X CD-Rom drive and I must have put in so many days playing it on my Pentium 75.

[@ironbrew11]

This came as a complimentary CD in a Soundblaster Box (cd rom + speakers + soundcard). Yes, DX2-66 was required to play it. If I recall correctly It was possible to press “A” to get to the battle point. Great game :-) There was a piece where they go: “finish him!” and your character goes “I’m a fighter pilot, not a murderer”. This is all time classics

[@AndyGoth111]

I was able to get satisfactory performance on my 486SX 25MHz

[@robertraman6307]

Game was fine with a Dell 486SX2-50 but it had PCI graphics as well. Not sure if the game cared about the graphics-card though

[@karagothshlomidabush3727]

Best flight simulator game i ever played and finished

[@rasz]

those scanlines - did you play DOS VGA games on your CRT Television? or Amiga monitor? Because VGA monitors didnt have those.

[@solatis6385]

Damn, i loved this game those days. 🙂

[@LesZapata]

Great game back then! :D

[@DannyPoet]

Man this was the game! really good.. they should do a remake..

[@pelimies1818]

I didn’t remember this game to run this smooth in my SX..

[@pctshooter]

Listen to that Wavetable Soundcard music! I spent a fortune on soundcards back then!

[@cevdetzartoglu]

I used to play this when I was a kid.

[@parsecpres]

gonna owe the crew chief a case of beer for that gear overspeed

[@fatherangry8236]

내나이 21살때 이 게임을 미친듯이 사랑했었지... 지금은 50살이 되었어..

[@mingmingck]

廿幾年前我都有玩過呢隻game, 第一個 joystick都係買黎玩呢個game, 正

[@SJkopa]

Stike Commander is Legend Great Game

[@romeotango756]

I remember the massive load times...

[@nonnenhut]

I hate the stupid noise, when passing by an airplane. But it was such an epic game, was really hard to hit other planes while being in observer mode (don´t remember the exact definition), but you could do it. Other game I loved was Eurofighter 2000

[@Choidonghoon]

My best game at 90s

[@raymondyee2008]

Haven’t played this again for some time other than instant action. The campaign was hard as hell even for the first mission. On another note Ryan McBeth made a reference to this game and remember this is fantasy; it’s *very difficult* to organize and maintain a Merc F-16 squadron let alone Ukraine in the ongoing war there.

[@lostn65]

i don't remember it being interlaced when I had this game.

[@RonPrieston]

How did you get this to play? I have the game on floppy still in the box. I played it back in 1993, loved it. Had a 486 66 awesome game.

[@philscomputerlab]

I really like this video. You are really good with flight simulators, have you thought about doing "how to play" videos? Basically teaching noobs how to play some of these games? Strike Commander is quite complex for a beginner, definitely more complex than Wing Commander for example.

[@thriftweeds]

+PhilsComputerLab That's a good idea, but i never liked to be a teacher, but i might add some pointers in videos via annotations, this is an old record of me playing SC here. There's too much simulators i havent played for some time i always need to go thru quick reference to re-learn the keys and keyboard combos for every game you get used to for instance in Falcon 3.0 has "G" for landing gear in Strike Commander has "L" for landing "F" flaps "B" airbrake "W" wheelbrake! those are basic keys that works almost in every sim! SC is very hard to control even with joystick but almost impossible with keyboard to get kills with harder difficulty and limited gun/ammo.

[@01mggt]

I agree with Phil! I'm super interested in these older flight sims but they are a bit intimidating

[@aaronseet2738]

I didn't have state of the art PC hardware back then; I could go away for a shower or cup of coffee while the mission loaded into the cockpit ready for flight.

[@nicolashrv]

Wing Commander on Earth

[@mizzyroro]

There's no game I loved more than this. I would literally get scared and my heart would race when I get jumped by Mig-29s.

[@DarkElfDiva]

I never got past the mission where you had to fight F-22s.

[@revious83]

I wonder how this game would look at 1080p and with Anti Aliasing, i played Joint Strike Fighter 1997 (Eidos) at 1440p with FXAA and it greatly improved the image quality.

[@niteshmurti]

i remember my elder cousins used to play this game and how much i used to beg them to let me play, but they never let me. They said this game is for grown ups and never let me play hahaha

[@rossliebenberg4171]

Was about 16 when I first played this game did quite few missions with out missiles an loaded with 82s

[@donaldjohnson394]

I bought this at Radio Shack when it first came out...

[@RpTheHotrod]

I always loved this game. Also, don't eject on the runway at the beginning of a mission. They aren't too happy with you. :p

[@karlhoffman5297]

I know im on a rant but SHIT! sims were the market 15 years ago. They were the point of pc's.

[@ojabreu]

How would I play with the keyboard?

[@biffrapper]

Are you using a real SC-55 for the music on this?

[@thriftweeds]

biffrapper No, just MT-32 emulated with dosbox.

[@biffrapper]

Wow, that's really good. I've never bothered trying the game with my mt-32 but I guess I will.

[@FalconsLedge]

watching the gun skills was rather painful........... Boy I loved this game.

[@thriftweeds]

Yes it was pain to shoot with keyboard control lag and dosbox back then.

[@BorysMadrawski]

The greatest game ever created.

[@Stregacollector]

best game ever

[@amirhussainsyed]

The best of best

[@karlhoffman5297]

Great game! great sim! THIS SMOKES THE SHIT OUT OF ALL THE Ace combat games. sure the graphics are better but. they need to have a better story. DAMNIT!

[@flare242]

I vividly remember the hell of trying to install floppy version of this game on my cousin's 386. It took hours and hours and hours. Trying to find the space for the monstrosity on his not exactly large harddrive, backing up what we didn't want to downright delete, then finally getting to install the game, and then we got to diskette number 11 and found out it's damaged, has corrupted data, and the install won't get past it. After all the hype and sitting through hours of playing solitaire with floppy disks, i almost threw the monitor out of the window. What a letdown. So i never saw this game in action back then. Thx for the video. I think i'd love the game. Textured models in pre 3d-accelerator era, that wasn't very common. But man, whoever had the great idea of distributing this on floppies deserves... i don't know, but he deserves SOME form of punishment.

[@thestateofdk]

I used to love this game when I was a kid. I vaguely remeber there being really cool battle damage, like missing pieces of the plane or the plane being blown in half if hit with a explosive. I don't see it in these playthroughs though, so am I just mis remembering?

[@audunskilbrei8279]

You are unfortunately. The planes never came apart. They just caught fire. And sometimes simply exploded. There was however system damage on your own plane. Like the engine, radar, fuel tank, undercarriage etc. could be damaged/destroyed.

[@johnleverette5072]

please help me I want this game again it was the absolute best F-16 flight simulator ever ever ever

[@Slay4r]

I love this game although i suck at it. Wish someone make a longplay with this video and sound quality...

[@johnleverette5072]

I've got the original disk I don't have the owner's manual so I can't activate it I also am not smart enough to make the patches and how in the hell do I get a 1980s joystick to work with a 2018 computer

[@raphaelbovey5676]

Scanlines !!!

[@ajoman6957]

Uh, the old times...

[@johnleverette5072]

my favorite I still have the disc but I don't have the owner's manual I don't have to joystick anymore damn it I want this game again help me please

[@tomkelly00]

Hey it's the privateer

[@heklik]

Who needs dcs if you have this..

[@gurujoe75]

For 1993, this is technically the maximum of what is possible /see TFX or Falcon 3.0/. Game development must have started before that and that means the average game was happy if it had an i286 CPU and a pathetically slow video adapter and little RAM.

[@johnleverette5072]

man I flew the Grand Canyon so many times I dominated this entire game come on man help me get it back somebody's got to do this somebody's got to put this back on the map and put real simulators back in our hands

[@SJkopa]

이 게임 하고 싶어서 어렸을때 잠도 못잤는데...

[@jolomies]

Nobody seems to remember that this had the pc requirement of 486 DX4 that nobody at the time had, why this game was played by almost nobody. (as DX2 were pretty much high end at the time) possibly due to them trying to make the old wing commander 2d + 3d engine fit fully 3d engine.

[@harri9885]

Nah, the recommended setup was 486 DX2-66MHz

[@infinitesimotel]

LeL polishing his gun and "gun" with the woman lying in the bed.

[@Shinetop]

Good old times! Where nobody cares about 60FPS!!!

[@conradclark88]

My favorite mission was stealing the YF-22 and then shooting down the YF-23 with it.

[@johnleverette5072]

the best ever flight simulator F-16 on I spent so many thousands of hours on this game I want to play it again please help me

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

I never played the game but I heard it was brutal on computers, it was Crysis before there was Crysis.

[@aafjeyakubu5124]

I bought it immediately when it came out. I was never able to get it to run on my computer. I just didn't have a machine with enough oomph. Looked awesome though.

[@falkerhard]

Who else thought they modelled "your" character on Mel Gibson?

[@raymondyee2008]

I was expecting more of Doug Masters aka “Iron Eagle”.

[@Predaaator]

0:24 Ok........iykwim.

[@johnleverette5072]

man I had the controller with the top hat where you could swivel around and look everywhere I had to touch screen I had to throttle the yolk man come on dude turn me on man

[@pctshooter]

I couldn't get this game because I couldn't afford the 8MB of RAM minimum required. LOL

[@sinoperture]

Took ages to install off floppy.... map generation took and age....

[@user-zl6zh7tr4w]

아.. 한때 이 화면이 참 최첨단이던 때가 있었는데.... dcs 그래픽을 보고 있으면.... 참 비교가 많이 되네요. 하긴 29년이 넘은 게임이니...

[@Miwosanur423]

back then when I admired the united states of america as a role model nation in all policy matters for true naivity, i.e. what should Top Gun have left else astonishment to greenhorns. Democracies have to cope with deficiencies, so does mine. The USA has to reconsider using mercenaries for the business purposes of a democratically elected government again or disintegrate like so many imperial societies in the past. The nazis used preussian militarism for their conquers and racist policies, the US uses air craft carriers to "protect" civilians under the umbrella of a "no flight zone", are masters of black propaganda and spin off, but in the end you have to reveal intentions for the "rulers" of the country and let these have a share again. Some rich really do a great job in black propaganda for business matters on foreign soil, but unfortunately too many noticed the underlying intentions on profits thanks to whistleblowers edmonds, snowden which gave some hints what "democracy" the business people in the upper american class would like to form.

[@lufasumafalu5069]

what the heck is this graphic.... texture mapping 101 ?

[@abram730]

+Buntalan Lucu First game with texture mapping and Gouraud shading. Ran on 486 CPU's in the days before GPU's.

[@lufasumafalu5069]

nice to see it warped like candy...

[@machinesbreathe]

+Buntalan Lucu Development for the game started in 1991. This was top of the line back then. 3D texture mapping, gouraud shading, fractal terrain, and atmospheric hazing of distant objects were all very new techniques and approaches.

[@docdistortion]

+Buntalan Lucu its from the guru itself chris roberts. i played this game for hours when it came out.

[@ravengaming4143]

In 1993, texture mapping on polygon 3D was luxury. And it doesn't look that much worse from PlayStation's warpy textures.

[@SomeBody-rm6hf]

Welp this is getting pirated tonight.