Ace of Aces

Information

Genre

Simulation - Air

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick, Keyboard

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Wong, Amory, Pickell, Kevin P.

Graphic Artist(s)

Wong, Amory, Lee, Tony

Sound

[n/a]

Cover Artist(s)

[unknown]

Year

1987

Publisher

US Gold

Developer

Distinctive Software

Country

United Kingdom

License

Commercial

Medium

Tape, Disk

Rarity

7 (Tape), 7 (Disk)

Serial

-

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 6.9/10 · Votes: 49 · Downloads: 3,294 · Hits: 16,289

Additional Comments

Screenshots (10)

Cover Art (4)

Instructions (1)

Comments (5)

• Sut1978 — 29 Dec 2021

  Initially slow and unappealing but stick with it and fun can be had. Not a masterpiece by any stretch but a decent time waster. Not sure an ideal console type release for the XEGS.

• AbbotKinneyDude — 13 Dec 2020

  It's a great game to play in its cartridge version and, to a lesser extent, in its disk version. However, I would avoid the tape version for obvious reasons (slow multi-load, need to load the whole program again when game over). BTW- The XEGS version only has 1 title screen out of 2 versus the disk version.

• ChrisTOS — 25 Jan 2018

  I had it on tape too. Still it was not that bad. I spent the time waiting for it to load doing my homework. I was pretty good at cutting corners when doing homework as well so I was done at the 34-40mins it took to load. Thinking back, most games that took 5mins to load (or around 100 at the tape deck meter) were crap. I was always disappointed to see a game load so fast..

• Auntie Pastie — 29 Sept 2008

  Alex; let me guess... you had the tape version- I had that too! It was a *horribly* slow multiload made all the worse by the Atari's painfully slow tape drives. I'm guessing that this was originally written and intended as a disk-based game, since it was developed by an American company (AFAIK the U.S. market was mainly disk-based by the mid-late 80s). I'd also guess that the tape version was an afterthought, possibly only commissioned by U.S. Gold for the UK release. Here's the annoying thing- although quite a lot of UK Atari owners had disk drives (because the Dixons chain sold 800XL/1050 bundles at a very low price in the mid-1980s), the UK 8-bit market as a whole was still fairly tape-driven. The "Budget" computer games market (originals and cut-price reissues of full-price games) in particular was built around cassettes, and they were almost never available on disk. So even us disk-owning Atari users ended up with lots of stuff on tape and suffering slow loading and "Load Error" messages. That's why I had this game on tape. Aaaaaargh! Wish I'd known how good "Transdisk" was much sooner.

• Alex — 23 Nov 2006

  Ha ha ha, damn i remember this, the first thin was it took an eternity to load, and when the game started i was in some sort of cockpit before being shot down by something ( less than 1 minute into playing)and then it said something bout loading the game over... Absolute long thing