***** modern graphics made games an huge disfavor. On this time we had to add our imagination, but our imagination is better than any cgi. Those who are not yet spoiled are lucky! BTW, if you play old but good game some time, you feel how it starts to sink into you and you add your imagination.
urmo345 yeah exactly our imagination is what made all of those old games look realistic, I tried playing old games and I just couldn't believe i'm playing the same games that in my childhood looked so realistic even like real life /:
at the time, these were the most cutting edge graphics you can get. I remember seeing screenshots of the cockpit in a magazine and was mesmerized with how realistic it looked.
Yeah the graphics look very good, I can definitely appreciate them and I would see myself playing this when it came out. Sadly, I wasn't born yet (97'), I did see the game many times in yard sales, never bought it or asked for it but I did play IL-2 1946 that my grandpa bought me (I think he bought me the game twice lol, once in a yard sale.) a loooooot on my first pc which was an old 2001 laptop my dad didn't use anymore because It kinda sucked and it always got very very very hot while playing IL-2 and made even more noise than the engines in game did spooling up the disk, very immersive you could say lol (I absolutely loved it tho), I didn't really do the missions a lot to completion I mainly just pressed F2 and watched all the planes in awe at how cool they were and how they worked, which guns they had etc.., also played without a joystick but I didn't care really and than my grandpa also bought me a joystick after he saw me playing it as his house all the time! Let's just say this man is awesome and made me fall in love with simulators, to bad I stopped playing and went mainstream with my games but now I started again and i'm kinda addicted. Mhm, nostalgic memories. How lovely.
@@SamusV4 Same....it's great to come into touch with others who shared this as their first video game experience. My Grandfather was a very cutting edge kinda guy and got me to play this on his MSdos PC. Got me playing Chess as well!....looking back at this game it's insane what they were able to create with such little power.
@@jedimindtrix2142 Absolutely, this was the future back in the day. These days things are so much of the same thing over and over. These games, like Sim Copter being another one, were unbelievable.
Old memories rekindled again when watching this video. As a kid who played this on an old PC back in the 90s I must have been very lucky in those days.
Man, I spent so many hours on this game! Still a bit dizzy from all the circling around during dogfights. Was my first original game for the PC, meaning purchased in a store :-) I still have it. The manual is awesome, I spent hours just looking at the drawings of the different planes and reading their history. Epic.
This was always one of my favorites back then. Hearing the engine sound effects it's a shame they never tried to make a Briggs & Stratton Lawnmower Simulator because they have the sound for that to perfection!
The details to this game are still on point as far as realistic features. Gun jams, limited ammo, fuel, oil, crashes, hospitalizations, being a pow, ammunition selection mattered for your target, and being able to square off again many of the early great aces.
this was the first game I ever played when I was very young. I'm 35 to put it in perspective for you all. My Grandfather was the first person to ever get me playing games and this was the first game I ever played! I had to look it up after thinking about it. Glad to see lots of people have done the same! man....the memories of this are crazy and it's even crazier to see it again. I love youtube! This game looks waay better than I remembered though...man I still remember the red lighted switches on the power bar the PC sat on that you had to flip to the right position to power it all up....I wish I would have asked my grandma and my mom to keep his PC looking back. that would have been awesome to have.
I never, ever realized you could destroy the trains with your guns. The bombers never hit them, so I always simply resigned to the thought that the best result from "Escort bombers" flight with train target was to get the bombers back home safely.
And I played in 2006 through the "GameSpy". I have an updated version for Windows_7 x 64 also show you how to play the game through the Internet with players from different countries. Ask, and I always answer.
This is an improved version compared to what I remember. Computer was rocking Win95 and this was on a CD. There wasn't a sound card with the computer so the sound effects were limited to the beeps from the motherboard... and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but it was fun to pass the time and/or if I was bored of Space Cadet Pinball.
Born a soldier, from the horseback to the skies And the legend never dies And he’s flying And he's flying And he’s flying Higher, the king of the sky He's flying too fast and he's flying too high Higher, an eye for an eye The legend will never die Higher, the king of the sky He's flying too fast and he’s flying too high Higher, an eye for an eye The legend will never die
Still have all of those sitting on my shelf..still play them from time to time on a old IBM 486-100 with sound blaster and 16 megs of RAM...even the old Thrustmaster stick still works. Just dug out from the closet Wings of Glory from 1995...off to the aerodrome once again.
I used to own this game. I was probably eight when I last played it. I remember cursing when I saw the captions i.e. "You are about to stall"/"you've been hit, I was like "I'm not about to stall!" "I ain't been hit!" etc Good memories. I really wanna play this game again
Oh how I loved this game!! Fun Fact (or not so fun) - the owners manual had pics of the Red Baron after his death. Mortifying seeing that when I was 5. 😨
This game and Swotl just blew me away. They were so realistic back then. All my buddies were playing crappy NES games and I gotta experience stuff like this haha 😄
I bought my first computer because of this game. Then came Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe, great games too and lots of memories. If possible try to edit the opening song of the Red Baron. Nice work!
Ohi that engine noise is something haha, Imagine listening to that thru old grey with a yellow tint from smoking standard windows speakers. Oh wait, people actually did thatt and enjoyed the living hell out of it and I don't blame them, for the time it looks very fun eventhough the noise would get annoying. It's immersive though lol, very realistic experience haha! To be honest, when I was 8 and played il-2 1946 on my first 2001 laptop it made the same noise spooling up the disc and getting hot af.
When I was just a common "pc user" I used to play Red BAron II in 1990s. But in 2006 I began to colect and use retrocomputers and found this gem - Red Baron I, that runs on a fast 286. I think this game is harder than Red Baron II.)
I just recognized that this game came out two years before wolfenstein 3d, and the 3d grafic is much more dynamic. But Wolfenstein 3d gets all the praise.
Your comment makes your age obvious. These graphics were on par with the best games of 1990. To put into perspective, the original Wing Commander game came out the same year (don't confuse this with the remake, released four years later with enhanced graphics). In terms of consoles, when Red Baron was released, in the US, there was NES and Sega Genesis (which was brand new).
Does ANYONE remember the dial-up version of this game. Early 90's. It was part of a "Social Media" type of environment. There was even a post office, where one could leave PM's (emails) to other people in their virtual "PO Boxes". There was also a "Carnival" section that was not "available" to me. It was a "paid" service, where of course, one paid to "unlock" ALL of the features. It seemed that there was ALWAYS something "Under Construction" that was not "ready" yet as the developers were "working on it". BUT!!! Red Barron however, was part of the "Free" version. I remember standing in queue for FIVE minutes, just to get shot-down, in 30 seconds. Hahahah! But it was fun as H#LL. The "idea" of actually dog-fighting a REAL person, in the other plane. Of course, there were the TOTAL Aces that WHOPPED everyone. But then again, I had a job back then and couldn't spend ALL of my time online. Heh! I was newly married as well. So I had to wait until everyone was asleep. There would ultimately be SOMEone else like me... waiting to "dogfight". But does ANYone remember this "service"??? I cannot, for the life of me remember the name of it... I get a "tickle" at the back of my mind that say "Sierra Online"... but not 100% on that... Can someone PLEASE verify that I am not losing my mind? PLEASE!?! Heh! : ) -EB
My dad and his friend worked at MS at this time and had this game rigged up for multiplayer...the joy they got out of destroying my 5 year old self is still palpable. Love this game
In campaign mode when you had enough victories you'd be challenged by opposing aces. I used to cheat and finally got a one-on-one against Richthofen. The cheating bastard showed up with two expert wingmen! Thank goodness God mode was on my side that day...
I bought up about 20 of these at $5 a piece from all the malls around Atlanta, and then took them to Gunthersville and resold them on a table at the end of the runway at the WW1 fly in they use to have there. It was crazy, I was being buzzed by all those banging WW1 planes as they came in low over the runway (and me at the end!) to show off for the crowd or land. I think I bootlegged 200 copies in a college library but never sold the bootlegs because it was easier just to buy the real deal
I miss this game. I need to figure out how to get it to work on Windows 8.1. The Wife would murder me if I built/bought a legacy computer so I can play wonderful old DOS games like Red Baron, Aces Over Europe, Aces of the Pacific and Flight Simulator 5.0. I really liked the second version of this game with the slightly better graphics and some extra planes like the Halberstadt D.II and the Siemens-Schuckert D.IV.
YTRulesFromNM too bad, but dosbox (emulator which GOG games are using) requires minimum 2 ghz cpu to play those games with decent framerate. You are better to buy some ancient pentium and turn it into win 95 machine, since win95 supports dos. Then, oh the irony, you need mo'slo to slow it down because it runs too fast...
this game was my childhood. the ability to record and edit missions was so freaking ahead of its time.
But... when I played it.... it looked like real life
Ya my dad loves the aces over x games. I was like 4 when I played this.
Excatly like Abbie said, Our imagination decides what we think, Do you remember when GTA 3 came out? OH LOOK AT THEM 3D GRAPHICS IT LOOKS SO REALISTIC
I still think it looks okay haha
***** modern graphics made games an huge disfavor. On this time we had to add our imagination, but our imagination is better than any cgi. Those who are not yet spoiled are lucky! BTW, if you play old but good game some time, you feel how it starts to sink into you and you add your imagination.
urmo345 yeah exactly our imagination is what made all of those old games look realistic, I tried playing old games and I just couldn't believe i'm playing the same games that in my childhood looked so realistic even like real life /:
You could destroy the trains? WTF MY MIND ID BLOWN! I put over a thousand hours into this game and never knew that.
Absolutely loved this game. The graphics were phenomenal for 1990.
at the time, these were the most cutting edge graphics you can get. I remember seeing screenshots of the cockpit in a magazine and was mesmerized with how realistic it looked.
Yeah the graphics look very good, I can definitely appreciate them and I would see myself playing this when it came out. Sadly, I wasn't born yet (97'), I did see the game many times in yard sales, never bought it or asked for it but I did play IL-2 1946 that my grandpa bought me (I think he bought me the game twice lol, once in a yard sale.) a loooooot on my first pc which was an old 2001 laptop my dad didn't use anymore because It kinda sucked and it always got very very very hot while playing IL-2 and made even more noise than the engines in game did spooling up the disk, very immersive you could say lol (I absolutely loved it tho), I didn't really do the missions a lot to completion I mainly just pressed F2 and watched all the planes in awe at how cool they were and how they worked, which guns they had etc.., also played without a joystick but I didn't care really and than my grandpa also bought me a joystick after he saw me playing it as his house all the time! Let's just say this man is awesome and made me fall in love with simulators, to bad I stopped playing and went mainstream with my games but now I started again and i'm kinda addicted.
Mhm, nostalgic memories. How lovely.
One of my favourite things about the internet, I can look back at my life without having taken any pictures.
My very first video game.
Yes!
@@SamusV4 Same....it's great to come into touch with others who shared this as their first video game experience. My Grandfather was a very cutting edge kinda guy and got me to play this on his MSdos PC. Got me playing Chess as well!....looking back at this game it's insane what they were able to create with such little power.
@@jedimindtrix2142 Absolutely, this was the future back in the day. These days things are so much of the same thing over and over. These games, like Sim Copter being another one, were unbelievable.
Remarkable to think that 72 years after the end of that war this game was released.
It's actually totally amazing they were able to do so much with the tiny amounts of RAM and puny processors of the day.
Still playing in 2020 on my 486 dx2/66. What a marvelous game. I wrote reports about the missions like a war diary. Crazy!!
Dx2/66, my childhood PC. Of course our first pc was the 386 sx 25 with 4MB RAM. Good times.
Old memories rekindled again when watching this video. As a kid who played this on an old PC back in the 90s I must have been very lucky in those days.
Man, I spent so many hours on this game! Still a bit dizzy from all the circling around during dogfights. Was my first original game for the PC, meaning purchased in a store :-) I still have it. The manual is awesome, I spent hours just looking at the drawings of the different planes and reading their history. Epic.
@torrentiack
I found a copy of it in cash converters sometime in the late 90’s and played the hell out of it
This was always one of my favorites back then. Hearing the engine sound effects it's a shame they never tried to make a Briggs & Stratton Lawnmower Simulator because they have the sound for that to perfection!
The MG-sound is actually outstanding good for a DOS-game.
This was one of the first games I played when I was a kid, and it sparked my interest in WWI ever since.
sierra made so many good games
Intro Theme is still stuck in my head 30 years later
The details to this game are still on point as far as realistic features. Gun jams, limited ammo, fuel, oil, crashes, hospitalizations, being a pow, ammunition selection mattered for your target, and being able to square off again many of the early great aces.
this was the first game I ever played when I was very young. I'm 35 to put it in perspective for you all. My Grandfather was the first person to ever get me playing games and this was the first game I ever played! I had to look it up after thinking about it. Glad to see lots of people have done the same! man....the memories of this are crazy and it's even crazier to see it again. I love youtube! This game looks waay better than I remembered though...man I still remember the red lighted switches on the power bar the PC sat on that you had to flip to the right position to power it all up....I wish I would have asked my grandma and my mom to keep his PC looking back. that would have been awesome to have.
I never, ever realized you could destroy the trains with your guns. The bombers never hit them, so I always simply resigned to the thought that the best result from "Escort bombers" flight with train target was to get the bombers back home safely.
0:29 big dipper and cass and the north star
I would love a remaster.
Same gameplay, same mechanics and physics, modern graphics (ore even just these graphics done in a higher res)
The triple winged Foker Dr 1 was the fav
last time I played this game was in 1994, memories ...
And I played in 2006 through the "GameSpy". I have an updated version for Windows_7 x 64 also show you how to play the game through the Internet with players from different countries.
Ask, and I always answer.
Now I have a collection of classic PC's and sometimes play it on a AT_286.) Funny, Red Baron II I discovered before Red Baron I.)
really? that's cool
My first game and I Still got it...
Thank you for posting this those sounds bring back a lot of memories
Man, this game takes me back... I would give up my modern laptop for a week just to get a chance to play this game again.
nostalgia alert. I used to ignore a lot of homework for this game!
Such a beautiful game. A relic from its time.
This is an improved version compared to what I remember. Computer was rocking Win95 and this was on a CD. There wasn't a sound card with the computer so the sound effects were limited to the beeps from the motherboard... and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but it was fun to pass the time and/or if I was bored of Space Cadet Pinball.
PC sound was hilarious
I LOVE this game !!! I played this in 1995 !!! Greetings from the Brazil !!
One of the greatest games of all time
*Great kid times! :)*
Morane Bullet, Sopwith Camel, Fokker Dr1, Sopwith Triplane - I remember on all of them!
MAHABO Productions are you a battlefield 1 player
no :D
MAHABO Productions y!!!!!
Such old games still have their nostalgia.
Thanks for sharing - very well done 'Tribute to the Baron'!
So nice to see scenes from days long gone ...
Dude this brings back sooo many memories. I loved the Multiplayer was my FIRST multiplayer game in 1996.
Me too man. I randomly remembered it and had to look it up
I remember playing this on an old IBM, was blown away by the graphics.....but my god the audio has not aged well at all
Born a soldier, from the horseback to the skies
And the legend never dies
And he’s flying
And he's flying
And he’s flying
Higher, the king of the sky
He's flying too fast and he's flying too high
Higher, an eye for an eye
The legend will never die
Higher, the king of the sky
He's flying too fast and he’s flying too high
Higher, an eye for an eye
The legend will never die
I was owner of the complete Aces Series: Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, Aces over Europe and Aces of the Deep Win 95.
Still have all of those sitting on my shelf..still play them from time to time on a old IBM 486-100 with sound blaster and 16 megs of RAM...even the old Thrustmaster stick still works. Just dug out from the closet Wings of Glory from 1995...off to the aerodrome once again.
great game, i had this on my amiga 500 ;)
It was superb on 1990. I love it
Oh man, the feels!
I used to own this game. I was probably eight when I last played it.
I remember cursing when I saw the captions i.e. "You are about to stall"/"you've been hit, I was like "I'm not about to stall!" "I ain't been hit!" etc
Good memories. I really wanna play this game again
Played the game so much the pet parakeet started imitating the engine and machine gun sound effects....
this game looks beautiful
Oh how I loved this game!! Fun Fact (or not so fun) - the owners manual had pics of the Red Baron after his death. Mortifying seeing that when I was 5. 😨
This game and Swotl just blew me away. They were so realistic back then. All my buddies were playing crappy NES games and I gotta experience stuff like this haha 😄
I downloaded the game yesterday, so much fun
This is the most fun flying game I've ever played.
To be fair this came out 32 years ago.
I have this installed on Linux Mint and play it via Dosbox using the DBGL front End. Works well.
The original creator, Damon Slye, has secured the rights to Red Baron once again, and has begun a Kickstarter to remake it.
Looks promising.
I was still playing when I was in college in the late 90s
I would buy a Switch if it had Red Baron!
I played the hell out of this game back in the day. We have come so far since then! Now it is vr for me or nothing at all.
The only time i felt like a true ace :)
YEAH! I PLAYED THIS GAME IN DAYCARE!
They had old computers with a ton of DOS games :D
Doubt it working with dos was annoying as hell windows was a blessing and a curse..
I bought my first computer because of this game. Then came Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe, great games too and lots of memories. If possible try to edit the opening song of the Red Baron. Nice work!
This is the game that got me into flight sims, I remember getting shot down and spending years as a POW in this game at times.
These games physics simulation is pretty interesting
Ha Ha, Memories...
I played a lot Games back then:
Red Baron
Aces over Europe
Aces of the Pacific
SWOTL
LHX
FS 4...
;-)
10 years ago today.
Still a very fun game.
Ohi that engine noise is something haha, Imagine listening to that thru old grey with a yellow tint from smoking standard windows speakers. Oh wait, people actually did thatt and enjoyed the living hell out of it and I don't blame them, for the time it looks very fun eventhough the noise would get annoying. It's immersive though lol, very realistic experience haha! To be honest, when I was 8 and played il-2 1946 on my first 2001 laptop it made the same noise spooling up the disc and getting hot af.
me and my dad used to play this all the time :D
When I was just a common "pc user" I used to play Red BAron II in 1990s. But in 2006 I began to colect and use retrocomputers and found this gem - Red Baron I, that runs on a fast 286. I think this game is harder than Red Baron II.)
I just recognized that this game came out two years before wolfenstein 3d, and the 3d grafic is much more dynamic. But Wolfenstein 3d gets all the praise.
I'm so glad you tickled my nostalgia.
Wow this takes me back
Holy shit nostalgia
2:41 that was the only way I could ever take down the Red Baron.
I bought this game yesterday at GoG...ah, the memories!
I remember playing this in the PX on a Packard Bell 386 computer.
When games were games.
i remember this, played it in the 90's
I used to have so much fun with this game the maps were so huge it would me a hour to find my opponent
I bought this game in Busan, Korea in 1991.
the game looks fun
I don't have this game Roux, nor have I ever played it. However, I did see it in the 1990s in the computer store shelves.
I love Red Baron I very much.
I install it with DosBox into my Android Mobile Phone and Tablet and play it everyday.
✌😀 *WTG*
Ahhh dosbox....(((
Seems like where Red Ace Squadron got its inspiration
Your comment makes your age obvious. These graphics were on par with the best games of 1990. To put into perspective, the original Wing Commander game came out the same year (don't confuse this with the remake, released four years later with enhanced graphics). In terms of consoles, when Red Baron was released, in the US, there was NES and Sega Genesis (which was brand new).
Man, I spent hours playing this game on my buddy's computer! Pretty unbelievable to now compare it to Rise of Flight!!
I don't recall ever seeing bi-planes with wings that long either lol
Does ANYONE remember the dial-up version of this game. Early 90's. It was part of a "Social Media" type of environment. There was even a post office, where one could leave PM's (emails) to other people in their virtual "PO Boxes". There was also a "Carnival" section that was not "available" to me. It was a "paid" service, where of course, one paid to "unlock" ALL of the features. It seemed that there was ALWAYS something "Under Construction" that was not "ready" yet as the developers were "working on it". BUT!!!
Red Barron however, was part of the "Free" version. I remember standing in queue for FIVE minutes, just to get shot-down, in 30 seconds. Hahahah! But it was fun as H#LL. The "idea" of actually dog-fighting a REAL person, in the other plane. Of course, there were the TOTAL Aces that WHOPPED everyone. But then again, I had a job back then and couldn't spend ALL of my time online. Heh! I was newly married as well. So I had to wait until everyone was asleep. There would ultimately be SOMEone else like me... waiting to "dogfight". But does ANYone remember this "service"??? I cannot, for the life of me remember the name of it... I get a "tickle" at the back of my mind that say "Sierra Online"... but not 100% on that... Can someone PLEASE verify that I am not losing my mind? PLEASE!?! Heh! : ) -EB
red baron 2 was the best game ever
My dad and his friend worked at MS at this time and had this game rigged up for multiplayer...the joy they got out of destroying my 5 year old self is still palpable. Love this game
все еще играю в эту игру, никак пройти не могу
+v1nchynoobs That's like saying "did you know Enrique's father took up singing? He sounds nice but looks a bit older"
In campaign mode when you had enough victories you'd be challenged by opposing aces. I used to cheat and finally got a one-on-one against Richthofen. The cheating bastard showed up with two expert wingmen! Thank goodness God mode was on my side that day...
I bought up about 20 of these at $5 a piece from all the malls around Atlanta, and then took them to Gunthersville and resold them on a table at the end of the runway at the WW1 fly in they use to have there. It was crazy, I was being buzzed by all those banging WW1 planes as they came in low over the runway (and me at the end!) to show off for the crowd or land. I think I bootlegged 200 copies in a college library but never sold the bootlegs because it was easier just to buy the real deal
Ty Fun Game !
So Long Ago !
Still have it running on my desktop.ill have the Red Baron pizza cupon that came with the game too...
Golden childhood :)
And me and then it was over 40. Lol :)
Awesomeness
I miss this game. I need to figure out how to get it to work on Windows 8.1. The Wife would murder me if I built/bought a legacy computer so I can play wonderful old DOS games like Red Baron, Aces Over Europe, Aces of the Pacific and Flight Simulator 5.0.
I really liked the second version of this game with the slightly better graphics and some extra planes like the Halberstadt D.II and the Siemens-Schuckert D.IV.
YTRulesFromNM too bad, but dosbox (emulator which GOG games are using) requires minimum 2 ghz cpu to play those games with decent framerate. You are better to buy some ancient pentium and turn it into win 95 machine, since win95 supports dos. Then, oh the irony, you need mo'slo to slow it down because it runs too fast...
omg i loved this game
Playd it a lot but cant remember train attacks
The new battlefield game looks so real.
That comment was sarcastic
I meant
Fucking hell all my replies are just ruining the comment because I can't fucking edit a comment like I can in PC
Fuck me.
Great game and great video, good work. ;)
My brother is one of those who bought the 16 color version