TFX gameplay (PC Game, 1993)
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2024
- Introduction and gameplay for TFX (aka tfx: tactical fighter experiment), Dos PC game produced by Ocean in 1993 - www.squakenet.c...
Starting the first training missions in this great flight combat simulation by Ocean.
Played through Dosbox emulation platform.
Recorded with original sound.
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As I played this game when I was little, I'd often fly low to the ground, turn my plane upside down and eject. The pilot left a funny smear on the ground.
I also dod that..!!
Well played! So did I!
Would love to see a video of it. Would be pure nostalgia
I did that too.
Yes!!!
I played this every day when I was about 6 or 7. I could hardly use DOS, but a couple things really stuck in my memory:
Using the default missile setup every time. So I thought, for almost a year, that Default was a type of missile used on fighter jets.
TFX would come up on the screen while loading, so now every time I watch a movie where THX comes up on the screen, I think of this game.
haha, legend. That was legit me too! the game had such a bad ass sound track too!
I also played this for years, did either of you two manage to land on the aircraft carrier? I couldnt
@@dylangarner1495 No I didn't land one. I was only about 9 or 10 when i started playing it so prolly to young to take a sim seriously and undersand it properly. I do remember it being pretty fun though
@@dylangarner1495 played this when I was 7. Man, it was impossible to land on the Carrier. I did not understand the language and the game was far too complex for my age. There used to be a mission or scenario I also liked that envolved flying what I think was a Stealth bomber at night time. I remember I liked that one as well because of the ship cockpit.
@@Soulkeepertube It wasn't impossible to land on the carrier, but pretty damn hard. After a lot of practice, I was able to pull it off quite regularly. Now imagine real navy pilots doing this in real life several times a day, over years. Imagine telling your new co-pilot on his first day "don't worry, i can do this quite regularly!" xD
i remember the night missions the lights of cities were beautiful
That Nighthawk mission to take out the power station in the Balkans stands out.
I also find that beautiful. Such a great game.
The soundtrack for this game has stuck with me for many many years ever since I first played it in 1995.
I love the sound track for this! Love thos game when I was small but never understood how to play
Facts mate. I used to put the CD in my CD player just to listen to the music.
Barry Leitch did the OST to it
Childhood memories... 🥲 Played it alot with a friend after school. So crazy how I still remember the CD-soundtrack to this day. Thanks for sharing this video!
I couldnt BELIEVE how amazing this game was, I was workin at my first job at a game company and someone had this on their PC..I was coming off an Amiga 500 and had little concept what a real PC was all about so this fukin blew my head up...
i was the same.. i was so envious of my friends pcas i had an amiga. i followed all the amiga magazines for an age saying that tfx was eventually coming out on the amiga.. i think it did eventually but was years later. i used to the look and drool over the tfx pics in the magazines..what an idiot.. the days haha
There's something about TFX and EF2000 that still look beautiful today. Talk about aging gracefully. IT would be amazing if you could run these old games in VR!
Widescreen laptop in 1993. How visionary!
Remember that the whole game is stretched horizontally to make up for the game resolution and representation of a 4:3 proportion on widescreen of these days. If you play this game on an old computer, the laptop is not that widescreen as it seems in this video. Just look how stretched is the HUD circle.
Also of note is that plenty of word processor based laptops were in 16:9 back then too.
Such an amazing game. I can't believe they pulled this off in 1993.
Played the hell out of this back in the day on my DOS PC when I was 9 years old.
I still remember the OST.
Yeah, in general I never liked flight sim. This was the only one that hooked me in.
My god, that's incredible for a 1993 genre of it's type!! Very nice.
Awesome game. I spent so many hours playing that.
Now I'm waiting to get the Eurofighter on DCS World. :)
Great post. Thank you for the memories. :)
You're welcome! Glad you liked!
This game,- The single most event of my life that resonated with the mostest. Just the way it is. The only game I completely played through, I still remember making, a h e m , General! I was entranced and awed when I saw it for the first time on the shelf at a software store. I took it and looked at it- '1991 The persian Gulf No more games. , So, you want to fly? You really want to fly? Now you can fly 3 aircraft that money can t buy. , There has never been, repeat, never!, been a simulation as realistic,,.' Great! Just great. I bought it and was awe stricken reading the instruction manual. 'What?! Look at them there HUDs! ,,.'
My most treasured posession, to this day, is a new in the box, still cellophane wrapped TFX I got from Ocean. They sent it to me as a replacement for my original game. I complained about a bug, they determined it to be defective, sent me the new one. I never opened it.
Keep it sealed then!
Roger that! I remember being new to the game, I shot at a mosque and it blew up. The,- 'Oh N o o oooo ! ' sounded and I just about crapped! Great! Just g r e a t !
I never manage to land on the aircract carrier
Ohhhh that intro music brings me back..
My first ever flying sim. Got it in one of those MEGAPAK collections.
Back in the day I couldn't play this game because my PC wasn't "powerful" enough. I'll definitely try this game, thanks for the video 😀
Yeah, you probably needed at least a 486 to run on VGA.
Came here for my favorite tune and found it at 7:30 . I wasn't disappointed.
89 000 feet was about as far as i could get
How dense and deep that soundtrack still is ❤
starting the game through command prompt. good times. I think I was like 4 or 5 playing this. geez.
Classic game, one of my very first games I played. I think it was 8 or 9 floppy disks. Took ages to install on 486.
Yeah, I recall switching diskettes while installation an infinite number of times.
loved playing this game...killer soundtrack!
Sweet memories... Could remake.. bring back the midi soundtrack 🥲
The instruction manual for this wasting was a book, a whole entire book
And this is one of the easiest sim I've played....
7:31 is the reason you never forgot about this game.
it's so 90's ^^ i didn't found this music on the OST
Can confirm!
Word
Late 1993, first X-files episodes aired for the first time, myself was a 13 years old kid who play DOS videogames, listen to Alice In Chains and visit very often my 30+ years old cousin Computer and Software shop. One day, The wholesale videogames guy come to offer some new titles to my cousin. He tried a bunch and then he installed TFX. 8 diskettes of 1/44', after the installation, my cousin run the game. No big deal the 3 first minutes but the music was telling us something. Then he load the arcade mode, I was amazed at the graphics! then, when the dogfight start and the combat tune came in I was in an apotheosic AWE jawdropping catatonic state!. Played few months later in 1994 because my PC was not powerful enough. And when I played I enjoyed like it was the last game on earth. And the music my god! The soundtracks still amaze me. I still listen to it while playing Elite Dangerous.
Your story reminded me a lot of afternoon spent playing and sharing games with my cousin too... ah, what good times...
Best and Original. Childhood is back. THX publisher
First game i ever bought in early 94, at the age of 20. But like a lot of other people, my interest in flight sims stalled once I got into the whole Doom/Quake/Half Life loop. I think F-22 Interceptor might have been the last flight sim i ever bought in '98.
I also played this as a very young kid around the age of 6. Since everything was in English I was unable to find an option to quit the game. I wonder if actually, one exists. Great game, great memories!
Haha, same here. I'm from Germany and my cousin gifted me a copy back in '95. Didn't understand a thing but I remember (?) that I downed an enemy airplane with flares. I guess it was a flare, but maybe my memory is dicking around with me :)
LOL, if anyone can share how to quit from the game when you are in the menu?!
@@nastyaromanova5902 Why was it that popular in Germany? I'm German as well. I need to boot it up and see if it has an exit button
I mean god damn seriously: HOW DO YOU QUIT FROM TFX ????
Запомнились ночные миссии с бомбежками заводских построек. Можно сказать, мой первый "авиасимулятор" на IBM PC. Неприятно только, что место действия была Югославия - братушки.
Oh, the MEMORIES! Just came across it today in my old collection.....will see if it will work with windows 10!
It won't, unless you play via Dosbox
I still play this after 30 years. Such an amazing and sophisticated game for the time! The whole story in the campaign missions, the armament, the music, air to air refuelling (any major credit card accepted) - sometimes buggy haha, different autopilot modes, weather report, ability to use GBU laser guided bombs, recorded missle view for debriefing etc... even the F-22 is much more agile compared to the Eurofighter. And don't forget the red splash on the ground. Have you ever thrown some flares when on the ground? XD
N O S T A L G I A! We got a PC in 1994 and my Dad took me out to the store to get 'a video game' for it. We came home with this. It was the only time we went shopping for games together equally excited. I was a kid, I was terrible, but I played the fuck out of this!
Could anything ever be more early/mid 90s PC? I loved that game...
Yeah, it was a classic
Drag and Drop missile setup in 1993, take note gamedevs
En son oynadığımda 1999 yılı İstanbul'da gece yarısı deprem olmuştu. Sokağa çıkmıştık aklımda düşman uçakları vardı. Ne oyundu ama...
We’ll see if this ever comes out on GOG.
After selling my very memorable Amiga 500, I got a PC for flight sims. I remember saving for TFX. I remember buying it. The intro music sparks memories. But to be honest, I recall very little about the game itself. I hold better memories of F18 Interceptor, Stealth Fighter, F29 Retaliator, and F16 Combat Pilot on the Amiga 500. I really dont think I put much play time into TFX at all.
i also have way better memories with all those amiga flight sims you mentioned ..especially f18 interceptor.. i was REALLY envious of TFX on my friends pc tho ;p
@@serloinz Yeah what has come back to me about TFX was how you could fly up and break through the clouds. Now that WAS awesome. And depending on the cloud level, it was easy to mess up flying back below them again and hit the ground lol. I spent far more time on my PC on X-Wing and Elite II - Frontier though. Oh and Gunship 2000....and then Doom came out...... :D
I really enjoyed to play japanese and european strategy game like power dolls or warhammer horned rat,darkomen But TFX was still more hardest game than these japanese and european strategy game..TFX was remembered to me as the hardest game in my life..
First game i bought as a 12 year old. I believe it came on 7 1.44 MB disks. Blew my mind.
Yeah, it had several installation disk =)
Sweet memories
Remember the eight floppy discs required for installation!
Very true!! I remind some game even with 10 or 15 floppies!
"Any major credit card accepted"
I have missed that music...!!!!
I played this game when I was little... would love to be able to play again, any working download and emulator?
Best experience in dosbox
ah the number of cheap joysticks I broke playing this game. The memories :D
I played this game purely for the soundtrack (I had the CD version) since I was about 10 at the time and couldn't understand a darn thing about how to fly! LOL
I wonder what today's kids would think if you told them you used to load games purely for the music? Dare I say they'd think you were weird! 😂
Different times... now the TikTok generation cannot hold attention for more than 5 secs...
quick question. CD version or floppy version? are there any differences?
I am not sure to be honest. I recall you needed quite a lot of floppy for the installation, but not sure if the CD had some additional scene or something. The game itself probably was the same.
I haven't played this game in 20 years, I forgot all the controls!
(except eject)
I played the successor, F-22: Air superiority fighter.
The controls of most DID games were quite similar. Enter for next air to air weapon (missiles, gun), backspace for next air to ground weapon (bombs, rockets,precision attack missiles, and gun if nothing else was left). IIRC, that applied to TFX, Inferno, F22, and EF2000. Except that backspace cycled through all weapons backwards in Inferno - but that one was a space game, not a simulator.
BTW, it looks like OP didn't see the scrollbar and started all missions with pure air to air loadout. ;)
can someone upload the weather report audio?
333 Buckridge Trafficway
Langosh Fields
Супер игра
Tianna Knoll
Demond Shoals
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cd/tfx
cd\tfx
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I think the continuos Adlib music is a mistake. It's pretty bad. I hope you can turn it off. Amiga sounds better even though it never left beta. No music in game, but some nice sampled music.
DCS looks better
All about the music 👌🏼
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