GenX Quarantine Board Game: Aces of Aces World War I Air Combat
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Stuck in quarantine? We've got a GenX solution for you! Ace of Aces is a two-player combat picture book game designed by Alfred Leonardi and first published in 1980 by Nova Game Designs. It was one of Mo's favorites and the fun endures even 40 years later. So dust off your copy (or head to eBay) and play along as Mo shows you the ropes of aerial combat!
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Loved this game when I was a kid. I'm trying to find my own copy to play with my kids. Good job describing the game.
Hey Thanks! I had to go to eBay to find another copy. I'm actually going to interview the creator of the game soon!
My name is Thomas Hood. I am the Chief Marketing Officer of Nova Game Design! I work closely with Alfred Leonardi and Ace of Aces is coming back ;) Bigger and better. Fantastic review. One of the best overviews we have seen in awhile!
Thanks! It was one of our favorite go-to games growing up. Excited to see what coming!
Great to hear that ace of aces might come back! How about expanding on another similar game set in the wild west called Bounty Hunter!
Is there still a reprint in the works? The game looks fascinating but I’m not willing to shell out 120+ dollars to get it online unfortunately :/
I played this (blue books) as a kid, and still have it. Introduced my nephew just yesterday.
That's awesome. I still think it's one of the best car ride games out there!
"Always turn towards a bandit not away from him" seems to work in almost every game. I love it!
I haven’t heard that one!
@@GenXGrownUp Just some basic fighter maneuvres!!! :D
Never played this, but it sure looks cool. Have a ton of the Lost Worlds books though.
This is genius! I absolutely loved this. Never heard of it so thank you for sharing. This is a truly unique game if I ever saw one. I’ve been in a mood to create a new pen n paper game lately as a matter of fact...
If you need any play testers let me know!
Thanks for turning me on to this game. Great video!
Thanks James! Appreciate the comment and I am actually working on some great follow-ups with the creator of the game!
Loved this game - thanks for the great video on it.
You are very welcome!
This was made very close to my hometown! It blew my mind when I found this out a few years ago. I still have my copy. It says right in the book where this was made, and somehow none of my family took the time to read or notice this
That's pretty awesome! I had a chance to interview the creator of the game and we posted it a couple of weeks ago. I played the heck out of this game and Al is a great guy.
@@GenXGrownUp awesome, I'll check that out!! I'm excited to hand this game down to my kids when they get older.
I have the original red and blue boxes as well as the deluxe edition box. I also have the western game (I'm drawing a blank on the name...) I supported the KS reboot as well
I played this game a long time ago, but forgot how to play it. I bought it on eBay a few years ago, and just haven't found anyone to play me. But I can still learn it again.
It's a pretty amazing game. Hope you can find somebody to play with!
I'm going to be working on a solitaire version. My plan is to make a list of every page for my opponent and choose a couple of maneuvers there. Roll the dice--2/3 of the time, my opponent chooses option A, and 1/3 of the time, they'll choose option B.
Kind of disappointed I didn't get this game, but I do have a ton of books of it's spiritual successor, Lost Worlds, and some of the knock offs that use similar rules.
That board game is much more advanced than that air combat game on the Atari 2600.
ROFL! Yeah, but Jon and George had a good time with it anyway!
@@GenXGrownUp Back in the early 1980s, even a 2d airplane game was considered to be pretty advanced. Playable 3d flight simulators didn't come into fruition until the early 1990s, before that timeline flight simulators were so bad that they weren't even playable. LOL
Ace1000ks1975 I remember. I was thirsty for a real flight simulator back then.
@@GenXGrownUp Flight simulators were very popular among Gen Xers back in the late 1980s to the later half of the 1990s.
They had so many great titles, like Su-25 Sturmovik, LHX, Gunship 2000, F-16 Combat Pilot, Falcon 3.0, F-15 Strike Eagle II, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Strike Commander, Wing Commander, Luftwaffe Commander, Falcon 4.0, etc.
Back in the 1980s up until Windows 95, you had to know DOS and UNIX commands to use computers. GUI(graphical user interfaces) didn't became mainstream until Windows 95. Some people might argue it started with Mac OS, or Windows 3.X. Even when we had Windows 3.X, people were still using MS-DOS 6.XX. In actually, most people using computers back in those days were nerds. Nerds like to play flight simulator type games.
With the advent to GUI based operating systems, computers became easier to use, and computers became more mainstream. As computers became more and more mainstream, the demand simulator type games made up a smaller share of computer users.
This and Dawn Patrol
Another oldie-but-goodie! Thanks for watching, Trent.
That looks just as awesome as you described it in the podcast! Great video! I never played too many games like that over the phone, but there were soo many tabletop games in that vein I remember from back in the day. Love the shelf behind you, so many great things, koff koff, Car Wars!, koff koff.
Hey thanks! Yeah Car Wars was one of my favorites back in the day!
This is great,Mo! I would have loved loved LOVED this as a kid! Looks like a blast to play. Thanks for sharing. I never knew about this game.
I was lucky to have a pretty awesome game shop near me. They had stuff you would never find anywhere else!
How did you choose the google map view ? this is the small town in France I grew up in XD
Really? That’s pretty cool!
Hey, we late Baby Boomers played it too! The Powerhouse Edition was by far the best!
I don’t think I’ve seen the Powerhouse edition. I’ll have to look that one up!
Used to play this while in the Army while sitting in our tank. Great way to pass the time.
That’s pretty awesome!
Oh wow I would have looooved this when I was young!!
YoshMaster hey, you still can! Thanks for the comment!
40 years ago one of the lads in my regiment had this game. I was absolutely fascinated by the concept and how brilliant its development must have been.
I actually had the opportunity to interview the guy who created the game and he talked about it's creation. Here's a link if you are interested ua-cam.com/video/xr4nrgALRt4/v-deo.html
@@GenXGrownUp I’ll have a look.Thanks!
@@GenXGrownUp . The reason I thought about this is because I started playing the IL2 flight sim, but the old school game book is still very cool.
I saw a Star Wars book game made exactly like this one (I think maneuveurs and even pages were the same)... unfortunately, I only found it second-hand on Amazon at €200 😅 anyway, thanks for finally explaining the rules of the game. I gotta get one of those!
They are pretty cool. Now I have to go try to hunt down the Star Wars ones!
There are more airplane book sets; WWII, JETS, plane vs Zepplin, flying dragons. And a large series of man vs man books using the same math or system