Falcon 3.0
Jul 15, 2019
4 minutes
GAME: Falcon 3.0
DEVELOPER: Spectrum Holobyte
RELEASED: 1991
NUTSHELL: Despite not having textures, it brought (claimed) military-grade flight modelling to the PC, with such extreme prejudice that for the first time, it made people upgrade their computers just to play this single game.
The PC didn’t become the tech-leader for gaming just because of hardware. After all, what’s the advantage of a PC that can play games just as well as other platforms, if it costs five times as much? The PC needed to show there was a reason for all that grunt. And at the dawn of the 1990s, that reason was the PC owner’s
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