Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is a flight combat simulation. Fight over 50 missions with Chuck Yeager's advice on your side. You can use the mission builder to create your own missions if the history-based missions don't offer enough challenge. Replay modes let you fast forward and rewind through a recorded battle, including a 3-D "cube" visualization that helps analyze what happened.

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A classic in every sense of the word.	SiliconClassics (843)
If you can get past the plain vga graphics, this game is still a lot of fun 8 years later.	Aquaman (51)
One of the most perfect air-combat sims ever made.	Trixter (8728)
This Game Rocked!!	Arlo Mabary (2)
My definition of "early air combat game".	Quackbal (47)

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The Press Says

ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Aug, 1991	900 out of 1000	90
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Nov, 1991		90
Interface	1991	84 out of 100	84
Power Play	Aug, 1991	74 out of 100	74
PC Player (Germany)	Mar, 1995	66 out of 100	66

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Trivia

Cancelled Amiga version

The planned Amiga version was never completed, although Birds of Prey (also from Electronic Arts) did many of the same things on that system the same year.

OEM version

A special edition was bundled with the Gravis UltraSound in 1993. This version featured a whole new soundtrack intended to show off the capabilities of this sound card. The music used custom samples instead of the standard MIDI instrument set.

Speech

The starts with a digitized message from Chuck saying "Welcome to Chuck Yeager's Air Combat". There are other digitized lines by him such as: "Remember, it's the man - not the machine" which are played after a mission and give feedback about the completion and success rate.

But hidden in the game are some other digitized snippets from the actual game designers, such as:

"Welcome to Brent Iverson's Air Combat"

"Welcome to Paul Grace's Air Combat"

"Welcome to Cynthia Hamilton's Air Combat"

"Hi mom!"

"Oh my." (Spoken by Chuck Yeager)

These snippets were found by decompressing the sound library and picking at it. It is unknown if here is a legitimate way to get the sounds to play, however, such as starting up the game on someone's birthday, or a holiday.