Lol! I just watched a video '75 best commodore 64 games', Raid over Moscow was featured. Judging from the comments, it seems like the hangar was a big pain in the ass.
I know i was pretty good at this game back in the 80s. But recently i tried this game again and i had no clue how to leave the hangar. That's why i am here. :P
The best thing about this game is when you realize the pilot is walking casually towards the plane (no hurry, its only a nuclear launch alert after all), and then...teleports into the plane. like a boss.
My dad taught me how to play this game. A year later, I showed him how to beat this game on Suicidal mode. It was breathtaking. He was impressed especially on that stage where I throw disc to hit the robot at its back. He saw me throwing disc very early way before the robot to get to its position. On suicidal mode, I only had few seconds to destroy the robot. It was fun.
That one was my favourite. I used to destroy as much as possible of that castle before winning the stage. Some of the towers will fall off when you hit the top, the cap falling down to crash that tank if it's in the right place. Btw, the level is won a few moments after you reveal the white castle door.
One of my favourite games. A bit of judgement was called for, as you had to scramble a number of aircraft to destroy a nuclear launch facility before the nuke impacts on a US city. You could launch more than one aircraft after one another, then the aditional planes would serve as extra lives. It was possible to take out a base with just one plane, but if that one plane was shot down, you'd have to go back to get more. If you brought, say, three, you'd spend more time, but have a better chance.
If you die while flying the ship on the ground, you must fly a new ship out of hangar and fly it to earth, all while the clock is ticking. However, what many people don't know: Directly after flying one ship out of the hangar, you can fly some more out of the hangar, as many as you like. Sure, the clock also keeps ticking while you do that but if you flew more than one out of the hangar and you die on the ground, the next ship will take over immediately where the last one died, no time is lost on flying that ship to earth first.
Loved this game as a kid It was so ambitious considering the platform, graphics, etc I remember having boxes of floppies EA made some of the best C64 games I love playing Hardball but forget who made it Also, against friends the Summer & Winter Games series were awesome with the various events they had Good stuff!
@ithakra I'm glad I wasn't the only one. The damn hangar was frustrating. I played this as an eight-year old, probably in 1990. So the game was already "old". Back then, I wasn't even aware it was about the cold war becoming hot.
I remember you could get extra lives by destroying the buildings to the sides of the main silo during the first missions. You could hit the reactor in the front if you managed to time it to when the thing opened and you heard a hissing sound. Finally, there's a bad ending if you don't destroy the reactor the second time with enough time remaining on the clock (you don't see the plane and the news story says nobody survived or returned or something).
I know its too late but to let you know you weren't going crazy, you had to have a controller plugged into the other port and I believe pressing "up" on that would open the hanger doors.
The fate of the free world depends on throwing a frisbee to hit a robot in the back... ah yes. Also lobbing mortars (?) from a prepared trench position in front of the Kremlin!
Anyone remember what game had this whole part where you stand on a platform near the screen and a guy stands on the other side and you throw knives at each other? Very similar looking than the part at 7:09 I remember the guy getting hit then falling and screaming while he fell.. I think the game had different kinda levels too. I kinda thought it was Raid over moscow but apparently it wasn't. (I browsed this video through, I hope I didn't miss it)
As a kid, my older brother's friend watched me play the game. At the 1:18 mark, I told him, "I destroyed the school bus," which gave him a shock. (It's probably a generic truck.)
How u.s. lost the nuclear arms race because all the pilots died trying get out the hanger. And those that did had to throw dics at robots in a Russia tower to stop nuclear armageddon
Oh and another game I can't remember: It was a side scroller where this guy.. I think dressed in hospital blue just had guns and you could shoot everyone to total gore... It was really violent feeling back in the day and when people were dead on the street, some other people started to drag the bodies off the street if I remember correctly and.. I never figured out what was the point of the game. And I remember it having "awesome music".
Here in Finland it's release stirred up quite a controversy. The Russians didn't find the game amusing at all. :D I get it though - much as I like the game, the premise is kinda fucked up. The debacle made it sell like hotcakes though like the wiki article says.
In Germany it was "indiziert", which means it could be sold only at adults and you were not allowed to promote this game in public. What includes presenting in stores. You had to ask for it especially. Fun fact: This lasts till 2010!!! :P
Schon mal jemandem aufgefallen, daß die klassischen Spiele oftmals den "kalten Krieg" wiederspiegeln? Es geht um Öl/Kapitalismus, Ölreserven oder einfach nur um Krieg. Die Programmierer von damals wußten wenigstens, was sie da tun. Respekt.
This game was awful. It would have been terrible on the Vic-20, never mind the C64. I remember completing it and thinking "£9.95 (or was it £7.95?) for this piece of junk is terrible!" Fortunately I worked in my brother's computer shop and got to play it for nothing.
@@mrconancat There were plenty of good games back then, most of which were far better than Raid Over Moscow. One of the better games back in the 80s was Elite on the BBC-B though you needed a disk drive to play it. Some honourable mentions would be Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Impossible Mission, Monty on the Run, Mercenary, Ballblazer and quite a few of the budget Mastertronic games.
