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Game Overview

Air Duel: 80 Years of Dogfighting is one of those old-school flight sims that somehow makes pixelated biplanes feel intense. You start off wobbling around in a WWI Sopwith Camel, barely keeping it in the air, and by the end you're blasting through the sky in an F-16. The jump between eras is wild—going from slow, janky dogfights where you can practically see the pilot's scarf flapping to Vietnam-era missile duels where everything happens way too fast.

There's something weirdly satisfying about how each plane handles. The Spitfire turns like a dream but falls apart if someone sneezes on it, while the Phantom feels like steering a brick until you get the hang of it. And yeah, the graphics are super dated now, but there's charm in how the Fokker DR1's wings actually look like they're made of canvas.

It's not the deepest sim out there, but for a 1993 DOS game, it nails that "oh crap I'm upside down again" feeling across six wars' worth of planes. Just don't expect to land any of them without exploding.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".