I recently started playing Simcopter again. It’s a game from 1996, and around 1997 or 1998 I’ve played it for the first time, and I only had the demo. Still, I thought it was an amazing game.
And I still think it is. Sure it has some flaws and bugs, but the gameplay remains great.
What do you have to do? Basicly you get in a helicopter and extinguish fires, resolve traffic jams, catch robbers and transport (injured) people. There’s not a lot more to it, but it’s always challenging, because after a while you’re just packed with missions, so you have to transport 4 people, while there are 2 arsonists on the run while there are riots all over the place causing traffic jams.
Here are level 1 and 2, played by me, unfortunately without sound. Future videos hopefully will have sound, if I can get it to work.
Yes, it’s 20 years ago that Linus Torvalds decided to bring his hobby to the public.
In his first e-mail it’s clear that he didn’t it could get as big as it is today. It’s also funny to see that he stated that his OS ‘probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks’, because he didn’t have any other harddisks. Now it supports over 9000 harddisks!!! Well, maybe not over 9000, but it supports almost every harddisk.
Congratulations to Linus and the whole Linux community!