>try pilotwings anon, it' super-relaxing and won't

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Never played the original, but I love PW64.
It's both a relaxing game and a very challenging flight sim. Getting the gold medal in some missions (especially the hanglider) can take a lot of tries, but when you know what to do, it's actually possible, it's a well designed sim/arcade hybrid.
As a kid I just enjoyed flying around, discovering places and goofing around, the missions were too hard for me. As an adult I actually got into the scoring system and the missions, and completed it (or so I think, I believe I still need a gold medal in one of the cannon extras)

I about had anxiety attacks trying to land that damn rocket belt on the moving pads. The final helicopter mission was stressful too. It's a miracle I ever beat that game.

>>3895356
>>it' super-relaxing and won't stress you out like other games

I don't know who told you that and about which game exactly but the SNES version has a steap learning curve. The BGM is pretty good but even that I would hardly call relaxing.

Regardless, it's not hard to finish the first airplane segment once you know the controls and got gud. It's only where you get tol the third or fourth area where things get really challenging.

>>3895365
Seconding this about the N64 version. The visuals seem more outdated to me but it's got a ton of variety and the scoring system is excellent for replay value.

Haven't played the 3DS version yet but would love to as I loved every game before it.

>>3895356
The plane isn't even hard to control. It's the jetpack that will fuck you hard.

>>3895356
>level 1 is a literally impossible landing yes
Git gud.
I regularly score 100 on that level. The guide dots are REALLY useful.
Never press left or right once you've lined them up.
Hit every one.
Cut your speed before you hit the ground, but not so early that you stall.
Practice for 20 years, you'll get it.

Hitting the moving targets with the jetpack/parachute. Now that's hard!

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>>3895356

Try Cosmic Smash, anon. it' super-relaxing and won't stress you out like other games.

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>>3895356
Wow you suck
I hope you never have to try a real flying game.

>>3896485
chiago!

>>3896441
This, I dropped the game after like the first or second Jetpack stage.

>>3896441
The jetpack isn't even hard to control. It's the hang glider that will fuck you hard.

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moon jumping is the most fun

>>3896225
I don't know if I like the 3ds game, having only one island kind of stifles it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqAbNqhZuk

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I'm just gonna go ahead and dump all my pilotwings related images.

>>3896452
Literally this.
Level 1 handholds you the whole way.
>gitgud

>>3896485
LOL. As a PC simmer i always laughed at the retarded kids claiming that their Ace Combat crap was a simulation.

>>3898973
OTP

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>>3898978

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRWnV3nweRQ

Hope anyone reading this thread enjoys the dump

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>>3898910

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>>3898984

>>3899162
HAWKED

>>3899010
I sure do. Thanks.

Awesome dump. I missed out on this game back in the day, I kinda want to play around with it now after reading all the print stuff.

>tfw almost 20 year old advertising works on me

>>3896493

The hang glider isn't even hard to control. It's the skydiving that will fuck you hard.

>>3898887
>ginger boy

>>3896441
Just decided to play it. Decades since I've last played it.
Jetpack is way easier than plane.
Plane is easier than skydiving. Didn't do hang-gliding.

>>3896671
I tried it recently and it's nice but it feels like a tech demo. Graphics are nice and the 3D effect is cool but the game isn't very exciting. I think I just don't like PilotWings games though. I had PW64 as a kid and didn't really like it.

>>3901405
I don't really like using "tech demo" as a kind of descriptor for a full game.
But every pilotwings game is what people would call a tech demo.

SNES showing off Mode 7
64 showing off the 64's hardware and 3DS doing the same for the system

There was a dog fighting game I used to play back on Windows 98, something about the Red Baron, and you just flew a plane around and shot down other planes out of the sky. It was pretty badass.

>>3901419
I don't think you know what a tech demo is.

>>3901426
that's fine, because I never use the term anyway.

bump for posterity

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>>3901420
Had one of those 100-in-1 demo discs as a kid and this was one of the only games I continuously re-played. Red Baron is fun as hell.

>>3903953
Pretty sure mine was in a 100-1 demo thing, and it came directly with the Gateway PC my mom ordered wayyyy back in the day.

Came in those cow-print boxes and everything.

Had a rally beetle bug racing game I played the shit out of, too.

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>>3903959
Fugg, those cow-print boxes were great
pic related, my first pc that was considered 'mine' (not shared family pc) came in one.