Download Battlehawks 1942

Trusteft 2023-03-11 2 points

I made a video explaining the game. It's the Atari ST version, but they are all the same.

https://youtu.be/E0bShl7SvBs

dat white 2021-09-06 2 points DOS version

I played this titel on my old 386SX, and it was like discovering flight for the first time. Countless hours were spent over it. The way Lucasart were able to create a fake 3d engine which looked real was a masterpiece. This made possible to invest hardware resources in other things like better looking graphics. A piece of history of combat flight simulations lmao.

JMK 2020-04-23 1 point Atari ST version

The game that made me buy my Atari ST.
The wet dream of a cardboard wargamer, scratch one flatop !
The Hornet mission was possible but you could not afford losing a split second, either because of bad shooting or aircraft speed. I perfectly remember the 1st time I managed to complete it.

SuperChuck1965 2018-05-17 1 point Amiga version

I had the Amiga version of this and it was awesome! Using the mouse to fly your plane was difficult at first, but once I got used to it, I got really good. I played it so much that I could consistently beat the defend the Hornet mission that was rated "impossible" You were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor if you beat this one!

Tom 2017-11-23 1 point

I remember playing this game when I was in college. Lucasfilm Games also released a collection containing Battlehawks 1942, Battle Of Britain and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe too. The name of the bundle was Air Combat Classics under the Lucasarts name and it came on 3 3.5" disks. The box also stated that a trade-in option was available so perhaps that was a way to get a CD-ROM of this bundle...?

Alumni72 2017-05-20 0 point DOS version

I had this game as well - played it so many times I can't even count that high.
LucasArts also produced 2 other fantastig flight sims after this one - Battle of Britain (which had a mission creator, providing for months of variety after the original missions were complete) and Secrete Weapons of the Luftwaffe (which I never got, because it was only available on CD-ROM and at the time I couldn't afford a CD drive.
I still have the complete Battle of Britain boxed set, including the code wheel that you needed to actually play. I hope that somewhere I also have Battlehawks, but I haven't come across it lately. Time to search for it again!

Ygrek 2016-05-04 1 point DOS version

Our brain plays time-tricks with us. I cannot recollect what happened to me just a month ago, but I remember playing this BH back in 1990 as if it was just yesturday and not 25 years ago. This is how impressive this game was to me - me first "pseudo 3D" PC game. I would play it for many hours in a row almost every night while I had access to our laboratory computer when I was a student. Nostalgia.

Felix the Cat 2015-11-30 -2 points

For Amiga and Atari in 1989 a joystick was not supported, unbelievable! During the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands you are flying a mission in a Wildcat, protecting the Hornet from a combined attack of Vals and Kates. The mission is rated "Impossible". I wonder if anyone did this misson successful? A PC486 equipped with a CH Products Flightstick was a great improvement in 1990, compared to Atari and Amiga, which of course had better sound.

handle 2014-11-20 -1 point DOS version

depending on which version this is, the manual is a complete necessity because in order to play the game you had to match up a sillouhette of a plane to a password and there were hundreds of variations, all spread out through the rather thick manual. good old primitive anti-piracy, unfortunately making the game useless unless you also got the manual with it. I think the manual is floating around somewhere online, otherwise it's one of the best flight sims made prior to the VGA era.

Alumni72 2014-08-01 0 point DOS version

Ah, yes - this was my first flight sim as well, and I absolutely loved it! I moved on to Battle of Britain when that came out, but I had no CD-ROM drive so SWOTL was out of the question.
Thanks for bringing back such memories - now I have to go searching for my floppy disks!