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Offline Asid

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Ahhh the good old days
« on: June 17, 2016, 04:52:34 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2016, 05:19:34 PM »

Ah, I bet Fankie will be in love to this picture :D
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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2016, 05:35:07 PM »
I still have loads of pc zone, pcmagazine and others
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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2016, 10:21:00 PM »

Ah, I bet Fankie will be in love to this picture :D
I bet he has the original :)
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Re: Ahhh the good old days
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2016, 12:39:11 AM »
I don't have the original.

I didn't start to play tornado until 10 years after its release. In 2003 I first fired it up and thought "That's it!!?? Yucky graphics!!". All I saw was a flat-shaded low-count polygon jet plane sitting on the Tarmac, and I didn't know how to get it off the ground. But then I read the online reviews and newsgroups and realized four things:,(1) this game was SPECIAL; (2) it's manual was considered by many to be the BEST game manual ever; (3) the game's Mission Planner was awesome and unrivaled by other flight sims even in 2003; and (4) I needed the original manual if I was going to get the best out of the game. Then in late 2003, a kind soul in Texas named McDonald, whom I met on eBay, was cleaning out his study room cupboard and he decided to send me his original boxed copy, complete with the full works - manual, diskettes, maps, etc. for FREE. I guess the tornado box was taking up too much space in his study!

But I digress. Coming back to the magazine, In February 2016, I made contact with some guy in the UK named Richard, and he made screenshots of the pages of the magazine's Tornado review. That review is here on his website:

http://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/tornado-magazine-reviews/

In fact he dug up not one, but two 1993 reviews. A total of 9 full pages of flight sim history. Enjoy. The best part of "the good Ole Days" is that you can relive them now on my Tornado Fan Website.  All you need to do is to click on that garishly red lightening "Tornado" logo at the top of the Tornado forum section. You will be transported back to the Year 1993. And you don't need no silver deLorean car for that. :-)

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