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From: rickh@metaware.metaware.com (Rick Herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: F-18 INTERCEPTOR
Message-ID: <586@metaware.metaware.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 15:53:45 GMT
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In article <25450.26e6aa97@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>During the training mode of maneuvers climb into the air and get
>yourself in line with the chase plane (just use the return key to line
>it up.)  Then accelerate to some speed faster than the chase plane

I like to just turn on afterburners as we're taking off, then kind of
settle down on top of his plane.

>and ram him.  Now as the chase plane is plummeting downward press
>the return key again to line up behind him.  Doing this you can follow
>him all the way to ground! (Something I've always wanted to do when
>I've shot down an enemy plane.) 
>
>Anybody else have some interesting things they've done with F-18?

Another kind of wierd thing:  As you're taking off on the aircraft carrier,
get your engines up high enough to get you going.  Then as you're heading
for the edge, cut your engines entirely.  If you do this wrong, you'll
simply plummet over the edge of the carrier, crash, and die.  But if you do
it right, you'll flip over and land on the water upside-down.  You can then
sit there and shoot the carrier (it just smokes, like the sub).  If there's
MIGs around, they'll come try to shoot you sometimes.  But I've never
actually been hit.

Also, if you've ever tried to waste the TransAmerica tower or Alcatraz, you
know that most buildings can't be shot.  There's one exception, and that's
a building that turns out to be EA's headquarters in San Mateo.  Fly south
from the Bay Bridge (if you're not from the Bay Area, that's the one that
crosses the bay from east to west, and is in two parts, with an island in
the middle).  As you see the San Mateo Bridge coming up, start to bank
right.  You basically want to follow the bridge up to the land.  Right
as you get to the land, you'll see a couple of smallish buildings.  Let
loose some missiles in their parking lot.  O.K. it's not really that spec-
tacular, but it beats trying to land on the Golden Gate Bridge!

                                          -Echo
                                           The Potato-Salad-Eatin' Fool.
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                                           The Potato-Salad-Eatin' Fool.
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