This sim was ahead of its time. It blew my mind when it came out. The system simulation, flight modeling, in depth mission planning...simply marvelous.

@evolgenius1150

11 ай бұрын

The devs ended up going on to make sims for the military. These guys were definitely good at what they did.

One of my favorite sims of all time.

@theeltea

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, Mr. Matt Wagner himself! Says a lot about a sim when people such as Wags give it praise.

@Durian_Defense

7 жыл бұрын

Senior Producer of Eagle Dynamics. That's a nice endorsement of a DOS flight simulator that's 24 years old.

@SimDeck

6 жыл бұрын

Come on Matt DCS the Tornado.......please!

@Zadren

5 жыл бұрын

@@SimDeck ⬆️ This!

@Jandel57

2 жыл бұрын

This was a fantastic sim for it's time.

I was a kid. I remember sometimes I simply flight in the night with bright stars around feeling a peaceful sensation

The golden days of flight simulation!

I still have this game, in it's original box. Along with Simon the sorcerer, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Beneath a Steel Sky, Bloodnet and a bunch of other old classics. I still play these game at least once every year. My 13 year old is working her way through Monkey Island 2 right now. It's a blast :D

@iain8837

Жыл бұрын

Buy Tornado from you!

This was the best flight simulator I have played to date, and I have played virtually all of them, and still play them.

@prashadlodhia

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Loved setting up waypoints and dropping bombs on the runway

@earx23

Жыл бұрын

It was incredibly good. I remember Proflight on the ST (also a Tornado simulator), but this one was superior in almost every way, and it worked fine on a 386SX@16 MHz... WTF

Yes! I remember playing this at 11/12 yo on an Amiga. Rubbish frame rate on my machine, but I didn't care. Such detail, blew my mind as a kid. Also the lovely big box, containing a proper manual and actual paper maps! Brilliant sim for its time.

@JuriSalminen

Жыл бұрын

I had a Amiga 1200 with with a Blizzard 030 card but the frame rate was still rubbish. And the worst part - the Amiga version did not have the Command part of the game, which took up almost half the manual :) This simulator was a major reason why I ditched the Amiga and got a PC :)

The memories are flooding back! AWESOME!

One of my favourite combat sims. Now available on Steam at long last, and it still plays brilliantly after all this time! One of the scariest flight sims ever, sheer terror. Real Tornado pilots must have had nerves of steel. Have to say this is much better than DCS. The dynamic campaigns are superb, especially once you realise you can choose your own target and run the air war the way you want to.

Rewrote the book on flight sims! I loved this sim! Stay VLOW and VFAST

I loved this game on my first pc. A 486 with 66 MHz.

Loved playing this game. Fly so low over Iraq you bump into radio masts

That JP233 run is really a hot ticket!

Ran this on a 386SX @16MHz back in the day. Of course it didn't run super fast, but it ran! Maybe 20 fps or so? That was freaking impressive. Plenty of fast games around even in those days, but not with this realism and not with such a feature set. The 3D engine lacked sprites or circles, but had these lovely rasters on the horizon and white outs when you flew through clouds and such.

Cool flashback vid! This is the title that pulled me, kicking and screaming, into the "IBM Clone" world, as the 7 Mhz processor just would not run it. The Desert Storm add-on was very good as well...

That was one of my favourite sims in the early nineties... good times they were, simulationwise

Love this game. Thanks for the video

i love this Game, i played i was 5 Year old all Time ! Best Game ever !

nice music :D I still remember the fun of mission planning for the whole squadron. Laser guided "pin point" bombing was also fun in this sim.

This game rocked for the day. Defo one of my favs! Thanks for sharing!

Just bought it on Steam still learning from it.

Played this sim back then a lot. I still have it on a shelf in the original box.

This sim looked like a blast! I wish I hadn't of missed it back then.

Oh, loved it! Best ever.

Yes, you can see it in 5:20 mark on the weapon select display.

che bei tempi ! questo si che era un simulatore di volo e di strategia militare !!!

Got this wish-listed on Steam.

I wish Digital Integration would have made a sequel with better graphics I mean a least 640 by 480 or made it after Fighting Falcon was released.This was so intricate and good but it could have used better graphics and sound a few years later. I have some Digital Integration sims all the way back to the early 1980's

I enjoyed a lot F-16 Combat Pilot, also from Digital Integration. A pity I could not play this. The Tornado is one of my favourites. By the way, good flight and excellent execution of the mission.

@theeltea

7 жыл бұрын

It looked to me that he got hit by triple-A

Wow, those were the days.Didn't play Tornado but did play Overlord which was a WWII sim and one my dad had called Sturmovik with the Su-25 in or something. Great times!

@antwanarmstrong5987

8 жыл бұрын

you mean il2 sturmovik it's a good Sim that still being updated to this day, the newest one is called il2 battle of stalingrad.

@timmy3822

8 жыл бұрын

Actually it wasn't IL-2, it was called Sturmovik and ran on DOS buddy MANY years before IL-2 came along ;).

@antwanarmstrong5987

8 жыл бұрын

oh the sim with the su-25 i loved that game.

@aservirfrais

8 жыл бұрын

+Antwan Armstrong Yes, dcs world great simulation and su 25t is free.

@theeltea

7 жыл бұрын

He probably means the Su-25 Stormovik by Brent Iverson (of LHX fame)

"life begins at 200ft 600kts"

I was ADDICTED to this game and the gulf addon when I was younger! I mean I had FS as well, but this was a better flight simulator AND those runway bombs were so much fun! and lofting bombs and shooting endless doves of frogfoots and frogbats!

This was great. You could see the holes in the ground the bombs made

@flyer7807 - oh god...Microprose's F-15 Strike Eagle 2 was a magic experience for me....began playing it at maybe 9 years old. And i see this game seems to have come from the same stable

Loved this game, for its day it looked great. Now we have DCS.....

In all it's MIDI glory!!!

MIDI for LIFE.

I've updated the website link of my tribute page to Tornado on wikipedia's entry on DI's Tornado.

This is how flight sims started for me. Never learned to loft bomb properly though...

wish they could remaster this to get the same resolution as tiny combat arena

This along with Strike Commander was the sim that made me forget about Amiga 500 and switch to PC in early 90's.

@theeltea

7 жыл бұрын

Strike Commander wasn't exactly "early" 90s, wouldn't you agree?

@OpenGL4ever

Жыл бұрын

@@theeltea Strike Commander was released in April 1993. That still counts as early 90s in my opinion. We're not talking about games like Quake or Duke Nukem 3d, which where released around 1996.

@theeltea

Жыл бұрын

@@OpenGL4ever Okie

Was great to find this and play it again via DOSbox, but I can't get the sound to work...

Those were the days. DI created some great flights sims, just think of Apache Longbow, HIND and F-16.

How can I download or get this??? This is great!

The sound engines are different from mine. How did you setup the sound within Dosbox?

@SpacedeathNet

5 жыл бұрын

I also have this question, the engine sound is much nicer in this video.

you can remove the crackling by selecting a different soundcard in the DOS Box config. find it in your user-folder

Loved this very much back in the day. I can get it to run on my modern PC, but not with sound. Any ideas anyone? Thanks.

@Netbug

9 жыл бұрын

Using DOSBox? Should have sound.

Campaign mode ftw

@Hairysteed - I'm sure the Soviets had a shilka parked at each end of the runway to blast away at tornados

Please,can you give me your configuration of dosbox to have this graphics? Cause for me it very pixelated in fullscreen. :0(

6:05 - is it JP233?

I love the stars in the sky ant the colors of the orizont... of this game.

@theeltea

7 жыл бұрын

I always loved the color pallets of old sims. My favourite is TFX though... And a game from Psygnosis called "Darker", which is also a sim of sorts.

@Risingson2

4 жыл бұрын

@@theeltea Darker has a weird dev story that is something like a dev from TFX/Inferno doing his own never ending game that finally got released. There is a guy that uploaded ALL the Darker missions in youtube.

8 bits music ?

I think one of the most terrifying things about the RAF in the 90's was how weak it was in regard to arial defence.

@FlightSimMuseum

7 жыл бұрын

'aerial'

@AshleyPomeroy

7 жыл бұрын

The RAF was also pretty weak against Helvetica, Gill Sans, basically all of the modern-looking sans serif fonts. The problem is that they had optimised their strategy against Akzidenz Grotesk and the gothic fonts, but by the 1980s that model was out of date.

@Durian_Defense

7 жыл бұрын

Ashley, you crack me up. Two fonts walk into the bar, and the barman says, “Sorry lads, we don’t serve your type.

@imperialinquisition6006

Жыл бұрын

I mean it must have been very strong in terms of ground attack at least. And the Cold War was over so I imagine air defences wasn’t really the priority. They had the Tornado F3, which could fulfill the role of intercepting random aircraft in the airspace, and the Typhoon soon to enter service so in the end it was fine.

Anyone know how to get this to work on a modern PC? I've still got Tornado in the original box and really want to try it out again!

@Durian_Defense

7 жыл бұрын

DOSBox is the way to go. You can also play it on the iPad but you'll have to DM me for more details.

So as to drop all those clusters of JP233 bombs along the *entire* length of the runaway, I suppose Paul.

Wish I had kept the manual for this game when I sold my Amiga... Todays flight games(excluding pure simulators) tend to be worse on all aspects but the number of pixels.

@Air-Striegler

7 жыл бұрын

MikaelKKarlsson DCS is here to stay, my friend.

Hi pleae can anyone tell me how can I run this in my PC? Installing dosbox it runs but it feels like 2 frams per second. And my joystick G940, doesn't works... THANKS

@tamiglia

10 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I have partially solved the problem: in dosbox prompt, type cycles=40000 and then run tornado.bat But my joystick is responding with different axes. The throttle control the elevators ... Any hints on this? Thank you

@MrTiti

8 жыл бұрын

+Jorge Tamariz just read the readme how to change the axis

textures are overrated