Dogfight

Dogfight is a video game in the action genre originally released in 1990. It is currently playable on Amiga.

Dogfight is a two-player game with roots in the same primordial soup as Atari's Combat and other basic Dogfight games.

The two players take sides in a split-screen air battle over France in 1916. Player one starts as an English pilot on the left side, and player two flies his red Luftwaffe plane from the right screen strip. At the end of each strip is a tree, so takeoff requires precision; if you go forward, you will plummet; if you go backward, you will crash into a tree.

When the two players fly towards each other, the split screen joins when they reach visual contact, and likewise separates again if they fly away from each other. If a player is shot down, he must take off again from his base, and the winner wins a point. In the time it takes the other player to take off, you can fly to his base and bomb both him and his hangar. But be careful, because there is an AA emplacement at the base. The anti-aircraft artillery alternates between slow fire and explosive anti-aircraft fire, the latter being much harder to avoid. If you manage to bomb the artillery, the opposing player is more or less at your mercy, at least until the artillery regenerates or if he manages to avoid your bombs and shots to shoot you down.

To spice things up, both sides have zeppelins that enter the game from time to time. Zeppelins are great targets but they shoot at you with great accuracy. In the center of the playing field is a lake where the German and British submarines take turns. They can be bombed, but they have the same firepower as AA batteries.

Control of your aircraft is imperative. Climbing too fast will cause you to stall, while steep dives will speed up your plane. Flying too high will also cause a stall, although this option can be disabled. If you manage to fly straight at the top of the screen, you can take a shortcut over the mountain at the bottom of each airfield. This will take you to the opposite end of the screen.

Written in AMOS, Dogfight will let players keep going as long as they want, so the winner is usually the one who reaches a set score first according to a gentleman's agreement.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.