Time Warped 1980 - Red Baron

On 02/11/2018 at 10:09 PM by KnightDriver

In which Richard Chamberlain asks me about arcade game Red Baron while on the set of the Shogun miniseries.

from museumofplay.org

What was that flying game you were playing? An Atari vector graphics game called Red Baron. You fly a biplane in first-person and shoot down attacking planes and ground based anti-aircraft emplacements. Don't let the planes get behind you or you get shot up.

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from arcade-museum.com

Ever see that movie The Blue Max? I could've played Bruno Stachel. You know the role George Peppard got. Sure Richard. That would've been a good role for you but you were still doing Dr. Kildare.

Right. Is there a game where you weild a Katana? Not yet. . . ahem. I mean not that I know of.

Well, they should make one with me weilding this Katana. I'm getting pretty good at it playing Blackthorne in this miniseries. We're about to cut a guy's head off in this next scene. Want to watch? Um, maybe not this time. I've got a flight to catch and it isn't within this video game.

Back home I started up Atari Flashback Classics Vol. 2 and played Red Baron. I had played it before and didn't take to it much, but this time I discovered its greatness. I felt pretty cool flying over those wireframe mountains, diving between them to shoot out the gun emplacements, and then soaring high again to fight the airplanes. Bullets flew out of my machines guns in a spray of shiny dots. I really liked it this time.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

02/11/2018 at 11:15 PM

this one looks good. Never seen it in real life. I love vector graphics though. That color!

Remember King Solomon's Mines? I think I saw it in the theater with my dad.

KnightDriver

02/13/2018 at 11:05 PM

I saw that King Solomon's Mines listed for Richard Chamberlain but I'm not sure I ever saw it. Maybe though. I'll have to watch a trailer to see if I remember any of it.

02/13/2018 at 11:23 PM

it's an H Rider Haggard novel I think.

02/14/2018 at 10:57 PM

I'll have to go watch it.

Cary Woodham

02/12/2018 at 12:51 AM

I loved this game as a kid. But then, I've always had an interest in biplanes for some reason.

02/12/2018 at 03:51 PM

Me too. I built a few in my model building years. I'd love to fly one in real life. Scary, but fun.

02/13/2018 at 01:58 AM

I don't think I'd want to fly or ride in one. Sounds rough. But I still like to look at them!

daftman

02/12/2018 at 10:48 AM

I've never even heard of this one O_O

02/12/2018 at 03:31 PM

I don't remember ever playing it back in the day. Maybe I did though. I was pretty unfamiliar with it when it came up in Game Room back in 2010.

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/12/2018 at 01:17 PM

I remember thinking vector graphics looked cool well into the 90s, so this one looks intriguing.

02/12/2018 at 03:25 PM

I got very close to getting a Vectrex console when I was collecting. Oh, I just remembered. There's a Vectrex app for the ipad. When I get an ipad, I want it.

goaztecs

02/14/2018 at 11:43 AM

As I go through reading BaD posts I'm learning about more games I've never heard about it. This is another cool gem.

02/14/2018 at 10:38 PM

It's a good one.

PixlBit