Flyerfox
Alternative title: Flyer Fox
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
Release Year: 1984
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In the world of Flyer Fox, civil aviation has become a highly dangerous endeavor. Aerial terrorists routinely shoot down commercial airliners. The only solution: a courageous pilot must man the new Flyer Fox fighter and escort the jumbo jets safely to their destination.

The game is a shooter, seen from the cockpit perspective of the Flyer Fox. Each level begins with an automatic takeoff so the Fox finds itself behind the airliner to protect. Soon, enemy fighters will appear and must be shot down with the Fox's guns to keep the jumbo from harm. Cockpit instrumentation includes a radar, a compass and an artificial horizon, to be used to locate any enemies and also to find one's way back to the protected plane. There is also a status line that displays the current damage level of the airliner. If either the jumbo is shot down or the Fox's fuel runs out before all enemies are shot down, it's game over. In later levels the difficulty increases, with the enemy planes being more agile and actually shooting back.

In an unusual feature for a mid-80s title, the game features synthesized speech, used for radio messages from the airliner.

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Description from the packaging:

The training was grueling, the competition stiff. But you proved yourself a pilot without equal, ready to command the world's most advanced defensive weapon: Flyer Fox!
Sitting in the cockpit of your sleek jetfighter, you escort a commercial jumbojet through the once-safe international skies. Suddenly your scope lights up and the reason for your presence streaks by. A MiG fighter has ruthlessly opened fire on the helpless airliner. It breaks off and you give chase. You track him on your scope. You veer left. You fire. You veer right. The ground zooms past. He tries to evade, but you doggedly follow, knowing that you must not allow him to complete his mission of destruction. Suddenly, you receive a MayDay from the airliner- another MiG is attacking. Afterburners blazing, you streak back to the rescue, in defense of freedom of the skies!

Flyer Fox, a one-player 3-D simulation, is part of Tymac Talkies series. Fast arcade action combined with dazzling, high resolution graphics and software generated speech puts you right in the game with an impact you never though possible!
