Ace Of Aces

When I was a kid I loved militaristic stuff especially ww2 era, so when I got this game, it was heavy game play with no looking back. Great intro before the game started, with a montage of pre-flight operations. After getting into the game, you had some briefing about your mission then you would take and add to your inventory of bombs, missiles, and bullets with which to slay the Luftwaffe over Fortress Europe.
You always flew the same plane, a Dehaviland Misquito, for the British Royal Air Force which was a plane built entirely out of wood but she was a fast bird.

Game play was basically you already in the air, no taking off or landing, and you just mapping yourself around Europe while either shooting down planes, sinking subs on the way to their pens, or destroying trains in transit that were filled with Germans (and POW, so you had to be careful).
You had a Nintendo Top Gun-like feel in that you were always looking straight ahead and the targets (German Luftwaffe planes or the menacing v1 rockets) would float in from the distance and attack you head on or on the sides...you could look out your window on both sides and in the back to check the whereabouts of your enemy. I remember frantically looking side to side, trying to find that Messerschmitt 109 on my tail and praying for one more pass. The side views didn’t have much to them, other than the ability to turn off your engines should they be on fire from the hell fire being rung down on you by the Hun bastards.
You also had the option of defending yourself or attacking with either bullets (easier to hit the enemy with) or missiles (much harder to use because of their slow nature but they were worth more. Once you got to your target, you either had to bomb the trains or subs by going into the bombarding view and dropping your ordinances on the intended targets, or you had to destroy v1 rockets headed for London. Overall, crude graphics but gameplay was great fun and for hawk twelve year olds, it ruled