Barnstorming

Barnstorming for Atari 2600

Barnstorming

Atari 2600

Year of release: 1982

Date of review: 02.11.08

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Text Review

Barnstorming is one of those rare games you never see copied. Sure, there are multiple flight simulators on the market, but none that recreate the amount of exhilaration that you get from flying through barns as many times as possible or chasing birds down just to watch them flee in terror.

The goal is simple in barnstorming. Fly through every barn the game requires. Game 1 has 10 barns, Game 2 has 15, Game 3 has 25, and Game 4 has 25, but with random levels designs. The tricky part of the game is deciding how far you should drop, as you must avoid other obstacles besides birds.

The game is a series of rising and dropping in order to avoid objects all while trying to land and drive right through a barn. Why? Maybe the pilot has to refuel in there. So he can.......uh........enjoy flying until he runs out of fuel again which is almost immediately; that plane must be the Geo of airplanes, or Datsun. No, it's more like the Deloreon because that car flies and it has really bad gas mileage. Or maybe his plane runs on garbage and he collects it in the barns; who knows.

Well, I certainly loved traveling to the past with this game, and I hope you enjoyed this review in the future.

- Philip Hanan

 

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