The BEST game on every platform i've owned!! Part 2 Atari ST

In the grand computer war of the late 80's/early 90's there were two competitors that fought a fierce battle. Commodore with their Amiga and Atari with the ST. Now i will be the first to admit that despite owning an ST i secretly longed for an Amiga but the ST was not without its charm and was home to loads of great games a lot of which were Amiga ports and vice versa.

The game i have picked as my favourite for the ST is Carrier Command.

THRILLING yeah!!!!


For those who have not heard of this game it was a sort of flight sim crossed with a real time strategy game using 3d vector graphics to create an (at the time) realistic game world. The game started on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean and at your disposal you had aircraft (MANTA's) and seacraft (WALRUS) and the basic idea was to take over the islands in the game world although there was an action mode that took care of the island takeovers for you and let you fly into action (hence action mode!!) without worrying too much about strategy. The game was critically acclaimed, receiving 90% plus reviews and a sequel is in the works for release on ps3/360 although the website is very vague so i wouldn't hold your breath.
The main reason i have chosen this as the finest the ST had to offer is simply the time i invested in this game. It was in a way a precursor to the open world genre we all love so much now. I also used to play this as a pure flight sim pretending the aircraft were charter planes and i was taking passengers to exotic islands, albeit islands that shot charter planes down on sight (sad i know!!!). All in all Carrier Command is a fantastic example of old school gaming that pushed things forward to give us the gaming landscape we enjoy today.