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Old Oct 24, 2014, 1:27 pm
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What's the link for the online version?
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 1:28 pm
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Football Manager kills time like no other game.

FM 15 just out in Beta

In other news, a new BA ad will feature football fans

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Old Oct 24, 2014, 1:30 pm
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But recently I have discovered an iPad port of the old space trading game Elite. So I am trying to make up for the fact I was rubbish at it 25 years ago. Up to 'Competent' but only about 10% of the way to 'Elite'. I need some more longhaul trip!
Where did you find that? I would love to have another go at it!
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 1:41 pm
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Scrabble on the iPad. The puritanical dictionary drives me mad, though. No 'fag' or 'butt'. Grrrrr!
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 1:57 pm
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Originally Posted by Swanhunter
Where did you find that? I would love to have another go at it!
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 2:04 pm
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+1 - made it to the heady heights of Elite status - adored the wasted hours on that game.
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 2:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Swanhunter
Where did you find that? I would love to have another go at it!
Got to deadly on the BBC micro version. Please someone find the link!
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 2:13 pm
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On SH flights, I usually tend to write or do some work on personal pet projects. If my brain is fried enough that that's not happening, Sim Tower is a great game to unwind!

Originally Posted by kanderson1965
ACI should be a standard offering on all IFE.
Funny, that. My parents got told off by QF crew when I was a young boy because I was proudly carrying a copy of one of Macarthur Job's excellent "Air Disaster" books onto every flight on our Oz holiday. Apparently I was scaring the other pax

Somehow I feel like in this day and age I'd probably be mistaken for a T-word if someone saw me watching ACI on a plane
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 2:20 pm
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I had to stop playing games, well Football Manager anyway. Coming back on a CW flight other pax must have thought I had some form of Tourette's with random out bursts of Shola you're sh*t!

Luckily the cabin wasn't that full.

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Old Oct 24, 2014, 2:41 pm
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Originally Posted by csutter
On SH flights, I usually tend to write or do some work on personal pet projects. If my brain is fried enough that that's not happening, Sim Tower is a great game to unwind!



Funny, that. My parents got told off by QF crew when I was a young boy because I was proudly carrying a copy of one of Macarthur Job's excellent "Air Disaster" books onto every flight on our Oz holiday. Apparently I was scaring the other pax

Somehow I feel like in this day and age I'd probably be mistaken for a T-word if someone saw me watching ACI on a plane
I think Sky have got it in for BA, on my Sky+ app every episode of ACI is accompanied by a picture of G-YMMM.
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by worjackie14
I had to stop playing games, well Football Manager anyway. Coming back on a CW flight other pax must have thought I had some form of Tourette's with random out bursts of Shola you're sh*t!

Luckily the cabin wasn't that full.

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Haha....at least FM is realistic
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 2:46 pm
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I play pinball: http://www.pinballarcade.com/

It requires no arm movement, so you can play in teensy little seats, you can pause at any time, and I really like classic pinball machines
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 3:06 pm
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Elite

For those who are interested, the Elite iPad port is called Unknown and is available in the App Store - if I remember correctly it is free.

Be warned, it is tricky to control on a touch screen - or maybe that is just me! Welcome back to the world of 80s wire frame graphics.

And for those still interested, you need 6400 kills to become Elite. Race on!

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Old Oct 24, 2014, 3:11 pm
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boardgame apps - Carcassonne, Agricola, Le Havre, Lords of Water-deep or Smallworld on the IPad
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Old Oct 24, 2014, 3:15 pm
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Originally Posted by worjackie14
I had to stop playing games, well Football Manager anyway. Coming back on a CW flight other pax must have thought I had some form of Tourette's with random out bursts of Shola you're sh*t!

Luckily the cabin wasn't that full.

********views are mine and do not reflect on British Airways************

It's just as well I wasn't sitting next to you, i'd have felt obliged to cheer for the opposition.

The last person I sat next to on a plane who was playing CM was playing as Barnet so maybe that's the main inflight choice.

I don't take my laptop with me nowadays (and I can't find the Civ 2 disk anyway) but I do sudoko on my kindle. I have Sonic 2 on it but I can't play that without the sound on which would be a bit antisocial.
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