# Am I the only person who ever played this game? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757 "2000-12-02T21:54:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teabag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@teabag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teabag)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/1 "2000-12-02T21:54:58Z")
The game I’m referring to is called, IIRC, “Airborne Ranger” and was one of the few games I used to run on the first PC I ever came into contact with (probably a 286). I’ve searched for it several times but have never been able to find any reference to it. It was a 3rd person perspective kind of thing, ran in two colours, basically you just ran around shooting things but I’d like to know if it’s still around. Anybody got any leads? ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/2 "2000-12-02T21:58:52Z")
can you describe the game a little better? The only one that comes to mind is the old paratrooper game where you had an AA gun and you shot up guys on parachutes. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/3 "2000-12-02T22:04:36Z")
Is this what you’re looking for -----\> [Airborne Ranger](http://www.gamingdepot.com/Ranger.htm) You can download the game there, but I haven’t tried to do that…so give it a look-see. ---
**Author:** ![teabag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@teabag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teabag)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/4 "2000-12-02T22:08:14Z")
As far as I can remember, it went like this. First, a little symbol of a plane would fly over the map, and you had to drop your equipment bags. These would float down to the ground and you could pick them up later in the game. Next came the main stage of the game. Essentially you would be dropped out of a plane to land at the bottom of the map and would have to fight your way up shooting enemies and lobbing grenades at bunkers to get to your objective at the top of the map (munitions dump, etc.) You then make your way to a little cross on the ground, a ladder would decend from an unseen plane, and you would be whisked away. ::sits back and smiles in hazy recallection of good ol’ computer games:: ---
**Author:** ![teabag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@teabag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teabag)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/5 "2000-12-02T22:12:12Z")
**monkeylucifer** , I didn’t need to download it…one look at the screenshot was enough to bring the old memories flooding back 😉 Many thanks ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/6 "2000-12-02T23:09:22Z")
I downloaded it – that was a mistake. the game runs so absolutely fast its impossible to play ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/7 "2000-12-02T23:46:25Z")
Anytime, man. I’m a sucker for nostalgia and video games. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/8 "2000-12-03T12:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kinoons \* > \*\*I downloaded it – that was a mistake. the game runs so absolutely fast its impossible to play > \*\* There’s a lot of freeware available to slow down PCs to play old abandonware games. Try searching for “Moslo”, for example. You generally run them from DOS, specify how fast you want the PC to run (as a percentage of normal speed) and then run the game from DOS. ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/9 "2000-12-03T18:47:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kinoons \* > \*\*can you describe the game a little better? The only one that comes to mind is the old paratrooper game where you had an AA gun and you shot up guys on parachutes. > > \*\* Hah, I loved that game. I used to play it when I was about 5 years old on an old Mac (you know, the first ones). Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-person-who-ever-played-this-game/43757/10 "2000-12-04T19:52:20Z")
Hey I remember this game. used to play it with a few buddies of mine. all I really remmeber though was there was like 5-6 different senarios. had a nice book to it as well.