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What was this old (80's) PC game called?

I used to have this old Tandy computer a while back (I believe it was made in '85), running some old version of MS-DOS. There was one game I basically played every day, known only as "wwi". You'd start by typing "wwi" into the command prompt and hitting enter. It was a left-right side-scroller game where you flew around in a little biplane. The ground was covered in snow, and there were little cities (I think) scattered around the terrain. The object of the game, I believe, was to take off and fly around, dropping bombs on all of the cities. When a bomb hit the terrain, it left a little crater in it and with enough bombs you could remove as much of the terrain as you wanted. There were tall mountains on the far left and right sides of the map to keep you in the play area. The runway you took off from was on a plateau-type thing in the center of the map, with a building and a fuel tank behind you. There was also a two-player mode, and a mode with an AI-controlled biplane trying to drop bombs on you as well. Does anybody know what game that was, or what it was called, or any information on it at all? On a related note, there was a couple of other programs/games I played on that computer... One was a Centipede clone, which just used various font characters as the objects in the game. For instance, a spade character was used as the mushrooms, I believe. The second one was a sign and banner creater program that let you add text and stock images to a sign/banner, then print it out, either on one page or across multiple pages as a banner (since the computer was hooked up to a dot-matrix printer where all of the paper was connected, this worked out quite well). Does anyone have any information or know the names of either of those programs either (In addition to the first game I mentioned)? Thanks!

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Sorry, I don't think I have the right answer for you. I never owned a Tandy, but I owned a Commodore 64/128, which sometimes had similar games. I do remember a centipede clone game with spade characters (so you're not crazy), but I don't know if that was ever a game sold in stores. I found a couple of centipede clones on YouTube, but they don't seem to be the same. As far as the bi-plane game, I can't really help you either. I found something from the Vic-20 that may have been translated to the Tandy, but it's missing the mountains, plateau and a fuel tank. It does have bombing of a city and the screen is white (like snow). I doubt it is the right game unless you remember wrong. Your details though seem to suggest that it is a different game. The banner maker probably exists as well. I had one for a different computer in the '80s so it probably came for Tandy too. I'd ask these questions to a retro/classic gaming site. If they don't know, then I don't know who would.