What was your first ever flight sim?

[silentrunner]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Maybe the first great computer flight sim, but I've been playing this one since 1977:

What the heck is that?

[HunterICX]

A flight sim ofcourse, which in case if your young the parents will aprove to play it for hours

[Syxx_Killer]

I don't remember which was my first one. I do know it was either Velocity's Jet Fighter or Microprose's F-117A Stealth Fighter. Both were quite fun to play back in the day. The thing that kind of bugged me about Jet Fighter was every enemy aircraft was based on the A-4. See a MiG-29? Yep, it looked like an A-4. The missions were fun, though. F-117A took a while to learn. It came on the computer we had back then. There were no instructions. I managed to figure out what each plane was when it asked you every time you start the game. If you got it wrong, I thing you could only fly training missions or something. I also figured out what every control was, too. That took awhile, but once I did the game was awesome. I still have both on disk. I haven't tried to get either to work.

Here's some info on the games.

F-117A Stealth Figher

http://www.migman.com/ref/1990_combat/F117/F117.htm

Jet Fighter

http://www.migman.com/ref/1980_combat/JF1/JF1.htm

[NeonSamurai]

My first ""3d"" sims was Dambusters, the original Falcon game (the 1985 one), and ms flightsim 1, i guess i could also throw in the old atari dogfighting "sims" and Sopwith

[larrysellars]

Heya guys, long time lurker here.

The classic Red Baron was my first flight sim. I loved that game, and I still have it and the original instruction manual (now I just need to find a 5 1/4" disc drive). The manual was my first history lesson in WWI.

Picked up Falcon 3.0 the following year and that showed me how crappy I really was. I don't think I successfully completed a single mission, and it gave me a whole new respect for pilots, especially fighter pilots.

[ajrimmer42]

I think my first one was "Air Combat" for my PS1, then when we got a computer I bought CFS and FS98. All still good, classic games that I play on every once in a while. ahhhh! the thrill of blowing up some pixels that looked a bit like a B-52...

[ming]

Lucas Arts BoB and SWOTL packed in a bundle. Funny, I was just looking at some old screens of these games a few days ago!

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

My first ""3d"" sims was Dambusters, the original Falcon game (the 1985 one), and ms flightsim 1, i guess i could also throw in the old atari dogfighting "sims" and Sopwith

Oh man - you're old! Wait! How would I know that? I mean - there was an Atari game called Sopwith?

-S

[SUBMAN1]

Anyway, my first flight sim didn't even have graphics - it was a text based F-14 simulator that you had to fly completely by instruments. I upgraded to MS Flight Sim the day it came out. I also have very fond memories of a program called JET.

-S

THis is what Jet looks like:

[Tikigod]

Gunship by Microprose for the Commodore 64

[Metl]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Anyway, my first flight sim didn't even have graphics - it was a text based F-14 simulator that you had to fly completely by instruments. I upgraded to MS Flight Sim the day it came out. I also have very fond memories of a program called JET.

-S

THis is what Jet looks like:

Oh, yeah, buddy! I sucked at that game! Crashed every time. Jet was my first and I hated it, but the first one I actually remember liking and being able to succeed at was Red Baron.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by silentrunner

What the heck is that?

The overall system is called Mustangs & Messerschmitts. Obviously it was created during the early Dungeons & Dragons days. The WWI version is variously known as Triplane! and Canvas Falcons; the '30s varian is Legion Kondor and we have Mig Alley for Korea and the modern stuff.

What it is is a flight simulator: every plane is defined by how fast it can roll, turn, climb and dive based on the rolls of a mark on the rear wheel. One player per plane, and shooting is resolved with a roll of the dice. Old fashioned, slow to play and one heck of a lot of fun! It's a flight sim for people who love to build models, and a way for us to play with our models instead of just hanging them from the ceiling.

[lesrae]

My first computer one would have been Nightflight on the Dragon 32, sometime in 82~83.

Before that there was Super Flight Deck!



http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/superflightdeck.htm