What was your first ever flight sim?

[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!

[XabbaRus]

My first flight sim experience was on the ZX Spectrum playing the flight sim and Tomahawk with the crazy special lens copy protection.. First real one would have been MS Flight Simulator 3 I think..

[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

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by fatty

Microsoft Flight Simulator 1 circa 1982

I think I still have those floppies if you want to pick it up again! :p You may need to slow down your CPU to 4.77 Mhz first though! Hmm, maybe I am dating myself again by knowing all this stuff??? I better keep quiet.

-S

[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

[d@rk51d3]

Does "river raid" on the atari 2600 count?

My first real sim was either Microprose, or Microsoft, and had you delivering mail around Wichita in a little red plane.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Tikigod

Gunship by Microprose for the Commodore 64

I was soo addicted to gunship!!! Until I got so good at it that I could wipe every last enemy troop off the battlefield on every single mission without dying.

-S

[Onkel Neal]

, in 1985 I believe.

[UglyMowgli]

T80 FS-1 by Bruce Artwick on a TR-80 Mod I with 16kB of RAM, the soft was on a K7 tape. Screen resolution was 128x48 pixel



source of the image : http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh/start.htm

[nikimcbee]

micro-prose F-15 Strike Eagle!