Earliest flight sim you played?

[JG27-Gaidin]

If the Atari counts; it was 2D bi-planes game. Many, many hours there. The first computer game was "Secret Weapons Of the Luftwaffe". My first online was RB1 on INN (that, too, was $2.00 an hour).

The "Warbirds" format is still my favorite! You could capture opponents airfields and push the off the map to win the campaign. Would love to see this format again!

Gaidin

[nealn]

Hi All,

Was talking to 'Seas the other day about the first flight sim I played. I thought it may have been Red Baron. Anyway, I thought I'd confirm that.

Found this 80's site, http://www.listal.com/list/evolution...ght-simulators.

Flash back immediately to the trusty Commodore 64 and it's 'quick' 45 minute cassette tape download times, with no guarantee of success at the end of said 45 minutes, and I am in nostalgia heaven!

So officially, mine is F15 Strike Eagle. The game I played the most in the early days - Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A

I'm keen to know how far back you go in your flight sim career.

Cheers, Pattle

Fighter duel 1997, the year I got my first computer.. An obscure title I found in the discount bin at Kmart. After that European airwar.

[Oersted]

Warbirds 1997 for $2 an hour Then around 2000 WWII Fighters for a while untill I saw a screenshot of an IL-2 109 F2. Downloaded the Demo in August 2001 and it's pretty much been IL-2 ever since.

Sure you downloaded the demo? - I remember buying a gaming mag because the demo was on a cd. Man, that skittish P-39 take-off in the rain. Have been hooked on Il-2 ever since!

[Infinity]

Sublogic flight simulator 1, on an AppleIIe 64K, circa around 1980.

The enemy aircraft was rendered as a single dot, irregardless of distance. Those were the days.

[Cybermat47]

I'm pretty sure the earliest one I played was CFS 3. I honestly don't remember it that mch, I must've been between 5 and 8 when I played it. I mostly just did random stuff in the German aircraft - yes, even back then, I was a Bf-109 fanboy

[ZeroXIII]

Possibly warbirds for my first then moving on to European air war (would love another copy of this as my original disappeared during moving house) with all the patches and extra aircraft, Fighter squadron screaming demons over Europe, Jane's ww2 fighters and then onto IL2 . I'm sure there are a couple more I can't remember off the top of my head

[Reconlcpl]

Airwarrior,.. in my trysrt "puscar" i was a "runstang" killer,..lol <S>

[pitt]

well there was one at the gambling hall in the early 80ties with a helicopter, can t remember the name,
but BOB was the one that hooked me first.
Then came the CFS 1-3, and WoT where i was beta tester.
Tryed Rise of flight but did not become familiar,
same with BoS(still dont get it running properly)

[Springer]

Red Baron 3D Member of JG2 Jasta 15 The flying snakes

[themis]

It was Combat Flight Simulator (microsoft)

[HerrBaron]

SR-71 on a Tandy Color Computer.

[Tinkicker]

Combat on my pong machine as a kid in the 70s:




Then fast forward to the late 90s with my first PC:



and

[FluxCapacitance]

Top Gun on NES. 1991 or so when I played it.
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Pro Pilot 99 was my first sim though. Had a nice textbook manual.

[AdiJager]

for me it was a C64 WWI sim - (red baron? - not sure)
later:
Flight Intruder https://youtu.be/MUse_eFW3dw
F22-Raptor and "Novalogic" series
Flight Unlimited 2
FS98

[lil_head]

BOB "Their finest hour"

Was so much fun as a kid.

[Sn8ke_iis]

Great thread, like a walk down memory lane.

VERY first was the "Red Baron" WWI portion of Microsoft FS circa early 1980's. My mother worked at IBM, we had the very first PCs growing up.

Another one I remember from shortly after was JET. I think it modeled an F-16 or F-18, all wire frame graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUQn77c9pH4

JETFIGHTER was the one I first started to put real time into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetfighter_(series)

Landing on the carrier for the first time was exhilarating.

Previous posters have hit the high points for me.

"Their Finest Hour" was the first WWII sim. Still the best manual of any flight sim EVER. Was like reading an interesting history book then playing it. Wish I still had some of those original boxes from those old floppy disk games.

Red Baron from Sierra

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

F-15 Strike Eagle III

Yeager's Air Combat

F-117 Stealth Fighter II

Falcon 3.0

Aces of the Pacific

Gunship (Apache sim from Microprose)

I didn't have rudder pedals, but I had the very first Thrustmaster joystick and throttle advertised in Computer Gaming World. Wish I still had them, would be a nostalgic collectors item.

Cheers,

Sn8ke_iis

[Nork]

Lock On Modern Air Combat.
Its probably not modern anymore but it was way cool back in 2003 : )

69th_Nork

[wheelsup_cavu]

It was either Red Baron or Lunar Lander.

https://youtu.be/BDsAKW59gOs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=McAhSoAEbhM

Both would have been at the arcade when I was playing back then so which one came first is long forgotten.


Wheels

[1lokos]

Originally Posted by IIJG27Rich View Post
Warbirds 1997 for $2 an hour Then around 2000 WWII Fighters for a while untill I saw a screenshot of an IL-2 109 F2. Downloaded the Demo in August 2001 and it's pretty much been IL-2 ever since.

Sure you downloaded the demo? - I remember buying a gaming mag because the demo was on a cd. Man, that skittish P-39 take-off in the rain. Have been hooked on Il-2 ever since!

Yes, IL-2 demo was "leaked" for download in August 2001, and many in Warbirds community are tuned with OM work - well followed at time by (now a kind of game blog) Combatsim.com.
Pictures (800x600) of my online play (COOP through Hyperlobby) in September, 2001.

[Oersted]

Very nice 1lokos!

[Clipper79]

Here you go Sn8ke
Clipper79

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[TWC_SLAG]

Yeager's Air Combat

[Seafar]

It was F16 Fighter Pilot,on a Spectrum 48k ,i still remember it as being amazing.same graphics as Vlerkies shows but only blue green colours with black lines ,time flys.

[Badjohnny10165]

Erm... This one?

I can beat you. I had the original Flightdeck. There was no catapult with that one.

[9./JG52 Mindle]

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[Ohms]

I can beat you. I had the original Flightdeck. There was no catapult with that one.

Holy ---- that brings back memories, l had that when I was about 8 or 9 so roughly about 1974/75 that sound about right guys. Always loved Christmas as a kid in the UK they always had the best war movies on over the holidays.

[Lord Aewulf]

Hi All,

Was talking to 'Seas the other day about the first flight sim I played. I thought it may have been Red Baron. Anyway, I thought I'd confirm that.

Yup, I think it was "Red Baron II", and I was in the 5th? grade in school. I was also playing the civilian sim "Pro Pilot" around the same time, as a kid, and first learning about how airplanes work and how to fly them. It's what sparked my passion for aviation and WWII air combat history, hence the reason I am here today!

[1/3_vszd_Tazar]

If this counts as a sim:

Raid over Moscow

[ATAG_Lewis]

This was my earliest flight sim...

[ATAG_Lewis]

The I got this...





It was awful!