iainso Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Aside from MSFS, anyone else old enough to recall these ones? Fighter Pilot - My first experience of flight simulation, saw it on a friends ZX Spectrum when I must have been 9 years old, made me want to be a fighter pilot. ACE (Air Combat Emulator) - a lot like the above, slightly better I think. Chuck Yeagers AFT - the best of all the 80s ones, arrived at the end of the decade. Tomahawk - Really good Apache sim, had a weird security feature called a lenslock or something. Gunship - Another Apache sim, not as playable as tomahawk, but had more features. Acrojet - one of the few non-shooters, object was to fly around doing stunts, cutting ribbons. Strike Force Harrier - Wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. Jump Jet - Another Harrier game, was an even bigger disappointment Ace of Aces - Think I spent some good hours on this one. Did I miss any? Arcady ones like Afterburner and Thunderblade don't count. In some ways I'm jealous of kids born today, starting out with amazing flight sims available, on the other hand I feel privileged to have seen the evolution and progress of home flight simulation since the beginning. Iain AMD Ryzen 5 3600X AMD RADEON RX 5700XT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvensmith Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 A little later than the 80's but there was some great stuff in the early 90's. I cut my teeth on F16 Combat Pilot and Thalion Airbus A320 on the Amiga along with some of the Microprose sims including Gunship 2000. Graduated to the PC and along came classics like Tornado, TFX and of course the various Janes titles (Longbow 2 being my favourite). Civvie wise I remember being so excited installing FS5 along with a UK scenery pack from FS4, the imagination went into overdrive with the 32 colour graphics and pyramids for hills. Today we are well served for civilian flight sims but not so good if you want a military game with a dynamic campaign. Vern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjohnston Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 My first was Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, then graduated to FS-5.1 Spent way too much time using these sims... FS 5.1, FS-98, FS-2000, FS-2002, FS-2004, FSX, Flight, FSW, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, MSFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hossfly68 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I had a flight sim on the TRS-80 color computer. I think (but am not sure) that it was the original one that became MS Flight sim. But the first sim I REALLY got into came much later. Red Baron 3D. I LOVED flying in online campaigns with that game! Flew with the Lone Wulffe squadron as LW_Hoss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mqytn Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I flew many flights on Sublogic ATP Airline Transport Pilot flight simulator. It had a list of major airports in the USA and 2 co-workers and I would fly then compare notes on our flights the next day at work. Looks like the sim is still for download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapitan Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) Yes, not 80s but early 90s Yes, you missed several Jetfighter I and II Falcon 3.0 Eurofighter Tornado and about 20 others that escape my mind right now but i surely played them all Edited July 23, 2020 by Kapitan Kapitan Anything I say is...not as serious as you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtran618 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?323433-In-the-beginning play fs1 fs2 fs3 or fs4 on your iDroid or dPad Edited July 29, 2020 by Amtran618 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapitan Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 actually for glass cockpit fans, simming with FS1 or FS4 is just like having a big garmin or MFD you guys must still be thrilled by FS1, you should keep playing it Kapitan Anything I say is...not as serious as you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anaismith Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Yes, not 80s but early 90s Yes, you missed several Jetfighter I and II Falcon 3.0 Eurofighter Tornado and about 20 others that escape my mind right now but i surely played them all Tornado was hard meeting the strict timings on missions. Was also a pain constantly tinkering with the config.sys and autoexec.bat files to free up as much of the base 640k memory as possible. Then along cams Falcon 3 and the game changed. Remarkable that the bones of that sim still exist in Falcon BMS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leuen Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 I flew many flights on Sublogic ATP Airline Transport Pilot flight simulator. It had a list of major airports in the USA and 2 co-workers and I would fly then compare notes on our flights the next day at work. Looks like the sim is still for download. I liked the 3DAGS version. However, I didn't found it anymore. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapitan Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) agree, Eurofighter was a jump in graphics but didnt have the gameplay of Facon 3. Later came Falcon 4 in 1996 but by then we were hooked in FS95 btw Falcon 3 was released in 1991, and Tornado 1993 I was in London in 1991 buying a IBM PS2 color computer and just that week Falcon 3 was being released. All I knew about flightsim was the FS1 So started playing the Falcon 3 from its release date and thought people didnt know what they were missing hahah Edited July 30, 2020 by Kapitan Kapitan Anything I say is...not as serious as you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPHILL3 Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 I had FLIGHT UNLIMITED and IFLY from the early Nineties. (In fact, I still have both on discs). The cockpit graphics on Flight Unlimited were just amazing for 30 years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapitan Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Yes, mid to late nineties, the makers Looking Glass released the “Jane’s†combat series, probably the best combat series of the last century. His mentor, Seamus Blackley was hired by Bill Gates and developped Xbox, so we are talking someone that made history in flightsim and gaming Kapitan Anything I say is...not as serious as you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doering1 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?323433-In-the-beginning play fs1 fs2 fs3 or fs4 on your iDroid or dPad You may be interested in the Flight Simulator history video series I am working on. Uploaded the trailer a couple of days ago. My latest video at The Flight Level - TOP GUN | MSFS | F-14 Tomcat (Heatblur & IndiaFoxtEcho) + NAS Miramar 1986 (Sundownersim) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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