Post your first flightsim

[Random]

Just a bit curious about where we all started...

 

For me it was Night Raider on the Amstrad CPC 464 when I was something like 4 or 5 years old!

[King_Hrothgar]

Calling games back then flight sims is a bit of a stretch by modern standards, but my first flying game was MSFS 1.0 on one of those big floppy disks. I was 4-5 years old at the time and both the computer and the game were older than I was. First one I played with a joystick was the Aces collectors pack (Red Baron, Aces over Europe, Ace of the Pacific, A-10) around 1990.

[WinterH]

I am genuinely unsure what was the first for me. But it was on Commodore 64 and required a good dose of imagination to call a simulation :).

[Dahlbeck]

Probably Rowan's Overlord. That, or Flight Unlimited, which I tried to run on a 486DX2@66 MHz. I had to return the sim to the kind dealer.

[Nirvi]

Hornet 3.0

[kontiuka]

Skyfox for the Amiga. More of a game but whatever.

[SL PAK]

ka-52

[javelina1]

this was mine (Chuck Yeager Advanced Flight Simulator)

 

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/chuck-yeagers-advanced-flight-simulator

[Jeesus]

For me, it was the original, one and only...

 

 

:)

[104th_Maverick]

TopGun fire at will on the Commodore!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I spent countless hours playing this as a young teenager, I still get nostalgic about it, perhaps being young helped but it was just a fantastic game to play, you really didn't know what would happen and the voice-overs really made it immersive!

 

 

Then I moved on to Microsoft Flight Simulators and flew for various virtual airlines as well as the virtual Royal Airforce. I still fly on VATSIM and really enjoy flying Concorde back and forth from London to New York. I'm in the top 5 VATSIM Concorde pilots for flight time and number 1 for the C-17 Globemaster! Two aircraft I love dearly!

 

 

I found DCS a month or so after the release of FC2 and have not looked back! I was sold on it within the first 3 seconds on hearing about it, the F-15 has been one of my favourite jets since I was very young and to fly it and fight with it in this DCS World has been a dream come true after my time 'dogfighting' with jets using MSFS only.

 

 

Intro video is hilarious also! :D

 

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Edited June 6, 2015 by [Maverick]

[Invisibull]

[mvsgas]

First Computer one ( not even mine, another kid flying R/C aircraft with me had it and let me play it a few times)

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I think this is the first one I had since we couldn't afford a computer

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They may not be consider "Sim" now, but I thought they were awesome back then. :joystick:

Edited June 6, 2015 by mvsgas

[Call911]

This....

I still feel like a noob actually, BS1 was my first, sitting in the cockpit wandering what have I gotten myself into :D

Edited June 6, 2015 by Call911

[Art-J]

I was a bit late for the party, having missed the whole Commodore, Amiga etc. era, 'cause my family couldn't afford them. So a '94 PC was my first computer and "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" played hand in hand with "Aces of the Pacific" were my first flight sims and first games ever for that matter (not counting Win 3.11 Solitaire ;) ). The latter one was responsible for my PTO and CBI fix, which lasts till today (eagerly waiting for DCSW to go there as well).

 

There was a short youtube clip of "AotP" being played with horrendous sounds provided by glorious PC speaker :D, as it as on my PC back then, but I can't find it now.

Edited June 6, 2015 by Art-J

[ilya1502]

Wow! That's a topic! Anyone here remembers Sinclair ZX Spectrum? My first flight sims were on this platform. They are the

and the

(watch from 2:19). I don't really remember which one was 'the first' first. I was around 8 or 9 at the moment, and it was a striking experience: to fly an aircraft from the pilot's point of view. Now they do not look as convincing :)

[Raven68]

Back when I was living with my parents I played this on my mothers PC.

 

 

I fell in love with computer gaming/simulators from then on. :)

[Silver_Dragon]

Gunship of course ;)

[dooom]

[Viersbovsky]

Microsoft Fs4 on a 386 with a monochrome screen...

I feel old now.

[SimFreak]

ATF for me. It was good ol'fun.

[HungaroJET]

I feel old now.

 

Old ? Don't worry :)

 

I feel experienced :D

 

Psion Flight Simulation on Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982) :joystick:

 

[98abaile]

EF2000. Never really took it seriously, was too young, but even today I will occasionally in DCS just light the burners from my parking spot and see if I can take off (hasn't worked yet).

[SAM77]

Gunship of course ;)

 

 

Same!!!!!:thumbup:

[Weta43]

Also Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator

[Bucic]

My first one... I have not identified it yet. It was for C64, mostly just a gun piper visible. When you went low alt a flat square grid represented the ground. Was was notable about it is it was very fluid for a C64 game. I'm pretty sure it was entirely 2D (as opposed to pseudo 3D of some othe sims).

 

Then, on my own C64:

Fighter Bomber (Activision)

F-14

ACE

Gunship