Dudikoff Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 One of the best games ever made! Durandal attacks on Airfields deep behind enemy lines happy days.:) The dynamic campaign was way ahead of its time, one of the first games where you could assign wingmen separate tasks with TOT. Persistent damage between missions. You could set the game up with 2 joystick, one for the control column and the other for the throttle, again way ahead of anything else at the time. Also one of the first flight sims with polygon graphic, when most still had vector. Digital Integrations finest hour. Unfortunately, it required 1 MB of RAM and I my Atari ST only had half so I never got pass the loading screen. Although, I would have to nominate Tornado for being their finest hour :) i386DX40@42 MHz w/i387 CP, 4 MB RAM (8*512 kB), Trident 8900C 1 MB w/16-bit RAMDAC ISA, Quantum 340 MB UDMA33, SB 16, DOS 6.22 w/QEMM + Win3.11CE, Quickshot 1btn 2axis, Numpad as hat. 2 FPH on a good day, 1 FPH avg. DISCLAIMER: My posts are still absolutely useless. Just finding excuses not to learn the F-14 (HB's Swansong?). Annoyed by my posts? Please consider donating. Once the target sum is reached, I'll be off to somewhere nice I promise not to post from. I'd buy that for a dollar!
Tone71 Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 Unfortunately, it required 1 MB of RAM and I my Atari ST only had half so I never got pass the loading screen. Although, I would have to nominate Tornado for being their finest hour :) The day my half meg upgrade died was a sad day. Windows 10 Home, Intel Core i7-9700K @ 4.6GHz, Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming (8GB VRAM) on 34" LG curved monitor @ 3440x1440, 32GB RAM, TrackIR 3 (with Vector Expansion), Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Saitek Combat Pedals, Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs.
fltsimbuff Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 Do you remember a game called Sopwith on DOS? That reminds me of "War Eagles" for DOS, as you could fly the Sopwith Camel: And then there's Aces over Europe:
Scoggs Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 I think my first was Falcon on my dads TurboGrafx-16. The one I really remember was F-18 Korea. My SpecsAsus Maximus Hero IX Z270 i7 7700k @ 4.7GHz 32GB G.SKILL TridentZ 3700MHz DDR4 EVGA RTX 2080Ti Samsung 960 Evo 1TB M.2 NVME SSD EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2 Acer XB270HU 144Hz @ 1440p (IPS) Valve Index OOOOhhh, I wish I had the Alpha of a Hornet!
Mtnbiker1998 Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 This was the first video game I ever played. Was too young to understand how to turn so I did barrel rolls into mountains. The first flight sim I ever really played was IL-2 Sturmovik, Birds of prey. These games had a lot more polygons than some of you guys' firsts... Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away! -Sinatra [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] My Specs: Lenovo Y50 with GTX 860m (2GB), i7 4700HQ 2.4GHz, 8GB Ram. Corsair K70(MX Blues are awesome!), Benq GW2760HS monitor, Steelseries V3 Prism headset, TM Warthog Hotas, Sidewinder FFB2 W/ FLCS grip, CH Pro pedals, TrackIR5, KW-908 Jetseat
Phantom88 Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Great Memories in This Thread,This is how I sharpened my teeth :) Sent from my iPad Patrick
Aginor Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Not my first sim (see my earlier post) but I'd like like to mention my first WW1 sim: Flying Corps. That was a pretty nice game back then, with lots of interesting stuff in the manual. I'm actually pretty surprised nobody mentioned it yet (or did I just miss that post?). DCSW weapons cheat sheet speed cheat sheet
wilky510 Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Great Memories in This Thread,This is how I sharpened my teeth :) Sent from my iPad Both great games, I remember walking into a Target, or Bestbuy and just seeing all the different Flight simulators games in the PC section during the 90's. Man how things have changed these days.
Cedaway Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter (1991 - that's long ago...) 1992: 1942: Pacific Air War 1995: Apache Longbow And then so many more... Jane's Longbow 2, Jane's F-15E, Jane's F/A-18E, Falcon 4.0 (modded, modded and over modded...), Il-2 (all up to Cliffs of Dover), Wings of Prey, MS Flight Sim (98, 2002, FSX), X-Planes 10, MS Combat Flight Simulator I & II, LOMAC, FC1, FC2, DCS. I think the list is complete. EDIT: Forgot to add EF-2000... :) EDIT 2: I crawled for souvenirs and I found back a superb feature in Jane's F-15e (and F/A-18 IIRC): the armament management during campaigns You had to be careful to not use all your stand-off weapons the first day of conflict. That feature added a layer in immersion! Hope to see that again in DCS a day... (ED: Hint, hint) Edited June 11, 2015 by Cedaway DCS Wish: Turbulences affecting surrounding aircraft... [sIGPIC] [/sIGPIC] Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P - Intel Core i5 6600K - 16Gb RAM DDR4-2133 - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming - 8 Go - 2 x SSD Crucial MX300 - 750 Go RAID0 - Screens: HP OMEN 32'' 2560x1440 + Oculus Rift CV1 - Win 10 - 64bits - TM WARTHOG #889 - Saitek Pro Rudder.
whiteladder Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 That was a pretty nice game back then, with lots of interesting stuff in the manual. This reminded me of a good point, although the simulations have improved beyond belief, the documentation (in general) has gotten worse. When most games started to be sold in DVD cases and not boxes, thick paper manuals disappeared. I still have the manuals for some of my old flight simulators, they are actually pretty good books in their own right. The falcon 4 manual is an excellent source for tactics.
feefifofum Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 StarMaster on the Atari 2600, if you can consider that a flight sim... Followed by F-15 Strike Eagle on the Commodore 64 (and now we've come full circle, it seems) And the first one I was old enough to understand what I was doing in would probably be Wing Commander 2. Polygons? We don't need no stinking polygons. THE GEORGIAN WAR - OFFICIAL F-15C DLC
Mr_Burns Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 Mine flight path 737 lol. :joystick: I think that was mine, Vic 20 right? Dad had the controls, sister had the flaps on the Fkeys, i think I had throttle.... Amazing when we landed it...once.
kolga Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 My first flying game was Ace combat 04: Shattered skies on PS2 when i was about 7 or 8. my first simulator was FlightGear a few years later. Then when I finally got a windows computer about a year ago i found DCS on steam, started trying to learn the SU-25T but got lost in the nav tutorials, then came back six months later, switched from steam to standalone(:thumbup:), skipped the nav tutorials, and fell in love with DCS! "Long life It is a waste not to notice that it is not noticed that it is milk in the title." Amazon.co.jp review for milk translated from Japanese "Amidst the blue skies, A link from past to future. The sheltering wings of the protector..." - ACE COMBAT 4 "Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight"-Psalm 144:1 KJV i5-4430 at 3.00GHz, 8GB RAM, GTX 1060 FE, Windows 7 x64
Bucic Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 F-117 2.0 on humblebundle! https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly F-5E simpit cockpit dimensions and flight controls Kill the Bloom - shader glow mod Poor audio Doppler effect in DCS [bug] Trees - huge performance hit especially up close
tsumikae Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 Not a proper sim in the academic sense, but this one was my first most beloved game of all time. How much I'd love to see a third episode! The one and only: Then, my first "real" sim was, as for some of us it seems, Gunship: I played both on Atari ST.
Lion13 Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 (edited) My first flight sim JET on a COMPAQ DeskPro with a monochrome monitor, using a two button, two axis CH Products joy stick. it came on 5 1/2 floppy and required a serial card. Edited June 13, 2015 by Lion13 Don't give me a P-38, The props they counter-rotate, They're battered and smitten from Burma to Britain. Oh, give me operations way out on some lonely atoll, For I am too young to die, I just want to grow old. From "THE WILD BLUE YONDER" by Oscar Brand and The Roger Wilco Four
Corvus Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 First one I remember would be Solo Flight on Atari, after that it was X-29 Retaliator on my very first PC. Oh the memories... TFX, 1942 PAW, Fleet Defender, Gunship 2000 and Flanker 1.0 of course (tried out demo running in DOS, got hooked instantly). My YT channel https://www.youtube.com/user/corvuscorp81
Scarecrow Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 My first was Flight Sim for the ZX Spectrum 48k, rubber keys an all. I was only five and never managed to take off or land the thing but it's been a interest since that age.
Gladman Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 Mine was also Microprose F15 i9 9900K @ 5.1Ghz - ASUS Maximus Hero XI - 32GB 4266 DDR4 RAM - ASUS RTX 2080Ti - 1 TB NVME - NZXT Kraken 62 Watercooling System - Thrustmaster Warthog Hotas (Virpil Base) - MFG Crosswind Pedals - Pimax 5K+ VFA-25 Fist Of The Fleet [sigpic]http://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic99190_2.gif[/sigpic] Virtual Carrier Strike Group 1 | Discord
Harpoon Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 Jane's USAF and the good ol' Lock On. I remember watching my dad playing them, and letting me try to fly it when I was around 3-5, good times. :lol: If you want to talk to anyone about anything personal, send it to their PM box. Interpersonal drama and ad hominem rebuttal are things that do not belong on a thread viewed by the public. One thing i have to point out... naming a thread.. "OK, so" is as useful as tits on a bull.
Kearf Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 The F-29 Retaliator on the good old Amiga 500. It was the first game we had on the Amiga, and i played it alot. But at that time, i was only 6 or 7 years old and had some difficulty's understanding the mechanic. After that came the F/A 18 Interceptor, Fighter Bomber and Gunship 2000 (and some others) Wer sich nicht bewegt, spürt seine Fesseln nicht. If you don't move, you won't feel your bonds.
OutOnTheOP Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 The first I can ever remember playing was "High Roller" (aka Strike Force Harrier) on the Commodore 64. I had to have been all of like 4 at the time. I remember getting very frustrated by it; don't know if I ever successfully took off. Getting airborne was a real bastard... which I guess means it was an accurate simulation, considering how temperamental the Harrier is? The first I ever remember playing with any success was one of the MSFS series... the one with the stick-figure airplanes in a WW1 dogfight quick mission. Reading the Wikipedia, looks like it was MSFS 1! Of course, I really grew up on the EA and Janes series.
BFBunny Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) Comanche 3 - not really a sim, but my first taste of a flying type game. It's what got me into helicopters. I thought those graphics were so awesome back then. Apache v havok More of a 'real' flight sim. I could hardly land them though. Night gun runs using the optics were my fave. Really good pits. DCS was the next time I would play a game with helicopters and I still love flying them in DCS as much as I enjoyed them back with those older games. I just wish we had another 'modern' helicopter gunship in the game. Edited June 14, 2015 by BFBunny
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