How it started...

[No Fear]

Hi guys! I am new here but this is a very interesting topic.

 

The first flight sim that I was impressed by was F/A-18 Interceptor in Amiga(yes I go back a loooong time!) and since then I have played almost every sim that has been released.

 

My favorites though are:

Lock On and Jane's USAF especially the new add-ons Super Pro 9.4 and MiniPro with thousands of missions,hundreds of flyable airplanes,new weapons,flight models,aircraft carriers and so on!Online flying too!It runs on Win XP as well.

 

You can check it out at:

http://www.gulfknight.net/forum/index.php

 

Of course Lock On is the one that feels really good and is what we say 'eye candy'.

 

Take care.

 

PS:This is a great forum .Great source of info too from what it seems a good bunch of people.Keep it up!

[Groove]

I played almost all Sims since the C-64.

[suntrace1]

1 - Battlefield 1942 with Desert mod i loved choppers

 

2 - LOMAC

 

end of story

[airea]

Didn't anybody try Jane's Longbow2?

It was a great sim (not arcade) for its era, around 1997 I guess.

The game had the best tutorial section I had ever seen...

Not to mention the complex avionics and such stuff...

[HellMutt]

Yes, I do remember Jane's Longbow (and played it quite a lot).

 

Old to new (list not complete, only PC-games) :

 

Hokum (helicopter game)

MS Flight simulator (5.0 i believe it was)

DID's EF2000

DID F22/TAW

DID Typhoon

Jane's USAF

Jane's USN

Jane's Longbow (not sure if 1 or 2)

Jetfighters

A-10 Cuba

LOMAC

Flaming Cliffs

F4:AF

 

Flaming Cliffs being the one that I have played most (both in hours played and in years playing the same game). I liked EF2000 a lot too though.

 

Kind regards,

[VMFA117_Poko]

F-15 - C64

ACE - C64

Fighter Bomber - C64

Gunship - C64

Tomahawk - C64

Combat Air Patrol - Amiga 500 (I loved this)

Jetpilot - Amiga 500

Gunship 2000 - Amiga 500

Retaliator - Amiga 500

LHX - very old PC 386

F-19 - very old PC 386

Retaliator - very old PC 386

F-15 II - very old PC 386

FS5 - very old PC 386

EF2000 - PC

F-22 by DID - PC

Flanker - PC (I loved this)

Hornet 3.0 - PC

Hornet Korea - PC

FS98 - PC

Flight Unlimited II - PC (I loved this)

Falcon 4 - PC (I loved this)

Flanker 2/2.51 - PC (I loved this)

FS2004 - PC

LockOn - PC (best)

Flaming Cliffs - PC (best of the best up to date)

 

For sure I missed something....

[Cosmonaut]

M$ FS2000 (my first ever sim)

Il2

F/A-18E Super Hornet (by Digital Integrations)

M$ Combat Sim (this was horrible so it didn’t last long)

Falcon 4 (very briefly)

Flanker 2.5

M$ FS2002

IL2 FB AE PF

M$ FS2004

Lockon

 

 

Future:

Lo: Black Shark

M$ FSX

[355th_Paulie]

Microprose's Gunship, 1986....... Damn am I that old???

[Frostie]

Fighter Pilot -Spectrum

Spitfire'40 -Spectrum

Tomahawk -Spectrum

Gunship -Spectrum

Gunship2000 -Amiga

F-19 -Amiga

F-117 -Amiga

Intermission ..Made too many children during this period most I know about:music_whistling:

IL2+AEP+PF -PC

Falcon4 -PC

LOMAC -PC

FS2004 -PC

....Blackshark -PC asap

[S77th-konkussion]

Dabbled around in most of the early MS versions, still have the CFS2 Pacific on the shelf (uninstalled) Not much Multiplayer as I had AOL at the time (didn't know any better)

 

Nova comanche gold and 4

 

Spent years in Nova- started at the very end of F22 raptor, and became a serious online competitor in Lightning III. Joined the Predators A.S.F. in May 2002. (3 time R.A.W. Tournament winners.) I'm still on the team, but they are no longer active in Nova.

 

Lomac- from day one of the demo.

[walternowi]

I am a flight-sim junkie. I like both prop sim and jet sim:

 

Flight Simulator (on Apple II)

Falcon

Their Finest Hour

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Jetfighter 3

Aces of the Pacific

Aces over Europe

Falcon 3.0

EF2000

U.S. Navy Fighters

Su-27 Flanker

USAF

European Air War

Falcon 4

Flanker 2/2.5

IL-2 Sturmovik

IL-2 Forgotten Battles/Pacific Fighters

Lock On Modern Air Combat/Flaming Cliffs

[Corsair7662]

you know, now that you mentioned Sega. I had F-14 Alley on Sega CD. that got me into everything!

[hitman]

I forgot to put in quite a few items myself, such as:

Strike Fighters: Project 1

Wings over Vietnam

Operation: Iraqi Freedom (another hornet blowoff)

X-Plane 5.51

JetFighter 4 and 5

[3Sqn_Fudd]

Wow.... For all you flight sim junkies I am AMAZED that no one has ever played my favorite for days gone by

 

Microprose F-14 Fleet Defender (Gold)

 

http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue18/misc/f-14.html

 

This game was awesome... You could pop into the back and be the RIO... used to totally work the keyboard while my dad flew

[Shaman]

Wow.... For all you flight sim junkies I am AMAZED that no one has ever played my favorite for days gone by

 

Microprose F-14 Fleet Defender (Gold)

 

http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue18/misc/f-14.html

 

This game was awesome... You could pop into the back and be the RIO... used to totally work the keyboard while my dad flew

 

I did :)

Yep it was double seater. You could switch between both seats.

I was amazed by its graphics at that time.

[Pilotasso]

I had it, but was too heavy for my PC, tragicaly I kept it away untill I got a new PC but by then that was long "demodeé".

[rattler]

How it started

 

novalogic

f-16

Mig29- fulcrum

f-22 lightning 3

comanche 4

jet fighter 4

jet fighter 5

lockon

il2 sturmovik

f/a18 Operation Iraqi freedom

flanker 2.51

falcon4AF

wish they had kept going with f-22 lightning 3, had possibilities. still fly it once in a while for fun. Also comanche 4. Lockon and falcon4 AF are the two and I hope lockon will become what we all would like to see, it is my favorite with falcon4AF close behind. In lockon I only fly the f15c. My choice, nice a/c to fly. Hoping that sometime it will be upgraded. Not big on russian a/c accept for maybe the mig29 seeing as novalogic got me started with that one so I am used to some of its systems. Not as good as lockon but enough that I can handle her.Cheers.

[Ironhand]

Talk about a stroll down memory lane...I might be confusing or leaving out a few:

 

• Falcon AT
  
• F/A-18 Interceptor
  
• Falcon 3
  
• F-15 Strike Eagle III
  
• F/A-18 Hornet 3.0
  
• Tornado
  
• Fleet Defender
  
• EF 2000
  
• Su-27 Flanker
  
• A-10 Cuba
  
• F-16 Fighting Falcon
  
• Jane's F-15
  
• Falcon 4
  
• Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
  
• Flanker 2
  
• LOMAC/FC
  

 

Also in the world of civil flight sims:

 

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 5
  
• Fly!
  

 

Never spent much time in those last two, however. And I have Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight installed but haven't done much with it.

 

Rich

[Rock214]

Started back in the "70's"

Apple II (even before IIe) Was called just "Flight simulator" . A series of white dots on a green 11" screen over a moving grid.

 

Break of 30 old years them

DID ADF

DID Total Airwar

Flanker 2

Lomac / FC

[christopher m]

history

 

1. Fleet defender then expansion pack for Fleet Defender

2. F15 Strike Eagle III "MUD HEN"

3. Panvia Tornado (Loved this sim)

4. EF 2000

 

Then I got too busy with life for about 12 years and just came back on the scene with LO and FC.

 

Lately I have been OBSSESING OVER Command and Conquer "Generals"

and Command and Conquer "Zero Hour"

I know they are four years old but they are new to me!!

 

I also am going to go out and get JTF pretty soon but I am afriad I will not eat or sleep for a week if I do.

 

HELP!! I am a real life junky; without my wife I would prob have expired long time ago.

 

Question ?

 

Ever noticed how women are 99% unimpressed with computer games ??

 

Whats up with that ?? sorry OT.

 

Regards all,

[Shaman]

It all started on ZX Spectrum/ Timex, with some crappy games... most of the things you can find on Migman's Flight Sim Museum listed in the '80, I did play http://www.migman.com :D

 

On my first own PC AT, the very first flight sims I had were Fighter Bomber , and MS Flight Sim 4.0... then had lots of fun with F-15 Strike Eagle II and F-19..

then it went really fast... lots of sims; my very first multiplayer experience was in Retaliator, Dogfight, Topgun (Fire at will I guess).. it was so long time ago, man I remember having lots of fun flying multiplayer with good ol' friend of mine, he's in jail right now :*( poor bastard

then there was no good multiplayer experience till F-18 Korea...

I guess things went really fast and serious with Su-27 Flanker 1.0-1.5, and F/18 Hornet 3.0 and Korea for me. then Flanker 2.0.. these are the tiles I think I spent most of my time.

[thesystem]

Flanker Squadron Commander Edition -> Warbirds....(don't know which version:music_whistling:) -> Combat flight sim 1 -> Sabre Ace -> Flanker 2.0 -> Flanker 2.51 -> Flight sim 2000 -> Flight sim 2002 -> Flight sim 2004 -> Strike Fighters Project 1 -> Lock-on -> Flaming Cliffs / Falcon 4.0

[FanBoy2006.01]

F19 (286)

F117 (386)

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (That was a great sim!)

DID EF2000 (I loved this sim. I bought two and gave one away to

a friend.).

DID F22 ADF (Also great sim.).

Janes AH64D Longbow (Something like that. Very good.).

Microsoft Combat Flight Sim I (Average) and II (Good.)

Janes USAF (OK-ish)

Janes WWII Fighters (Big disapointment. Game was great, but

couldn't get my joystick to work with it correctly.).

Microprose European Air War (Loved it.).

IL2 Sturmovik, Forgotten Battles and Pacific Fighters (Needless to say:

Best WWII flight sims

ever!)

 

LOMAC! (Yeah! My favourate of all time. I like to refer to it as IL2 - Modern Battles!)

 

Just to get this of my chest. I bought MS Century of Flight from a friend a couple of months ago. I paid half the price for it of what it cost in the store. Yet it cost me exactly the same as what I had paid for IL2 Forgotten Battles and LOMAC together (Brand new from the store.)!

Man what a dissapointment. Played it only once and then I removed it.

 

If you have to compare flight sims with driving games; combat sims would be like driving sports cars (In a high speed chase by the police and in the middle of a gun fight!) and civilian flight sims would be like diving a bus or a taxi. What the hell!

[S77th-konkussion]

What about Beeeee-Seventeeeen Boooomberrr (in your best electronic voice).. from intellivision :)

[snowdawg]

I got started back in the 90's on my brothers old atari. I think the game was called Mig Ally. Two of us could dogfight on a split screen. We played it for hours on end. Broke my first joystick on that game. Since then I've played most of the Pc Flight sims mentioned so far.