Anyone else start out with A-10 Cuba ?

[nastynacho]

Anyone else start out with A-10 Cuba ?

 

That was first sim and I been fiending them since then

 

what was your first flight sim ?

[Scudslaker]

lol i think lynx was mine but a10 cuba was fine for me too, then later!)

[Para_Bellum]

Tomahawk (with that blasted lenslock copy protection system) and shortly after that Gunship on the Amstrad CPC in '86/'87.

 

My 1st A-10 sim was A-10 Tank Killer in '90.

Edited October 8, 2010 by Para_Bellum

[Evil Koala]

Wasn't my first, but I played it quite a bit. For its time, it had awesome physics and damage modeling. My first was MS Flight Sim 2.0. Thinking back of all the sims.. Falcon AT, F-119, Fleet Defender, Falcon 3, USNF.. More than I can remember. I still have them all somewhere in the garage. Good times..

[fatchance]

A-10 Cuba was my first sim and it spoiled me big time. So many sims bought after were a let down in the sensation of flight department. The graphics got better and better but it wasn't til IL-2 that I felt something close. I really don't think that the "feel" was surpassed until Flaming Cliffs came out. There was a mission where if you loitered long enough some Cuban SU25's I think came patrolling by and if you caught them right they would engage in a guns only dogfight. The multiplayer stuff was pretty psychedelic too.

[Stretch]

Falcon for Mac (1987), Hellcats over the Pacific, Hellcats: Leyte Gulf, F/A-18 Hornet, A-10 Attack!, A-10 Cuba, Nightmares Over the Pacific ... those were the days.

 

All for Mac, too!

[lubey]

Yeah F/A-18 Hornet and A-10 Attack! (as I have as my picture) were my first sims and some of the best games of all time!! They just don't make them like they used to (except for DCS :)). This was also back in the days when macs where actually good, not just rebranded PCs with a different operating system, a "cool" exterior and a large price tag!

[Steel Jaw]

Screen shots please...for a giggle.

[happyslayeruk]

Sub Logic Flight Simulator II and Falcon for the Atari ST. I had the Mega ST4 version with monachrome and colour monitors and a hard drive..Nerd Heaven :)

[FlakBait]

If you stretch the "sim" aspect a bit, then I guess my first ones were probably Hellcat Ace and Spitfire Ace on the old Atari systems. I was pretty much in pre-school and playing those. My dad taught me how to fly those games. Been flight simming ever since.

[104th_Crunch]

 

[flydragon126]

wow, at its time, these graphics should be considered superb.

reminds me of the game Earth Siege.

[Tucano_uy]

My first sim was Delta Wing on the ZX Spectrum. Lot's of fun, 5 "bases" to protect, 5 "bases" to attack, 1 fighter opponent, 5 bombs (if I'm not wrong) and guns. You could land anywhere you wanted, but had to be close to a base to rearm. All that in 48Kb, amazing.

Edited October 17, 2010 by Tucano_uy

[deltatango]

Yep. A10 Cuba! (Don't forget the exclamation mark!) was the first sim I owned. I remember re-installing it again years later, just to copy out the engine sounds. Still the best engine sounds.

 

First one I played (on a friend's computer) was A.C.E (Air Combat Emulator) on Commodore 64. Loading took about 1/2 an hour on cassette tapes!

 

First multiplayer experience was with F/A-18. A mate and I linked up by directly dialling each other's modem. Was a challenge to get it working, as it required our home phone line. No mobile phones around to talk to each other about what was happening either. So this resulted in lots of: start game, wait for other player to join, fly around a bit, nothing happens, home phone rings, what happened?, try again.

 

Never forget actually seeing another aircraft, flown by someone else in the same simulation as me though. Magic.

 

Stop press!! Just found a download of A10 Cuba! Here: http://www.5star-shareware.com/Windows/Games/Flight/a10-cuba.html Downloading now. Pity my gamerig's HDD just died. Also means I'll have to wait to play DCS:W :(

[fastfreddie]

First sim I remember playing was F-15 Strike Eagle. Long time ago it seems now.

[Dornil]

Crunch, in your screens it looks like there is 3d acceleration working. How did you do it?

[Total]

Fighter Pilot (1984) By Digital Integration:

 

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F-15 Strike Eagle (1985) by MicroProse

 

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A-10 Tank Killer (1989) by Dynamix

 

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Damn, now I feel REALLY old considering I was already in the Navy in 89 - thanks!

[104th_Crunch]

Crunch, in your screens it looks like there is 3d acceleration working. How did you do it?

 

I just did a random search for screenies. While I owned this, I don't have it installed now.

[element1108]

I loved the clean graphics of A-10 Cuba. No textures, but that didn't seem to matter to me then, the clean lines and high frame rates crushed my desire for early bitmap texturing hehe.

[Rusty_M]

I always wanted A10 Tank Killer. I really started on F14 Fleet Defender, but I do remember playing some sort of flight game on the Spectrum.

 

As usual my computer is still behind the times, and I can't run all the sims I want to...

 

2 months until I can amend that, and damn am I excited!

 

Cuba looks like it'd have been great!

[mikoyan]

a-10 had a flight model very close to il-2! what it was not very good was the su-25 flight model! it turned better than the a-10 (maybe it is due to the lack of info on the su-25 performance) still it was very good; very close to flanker 1.0. What I really regret is no being able to play the tornado sim(thanks to my mean sister).

[tusler]

My original flight game was Jetfighter on an IBM XT when the game was first released.

[Succellus]

I cant remember, i think my real first sim, was Fly solo on comodore 64, but there was also a F15 simulator and a f14 all on comodore 64, probably was fly solo, green triangular mountains, wire frame, wire control tower (was there some?), wire airport.

Deliver mail all across USA on a cessan kind of plane, keyboard controlling.

[slowhand]

Yeah, when the world was flat. :pilotfly:

[Airbuster]

My first sim was LHX: Attack Chopper