The First Flight Sim I Ever Had

[nigelb]

Here is a 5 minute fight in my first sim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK-iIrIEOyc

SubLogics FS II for the Apple II. Generous use of imagination was required, but it was hours of fun back in the day.

Nigel²

[TSR2]

Gunship 2000 on the Spectrum 128

[DaveB]

Gunship 2000 was a belter on my 50mhz Pentium. I really thought I was the bee's knee's in those days

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

I'm getting the same message from all of you

Like me, we were all impressed, nothing like that could even have been remotely even thought of and there we were.

I can't imagine anything not giving such untainted joy as those early days as we expect too much now and then we didn't expect anything

[DarrenL]

My first, River Raid on the Atari VCS

Then the likes of FA/18 Interceptor, Birds of Prey and Knights of the Sky on the Amiga.

[DavidK]

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet -- I'm surprised! -- here's mine. (Although it was the cassette-tape version, not the ultra-futuristic (and probably ulta-expensive) floppy-disc one.)

David

[PaulC]

Mine was a really bad affair for the ZX Spectrum but shortly followed by F18 for the Amiga, moving onto Tornado and A320 Airbus.

[Buggyman]

Mine was a helicopter sim/game on the old PCW8512. It was the Bees knees at that time until I got rich and could afford a real PC with 80MB of HD. My PC flight sim was ATP - I think that's what it was called - and a multi-aircraft sim fronted by Chuck Yeager.

From then on I seem to have been chasing the ultimate PC for the sims I had, culminating in the purchase of FS5 and the slow slide into addiction................ Pity me, I sit in this empty house, no furniture except a computer desk and comfy seat, my wife has given up and gone, my children have stopped calling, my neighbours avoid my jungle of a garden. But all is not lost, selling the furniture means I have a super fast PC capable of running FSX at a good rate and no-one complains that I am ignoring them -BLISS


Allan

If SWMBO sees this I'm dead meat...

[Garry Russell]

No worries Allan, I'll try and see she won't get to read it...shall I send my account number and paying in details via PM??

[DaveB]

I didn't realise you could actually GET games for the 8512 Allan Can't remember there being anything available for the newer/smaller PCW9256 I had I bought a ram pack for mine which almost equalled the debt of a small African nation and gave me an additional 1mb.. an essential tool required to do the desktop publishing I did for the pub I sold it on eventually and spent £900 on a 486SX pc from PC World.. the first and last pc I ever bought from them for all the reasons you can imagine.. so I could enjoy the likes of Gunship and FS5 Actually, it may have been FS4. I think I moved up to FS5 when I got the P50

ATB
DaveB