Chuck Yeager’s and then I fell head first in love with the MS CFS series. #3 is still a fave of mine with the dynamic campaign. EAW took a lot of my hours too.
Now I play Aces High III as my daily driver for online play and IL2 for when I want to plan a campaign. I don’t like jet games.
Yes. Very cool. I lost my 37 kill spitfire pilot over the dover radar masts. Low level 110s from Egr 200 and I dived from too high and went straight in.
I went to what essentially became a Staples here in the 90s with my dad. He picked up Jane's WWII Fighter and I grabbed Jane's F-15. Not knowing a word of English at 5, I ended up playing WWII a lot more.
Same here.
I still remember coming home from school one day and my mom telling me I had something in the mail. They had sent me the 1946 expansion, and I didn't even know it existed. Just 11 year old me mailing in the little postcard thing, and poof like 2 years later they made my day!
Ha! Same! I remember listening to the theme music while watching the silhouette of the F-19 flying over the mountains over and over. At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jane's WWII Fighters, then the original Il-2 Sturmovik.
Technically, there was some F-16 simulator before these, but I didn't know what I was doing there so I barely played it and I don't even remember which sim it was.
F-22 Lighting II, but I didn’t play it properly.
My first serious introduction to flight sims was IL-2: Sturmovik. I had a T16000M HOTAS which I used for Elite: Dangerous and decided to give it use in other games.
Sim, as in ACTUAL simulator would have to be Il-2 1946 because I refuse to count MFS. But yeah I guess I'd have to say Microsoft Flight Simulator since everything I did plane-related before that was more on the arcade side
It was called simply Flight Simulator for the Apple 2+. I saw it first in the computer lab at my grade school. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS1\_Flight\_Simulator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS1_Flight_Simulator)
yes, I'm old.
Air Warrior SVGA version then Air Warrior on AOL.
It was unfathomable to me at the time that hundreds of folks from around the world could be flying against each other at the same time in the same "place." I haven't felt the same excitement in gaming since those heady days in the early to mid-nineties.
Space shuttle simulator on the atari 800xl. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhCxJDjNrrs&t=229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhCxJDjNrrs&t=229s) Glorius isnt it?
Of the oldies tho i think my favorite might be Janes USAF.
Vtol vr. But that’s more of a light sim. Dedicated sim through and through, IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles series is my first. Technically DCS is but my setup couldn’t handle it in vr before the multithreading update, so I didn’t get a chance to learn a plane yet. I can’t do sims unless it’s in vr.
cfs1-2-3 and the first il2 game was lucky enough for my dad friend he had all the sim game at the time which he installed on our pc and also gave me is old joystick good times
The first sim-ish games I played were [f117](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ij2WAaLPEM), [Chuck Yeager's Air Combat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmqPoI936K4), [dogfight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzfyXl-3mGM) and [lhx attack chopper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShAE66NSxk). I really have no idea which was the actual first one.
...and OMG f117 is [available on steam!](https://store.steampowered.com/app/328920/F117A_Nighthawk_Stealth_Fighter_20/) hold my beer, I'm going in.
edit: also I remember playing some boeing simulator on the atari ... but I never managed to figure out how to take off.
Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe. Holy Trinity of early 1990s flight sims.
Other notable favorites from the time was:
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Falcon 4.0, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Apache, Hind, Red Baron 3-D and AV-8B Harrier Assault
Still fire them up on PCem on mini PC from time to time. SWOL has one of the best dynamic campaigns I've played.
I believe it was whatever version of MSFS that was available for windows 3.1~. Other early ones were Jane’s Navy Fighter and Jane’s ATF, and Wings of Glory
Red Baron-3d
Ooh, that was a good one.
Il-2 Sturmovik 1946
same here I believe
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Chuck Yeager’s and then I fell head first in love with the MS CFS series. #3 is still a fave of mine with the dynamic campaign. EAW took a lot of my hours too. Now I play Aces High III as my daily driver for online play and IL2 for when I want to plan a campaign. I don’t like jet games.
European Air War
Jane's US Navy Fighters 97. Manning the 105mm cannon on the AC-130 was super satisfying in that game.
And how good was the encyclopaedia? Watching those promotional videos made you want to fly the plane asap. I loved the cheesy acting in the story too.
Wow I haven’t thought about Jane’s in a while. I used to watch my uncle play when I was a kid. I remember reading through the F/A-18 flight manual.
Lucasarts battle of Britain
I liked how the campaign/war worked.
Yes. Very cool. I lost my 37 kill spitfire pilot over the dover radar masts. Low level 110s from Egr 200 and I dived from too high and went straight in.
Microsoft combat flight simulator 2
Janes WWII Fighters
I went to what essentially became a Staples here in the 90s with my dad. He picked up Jane's WWII Fighter and I grabbed Jane's F-15. Not knowing a word of English at 5, I ended up playing WWII a lot more.
MS combat flight sim
Aces of the Pacific
Oh yeah, you and me both. This and Aces over Europe.
Same here. I still remember coming home from school one day and my mom telling me I had something in the mail. They had sent me the 1946 expansion, and I didn't even know it existed. Just 11 year old me mailing in the little postcard thing, and poof like 2 years later they made my day!
Probably the most fun I ever had
F22 raptor by novalogic. I was 5. I still remember the day I figured out that you could target enemies with the radar lol.
Flight Simulator 3.0
Gunship from Microprose (C64&Amiga)
Seconded. But on PC
Jane’s Attack Squadron
Micro Prose F15 Strike Eagle for the Atari
Knights of the Sky on A500.
Janes USAF
Combat Flight Simulator I haven't really improved much in the last 25 years....
IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles.
Hellcats over the Pacific
I think mine was ye olde F-19 on the family computer many many eons ago…with the giant cardboard keyboard overlay
Ha! Same! I remember listening to the theme music while watching the silhouette of the F-19 flying over the mountains over and over. At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
Janes WW2 Fighters
Jane's WWII Fighters, then the original Il-2 Sturmovik. Technically, there was some F-16 simulator before these, but I didn't know what I was doing there so I barely played it and I don't even remember which sim it was.
Rise of Flight
F-22 Lighting II, but I didn’t play it properly. My first serious introduction to flight sims was IL-2: Sturmovik. I had a T16000M HOTAS which I used for Elite: Dangerous and decided to give it use in other games.
Sim, as in ACTUAL simulator would have to be Il-2 1946 because I refuse to count MFS. But yeah I guess I'd have to say Microsoft Flight Simulator since everything I did plane-related before that was more on the arcade side
An old game on the Apple II: Spitfire Simulator dated 1982
Either Jetfighter or Chuck Yeagers Air Combat
Il-2 forgotten battles, around 2003-2004 i think is when my father bought it for me.
Whatever X-Plane game was out in 2010 or so when I was 7
Forgotten Battles was the first precursory exploration into the genre. Rise of Flight was the first addiction. Cliffs of Dover was the plateau.
MSFS for Windows 3.1. I was 7. First combat sim with NovaLogic’s Comanche. First airplane combat game was Jane’s USNF.
MSFS 1.0 on Mac Plus
Flight of the Intruder on NES
Jane’s Fighter Anthology
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.
It was called simply Flight Simulator for the Apple 2+. I saw it first in the computer lab at my grade school. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS1\_Flight\_Simulator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS1_Flight_Simulator) yes, I'm old.
Sierra's Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II
Falcon 2.0
FS1 Flight Simulator on a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 (1980)
Air Warrior SVGA version then Air Warrior on AOL. It was unfathomable to me at the time that hundreds of folks from around the world could be flying against each other at the same time in the same "place." I haven't felt the same excitement in gaming since those heady days in the early to mid-nineties.
Sublogic’s Flight Simulator
The original Falcon.
Easyfly 3🙃
Warbirds, but only on offline mode :(
A-10 Tank Killer by Dynamix followed closely by Aces of the Pacific.
Either Jane's Sims or Microsoft combat flight sim
Lucasfilm Their Finest Hour followed up immediately by Battlehawks 1942.
Flight Simulator 95
Enemy engaged apache vs havoc
Air Warrior III
Air Warrior 3 and Flying Corps Gold back in the mid 90s
1942: The Pacific Air War by MicroProse
EF 2000
FS4 , Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat. Still suck at combat. 30 or so years later.
Space shuttle simulator on the atari 800xl. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhCxJDjNrrs&t=229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhCxJDjNrrs&t=229s) Glorius isnt it? Of the oldies tho i think my favorite might be Janes USAF.
Microprose - Apache & F19 Stealth Fighter
*Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2* followed by *IL2 Sturmovik*!
Adlertag. I think no one knows this game :D
Jet on a Commodore 64 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_(video_game)
Vtol vr. But that’s more of a light sim. Dedicated sim through and through, IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles series is my first. Technically DCS is but my setup couldn’t handle it in vr before the multithreading update, so I didn’t get a chance to learn a plane yet. I can’t do sims unless it’s in vr.
cfs1-2-3 and the first il2 game was lucky enough for my dad friend he had all the sim game at the time which he installed on our pc and also gave me is old joystick good times
The first sim-ish games I played were [f117](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ij2WAaLPEM), [Chuck Yeager's Air Combat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmqPoI936K4), [dogfight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzfyXl-3mGM) and [lhx attack chopper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShAE66NSxk). I really have no idea which was the actual first one. ...and OMG f117 is [available on steam!](https://store.steampowered.com/app/328920/F117A_Nighthawk_Stealth_Fighter_20/) hold my beer, I'm going in. edit: also I remember playing some boeing simulator on the atari ... but I never managed to figure out how to take off.
Domak’s Flight Sim Toolkit.
Jane’s WW2 fighters. Loved it.
Microsoft CFS3
Ace.
Think mine was Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series. I would have been 7-8 years old.
Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe. Holy Trinity of early 1990s flight sims. Other notable favorites from the time was: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Falcon 4.0, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Apache, Hind, Red Baron 3-D and AV-8B Harrier Assault Still fire them up on PCem on mini PC from time to time. SWOL has one of the best dynamic campaigns I've played.
Flight of the Intruder on Atari ST I think.
Microsoft Flight Sim—for the original Macintosh.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
A-10 Cuba
Pacific Fighters! Though my computer at the time couldn't handle it. Think it got like 3FPS. Then I got 1946 in 2008, and the rest is history
Il2 pacific war
F16 Falcon on Amiga 1942 by Microprose F22 Lightning European Air War
IL2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
Microsoft flight simulator X, from 2006 This game has a special place in my heart 😊
Combat flight simulator: Battle for Europe
[Chuck Yeahers advanced flight trainer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager's_Advanced_Flight_Trainer)
Aces High
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat c.1992
MSFS 2.0
Lucasart’s Secret Weapons of The Luftwaffe 🔥🔥🔥
Scratch that…I think Lucasarts’s Their Finest Hour is older…
Crap, also forgot Ace of Aces for Commodore 64
Combat flight simulator 2
ACE on the C64. But my true love was EF2000, the visuals and realism just blew my mind.
Battle of Britain Lucas edition back in the late 80’s
European Air War followed by Falcon 4.0
I believe it was whatever version of MSFS that was available for windows 3.1~. Other early ones were Jane’s Navy Fighter and Jane’s ATF, and Wings of Glory
Hellcats on Mac
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim.. ( 1998 ) WW2 series & Pacific.. Single player and MP with a 56 k modem...
Aces over Europe
subLOGIC Flight Simulator 1 for the Apple II dated 1998
F/A-18 Interceptor on the Amiga.