I almost wish I could go back 15 years and play F-19 all over again for hours on end and still be impressed with the graphics.


The Jedi Master

There were many before these but these two were the most influential.

F-19 Stealth Fighter (Finally a sim where I could customize my load out)

Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain (campaign goodness)

I got my first PC in 1992.. my first ones were X-wing, Rebel Assault, Falcon 3.0, and US Navy Fighters.

And I'm still playing X-Wing! Blew up the Death Star last night, today it's on to Imperial Pursuit. (Playing the Win95 versions.. but I still have the old floppy disks lying around somewhere).

LHX: attack chopper and the F117 one by MicroPross

Yes, this was the game too for me. Then it was Gunship 2000. Then, I believe, I got F-15 Strike Eagle III and then I got MS Flight Sim.

Hmmm, first flight sim that got me into flight sims? Would need to be Cosmi's 'Super Huey'.
After that, Flight Sim 2, Jet Fighter 3 (I think that one anyways), and the stand-alone version of Falcon 3.0's MiG-29 addon, then later the CD release Falcon Gold (Falcon 3 + Hornet + MiG-29 + some campaign expasion), Jane's ATF and Longbow, and some version of Flanker.

I think you mean JF1 or JF2. JF3 was much later, well after the F3 series was done and we were waiting on F4 (for the next four YEARS...).


The Jedi Master

For me it was F-15 Strike Eagle on a ZX Spectrum.


I know exactly what you feel and I agree with you at 100%!

spitfire 40 on the commodore 64.

That looks like a PC version. It looked better on the Amiga 500. Sounded better too, cause the Amiga had a stereo sound chip onboard and stereo speakers built into the monitor.

Those were 2 of my early favorites too... I think I still have them over at my parents house in storage...

Hellcat Ace for the 8bit Atari was my first flight "sim".

I recieved training on a 2F-23 single jet engine trainer in the Navy. Later I bought a used Mac 512 to do statistics homework. It had Tri-Plane installed. It is a wire frame biplane simulator. I was up to 2 in the morning playing that. I still didn't know I was hooked. Next came the original JetFighter from a bargain bin for my 386. How could I go wrong for $10? I finally realized I was hooked when I spent $4000 on a 486-50 with an 17" Nanao monitor just to play Falcon 3.0. There must have been as many as 100 flight simulators since then. Wow ! What a hobby.

Not a single one...but here you go

Falcon AT, Chuck Yearger, Knight of the Sky, Original Jet fighter, etc.

Elite the space combat game on the Amstrad. space counts as fighting. certainly dogfighting :)Id played some harrier sim back when Amstrad were making tape fed michines and floppy had just come out. but the first game that I remember as a real sim was Total Air War which hooked me. then Janes WW2 fighters came out. Then came Janes FA18 and then my lasting love F4.

F117 on Nintendo, Gunship 2000 on Playstation with a Flight Force Pro. I was always jealous of the PC crowd as a kid.

ACE on a C16, then Stealth Fighter, F16 Combat Pilot and Fighter Bomber on the C64. Later came the F-18 Interceptor, F-15 SE II, Gunship 2000, Retaliator etc. on the Amiga.

Awww, that's not Egypt, its the way they did mountains back then! I kid you not...

I guess the absolutely first slight sim I played was something called Strike Force Harrier, on the C-64. I don't count Blue Max, which i also played, as flight sim, though it was mighty cool, heh.

Favourites on the C-64 are probably Their Finest Hour, F-19 Stealth Fighter and Gunship.

Went on to the Amiga and F/A-18 Interceptor, F-16 Combat Pilot (great sim) and others.

Gunship and Gunship 2000! I had the thrill of my life with those two games. Still brings back fond memories...

F-117 Stealth Fighter 2.0

Jetfighter

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

pfunk