Old Flight Sims

[hgtonyvi]

Hey guys Anyone remember this flight Sim from back in the days? I started off playing this game. As an american you fly the F-51 Mustang, F-80 shooting star, and F-86 Sabre. As a Russian you get to fly the Yak9 and Mig-15's. There were a few other planes but i just can't remember them at the moment. The missions were great in this game. In the mission you got to shoot down other aircrafts and perform historical tasks but you couldn't fly them for some reason. I think only in the muiltiplayer mode you could of flown them. I still have the disc lol.

[Volron]

I still have my 5.25's for Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, 3x5's for Aces of the Deep, Aces Over Europe, B-17 Flying Fortress (DOS version AKA the GOOD version), Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, and a CD for Aces of the Pacific and Red Baron.  I did screw up back in the day, and got Descent on the 3.5's when it was also being sold on CD's.   Kind of wish I picked up the CD's for the stuff I had on 3.5's and 5.25's when they became available, like I did with Aces of the Pacific and Red Baron.

[craz07]

I got started with wb2.xx in the late 90's if i recall correctly, have been addicted since then... wait thats a lie, there was also nintendo's top gun and jane's WW2 sim for pc

[DubiousKB]

SWOTL shaped my childhood.

I think I only got 1 B-17 crew to the end of their 25 missions... Stupid dad used the cheating Go229 and would claim his pilot "wolf" was the best ever...

lol, the old midi gun sounds, pew, pew!

[Phoenix3107]

I started off playing A-10 Attack Cuba for the Mac Os in my years as a kid. I still miss that old game today. Only thing I was good at that time was firing my Maverick's into the 17's and 16's that came in for landing, didn't even realize those were the good guys.

[Charge]

One of the first combat flight simulators I played was Spitfire 40 (3:10 mark  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss6kd6M9VC0)

First real experience against another human opponent was in F-16 Fighting Falcon on PC over LAN in late 80s.

The quality of these games was poor but the thrill of flying was so strong that the imagination made up for what was lacking.

-C+

[Mister Fork]

Hmmm....

Sublogic Flight Simulator on my old C-64. Red Baron. Solo Flight. Then Jet on my Amiga. Then a plethora of other games on the Amiga before switching to DOS
:
F-16 Combat
Falcon
SWOTLW
F/18 Simulator
Birds of Prey
F-15 Strike Eagle
A-10 Tank Killer
Flight of the Intruder
TFX
Dawn Patrol (one of my favorite)
Knights of the Sky
Gunship
Red Baron
Their Finest Hour
Aces of the Pacific
Janes F-15 Strike Eagle
Tornado
Su-27
Combat Flight Simulator series from Microsoft
European Air War
Mig Alley
Falcon 2 & 3.
Janes series Longbow, Longbow, F-15, F/A-18

And of course.

Falcon 4.0

AND AND...

Strike Fighter series which may be a simplified flight model, is still a great sim.

AND

DCS Series from Eagle out of Russia which is perhaps the best there is right now.

And IL2 series of course. All great sims.  And I'm sure there are a dozen that are missing that I haven't mentioned.

[glzsqd]

And of course.

Falcon 4.0

Still have the Falcon 4.0 CD, box and manual 

[DubiousKB]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't Aces of the Pacific the game which you were introduced to a rookie AI pilot with the call sign "pancake" because of his back-story of "pancaking onto the deck" during training.

Not sure why but thinking of that part of the game always makes me giggle a little. 

[cpxxx]

I didn't remember that one at first but I think I downloaded a couple of years ago on another computer. It was super advanced compared to what I had in the early days. I did have a copy of the Sublogic precursor to the Microsoft flight simulator. I also had Falcon AT. Both could be played off a floppy disc and as I didn't actually own a computer my only opportunity to try them out was on my work PC at lunchtime.

Later I good hold of 'Chuck Yeager's Air Combat' which was great fun and included a tape from ole Chuck himself recounting his adventures.

I eventually did get a PC of my own and of course had a few other including FS but to be honest I found them boring compared to flying real aircraft and of course Aces High.

[Lusche]

[Volron]

SWOTL shaped my childhood.

I think I only got 1 B-17 crew to the end of their 25 missions... Stupid dad used the cheating Go229 and would claim his pilot "wolf" was the best ever...

lol, the old midi gun sounds, pew, pew!

What is great is I can fire up a fully working SWOTL game right now.   DOSbox FTW!   Man, those sounds do bring back memories though.


I noticed a "trend" in SWOTL while flying a tour in the B-17.  ANY time I would get an airfield as a target, my arse got chewed badly.  It was a very high chance I would get shot down during airfield raids.  Most of the other missions were not that bad, and only a few times would I not make it back.  So anytime I would get an airfield mission, I would try a little to complete it, but when I took any hits, would ditch my bombs and RTB.  It is how I managed to survive to 25 missions a few times.

[Ack-Ack]

I used to love playing 50 Mission Crunch on my Apple II+ as a kid.  Would name my crew after friends, putting the ones I liked the least in the most dangerous crew positions.

[eagl]

The old flight simulator for C-64 and then IBM AT.  Then Falcon AT.  There was some simplified but cool sabre jet game for the C-64 I liked too.  And F-15E strike eagle for the C-64.  Later I spent a lot of time with Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, mostly because of the after-mission replay features.  Also Microsoft Flight simulator 4.0 with the aircraft and scenery designer.

When I was in USAF flight training I built the local airspace in MSFS 4 aircraft and scenery designer and built 2 planes with the approximate flight characteristics of the T-37 and T-38.  I was able to fly all the instrument approaches in and out of Laughlin AFB using MSFS and those 2 custom aircraft, which I think helped me nail down basic instrument habit patterns and pacing.

[Charge]

Oh yeah, there were at least three of the Strike Eagle games. With a friend we played Strike Eagle 3 co-op by sitting in the same setting as the guys in a real F15E, I was the pilot and my pal was the GIB. It was immersive and simply a great gaming experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-mu-1cBqDc

-C+