Before Aces High

[TequilaChaser]

In Airwarrior by Kesmai, Hitech made a viewer where you could analyze your dogfights.  It might have been the first film recorder in the game.  If I remember correctly it had a in cockpit view and an exterior view which you could move around.  It was wire based graphics and I believe that you could actually fly your plane, changing its path etc, at any point but the other planes never changed from their actual recorded paths.

That is near exactly as I remember it happening, Fencer....

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TC

[bj229r]

I happened upon Air Warrior in '95 on AOL-hell-dialup......25 wasted years followed

[Brooke]

I happened upon Air Warrior in '95 on AOL-hell-dialup......25 wasted years followed

25 *enhanced* years followed! 

[Swoop]

For me, before Aces High came European Air War.....followed by the complete let down that was Microprose's B-17 II.

[SIK1]

In the very beginning, when I was a kid I would pretend, and use my imagination that I was flying a fighter. I remember thinking how neat it would be if there was some way to experience what I imagined. This was even before Pong was was released, so I couldn't have dreamed where we would end up.

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Sik

[Eagler]

I was thinking it started with computer games but if not...

Eagler

[Brooke]

In the very beginning, when I was a kid I would pretend, and use my imagination that I was flying a fighter. I remember thinking how neat it would be if there was some way to experience what I imagined. This was even before Pong was was released, so I couldn't have dreamed where we would end up.

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Sik

Well said -- same for me. 

[Arlo]

Well, if we're going back that far, this gave me hours upon hours of enjoyment (circa 1967ish):

[Frodo]

Well, if we're going back that far, this gave me hours upon hours of enjoyment (circa 1967ish):

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Arlo these started my addiction also. I then moved up to the hard stuff. Plastic model kits. 

[Maverick]

I was bitten by the aircraft bug before I was able to form sentences I am sure. I was always fascinated by planes. When much younger I was very much into building model airplanes. I had enough that there was no way I could store all of them on my dresser or desk. I divided up the ceiling in my bedroom into aircraft era's. I had WW1, WW2 and Korea. I had suspended the models from the ceiling in dogfight poses with those of opposing sides as I imagined them flying. Then along came my little sister who gleefully cut the strings and let them hit the floor. All that time carefully building and painting gone, not to mention all the money I scrounged and did odd jobs and washing cars to get. After that I never built another model lest it too fall victim to my mother's little princess.

[Wiley]

I started out with Jet by SubLogic.  Played the heck out of it when I was a kid.  Then came Red Baron and F-19 Stealth Fighter.  In the 90s, I found one of the online sims, Confirmed Kill or possibly Warbirds at the time, and saw that it was an hourly fee.  I knew myself and what would likely happen with that, and instead chose rent and food.

Discovered Warbirds in 2007 and played it for a while, then came over here.

Wiley.

[Vulcan]

Who remembers Flight Unlimited and EF2000? They were my first VR flight sims, both supported VR out of the box (mid-90s).

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Sublogic flight sim (1980) on Apple II.
SWOTL
Warbirds from early -97
AH for 9 years
Cliffs of Dover
Currenly I play Il2 Sturmovik Box with Loose Deuce squadron.

[Drano]

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, LHX Attack Chopper and Red Baron were the formative sims for me. Then Air Warrior. Recently put my old Franken PC back in operation to run them and stuff like Duke Nukem fur fun. Can video capture that stuff now waaay better than was even possible then. After that I moved to Aces High and dabble in IL2. DCS is too much of a stretch for me. Appears too hard to fly and get even the slightest drink on.

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[Volron]

I KNEW I was forgetting one.  I had a copy of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat as well!  For kicks I would "jump" B-52's with the 190.  You can figure how well that generally went.