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Offline Löwe

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« Reply #30 on: February 28, 2002, 08:21:21 PM »
Loved SWOTL. and before that it was Their Finest Hour, and Battle Hawks , which was the very first Lucas Films Flight Sim. But before those it was of course F-15 Strike Eagle, F19 Stealth Fighter, and Mig Alley Ace, all by Microprose, and all on my C-64. My very first flight sim was also by Microprose, it was called Hellcat Ace. I played it on my first computer an Atari 800, this would have been about 1984 or 85, the funny thing was it had a cassette drive and took about 20 mins to load. I could actaully go out and mow the front lawn while I waited for the sim to load. Twenty minutes for a light blue sky, dark blue water, and all yellow airplanes.
I used to dream about playing against other people on modems, back in the 80's. We've come a long way fellas. ;)
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« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2002, 09:30:46 PM »
Back in 1986 or so, MicroProse Gunship on the C64 was the first sim I can remember getting hooked on.  It was the first sim I'd seen with 3d terrain.  The ZSU-20 usually ended my sorties for me. :D
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Offline fdiron

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« Reply #32 on: February 28, 2002, 09:35:21 PM »
I got hooked on SWOTL.  Played the game for a few months before I figured out how to use the time compression feature.
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« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2002, 09:41:04 PM »
aces of the pacific! high five moose!
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« Reply #34 on: March 01, 2002, 12:41:23 AM »
Lets see.. can't remember it's name now.. on the c64 way back.. then it was F19, SWOTL, Aces of the Pacific, Falcon3, RB, FC(w00t damn I still miss this one), RB2/3D..  and the list goes on.. Hooked BAD.. LOL

Heh, I used to use F3 as a screensaver of sorts.. turn on instant action/autopilot.. I'd leave and come back the thing was still owning the sky's 3 hours later LOL
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Offline Saurdaukar

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« Reply #35 on: March 01, 2002, 04:39:26 AM »
First got hooked on "Their Finest Hour"...
Discovered "Aces over Europe" and "Aces of the Pacific"...
Religiously played "SWOTL" (still have box)...
AOL "Air Warrior" introdced me to online flying...
AW2 and AW3 kept me going... kinda...
"WarBirds" caused me to quit...
"European Air War" reminded me of the fun...
"Aces High" brought me back...

Neat story huh? :)

Mazz
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Offline Charge

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« Reply #36 on: March 01, 2002, 07:00:56 AM »
C64 had Spitfire 40 and after that Dambusters.
The first PC sim I played was Falcon 1.0 which had one of the first H2H option!

Oh those days when a simple square pixel gave wings to imagination..*BEEP!

Syntax Error...

LOAD "ACES HIGH",8,1

LOADING...


-Charge+
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« Reply #37 on: March 01, 2002, 08:11:26 AM »
SWOTL and F19 for me!  I took 2 days off work when I got SWOTL and played for 40 of 48 hours. :D
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Offline Steven

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« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2002, 08:31:57 AM »
SubLogic "Jet" was my first simulation.  Delving back into my memory, some other early simulations that come to mind include the original Falcon CGA and then there was LucasArts' Battlehawks and BoB and the Dynamix Aces series.  Falcon 3 is still the king in my book though.
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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #39 on: March 01, 2002, 08:40:58 AM »
1942 BattleHawks

on a 286
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« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2002, 08:41:35 AM »
Udie, does this  sound familiar? :D
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« Reply #41 on: March 01, 2002, 01:28:42 PM »
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Originally posted by Elysian


Oh my God, I remember that game...  My friends and I still imitate the funky-ass speech from that game to this day.  "Watch for flak!", "Bandits... 12 o'clock".... rofl.


cmorris


Just incase anyone actually wants to play this game again on their PC you can download it for free at http://www.intellivisionlives.com they also have a free Intellivision emulator there.  Enjoy!
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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #42 on: March 01, 2002, 01:36:35 PM »
Anyone else remember the 1980 Avalon Hill game B1 Bomber?
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