Author Topic: What was your first PC WW2 flight sim? (Read 991 times)

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #15 on:** April 23, 2002, 09:31:14 AM »

First sim, Falcon in CGA.
First WW2 sim, BoB then SWOTL if I recall good. Both with great plane camos because they were "drawings" who switched depending on the position relative from you.

eddiek · « **Reply #16 on:** April 23, 2002, 09:53:22 AM »

Warbirds......

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 23, 2002, 10:08:52 AM »

my first was Spitfire, on an old apple 2plus.

The on to f15 strike eagle on the same machine.

later after getting a 386-25

I played chuck yeager air combat.

red baron.

Their finest hour

SWOTLW

then later on a p90.

aces of the pacific and europe

then on a p120 Warbirds......

Now aces.

Steven · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2002, 10:16:13 AM »

Battlehawks, 1942, then
Battle of Britain, then
Aces Of The Pacific

Mathman · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2002, 10:24:14 AM »

My very first was this one from Microprose called "Spitfire Ace."

Then:

Strike Eagle
Falcon (the original)
BattleHawks
Their Finest Hour
Red Baron
SWOTL
Aces of the Pacific
Falcon 3
Fleet Defender
Pacific Strike (actually kind of cool, but a little cheesy)
Aces Over Europe
PAW (My all time favorite, bar none)
Red Baron 2
Janes F-15
Falcon 4
EAW
Janes WW2F
Flanker2-2.5
Aces High (My second all time favorite)
Janes F-18
CFS2 (just b/c it is PTO makes it fun)
Il-2
The Next Big Thing (looks like it will be LOMAC)

-math

Pongo · « **Reply #20 on:** April 23, 2002, 10:34:48 AM »

BOB I think

Zigrat · « **Reply #21 on:** April 23, 2002, 10:53:15 AM »

aces of the pacific! one of the all time greats.

majic · « **Reply #22 on:** April 23, 2002, 10:55:25 AM »

SWOTL

popeye · « **Reply #23 on:** April 23, 2002, 11:14:09 AM »

BoB, or SWOTL (whichever was first) was my first WWII sim. My first flightsim was the SubLogic Flight Simulator on a TRS80 model II, but as I recall, it was a WWI sim.

Drano · « **Reply #24 on:** April 23, 2002, 11:27:16 AM »

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat for me too. Loved the cheezy "Yeager" window--"Break left!!"

Messed with Red Baron, Falcon 2 and the EAW demo. Somebody gave me AW3 for my birthday. After messin with that for a couple of months I wandered to Gamestorm one rainy afternoon and started my online flight career. Played that almost til it died. Came here last March.

Messed with the Il-2 Demo. While I think its much prettier than AH is I like AH a lot more flight wise. Stickin with #1 til something else blows me away. Maybe something like AH2?

Drano

Kieran · « **Reply #25 on:** April 23, 2002, 11:27:29 AM »

I popped back-and-forth between Aces Over the Pacific, Aces Over Europe, and Pacific Air War 1942.

midnight Target · « **Reply #26 on:** April 23, 2002, 12:01:04 PM »

Airwarrior

6+ years in AW then I immigrated here. I settled into the South Central AH barrio and hope to be a full citizen some day!

Otto · « **Reply #27 on:** April 23, 2002, 12:09:08 PM »

Something called 'Hellcat Ace' by Microprose (I think). But I did have the orginial 'Flight Simulator' by Sublogic runing on my Apple II and it had a WWI option. The enemy were 'dots' . And I mean 'dots'

Your machine gun sort of 'clicked' when you fired. If you hit an enemy he just disapeared. You flew with the keyboard.
I don't miss any of that.......!

Saintaw · « **Reply #28 on:** April 23, 2002, 12:23:26 PM »

FA-18 Hornet on Amiga (1990?) (with 7 missions ...and a sub that no-one I know of could manage to sink). PLayed those 7 missions again & again till I started seing aiming reticle around poeple in the streets

Ripsnort · « **Reply #29 on:** April 23, 2002, 12:31:33 PM »

SWOTL, and nothings even come close to the fun factor and immersible micro-management one could do in that game.

SWOTL system requirements:
Computer: IBM and 100% compatibles. Operating System: MS-DOS 3.0 or higher. CPU: 16MHz 286 minimum. Memory: 640 KB required. Graphics Card: 256 color VGA/MCGA, 16 color EGA. Sound Card: AdLib, Sound Blaster, or PC Speaker supported.
Input Device: Keyboard, joystick, or mouse.
Installation: Hard drive required.