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Offline Nefarious

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« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2002, 12:39:55 PM »
You guys remember this? Mosquito!

Chasing after V-1 Buzz bombs! and bombing Nazi Trains! This game was the first Flight sim i ever played. I was 7 years old. I dont remember what kind of computer it was. When My grandma bought me a 75Mhz Pentium Packard Bell, I bought some 5 pack  of flight sims which contained Flight of the Intruder and some other ones which never worked.

Then It went.

Silent Thunder
USNF 97
Fighters Anthology
F/A-18 Korea
Israeli Airforce
USAF
EAW
WW2F
Aces High
CFS2

And the list ends there. Now I'm 21, Going to college to make the same things I've played my whole life. Flight Sims.

Whats funny is that I started fooling with computers when I was 7. Now Kindergardeners ? have computers!!! It makes me jealous!
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There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!

Offline Rude

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« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2002, 01:47:10 PM »
What JimBear said.....flew some attack chopper game on a c-64 for a couple of years prior to the Amiga 500....then stepped up to the A-3000:)

Those were good years
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Offline Saurdaukar

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« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2002, 02:08:37 PM »
Offline - "Thier Finest Hour" and SWOTL
Online - AOL Air Warrior
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Offline Thrawn

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« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2002, 02:15:12 PM »
AH...heheh picked the best on the first try.:D
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Offline Zippatuh

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« Reply #34 on: April 23, 2002, 02:24:02 PM »
Believe it or not the greatest SIM ever made, FA 2.5 :D
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Offline Gman

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« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2002, 02:24:51 PM »
I think it was F-15 Strike Eagle on the C64, one of the first Microprose titles.

Anyone remember airborne ranger?  I consider it the start of the whole 1st/3rd person shooter genre myself.

Those were the days.
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Offline HFMudd

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« Reply #36 on: April 23, 2002, 02:52:31 PM »
C64 here as well.  I don't remember much about it other than you could play H2H in a split screen mode.  As I recall it didn't have any notion of stalling...

Other 'tech' things I remember:
- The first calculators (no floating point)
- The first digital watches (red LED's)
- The height of home computing was the 'Cosmic Elf' (Program in hex!)
- VAXNet (Long before Al Gore "invented" the internet)
- Zork I

*sigh*  I may have to go home early...
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Offline gofaster

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« Reply #37 on: April 23, 2002, 03:00:51 PM »
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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 :)


My first flight sim wasn't even mine.  My ex-college roommate bought an Amiga and invited me over one night for dinner with his family.  I think F/A-18 Hornet was the sim he loaded up to show me (and thereby got me so hooked I had to go out and get one of my own as soon as I got a decent-paying job).  Or maybe it was the original "Jetfighter" on a plastic floppy disk now that I think about it....

Anyway, the memories are flooding back now!
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Offline vorticon

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« Reply #38 on: April 23, 2002, 03:02:07 PM »
my first flight ww2 flight sim was



ACE OF ACES for C64

looks like most of us played on a good ol' c64
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Offline Beefcake

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« Reply #39 on: April 23, 2002, 03:07:10 PM »
My first flight sim was "Hellcats over the Pacific" for the Macintosh. If I remember it correctly it came out in 1987, and, IMO, was a very good game for it's time. Every once in awhile I will still go and take my hellcat up and fight the hordes of Zekes and Franks attacking my base. :)
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Offline Furious

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« Reply #40 on: April 23, 2002, 03:14:00 PM »
LOL Saw, I used to land on that sub.


All my early sims were for the Amiga.

BOB "Their Finest Hour"
F/A 18 Hornet
Tornado
Falcon 3

F.

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Damn, from the posts about C64 and Amiga, it looks like Commodore could have ruled the world.  Too bad they pissed it all away.
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Offline funkedup

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« Reply #41 on: April 23, 2002, 03:31:44 PM »
BattleHawks 1942, Amiga 500
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Offline funkedup

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« Reply #42 on: April 23, 2002, 03:38:50 PM »
Saw, Dinger was a beta tester on that F-18 game.
It was called "F/A-18 Interceptor".
They did a DOS port later called "JetFighter" but it was not as good as the original.
I worked for the same company but was on less cool projects like the DOS port of "Outrun" and various console cartridges.  
Oh, the joy of playing Bo Jackson Football/Baseball on Gameboy for 8 hours each day...
:D
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Offline Mino

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« Reply #43 on: April 23, 2002, 04:17:42 PM »
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
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Offline Beegerite

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« Reply #44 on: April 23, 2002, 08:40:48 PM »
Babies :D

The first combat simulator I flew I had to first code myself from a basic program in 80Micro a magazine for Radio Shack TRS-80 computers.  I coded it and ran it on my Radio Shack Color Computer with an amazing 16mb of RAM and a cassette tape drive.  My second combat simulator was the Spad in Microsoft's Flight Simulator I which I ran in beautiful shades of green on a Columbia Portable Computer (58 lbs.) under DOS 2.0

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