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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Jethro_Bodine on October 15, 2005, 01:30:00 AM
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Anyone here ever play Aces of the Pacific back in the day.
That game was my first WWII FS and my second FS all together (1st was the 1st MS FS).
I used to play the crap outa that game when I was like 8 years old or younger (can't remember) but this is what made me fall in love with games like this.
Have you played this game and what was your first WWII FS?
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Sunlogic spitfire simulater at like 8 years old, on an apple 2 plus.
Microprose F-15 game
Then Lucas's Their finast hour.
Secret weapons of the luftwaffe
Red baron
Aces of europe
ACes of the pacific.
Warbirds
AH
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Never played MS FS. Wanted to but was playing Red Baron 2 and Red Baron 3D at the time and never got around to it.
My first WW2 flight sim was B-17 Bomber for Intellivision.
Not much of a sim really but pretty cool back in 1982.
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MS CFS1
European Air war (Classic)
Janes WWII Fighters - still looks as good as FB!
Il2 etc of course
CFs2 a bit
Tried Rowan's Battle OF Britain. ... never got into it
B17 II The Mighty Eighth ..same prob
Then AH
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Yep played it.
First game was Airfight, which I played on the Plato university online community system sometime around 1978/79 when my stepfather smuggled me in to a University hospital where he had access. It was almost unplayable with what was about a 2 second per frame frame rate. 1960/70s jets, no missiles (as I remember), wire frame graphics and probably a very generic physics model. The first MMOG air combat game, though "massive" is a bit of a stretch. I only saw one or two people up most times I tried it and ended up crashing every time usually due to the horrible fram rate and keyboard controls. Played the Star Trek game Empire, which really was the first MMOG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_system
My First on the PC was "EGA Falcon" followed by "Their Finsest Hour." Red Baron really took things to the next level.
Charon
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My first flight sims were Solo Flight and then Microsofts Flight Sim 5.0. I had just about every flying game after that, that came out. I believe Solo Flight was around 1983. My first fun computer game was for my Vic20, It was called Midway. It was about the battle of Midway naturally, and it required an extra 16kb cartridge to put in the back of it just to play it. I spent hours playing that game.
If I had a dime for every hour spent playing games id be rich. Heck if I spent those hours working Id be rich.
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Their finest hour-The Battle of Britain was my first FS.
I remember flying the same mission over and over(the pilot you flew would gain experience),then renaming the file to about ten different names so I'd have a kickass squad.
The Germans never even made the coast after I did that.
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I had a thing called Disk Doctor. It would open up the disk to see the language and you could change stuff. I had a game called Wizards Crown. Fantasy game, lotta fun. You got the standard +5 Broadswords, Flaming spears etc. So one day I opened up that disk and figured out where the character info was, and what number or symbol represented what weapon. I ended up having characters with maxed out stats 255 i believe with weapons like a +5 Flaming Frost Great Sword and the like. Was fun monkeying with that.
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combat (atari 2600)
F-15 Strike Eagle (MicroProse)
F-19 Stealth Fighter (MicroProse, 1988)
1942: The Pacific Air War(MicroProse, 1994)
fighter ops
Red baron 2
War Birds
MS CFS2
Aces High
Il2
:)
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Had AOP but couldnt get it to run.
Used to play "Their Finest Hour"
Great game and wish AH film viewer was more like that one
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Originally posted by Blooz
Never played MS FS. Wanted to but was playing Red Baron 2 and Red Baron 3D at the time and never got around to it.
My first WW2 flight sim was B-17 Bomber for Intellivision.
Not much of a sim really but pretty cool back in 1982.
:rofl :rofl
Intellivision now there was a freaking game
"B 17 BoMbEr" That mechanical voice in the intro:rofl :rofl
I wish I still had my Intellivision collectors are paying big$$ for those things now.:aok
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Nuthin beat the challenge of a mail run...
(http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/commodore/images/c64/solo_flight.jpg)
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Thats the one Vulcan! Bought it in West Gate Mall Abilene Texas :)
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Whatever version of MSFS was out in 1986? We bought it when we bought our first PC. Had one of those junk PC joysticks that never worked right and I used the keyboard for everything. Stall recovery was fun with the keyboard, eh? Played MSFS off and on until I discovered AWII/AWIII and got hooked on the online combat sim. Tried WB but didnt like it, tried MSCFS and didnt care so much for it, especially hated their online arenas. Course I didnt care much for AH the first time I tried it either, just before AW bit the dust. Took a few years off and tried again, spent about a year getting used to it and was just starting to enjoy myself when they switched to AWII and I got another 6 month break while I waited to upgrade equipment.
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SWOTL hooked me
actually it was battlehawks 1942
ugraded comp, 1st, to run SWOTL :)
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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Whatever version of MSFS was out in 1986?
It was probably Sublogic FS1... (not MS).
(http://www.cclassic.szu.pl/files/Apple2/Screens/Sublogic/Flight_Simulator-1.gif)
or if it looked like this Sublogic FS2:
(http://www.c64gg.com/Images/F/Flight_Simulator_II.ss.gif)
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No it looked nothing like that. And it was indeed Microsoft's Flight Simulator. We bought our PC at the end of 1986/early 1987, because I remember distinctly using it to type one of my first college papers in the fall of 87, and we had already been using the computer for several months.
I can even remember playing a simple version of a flight sim on the Apple II way back when that looked similar to what you posted above. I think the version of MSFS that I'm thinking of was Microsoft Flight Simulator II
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Here we go. This is the one because I remember the cover of the box with the "digital" landscape lines, the screen, and the person sitting in the chair. I dont know how many hundreds of hours I put on that Cessna. Never was much good with the Learjet though.
(http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/images/covers/fs2-msx-small.jpg)
1986
Third Generation: new releases by subLOGIC of FS II (or as I call it FS III) for the Amiga and Atari-ST with 320x240, 16-color display, new menu system and multiple windows and views (including spot view), an enhanced co-ordinate system and enhanced scenery (buildings, bridges) in 5 areas with 120 airports.
Autopilot and multiplayer option. Aircraft: Cessna 182RG and Learjet 25.
1986
Microsoft releases FS 1.0 for Apple Macintosh. Functionally the same as the third generation Amiga and Atari versions, but high res, monochrome. Without multiplayer option. Also comparable to FS 3.0 for the PC (1988).
1986
first add-on sceneries by subLOGIC, gradually covering the whole of the USA, compatible with both Microsoft and subLOGIC FS versions.
1987
first non-USA add-on scenery (Western European Tour, with special Paris, London and Munich scenery) by subLOGIC
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The one i played was MSFS 5.0
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Well, that cover looked like mine, except it didnt have any "Torpedo Attack" on it, and it said in big letters "Microsoft Flight Simulator II" across the top. Apparently its considered "FS 3.0" though, and came out in 88? Maybe I'm off a year. I could swear it was 87. But these pics are undeniably the FS I remember.
(http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/images/msfs3-lear-meigs.gif)
(http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/images/msfs3-goldgate.gif)
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5.0 was a great version. Real graphics (incredible at the time), and a much improved FM. The "dash" was a great improvement too. Plus it was the last DOS version. ::sigh::
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My first from 1983, Hellcat Ace
(http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/H/Hell_Cat_Ace.gif)
Blue Max
Solo Flight
Arcticfox
Sublogic FS II
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
Stunt Island
Red Baron
Red Baron II
Aces Over Europe
Aces of the Pacific
MSCFS I
MSCFS II
Janes WWII Fighters
European Air War
USAF
Israeli Air Force
IL2 Series
Falcon 4.0
Falcon 4.0 AF
DoA
WB
AH
I know there's a lot more but can't remember em all.