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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: cobra427 on December 29, 2002, 09:45:38 PM
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well AH is the first Flight Sim i ever really played ... ive done console game flight sims but they were too limited
but then one day i got a 486
and i got to play WB2 in stunning 2D!!!
that started my FS crave for new games but then i found out
my PC wasnt as good as i thought it was
so i left the FS world to never retun for i was sucked into
command & conquer when i got my p166 that is still up in my room
i also played Janes F15 and TOP-GUN F4.0 FS98 FS2000 and some WWI and chopper sims but without a joystick i was stuck with my keyboard and a 6 button game-pad that didnt fufill my hopes
so back to C&C
untill one day my parents came home with this POS a new PC
the first thing i did was install all my old games to find they didnt work with XP
so i searched the net and found this Aces High
but my dreams where poped when i tryed to fly a P51 in the first H2H room i was ever in as Cobra427 Shufflers Paradise
i clicked the button to take off ....as soon as i found it...and all i got was dont move stick so rapidly because of my stupid game pad
untill one day i stumbled into simcade and Spazzz showed me how to use the mouse for flight and i lived in the simcade room for the longest time
untill one day when my parents went to wallmart and came back with a $10 saitek
i know i know its junk but it was a new world for me for i had never used a joystick before and from that day i have been hooked to WWII sims ...flight or in the sea i am crazed about WWII sims now but i still havent played that many and i do
mean not many
lets see.......
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Janes WWII Fighters demo
IL2 demo
WB2
WB3
AH
AW2
Panzer Commander
CFS
WWIIOL
and a few other games i dont remember
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after i got my stick my mom said she would pay for AH for me and i got to play in the MA and CT with my long lost H2H friends for a month and i had to close my account and after that my mom bought me a Wingman stick but i had no games to play it with for the MA had spoiled H2H for me
but alas im getting bored of AH and i have moved onto not any better things such as WWIIOL and im gett'n bored of that to
my parents got me a credit card so i could play AH or WWIIOL online but its a card you have to put $$$ in so they put $140 in it but this was just before Christmass and me be'n me i spent $110 of it on my parents so that leaves me with $30 but i want to keep it in there incase i see something i want i could get back in the MA if i wanted but im not so sure if i should for i feel i might find a better game someday and awe heck there is no better game but i just got a new 3D card and i want some eye candy but all the "eye candy"games ive played well sucked so im gonna stick with AH untill someday when my name is on the #1 spot for MA rank and i will RULE THIS PUNY GAME!!!!and you will be my slaves MWA?HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAH ....
oh sorry almost lost myself again :p well thats about it so share your FS history
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Well, ok, I hooked up with some RL WWII plane flyers in '97, a bunch of folks called "Fantasy Flight" who dressed up in WWII AAF uniforms and flew a couple of AT-6's and a C-45 to air shows. The leader of that group got several of us interested in WarBirds. We formed a squadron and flew mostly historic missions. When AH started Beta we moved in and have been here since.
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Huh?
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I think I've been a flight sim junkie ever since my friend Ian (now in the US Naval Academy, damn him!) showed me Hornet for his Mac. That was when I was in about 5th grade, which was 1992-93? That sounds about right, because the Bruins were in the Adam's division back then, still had Cam, Adam Oates, Joe Juneau, Bourque, Sweeney, and Moog I think..
Hornet
Sopwith Camel
Hero's of the 357th
Chuck Yeagers Air Combat
Jetfighter 2 (I loved the YF-23 and YF-22 in that)
Ms flight sim (I saved up that year and bought my 1st stick - a CH Flightstick Pro)
Aces over Europe and Pacific
Dawn Patrol
Red Baron
Megafortress
Falcon 3.0
Jane's US Navy Fighters, Marine Fighters, Advanced Tactical Fighters, Nato Fighters, Fighters Anthology, USAF, F-15, F-18. IAF, WWII Fighters
Falcon 4
Warbirds 2.0
Longbow 1 and 2
Apache
European Air War
B-17 II
Il-2
SF:P1
FS 2002
Aces High! beta weeks, then 1.04 -> now
edit- TFX and EF2000!
I'm sure there are more, those are all I could think of.
There was this one great sim a while back,cant remember what it was, but you could pick either a chopper or a couple different planes. The concept was that you had to hunt drug lords and the more stuff you blew up of theirs the more you'd hurt their economy. They had Gulfstream IVs and Migs and stuff to shoot at. I can't remember the name but I loved that game.
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Combat (I know it was best known for tanks but it did have bi-plane and jet combat) - 1977 Atari 2600
Strike Eagle II - Apple IIc
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
B-17
PAW
EAW
B-17 II -
Fighter Squadron
Jane's WWII
AW DOS
AW4W
AW2
AW3/MV
Red Baron
Red Baron 3D
Falcon 3.0
Falcon 4.0
Longbow
Longbow 2
Hind
Warbirds 2.0-2.7
Dawn of Aces
Flying Circus
Rowan's Flying Corps
US Navy Fighters
There are two flight sim games that I don't remember the names that I used to play and really liked. One of them was I think made by Sierra where you were the head of a group of mercenary pilots. Came out around 1993 or so and the othe one was something Korea, I think F/A-18 Korea or something like that.
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Been doing flight sims for along time.
Red Baron
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (lucas arts needs to bring this one back)
Airwarrior's 1, 2, and 3.
B17
Aces over Europe and Pacific
European Air War
Falcon 3.0
Combat Flight Sim
Combat Flight sim Pac
AH
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AH only, about 2 yrs now.
Moose you gotta be happy with your Bruins this year:)
I got a friend down here who played with the Bruins in the early 70's, almost has me converted from Edmonton fan:)
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Originally posted by Arfann
Well, ok, I hooked up with some RL WWII plane flyers in '97, a bunch of folks called "Fantasy Flight" who dressed up in WWII AAF uniforms and flew a couple of AT-6's and a C-45 to air shows. The leader of that group got several of us interested in WarBirds. We formed a squadron and flew mostly historic missions. When AH started Beta we moved in and have been here since.
Hey, That's my story too!
I also played around with AW and MS Combat Flight sim. Both games sucked in their own ways.
Recently tried IL-2. Great game if you like ground attack and buff hunting. Great graphics.
eskimo
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Originally posted by sax
AH only, about 2 yrs now.
Moose you gotta be happy with your Bruins this year:)
I got a friend down here who played with the Bruins in the early 70's, almost has me converted from Edmonton fan:)
they've been slumping lately but i'm still rooting hard.
going to the jan 30th game against the blackhawks :) saw em twice already this year, would go more but the fleetcenter is so expensive for lousy seats
joe thorton is my current hockey idol. watching him control the puck behind the net just amazes me over and over
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Flight Simulator 4.0 (still remember typing 'fs4' into the dos prompt)
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (great game, tremendous campaign section that let you plan missions to try to win the war)
Aces of the Pacific (another great game, but SWOTL was better)
F117 (crap)
Falcon 4.0 (great game)
Fighter Ace (oh yeah!)
Flying Circus (first MMOG)
Red Baron 2/3d (Razs 'Great War' was awesome, I was 3rd top scorer)
Warbirds
Aces High
probably some other games too.
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Skip Krake, never won one with the Bruins, got traded to LA the same year Boston won, 72 I think , but wears one now from the Oilers. He got it as part of the management team in Edmonton.
Lives in Lloydminster now, but still has a lot of old friends from Boston.
Thorton kind of reminds you of Nealy moose , if your team can keep him he'll win you a Stanley Cup me thinks.:)
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Played: Jet
Played MSF 1.0
Played AW
Created WB
Created FO
Created DOA
Created AH
HiTech
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FO?
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played jet.. as in that MS dos title (can't remember the whole name) ?
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jeez (here is most of them in no particular order)
F-15 Strike Eagle
F-15 Strike Eagle II
F-15 Strike Eagle III
Falcon
Falcon AT
Falcon 3 (with addons)
Falcon 4
Jet
Combat Pilot
F-19 Stealth Fighter
F-117 Stealth Fighter
Aces of the Pacific
Gunship
Gunship 2000
Longbow
Longbow 2
Jet Fighter I & II
(some harrier game)
EF-2000
F-18 Korea
Janes US Navy Fighter
Jane's WWII
Janes F-15
European Air War
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
WB 2.0-3.0
AH
Dawn of Aces
Red Baron
Su-27 Flanker 2
JSF
As you can see I was a bit of a fanatic
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I was sitting at Roadhouse grill having steaks with "X" CPID=AW2 or X427" AH CPID... And he started describing AirWarrior on AOL and food was flying out of his mouth and his hands were mimicking plane manuevers in the restaurant, The whole dinng room was watching him as his right hand shot his left hand down... After about 2 hours of plane combat noises and flying steak chunks
I agreed to dload airwarrior from AOL and try it out...
First thing I remember was Airwarrior on AOL really bit the big one!! especially on a 486dx33 with 4mb ram.... But there was nothing else out there like it...
T0J0
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
FO?
Fighter Ops. I never played it but I think it was basicly Warbirds for the AOL crowd.
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Ah.. OK... I vaguely remember that coming around. I'd strayed from WB by then and didn't see what happened with it.
My On-Line flight sim history:
WB .94-2.0 (Beta tested 2)
Flying Circus
Some RB2/DOA
Aces High
Off-Line... memory test:
Falcon
Falcon 3.0 (plus both add-ons)
Falcon 4.0
F-19 (Microprose)
F-117 (Microprose)
F-15 Strike Eagle
Jet Fighter
Jet Fighter 2
Jet Fighter 3
Aces of the Pacific
Pacific Air War
Heroes of the 357th (one of the worst ever)
Chuck Yeager's something or other
Strike Aces
A-10 Cuba
A-10 Thunderbolt
A-10 Thunderbolt II (I think.. can't really remember)
F-18 Hornet
Jane's USNF
Jane's F-15
Jane's JSF
Jane's IAF
Jane's F/A-18 (Never installed... though Creamo has me almost talked into it)
Jane's Longbow
Jane's Longbow 2
Red Baron
Flight of the Intruder
Comanche 3
Microsoft Combat Simulator 2
WWIIOL
Warbirds III
I figure I've remembered about half of them. The only one that is not listed that is a glaring ommition is SWOTLW. I never bought that one and tried it out. None of the B-17 stuff either.
AKDejaVu
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Flight of the Intruder
Now there is a game they need to rerelease, with good terrain.
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Online (goes back about 14 years):
AW Amiga on GEnie, CPID 715 ($6/hr plus $6/hr long distance phone charges to reach POP)
AW DOS on CRIS
Confirmed Kill (I can't believe you all forgot that one; even Hitech forgot to list it and I think he created it- at least he was involved with it as I remember his 'creative' spelling in the help files)
Warbirds from beta to III
AH from just after beta to present
Although it's probably a coincidence, I have always switched to the cheapest online flight sim.
Offline: I buy many but almost never play them for more than a few hours, so I don't recall them. I've had CFS3 and BF1942 sitting unopened on my desk for over a month. One I did play for a bit more was IL2- the best I have ever seen in offline flight sims.
715
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LOL AK seems you and I had similar addictions :)
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F-111 and A-10 simulators at WPAFB circa 1979
SubLogic Flight Simulator (Apple IIe)
SubLogic Flight Simulator II (Apple IIe
Microprose F-15E Strike Eagle (Apple IIe)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (IBM PC)
SubLogic Jet (PC)
Microprose Gunship (PC)
Spectrum Holobyte Falcon (PC)
SubLogic FS 2 (Amiga)
SubLogic Jet (Amiga)
Spectrum Holobyte Falcon (Amiga)
Electronic Arts F/A-18 Interceptor (Amiga)
LucasArts Battlehawks 1942 (Amiga)
LucasArts Their Finest Hour (Amiga)
LucasArts Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (PC)
SubLogic ATP (PC)
Spectrum Holobyte Falcon 3.0 (PC)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 (PC)
Sierra Aces of the Pacific (PC)
ICI WarBirds (PC)
HTC Aces High (PC)
:)
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sub-logic.. there's one I couldn't remember...
how many of you, like me, have had, or still have, most of these games ?
was the the one, or was it MS, that was on the C64 ?
anyway, that was my first flight sim.. on the C64,,
now THAT was a powerhouse !!!
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I believe SubLogic relased FS II for the C64 and Apple II at about the same time. The PC version was distributed by Microshaft but it was SubLogic's work.
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FS 4.0 (Anyone remember the WWI subgame? Bizarre and utterly unplayable!) This was in 1992.. I was 8 years old and hadn't a clue about planes! I thought 'gear' was something you used to accelerate on the runway! Memories: Most of my memories of FS4 are just watching the demo with neat flybys.
F-15 Strike Eagle III (From 1992 to 1994 I guess) Memories: For some reason my main memory of F-15 III is of an OV-10 being shot down.
Overlord - 1994. Or 'How I learned to stop jetfighting and love the Tiffy.' Memories: Rockphoon attacks on trains, and Fw190s' wing roots exploding. Also ditching the Tiffy with cool panning external view as you did so! The diary part of this game was inspired.
Strike Commander - 1995. An RPG flight sim. The geeky side of me wishes we had more of these, (though I don't play RPGs). And who cares what the other 1% of me thinks? Memories: The infrared warning light blinking ever closer, teaming up with MiG-29s briefly, the cafe meets with shifty persons, the nukes hitting Ireland and the screen whiting out. Class.
EF2000 - 1996. Probably my favourite flight sim. Memories: Barrel-rolling to defeat incoming missiles. Firing off Meteors. Low-level runway attacks. MiG-29 dogfights. Ejecting and watching the plane plunge into the sea with an incredibly cool splash. I still use the EF2000 sound pack as my computer sounds (Warning, systems failure!), which annoys the hell out of everyone :)
Warbirds - 1996/1997/1998
Or so. I actually played Warbirds online in the arena (for one night, till the 5 hours was up!) when it was in a very early stage, having got the demo off the US version of PC Gamer. I shot down a P38, as I recall. Played H2H from release till it got porked in 2.xx, first finding opponents in DALnet #fscombat then on some sort of H2H ladder. Wally? Memories: Loads. Mostly duelling vs 'Jedi Lancelot', a Hong Kong Ki84 pilot and bloody alt monkey, whilst I flew a Hurri IIC (or Spit, or something) and the crazy method of ACM it taught.. flying low and watching the shadows of the planes on the surface of the sea to judge the angles.)
Hornet 3.0 - I got invited into the 44th Werewolves squadron in Hornet 3.0 and had a great time with the 4-player games that game was capable of. These games were all about stealth and radar evasion, not furballs. Memories: High-speed chases through canyons with 'Altitude! Altitude! blaring and ground effect buffeting. The sound of missiles launching. Watching another Hornet streak overhead, missing me by less than 50ft without seeing me as I made an attack.
Flying Circus - 1997/1998
Pure unadulterated online air combat. Utterly daft. Great fun.
Memories: The AK, WingWalkers, Jasta 11, A1 vs C1 (?) 'gentlemans' duelling area with no firing on the merge (!), cheating for my Blue Max (20 kill streak) by pulling out the phone line when I was losing (and by that method keeping the kill streak next sortie!), not cheating for whatever the !! icon was called (50 kill streak) and hence never getting it, bizarre collisions, joining the Red Dragons, and Photoman's great doctored FC screenshots (Which is where Loose Rivets came from really)
Red Baron II - 1998/1999/2000
With FC's beta ending RBII was a poor cousin. OK, so it was more realistic, but the online part was uninspiring. Losing most of the Red Dragons didn't help matters. I ended up playing offline more than anything else, since the single player game ruled. RB3D was the 'massively multiplayer' element and extremely cool by comparison, though I don't really remember it as fondly as other online games. Memories: Fokker DVIIs going insane when damaged. Nieuport 28s spiralling down without the top wings. The best use of 'skins' in any online sim ever, with every squadron having individual paints. Making the Red Dragons paintschemes. Picking the Pfalz DVIII(?) and eventually DIII so as not to be flying a dweeb plane. Finding the DIII was as uber as anything else when damaged and finally giving up because of it. Thinking what a bunch of lamers some squadron who had bat-like wings (hard to describe.. the trailing edge was sort of webbed) on their aircraft (by playing with transparency) were. ;)
Confirmed Kill - The beta. Bad memories: The game. Good memories: Didn't those beta CDs look nice?
Aces High - From whenever it started. Don't remember much about it really. Wouldn't waste your time if I was you. ;)
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Originally posted by 715
AW... on GEnie, CPID 715 ($6/hr plus $6/hr long distance phone charges to reach POP)
lol me too (CPID 2214). Not to mention that I was playing at 2400 bps from Japan... talk about warpage hehe.
-Sik
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anyone remember tfx?
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Falcon 1.0 (Spectrum Holobyte the real company before corruption that was Microprose) for MAC
nuff said...
DoctorYO
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Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe
Aces over europe
Aces of the pacific
Falcon 3
Warbirds 2.x about 1 year
AH since beta, with little breaks every now and then.
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I've only had a computer since April 1999, so my list is short:
WB
Jane's Fighter Squadron
Some other Jane's game, can't remember it now
IL-2
DOA
MS Combat Flight Simulator
Falcon 4.0
WB III
AH
AW (tried it for about two months, hated it)
Fighter Ace (what a joke)
When the upgraded DOA comes out I will probably try it out, always had fun in that setting and era............
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"Offline" sims:
Aces of the Pacific
WW2: 1946 (bring the F8F to AH! Muhahaha!)
Aces Over Europe
Aces of the Deep (oops, not a FS)
Falcon 3.0
Falcon 3.0 Operation Fighting Tiger
Strike Commander
F-15 Strike Eagle III
Fleet Defender (first game credits - Technical Advisor & photos)
Gunship 2000
Gunship 2000 Islands & Ice pack
Jump Jet
Task Force 1942 (Oops, another Naval sim)
1942: Pacific Air War
1943: European Air War (and yes, I know "Sweet Sue")
Jane's AH-64D Longbow (beta tester)
Jane's Operation Flashpoint: Korea
Jane's Longbow 2
Jane's USNF
Jane's WW2 Fighters
Falcon 4
Flanker 2
Jane's F-15 (Designer)
Jane's F/A-18 (Lead Designer)
MSCFS 1
MSCFS 2
IL-2
"Online" sims:
Air Warrior (for about "two weeks")
Confirmed Kill / Warbirds (beta .81 - 2.something)
Aces High (first public beta - current)
-Smut
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novalogic's old f22 raptor online as "jester" anyone play this one?
janesf15 online well 8 player online but it was fun
warbirds 2 as "citabr"
aces high since beta as citabria then glue then Fester
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Originally posted by hitech
Played: Jet
Played MSF 1.0
Played AW
Created WB
Created FO
Created DOA
Created AH
HiTech
HiTech,
I would have assumed that you have also at least played and tested all or most of your competitor's prop sims since you started creating your own.
0 for "Yes"
1 for "No"
01 for "Some of them"
eskimo
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Meh...
how about Sublogic FS1, Mig Alley, Spitfire Ace, and what was that really really old one where you flew a Postal Route?
BUT...
even before these...
http://maverick.brainiac.com/aoa/aoa2.html
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I was an Air Warrior, until the end. I didn't believe I could find anything else that would replace it (unless it was a Korean or Viet Nam version).
Once I finally bit the bullet and jumped in here, I'm happy to report Aces High replaces Air Warrior quite well. The fact that its owners are actually committed to its long-term survival and continuing development make it even better, IMO.
Any chance WW2 will eventually become so well developed here that HTC may consider adding Korean or Viet Nam plane sets?
culero (thinking years ahead)
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
Ah.. OK... I vaguely remember that coming around. I'd strayed from WB by then and didn't see what happened with it.
My On-Line flight sim history:
WB .94-2.0 (Beta tested 2)
Flying Circus
Some RB2/DOA
Aces High
Off-Line... memory test:
Falcon
Falcon 3.0 (plus both add-ons)
Falcon 4.0
F-19 (Microprose)
F-117 (Microprose)
F-15 Strike Eagle
Jet Fighter
Jet Fighter 2
Jet Fighter 3
Aces of the Pacific
Pacific Air War
Heroes of the 357th (one of the worst ever)
Chuck Yeager's something or other
Strike Aces
A-10 Cuba
A-10 Thunderbolt
A-10 Thunderbolt II (I think.. can't really remember)
F-18 Hornet
Jane's USNF
Jane's F-15
Jane's JSF
Jane's IAF
Jane's F/A-18 (Never installed... though Creamo has me almost talked into it)
Jane's Longbow
Jane's Longbow 2
Red Baron
Flight of the Intruder
Comanche 3
Microsoft Combat Simulator 2
WWIIOL
Remembered a few more:
On-line:
Confirmed Kill ("Beta" tester... er... "alpha" tester)
Air Warrior 2 (Very short lived)
Off-Line:
Su-27 Flanker
EF2000 (one of the better jet sims made)
F-22 Retaliator
F-22 Raptor
iF-16 (sucked)
Back to Bagdad (Revolutionary, but sucked.. saw an MFD Buzz Hoffman developed for this game)
Fligh Simulator 98
Fleet Defender
BTW Smut, the games you worked with are amongst my favorites (except F/A-18 simply because I never got around to loading it)... They just aren't WWII Sims;)
AKDejaVu
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BOB (the old one)
SWOTL
AOE
AOTP
EAW
BOB (the new one)
AW (1, 2, 3)
WB (for about 2 weeks)
AH
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Hmm....
M+M
Offline sim using 72nd scale models on wheeled stands
SWOTL
AW from GeniNet to the end
AH couple of months now
Gunns
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I first got a PC in 1993 or so, I remember playing Microprose's F117-the first sim I played. Nothing special, I thought.
Next one was "Dogfight-80 years of aerial warfare", again from Microprose. I loved that sim, I really did. It annoyed me that when I was trying to play it with difficulty level high, the enemy planes would escape me by going up vertically-talk about unrealistic :)Then I playend 1942 Pacific Air War. Gorgeous!!!!I
loved the graphics and the flight model.
And then I discovered 2 good oldies- Chuck Yeager Air Combat- I played it like crazy, even if it was outdated. Also Red Baron, which I still play sometimes when I'm bored at work, cause it's fairly realistic and easy to play on the keyboard.
The story goes on- playing Warbirds 2D offline, which, on the "Ace" difficulty level, was really hard at first. That's where I developed most of my ACM.There's too many other sims I tried-like DID-Ocean's F29-Retaliator, the precursor of TFX. I also had my first multiplayer experience in Retal, connecting with my friend thorugh the modem.
EF 2000, F22 Lightning, Raptor (played the demo online while in college), EAW, CFS,(first LAN at school) ,later through the modem with one of my friends, and finally found AH-best of the best.
I also play IL2 offline sometimes, but it's not as exciting as AH. And, for mindless fun when I don't have a joystick, Red Ace Squadron.
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F15 - Atari 800XL
Falcon AT
A10
AW DOS - Genie
AW 1, II, III
AH
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Falcon AT
F-19 Stealth Fighter
F-15 Strike Eagle
F/A-18 Hornet on Amiga
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (loved that game)
Aces of the Pacific
U.S. Navy Fighters
Janes ATF
Flight Unlimited
Warbirds
Aces High
Probably missing a bunch there that I fooled around with for a week and never got into.
Couldn't do boxed sims after Warbirds. I own IL-2, but have yet to install it.
SOB
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Amstrad CPC 464:
Harrier Attack (side scrolling effort)
Some Fairey Swordfish vs Bismarck game (it had polygons and everything)
Infiltrator (strange chopper/adventure/action game)
Commodore Amiga 500:
Wings (WW1 Cinemaware epic - superb)
B17 Flying Fortress
F29 Retaliator
Thunderhawk
Mig-29
Their Finest Hour
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
F-15 Strike Eagle
F-18 Hornet
Falcon
PC (Pentium 60 MHz >>> Pentium 166 Mhz >>> Athlon 1.2 GHz)
Offline:
A-10 Tank killer
B-17 II
SU-27 Flanker
Mig Alley
Tornado
Online:
Aces High
A weekend of WBIII
WW2OL
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I started watching my husband, Zeb, playing Air Warrior in January 1998. He had been playing for some time, but it was only then that I realised the depth of the game.... until then I had thought it was "just another Flight Sim"..... :) I started my own account in July 1998 and played right up to the end in December 2001.
Meanwhile, in April 2001, my primary squad, The Krait Squadron, officially moved to Aces High, so I was playing both for the next 7-8 months.... usually AH early in the evening, then moving to AW later on.
I have been in Aces High ever since..... I do occasionally play WW2OL, but never flown there - only used GVs or played as Infantry. :)
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My first flightsim i played was on a sinclair zx or so.
That ws really virtual the rwy was about 6 blocks in graphics.
And imposible to land on.
My first computer was a c64 i played
- FS from sublogic
- gunship
- some kind of f16 sim (wire graphics)
- some kind of spifire sim (shooting sprites)
Than i got my Amiga
- FS from sublogic
- gunship
- their finest hour
- f18 hornet (graphics where smooth)
- a10 (cuba?)
- M1 tankplatoon (not a flightsim but i loved it)
- falcon 2.0
- f117 mircoprose
- f15 microprose
probably many more i bought literly everything that could fly on my pc
my amiaga broke down and i went a few years without puter
than i got my first pc a pentium 100 with 8 mb ram
than a p 133 with 32 ram
4 mb voodoo card too 16 mb monsterfusion in my k-2 400
right now an amd 1gig with 128 mb gforce 4 (moved from gf1)
- tried FS 95 and 2000 (no fun)
- AW (btw did have that on my amiga to)
(only losers played aw i thought :D)
- F18 and F18 korea (gave a good feel)
-Fighter squardron SDOE
-falcon 4.0 (still to complicated)
- European AirWar (my first online experience) i loved this one
-B17-2 (the fighters suck)
-gunship (the latest blooper from microprose)
-CFS 2.0
-WW2 fighters
-IL 2 (i love this one since i have my gf 4 card)
playing the barbarossa campain (add on) as luftwabble right now :)
etc. etc. and offcourse AH
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Secret weapons of the luftwaffe, was the GAME back in the day!
Lucas ARts came out with a sequel a few months ago called secret weapons over normandy! Checked it out and was a big disapointment:mad: Large up to hitech creations for making AH!:aok
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What? No River Raid? :D
One time at Band camp......................... ............................. .
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Mine is rather short.
I started playing flight sims because i was screwed when entering 7th grade 2 years ago.
I have just had surgey to fix a nerve that i had cut when i stuck my hand though window (dont ask how come i did that long story), and they didn't even bother with artiery i cut. I was out at the skate park skateboarding, and i um broke my foot.................... . So out of pure feeling sorry for me my mom bought FS98 for me. I loved it and after a while i got FS200 and just last year FS2002. Well after i had spent alot of time with Vatsim for ATC stuff A TV commerical finally convienced me to Try AH. Only played 6 Hours my First Week, then second weekend when i met shane and a few other people really got me into it.
Offline:
FS2002
FS98
Fs2000
Novalogic F22 Lighting 33 <-----awesome!
Online:
FS2002 (VATSIM, Zone.com)
Fs2000 (VATSIM, Zone.com)
FS98 (Zone.com)
F22 Lighting 3 (Bomber dweeb guy).
AH (Fun! TY Hitech for making it :) )
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Aces High
Air Warrior III (Short time, Too late)
Battlefield 1942: All Packs
Fighter Ace 3.5?
Micrsoft: Combat Flight Sims 2
Micrsoft: Combat Flight Sims 3
Micrsoft: Flight Sim 2002 (I only fly F4U Corsair :D)
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (XBOX)
Targetware: Rabual
Targetware: Korea (I only fly Propeller Fighter)
Warbirds II & III (No longer on my computer, AH's better)
World War II Online (I have play free trial and love it, but can't subscribe right now)
I am not big Jets fan and I have never play any Jets games in my life. I am big fan flying Propeller fighter :D
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AW 2/3/MV and then AH, thought about warbirds, downloaded it once, one flight then uninstalled it and played AH ever since.
~S~
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Ive been through a few, but not as much as many of you all have:
Janes F-15
B17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty Eighth
Janes USNF 97
CFS 1 and 2
IAF
Mig29 Fulcrum
Comanche Gold
FS2000
Fighter Ace
Aces High
and a few more that I dont remember off the top of my head.
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Online: Since 1995
AW4W
AWII
WB1.XX
AW3D
AWMV
AH
Tried out many many others online. These are the ones I stuck with for a substantial period of time.
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The one's I've REALLY played:
BattleHawks 1942 ( Lucas Arts.. Midway/Pacific ) on Amiga ( before they called it an Amiga 1000 ) First time I ever heard AAA .. bout fell out of my chair! Also, it took me 6 months before I could fly a mission to attack US aircraft. Just didn't seem right.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe ( SWOTL ) .. Where my love for bombers was born.
Fighter Duel
Air Warrior
Aces High
Others that I've dabbled in:
Red Baron 3D
MSCFS2
Janes WW2 Aircraft
WW2OL
Notice.. no jets..lol.
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anyone ever play "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat"?
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Tried Jane's WW2 fighters couple of times.
AH about 3 years. Thanks to strong euro, it has been quite cheap lately. :D
Ofcourse I have IL2 FB but I dont like it....
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ACE II (C64!)
The immortal Chuck Yeager's air combat
Aces of the Pacific
Red Baron
Aces over Europe
Strike Commander
US Navy fighters
MS Combat Flight Sim version X
Jane's WWII fighters
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AH (first on-line)
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
My first flightsim i played was on a sinclair zx or so.
That ws really virtual the rwy was about 6 blocks in graphics.
And imposible to land on.
I think I know that game, was it night only and about landing in the dark? Anyway that was my first flightsim experience.
Then I got a C64 and played "Project Stealth", it was an early version of the later Microprose F117. It is also the first game on the C64 I would classify as a "sim".
I have no chance to list the rest.
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Any of you guys remember Flight of the Old Dog? It was
about a supertechnology B-52 that you could only fly with a
mouse, lots of onscreen switch flicking ;)
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ive fiddled with
name age
ace of aces (6 through 12)
ace 2 (12 through 14)
red baron (13 through 15)
Blue max (7 through 13)
aces high (14 to present)
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Why did this thread reappear after a year? Anyway - I remember the timex-sinclair thing - early 80's. I guess that was more of a landing sim. There was a beacon that flashed and when you got close, bars would appear (sort of like a lane on a highway).
I thnk the program length was 4kb (load it from a cassette tape) :) I also remember them landing on the moon, and that was in black and white too- OLD.
I created my first sim before personal computers in 1966. It was a race car sim. I used a phonograph turntable to make a moving road and glued Hotwheels (match box cars?) to it with the user hotwheel attached to a stick you'd wiggle to dodge the glued cars. Of course it only had 3 gears - 33 1/3, 45 and 78 :) Little did I know it was the beginning of addiction.