Anyone remember the old flying video game classics...... like
. Yeagers Air Combat
F-15 Eagle
that F-14 Tomcat game at the arcade......
The orginal flight sim where you flew thru the rings
And you can't forget 1942! best ever
I bet alot of us have more hours logged on video game planes then we do in real life.....
My favorite was . Yeagers Air Combat. Tried to find it somewhere. Hard to find old DOS games.
Anyway ...... the replies should be interesting
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I was one of those lucky kids who bypassed the clumsy monochrome and EGA graphics of the first PCs and got into the realm of the Commodore Amiga.
Boasting 8 bit and 16 bit graphics it was eye popping candy bliss in the late 80s that was for the most part unchallenged by other platforms. With a base of 512K (that's right Kilobytes) of RAM and upgradable to 1 Megabyte, it brought the computer gaming level to new heights.
My eyes and ears boggled at my first exposure to Flight Simulator. When I first heard the Cessna and Learjet on takeoff off of Oakland's runway, I marvelled at the scrolling centreline markings and felt myself press back in my imitation leather office chair as the engines spooled up in "pure digital sound" and brakes released. Love at first flight.
Combat sims and games also made it to this platform and offered many hours of frustration in trying to get to the next mission. As the PC progressed and the SoundBlaster was invented, the Amiga faded away to obsolescence and obscurity. I've been on PCs ever since.
Memorable first flight games included:
Jet - By SubLogic
Flight Simulator - Also by SubLogig
F/A - 18 Interceptor - Electronic Arts
Falcon
Wings - Cinemaware
ATP - some kind of 747 sim
I remember being a mall rat in junior high school and returning shopping carts for quarters to go play 1942 at the arcade. What are games at the arcade now? A twonie?
I was always a big fan of Top Gun on the Nintendo, and no nothing "super" just plan Nintendo. Pilot Wings on the Super NES was fun too, got to fly a jet pack!!!
One other aviation game I played a few years ago is Aerobiz (and its sequel Aerobiz Supersonic) on the Super Nintendo. The music and the interface could have been a bit better, but I blame most of the latter on the fact its a console.
1942 was a gooder for sure, but in my opinion, the all-time best video game was JF3 (Jet Fighter 3), you were a carrier based naval pilot, you had the option to fly either the F-18, F-22 or the F-14(F14 only if you had the enhanced cd version too). You got to fight Cubans, Argentinaens and even the good'ol commies trying to take back Alaska.
I still have the cds, but newer pc's won't run the game properly (runs in DOS)
The Original Microsoft Flight Simulator (Meigs field, rnwy 36)
Wing Commander (Original)
Need for Speed
Tie Fighter
Falcon 3.0 (it was hard to run, my comp was too slow)
Duke Nukem
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
The Secret of Monkey island (that one was funny)
I remember when I had a IBM PS/2 that had a 086 doing 8mhz w/ 640k ram and no hard drive. Flight sim (the original one) was a big thing then. I think I’ve had every version of that game so far.
My first computer had windows 2.0 that we never used because it was too slow. You got good at using DOS. When the 286 and 386 came around we were booting our games with fancy boot disks. Now, my camera has more computing power than that computer. Who thought 10 years ago that an Ipod would be able to hold 60gigs of stuff. Now I play flight sim 2004 off my notebook on an airliner while I’m surfing the net and I’m not that old.
I remember an Apache chopper game I had on my 486 but don't recall the name. Also, A-10 Cuba was great just for the sheer variety of crap that you could drop on the bad guys.
I remember playing SubLogic Flight Simulator (the original-- black and white lines, not the coloured thingie that was SubLogic Flight Simulator II).
Was that the one where there was only one airport, and if you took off and flew straight ahead you would end up back at the airport lined up on final. Things have come a long way
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I can still go in my basement and plug in the ol' Apple II+ (5.25" drive and 48K of ram!) and fire up either of Bruce Artwick's fine pieces of software - Sublogic Flight Sim I and II.
Another great one in monochrome green was the original Castle Wolfenstein.
They sure new how to program back then - so many features for so little code.
