What was your first combat flight sim?

[SShrike 43]

Where did it all start for you?

This was my first exposure to a combat flight game!

L

 

Edited February 20 by SShrike

[RedKestrel 967]

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. I flew the hurricane and the Jug a lot.

 

[Vig 125]

[II./JG77_motoadve 756]

Red Baron 1997

 

[Gordon200 271]

Jane's WWII Fighters where I first fell in love with the Fw190.

 

 

[gad11 9]

Strike Commander

 

 

 

[gn728 71]

Bought the 486 - paid $400 xtra to go from a 14" monitor to a 17". Installed Chuck Yeager's AC, Aces of The Pacific, and B17 Flying Fortress all at the same time. Boot Disk?! WTF is that....🤔...

[Stryker07 13]

Technically Falcon AT was my first, but the first one I really got into and played extensively was Aces over Europe and Aces of the Pacific. Been waiting for a proper successor to the second one still to this day...

[Feathered_IV 5134]

Secret weapons of the luftwaffe was where I got hooked.  My sisters boyfriend introduced me to it one day when I went to visit them.  It was a revelation.  In the weeks that followed I found every excuse under the sun to drop in so I could give it another go.  When they broke up I was devastated...  

[oilman 9]

I think Janes. Followed by MCFS then into Sturmavik. The latter I still fly a lot (the original) and every now and then the older ones. 

[Voidhunger 450]

For me it was ACE and ACE2 on Commodore +4

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_(video_game)

 

and Their finest hour: Battle of Britain on my first pc.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Finest_Hour_(video_game)

Edited February 20 by Voidhunger

[ROTER_BART 16]

Jet by subLOGIC for MS-DOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_(video_game)

 

[Voidhunger 450]

Ahh memories... EMS,XMS,MSDOS,VGA monitor, first soundblaster ...

[BP_Lizard 115]

MS Combat Flight Sim I in 1998.

[Zoltann 48]

F/A 18 Interceptor for Amiga, 1988...

 

I got the Amiga from my grandparents in the day as a gift to help typing and printing my scrips at the Dutch Royal Militairy Academy, instead of handwriting or typing, as was required by an "innovative" professor...

 

Then found some more use of the machine 🤪

 

Landing on the carrier with full burner on was great fun, so were the missions:

 

• 3.11. Visual Confirmation Mission
• 3.22. Emergency Defense Operation
• 3.33. Intercept Stolen Aircraft
• 3.44. Search and Rescue Operation
• 3.55. Intercept Incoming Cruise Missile
• 3.66. Carrier Sub Mission

 

The game was absolutely awesome and powerful in the day!

 

Ah... the memories...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 20 by Zoltann

[6./ZG26_Custard 1106]

Aviator by acornsoft, 1983. Created by Geoff Crammond . He was responsible for such classics as stunt car racer and the Grand Prix series. It was a spitfire simulator where you have to shoot down aliens. Ah those heady early days.

[Ehret 436]

There was also Fighter Pilot but I liked this more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBn8d-_C2Mc

 

Sci-Fi but so what? Graphics and game-play were well beyond what would be expected from 8bit machine; excellent (for the era) frame-rates too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZ-chrOgGg

 

Sci-Fi and 3rd perspective but fast and dynamic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9jccDxFCwc

[Hanu 89]

Project Stealth Fighter on Commodore 64. It was almost the first game I ever bought, but the retailer was out of stock, so I had to buy Red Storm Rising instead. (Which was great also). Of course there was Gunship also, but it was not air combat so much.

 

Honorable mention goes to Battlehawks 1942, which forced me (read: my parents) to buy Amiga 500.

[OG_Rosco 19]

Gunship!  by Microprose on my  trusty "Bread-bin" C64. I spent more hours on it than any other game back in the day. I don't know what I loved more, the simulator or the manual.  

Next one was F-19 Stealth Fighter, on PC.

Third one was the original Red Baron by Dynamix, also on PC.

[ACG_Herne 807]

I can't honestly remember, think i might have early onset "oldtimers" lol

[Hoots 132]

36 minutes ago, 6./ZG26_Custard said:

Aviator by acornsoft, 1983. Created by Geoff Crammond . He was responsible for such classics as stunt car racer and the Grand Prix series. It was a spitfire simulator where you have to shoot down aliens. Ah those heady early days.

Yep, I’m with custard here, this was my first too. God I feel old. 

[CrazyDuck 416]

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat! Had quite a span - 6 flyables from WW2 (P-51 and Fw 190) over Korea (F-86, MiG-15) to Vietnam (MiG-21, F-4).

 

 

Nailing a 190 in a Mustang:

 

 

 

Edited February 20 by CrazyDuck

[EAF_Ribbon 432]

Red Baron first, original il2 second!

[Blooddawn1942 459]

Ace of Aces on the C-64 followed by all the good stuff from Microprose on the Amiga. 

[MarderIV 27]

Red Baron 3D. 

 

Too young to understand what was going on. But young enough to understand that a rocket to a Handley Page was heavenly.

[ZachariasX 1336]

2 hours ago, ROTER_BART said:

Jet by subLOGIC for MS-DOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_(video_game)

 

 

Also Jet for me.

[Big_Al_the_Allo 258]

I think the first thing was Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 and later 2 😄 After that the old Il-2 Series

[E69_Chipi 53]

 

And after that many more... C64, Amiga and PC. You name it, I've probably played it

Edited February 20 by E69_Chipi

[II./JG1_EmerlistDavjack 80]

Aces of the Pacific by Dynamix, 1992.   My true love was Red Baron 3d.  Last time I played that was ~2011.

 

All the Dynamix stuff was solid gold IMO. 

 

 

Edited February 20 by II./JG1_EmerlistDavjack

[senseispcc 209]

Lucasfilm, 1942 Battlehawks 1988 on a Amstrad 286 20mb hdd  1mb memory. vga display.

 

 

[Semor76 338]

Loooong time ago...."Fighter Bomber" 1989 by Vector Grafix. For Amiga 500.

 

 

[ACG_Woop 108]

Red Baron 2 was my first flight game! What a game that was.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLnZJ30JAc

Edited February 20 by ACG_Woop

[[N.O.G.F]Leon_Portier 170]

This but the DVD version.

[[_FLAPS_]Diggun 551]

Flying Corps Gold

 

Or X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter....

 

Of course, the first flight game was the old DOS classsic Sopwith...

Edited February 20 by Diggun

[-=-THERION 532]

7 hours ago, SShrike said:

Where did it all start for you?

This was my first exposure to a combat flight game!

 

This was my very first one too! Bought it with a Gravis joystick:

 

 

God, are we spoiled nowadays! And does anybody remember the fiddling time to free up some high memory? Himem.sys etc. just to load the drivers in the correct

order to avoid wasting some precious upper memory? We are talking about KB here! Additional RAM was nearly unaffordable then back in time.

[Dogbert1953 160]

Il-2 Sturmovil1946 & Cliffs Of Dover. 

 

Both bought on the same day February 2017.

 

Mike.

[56RAF_Roblex 797]

7 hours ago, Vig said:

 

Same if we are talking Online Combat Flight Sims.  Wire frame graphics over a slow modem 🙂 

 

The first flight sim in a combat aircraft was either Harrier or Spitfire on a BBC Micro.  I also have fond memories of A10 Tank Killer and the repeating music is still stuck in my brain 30 years later 🙂  

 

The first career based historical re-enactment style game was 1942: Pacific Air War.   I liked that one.  

 

The progression to IL2-GB was a few years in Dawn Of Aces/ Warbirds, a few years in Aces High,  a few years in IL2 1946,  a few years in Cliffs Of Dover,  six months in DCS then a couple of years so far in IL2-GB

 

Edited February 20 by 56RAF_Roblex

[BlitzPig_EL 1866]

CFS2.  Played it for a couple weeks then binned it as it was complete rubbish.  Online was overrun with cheats and hax0rs.  It was awful.

[56RAF_Roblex 797]

3 minutes ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

CFS2.  Played it for a couple weeks then binned it as it was complete rubbish.  Online was overrun with cheats and hax0rs.  It was awful.

 

Same here.  I found it full of people flying 800mph P51s with Tank armour and 88mm cannons 🙂

[=VARP=Tvrdi 277]

LHX Attack chopper on pentium 286 back in the early 90s....and the first with planes was I think Red Baron..

 

 

 

 

Gosh, we are old farts...

Edited February 20 by blackram