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I realized I was becoming too old when I started to find women over 40 attractive :)

 

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... Look what I found. Floppies with some of my first flight sims: Aces Over Europe and 1942.

 

 

You are not alone ... I still have a lot of my old flight sims, this is one of the oldest (circa 1992):

 

 

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:( yeahh .. I'm old too

 

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I played Aces Over Europe and Aces of the Pacific, too =) I think my first was F117 Stealth Fighter. But AotP and AoE were the first big ones. Janes US Navy Fighters was the next one after that. Was just a wee fellow back then but it was the beginning of the end... Of my wallet.Oh and Thunderhawk. Can't forget those big black floppies

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Today I’m helping my mom repaint my old room I grew up in. Look what I found. Floppies with some of my first flight sims: Aces Over Europe and 1942. I couldn’t have imagined something like DCS back then, not in my wildest dreams....:)
Hey, at least they aren't 5 and a quarters. :)
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Hey, at least they aren't 5 and a quarters. :)

 

:)Yep if you' got a lot of those ole original floppies(5 1/4") then you are getting on.I used to love the sound the drive would make , loading those disks.:clap_2:

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When I was a kid, I used to play F-14 Tomcat on the Commodore 64 with my dad. One of us would fly, the other one would control the keyboard.

 

I recently told him that after 30 years, we are finally going to have a proper simulation of the Tomcat soon! :thumbup:

 

Here's a video of the C64 version, but it doesn't show the sim part unfortunately:

 

And this is DOS version, which was brought out later and looked better:

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I had a Vic20 without any flight sims for my first PC but you can bet I spent a load of hours of the good old Tandy 1000HX playing F-15 Strike Eagle, F-19, and A-10 Tank Killer.

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When I was a kid, I used to play F-14 Tomcat on the Commodore 64 with my dad. One of us would fly, the other one would control the keyboard.

 

I recently told him that after 30 years, we are finally going to have a proper simulation of the Tomcat soon! :thumbup:

 

Here's a video of the C64 version, but it doesn't show the sim part unfortunately:

 

And this is DOS version, which was brought out later and looked better:

 

Used to play that too with the guy next door. Veeeery oldschool.

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I grew up on the Ti994/a in Jr. High and moved up to a used apple II+ with 5 1/4" floppies in high school. 3 1/2" floppies didn't come out for awhile. But I always remember my friends dads TRS-80 II with 8 inch floppy.

 

I envied those floppies. Never did get one.

 

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Of course my first flight sim was from SubLogic.

 


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You missed out in your 20s then!!!

You'll feel old when some hottie that your thinking obscene thoughts about at a bar calls you sir when you try to talk to her.

 

:D ... yeah, I’ve been there already :) its a good thing that I now prefer women over 40, they are now one of the great pleasures in life (DCS being the other).

 

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I grew up on the Ti994/a in Jr. High and moved up to a used apple II+ with 5 1/4" floppies in high school. 3 1/2" floppies didn't come out for awhile. But I always remember my friends dads TRS-80 II with 8 inch floppy.

 

I envied those floppies. Never did get one.

 

 

Of course my first flight sim was from SubLogic.

 

 

My first flight sim was by Sublogic as well, I see you had the fancy color one. My TRS-80 Model 1 only had green screen. Had to load the program from a tape drive (Floppies were to high tech and expensive.) Whopping 16k of ram in that puppy and still had loads of fun!

 

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My first flight sim was by Sublogic as well, I see you had the fancy color one. My TRS-80 Model 1 only had green screen. Had to load the program from a tape drive (Floppies were to high tech and expensive.) Whopping 16k of ram in that puppy and still had loads of fun!

 

:joystick:

 

Naaa... I had the green monitor as well, that's not my video. I just threw it up there for nostalgia. Though I did have the apple II floppy drives by then. Though on the Ti994/a I was stuck with cassettes.

 

Nice to see so many that started out in its infancy. I was just watching the ZX Spectrum flight sim and was cracking up that its was more advanced than sublogic yet not. We had such big imaginations back then to fill in the void. :)

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My first flight sim was LHX Attack Chopper (1990)

 

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The Irony in all of that is that I am not so fond of choppers today :D

 

Then I played F22 Lighning 3

 

I remember looking at Flanker (some version) but my PC could not handle it so I never played any Flanker game before LOMAC


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Where does the line form? :D

 

Looks like it may get long.........

 

Dam, I played every single one of these.......:cry:

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The original F-15 Strike Eagle on the Atari 800 was my first!

 

Bombing triangles on the ground was never so fun. :joystick:

I would play that at my grandma's every time I would visit. Come to think of it, maybe I should have played bridge with her instead.
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