My path was different to yours.
Not just WW2 for the first difference.
I started on the Atari ST for the second difference.
First there was Anco's Jump Jet. It was so horrible I formatted the floppy it came on. I've often wished I hadn't, just so I had a benchmark of how horrible a horrible flight sim could be.
Then there was Falcon. Which was difficult, but good.
Then F16 Combat Pilot.
Somewhere in between the start of Falcon and the end of F16 combat pilot somebody bought me a game called something like "Snowflight" as a gift, it turned out not to be interesting to me, it was about flying an F14 with strange looking tailfins to shoot up cocaine fields.
Domark's MiG 29 (somebody else also made a MiG 29 on the ST, I don't know anything about that, the one I had was the Domark one). It ran terribly if you ran it from floppy disk, because it accessed the disk all the time. So, I installed it on a ram disk, and ran it from there with the floppy in the disk drive for the copy protection routine to find. Then it flew very nicely. I was very fond of that simulation.
The colour monitor I bought for my ST died, then I bought a monochrome monitor, and didn't use my ST so much for games anymore.
Later, I bought a second hand PC, and played Fighting Falcon F16, it wasn't great but it was a lot better than not "flying".
Then, I got MS CFS, and flew that for quite a long time. Then came MS CFS two, and I flew that for a long time too.
Then came IL*2.
Then MS CFS three, and against IL*2 (or maybe by that time it was Forgotten Battles? or Pacific Fighters?) CFS three just wasn't competitive, in my eyes.
There was a long time I spent looking for the Aces Expansion Pack, and not finding it, then eventually the all in one pack came out, and fairly quickly after that, 1946.
Then there was a fairly long wait for Storm of War: Battle of Britain, which eventually arrived as Cliffs of Dover.
I'm probably going to fly more 1946 than CloD in the coming weeks.
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