OT: a fair few people have played IL2 since the beginning...

[mazex]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Pah! Call this nostalgia? I've still got my first air combat sims - and the computer to play them on (Amstrad CPC 464) - from the mid 1980s:

Fighter Pilot (1985)from Digital Integration (1985). F-15 sim.
Tomahawk (1986) also from Digital Integration. AH-64 sim.

They both worked (or at least loaded) when I tried a year or so back. If I get the chance, I'll try them out again, and take some photos.

From the Fighter Pilot instruction leaflet:



No complex engine management in those days...

+1 Fighter pilot was the shit Still have my old Spectrum and fired it up some year ago and played Fighter Pilot. I think it had about 4 fps in average but with those awesome graphics people understood. Not a single wining was heard in the reviews about that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cvB6ywiFA

I remember persuading my dad spending $200 on the 32k upgrade from 16k to 48k on my spectrum to get games like this running You get a bit more memory for that cash theese days

EDIT: And no it's not me doing that crappy landing way low for most of the final approach Found it on youtube...

[Pyrres]

My first ever games were flight sims so I have so many fond memories of 90´s simulators like Wings of glory, F14 Fleet defender, 1942 Pasific airwar etc. After those it was MS Flight simulator 98 and 2000, B17 the mighty eight, F16 something and F29 Mig Fulcrum, Flight unlimited, MS Combat flight sim, the original IL2 and all the expansions until v4.09. I must have forgotten some of the sims I played, but man I had some fun with those games. Plus my dad had to burn much much money to get me the computers to run those games in the 90´s. I rememeber how it was always a new this or that to run the games properly and the cursing of the money being wasted . Thankfully now I can buy my own computers and don´t have to worry about how much money I waste on those stupid games

[Wandalen]

This was my first flight in a "computer" Blue Max on C-64
Think i lost some houers of my childhood on this game... memories.. memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EtR79G99Y

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