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

[adonys]

I've also played Air Warrior Online back then, together with all the rest of them (AoP, AoE, 1942 PaW, Pacific Fighters, SWOTL, B-17 and B-17 2, Red Baron, EaW, Jane's WWII Fighters, Warbirds, CFS 1 and so on). Oh.. the memories

[bw_wolverine]

I started my combat flight gaming with the little add in combat option in MS Flight Simulator 4.0. Enemy planes were little more than sticks and the ground was a large flat grid surrounded on all sides by two dimensional cut out triangular walls (mountains?).

That was certainly a labour of imagination.

[b101uk]

Apart from my 48k ZX spectrum days PC’s were only used for work until Dec 98 when I thought I would get a gaming PC for my self, my first PC game was MicroProse Falcon 4.0 which I still have along with its box and big thick manual, ironically I still judge games of the same ilk by this benchmark, it was hotly followed by Longbow 2 & Flight Unlimited III, MS CFS, etc

Coincidentally I was the 1st person to get working 3rd party bombs and missiles and ejector racks etc into CFS 2, I still have the Tallboy, Grand slam, block buster, Upkeep, highball and fat man bomb along with the more modern mk8#'s

[bounty]

Was that the one circa '95-'96 that was, (for a year or so), free to play if you used AOL service provider?

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Chuck Yeager Air Combat. That was... awesome, really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnUtoh-u4gA

[ATAG_Dutch]

Pilotwings for the SNES, absolutely pants.

'Are you ready to earn your wings at the most exclusive flight school in the world? Then report immediately to the secret Pilotwings Flight Club, where your training begins. The realism is incredible as your Super Nintendo takes you airborne with multi-dimensional graphics, endless skylines and the freedom to fly wherever you like. Do you have what it takes to earn your wings? Then get going! You're late for your first class!'

I did manage to finish it though, after at least 1000 attempts at the helicopter strike.

Embarassingly, I've still got all that SNES stuff, all in perfect condition. Maybe I should go on 'Antiques Roadshow'.

[leggit]

Tomahawk: helicopter gunship sim on the ZX81 or the spectrum....many hours playing that...I remember Gunship from Microprose as well particually the 45 min loading time...happy days

[grayson1337]

Wings of Fury for Amiga 500
best flight-"sim" ever ^^

[Devastator]

Spitfire ´40 Commodore 64 is the first flightsim I bought in 1985.
Much has changed since then lol.

[Echo76]

Lol I remember Spitfire 40, it was kinda awful

This was my favorite, CEM and everything!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i-33...eature=related