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

[sg1221]

I played Air Warrior online back in the 90s

sg

[Sauf]

Originally Posted by sg1221

I played Air Warrior online back in the 90s

sg

LOL "back" in the 90's! young whipper snapper

[15JG52_Brauer]

I played airwarrior way back on a tinpot modem - but I think you are refering to European Air War - which was great fun - started playing that just before I graduated to IL2 - I was in JZG back then and remember the good old days of IL2 FB VEF,VWF(I think that was it - JZG Kaiser was #1 ranked pilot there and had a bounty on his head - but an ai got him in the end lol).

[BadAim]

I only bought my first computer in 1998, so I started with CFS1 (it was the first game I bought) EAW, then CFS2 followed, but when IL2 came along I never looked back (as far as Flight sims go).

[doghous3]

I think my earliest fond memory of flight 'sims' was "Gunship".. on the ZX Spectrum. lol

I remember ace of aces too, my mate had it on a Vic20.

How things change.

[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

[mcler002]

Originally Posted by sg1221

I played Air Warrior online back in the 90s

sg

Thats the one!

I had 2 and 3... i dont recall how we got them, i think they was part of a package when we had our first "family" pc back in the 90's...

We also got a USAF game too... was awesome!

link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Warrior

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/?_nkw=A...Air+Warrior+II - I hope i still have my copies somewhere now!!! lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh1JdNt0uwA

- BEST GAME INTRO EVER!

[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?