Flight Simulator 2.0 1986 Vintage Game

[doedante99]

i have trainz simultor its awsome

[kevini15]

fsx is better

[KnapfordMaster98]

Are you still going to make that video you advertised at the end?

[deino117]

Thanks! I think I still have "muscle memory" of the motions used to manipulate the control surfaces on the numeric keypad. I bet I could pick it up again. And I'd love to see some clips of the dogfights! I remember one of the fun things in dogfight mode was to fly outside the combat area into 'hyperspace' until you came to another identical combat area. I can remember flying past the 'wafer-thin' mountains.

Ah, good times!

[leokimvideo]

@deino117 ah yes, but back then it was as fun as the best games today, funny how you accept things to be good no mater how they are served up

[deino117]

@leokimvideo True enough. And I think people sometimes forget that play value is play value, regardless of the complexity/sophistication of the story line, graphics or underlying platform. We seem to demand constant advances in all those areas, and while I definitely love the gorgeous graphics and amazing functionality of today's flight sims when compared with the first versions that appeared, I think a good game is truly timeless. Tetris, anyone?

[AlxFitz]

@leokimvideo Todays games will be looked at as rubbish 25 years on. Not so much graphics wise but in A.I and immersion, I so reckon!

[haygoodb]

I started on 3.0, but at least we used a joystick, sometimes. As primitive as they were, you learned a lot about flight, the controls, and the instruments. If we had had a real chart, we would have understood a lot more. As it was, we just flew around looking for black lines on the green ground, and tried landing there. Still was a blast! I always hoped to fly into Meiggs one day (thanks Mayor Dailey).

[barbsldsr]

LOL! I still have the manual for this version! The old WW1 battlefield was cool.

[SeaMonkey137]

@barbsldsr Glad you brought that up. I thought I might have been hallucinating! I completely remember playing the WWI combat game on this version. I seem to recall being able to "fly over" the 2D mountains that bordered the battlefield on one side!

[mattiasspiessens]

I'm happy with FS9 now :D

FSX is to heavy but imagine flying on FS2.0 :O

[verylemon]

I spent lot of idle afternoons on that MS flight sim, thanks for sharing.

[leokimvideo]

I have never been a gamer but I always enjoyed flight sim, it is really sad the franchise has come to an end if you read the wiki page related to flight simulator.

[wbsteerfilms]

nmg

[SubscriberManTV]

Awesome!

[george7378]

It's lovely to look at the old flight simulator - my first one was FS98, and I now have FSX Standard. There is such a large difference!

[leokimvideo]

Anyone who attempted to fly this early version will hopefully remember it was really difficult to land the aircraft, that seemed to be the main challenge of the game.

Todays flight sims are really easy to fly, even with the settings set to difficult.

My first home version was FS95, and I really enjoyed the level of detail it had, even it looks basic compared to FSX

[adamdwadw]

Awesome! I guess I had no clue how old this is.

[eyerobic]

Absolutely!

I ran MSFS-4 on a 68k OS 7.5 Mac ll in 1994 or so. Still runs on my OS 9 machines, too fast perhaps? Learned everything I need to know about aspect ratio, power to weight ratio and wing dihedral in aircraft design, thanks to MSFS-4.

Somehow, flying figure-8's around the World Trade Towers doesn't have the same appeal as it once did.

[birdy1052]

so it came out in 1986

[leokimvideo]

This video was shot 1986, the version you see here was released 1983, also links in more info area. 1982 Flight Simulator 1.0 1983 Flight Simulator 2.0 1988 Flight Simulator 3.0 1989 Flight Simulator 4.0 1993 Flight Simulator 5.0 1995 Flight Simulator 5.1 1996 Flight Simulator 95 1997 Flight Simulator 98 1999 Flight Simulator 2000 2001 Flight Simulator 2002 2003 Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight 2006 Flight Simulator X

[andreas1794]

@leokimvideo 2011 Microsoft Flight

[1776vtgmb]

As a flight instructor, I can teel you that a sim is harder to fly than the real thing. The lack of physical feedback, i.e., seat of the pants, is a key problem.

The pilots now flying the global hawk and other remote war machines crash all the time... another big problem is the straight-ahead only view that has to be toggled to look around. This is completely unlike a real aircraft. In a sim you KNOW you can't hurt yourself... in a real plane, it's pucker time every time you leave the ground!

[FS2004ACoF]

This sim has 8 view directions and pan down/up as well.

[markapsolon]

I remember that! it was only on PC. I have a commodore :)

[LightningLineFilms]

I thought flight sim 95 was primitive

[kromme]

Wow, this is old school!

[powerbook1]

O man the good old days...I also remember playing that...and as a matter of fact who can forget the cracked up cockpit window :lol:

[ryanthescooterguy]

Flight Simulator '95 was the first flight simulator I used! And I imitated the 9/11 Attacks!

[D9magestic]

I spent thousands of hours at the helm of this sim. Years later after getting a pilots license then letting it laps due to costs I am back in front of the sim again.

[TutorialThis]

i played this on dos box

[leokimvideo]

Watch out, this video will reveal your age and nerd appeal.

I have a soft spot for gamers I have to admit, sure some say flight sim is not a game, in it's primitive form it was extremely difficult to master, surely this is what gaming is all about.

[TutorialThis]

i play fsx and this just classic. very fun game that is all a computer can produce back then. just hash lines fs1 did not have any color at all fs95 became a little more real looking compared to its predecessor.

[yankeesfan135]

i sware to god i have FS2

[leokimvideo]

look after it, surely it is a collectors item, give it a go and get ready for the challenge of your life.

[yankeesfan135]

it didnt know! i just had it ina sleeve but now i have it in a case and on a shelf

[tround88]

w0w.. 1986 ^^

flight sim has come a long way

great vid 5*

[countoreilly]

i still have a atari2600 can't even give it away

[BasicModelling]

I miss the old style games.. :)

[simierski]

Retro gaming is fantastic...I wish I'd recorded some of my Sonic 2 sessions for posterity...

[leokimvideo]

What is sicko about this video it was edited down from over 1 hour of footage, there was a time when I literally shot anything, this will very soon expose the McDonalds Big Mac to be what some call today the Tiny Mac.

This will be a killer tube video, I have to make sure all my facts are correct or I will end up in court.

[flyboy172r]

Lol I would take landing a real 172 than trying to trying to land that sim any day of the week - It would be infinitely easier.

[leokimvideo]

The big issue with this sim was it required so many keyboard inputs to keep flying, as soon as you pulled your eyes away the plane was going stupid, there was also a lag between inputs and actual changes on screen, there was never a time to rest.

[flyboy172r]

I have a game from 1993 (If I remember correctly) - for Macintosh, called "Falcon MC" which was a F16 combat flight simulator. It was nothing like this one, amazing quality and graphics. Though not as bad, it still had the lag issue and the keyboard control issue, but it was much better. Even had dog fighting capabilities.

[SpeedloadHD]

coool the good old times

[getgad777]

looking goood can't wait!

[leokimvideo]

There is a treat in this video for my train fans, something very special.

[RustyBinProductions]

There was another awesome Flight Sim of the same era called "F-19 Stealth Fighter"... this was in colour too, and on the Amstrad I was running it on at least, ran far smoother than that MS FS!

[lucaslikesthomas]

Cool!