Flight Simulator 2.0 1986 Vintage Game

A short video illustrating the use of a very early version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
As simple as it was it was a challenge to fly.

Web Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Simulator

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• flight
• simulator
• good game
• microsoft
• 1986
• vintage
• game
• 3D
• graphics
• flight sim
• computer
• history
• boeing
• airport
• airplane
• landing
• plane

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[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?

[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!

[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?

[andreas1794]

@leokimvideo 2011 Microsoft Flight

[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!

[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).