"mikeg"
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Re: If you're a simmer over 30, read this!!!
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Well, not to play too much one upism, my first "flight" sim was lunar
landing. All text and was played on a 150WPM KSR (That's Words Per Minute
and Keyboard Send and Receive teletype), Also played Wampus. A text
"adventure" game.
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Mike Glennon
Heirloom Woods
Weymouth Ma.
www.heirloom-woods.net
mikeg@heirloom-woods.net
"Ches" <frank.allen@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:fO%ma.23325$lF1.173694135@news-text.cableinet.net...
> Just to prove how ancient I am...
>
> First flight sim, name forgotten, Dragon 32 computer. A cockpit' sort of
and
> deep, deep dark outside except for he runway lights, if you could find
them
> again after take off ;-)))
>
> Later followed by a BBC B with a flight sim with wire graphics and the
world
> consisting of 9 areas - but they did join up.
>
> Ches
>
> Phil Ng." <ppnguyen01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ba770f5e.0304151355.d6066d@posting.google.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm over 30 and still enjoy gaming. Any way, first flight
> > combat sim was F-15 Strike Eagle on the C64, Aces, Ace of Aces
> > and the best one was F19 Stealth Fighter. My first few flight
> > combat sim on the PC was F-177A Stealth Fighter, JetFighter
> > series. I have most of the current jet flight combat and
> > helicopter sim. But I find myself spending less and less time
> > playing those sim (most of them I have not even installed yet.
> > Ex: F4) because I don't find most of them FUN any more but
> > instead more like work. True, that some of you guy probably
> > want the sim to be as realistic as possible but to remember
> > 10 or more key presses just to get a radar lock is no fun.
> >
> > The most fun I have with PC flight combat sim was with the Longbow
> > series and JetFighter series. Jetfighter series was kind of
> > light-sim but it was also fun to play.
> >
> > Just my 2c.
> >
> >
> >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "Jim Lascola" <jimlascola@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:4db3c04.0304141621.4b147773@posting.google.com...
> > > > > > > and seeing just how far we've come! Happy retro-simming!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Talk about Retro the Very First flight Sim I Ever touched was
F29
> > > > > > Retaliator.
> > > > > > Flew it with a Mouse systems TrackBall ;)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Some names from the past
> > > > > > F29 Retaliator.
> > > > > > Chuck Yeagers Air Combat
> > > > > > Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (Heard a Vicious Rumor there is
a
> Part
> > > > > > 2 in the works anyone hear this?)
> > > > > > F117A stealth
> > > > > > F16 Strike Eagle III Great Modem Fun
> > > > > > And then the King Was Born the Falcon Series..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ohh well enough of my Rantings
> > > > > > Jim
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
>
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