Microsoft announces Flight Simulator X

[Fly Navy]

Microsoft announces Flight Simulator X (10). Check out these tasty screenshots. It's sick. Pure sick.

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/notams06/fsx0104.htm

(Click on the pictures to enlarge)

 

[Fly Navy]

Why is it that I can't stop buying each new edition? They've come a long way from their original that came out when, 94?

Before that actually. subLOGIC released Flight Simulator 1 for the Apple II in 1979. In 1982, a version was made for the IBM PC licensed to Microsoft, called Flight Simulator 1.01. I started with Flight Simulator 4.0, which was made in 1989. I loved that program, its polygon graphics... brilliant. The current Flight Simulator 2004 is version 9.1. It's come a long LONG way.

Flight Simulator 1

Flight Simulator 4.0 (my first)

 

[Fly Navy]

Have you ever played this game where you are an astronaut? It was on some 80's system and I remember as a kid having to preflight and put in course trajectories etc etc. You were supposed to reach the moon and come back, but I never made it that far, but what can you expect from a kid thats button mashing.

Haha no, but I did have Microsoft Space Simulator. Man that was tough to learn.

 

[puck_11]

Before that actually. subLOGIC released Flight Simulator 1 for the Apple II in 1979. In 1982, a version was made for the IBM PC licensed to Microsoft, called Flight Simulator 1.01. I started with Flight Simulator 4.0, which was made in 1989. I loved that program, its polygon graphics... brilliant. The current Flight Simulator 2004 is version 9.1. It's come a long LONG way.

HAHA I had microsoft 1.01 back in the days of our first computer, I think I was around 4 at the time. Amazing that it all fit on one floppy disk. I'm pretty sure it had a pretty heavy influence on my drive towards flying. Then did the 4.0 thing (4 floppy disks I think), and while I was at UND they gave us a copy of 2002 (3 CDs). Never played 2002 though because the laptops we were required to lease didn't have the horsepower to run it at a decent rate

That new version looks pretty amazing though. Looks like it'll take some serious hardware to run it.

 

[Fly Navy]

That new version looks pretty amazing though. Looks like it'll take some serious hardware to run it.

Yeah, if you want it to look like the screenshots, it'll definitely take a serious machine. I've owned every copy of Flight Simulator since version 4.0 to 2004. It's a sickness.

 

[DanMa1156]

My latest version is 98. I know, it's a shame. A scadal even. From the screenshots it looks sick nasty. Did I just cream my pants?

O crap, gotta go.

 

[Pags]

sweet, now when i get nostalgic for flying the jet ranger, i can do it on my computer.

 

[gaijin6423]

Am I the only one who noticed the gay-pride-purple painted jet ranger in the pictures? I mean, I know it's a dinky little thing, but come on.

 

[Godspeed]

Chuck Norris plays MS FS.

 

[Godspeed]

man, busier than a one legged butt kicker.. Wrapping up college... checking the site from time to time... great to see the regulars are still alive and kickin!

 

[Riper Snifle]

The review is in on Microsoft Flight Simulator X

 

[Lonestar155]

I was using MSFS ever since I was 10. Im a pro now haha. Did anyone ever play Fleet Defender or Hornet. Thats too bad software designers no longer create very many military flight simulator games.

 

[Lawman]

I was using MSFS ever since I was 10. Im a pro now haha. Did anyone ever play Fleet Defender or Hornet. Thats too bad software designers no longer create very many military flight simulator games.

Combat Sims pretty much killed themselves. It was the whole demand for more and more realism. They added Inflight Refueling, realistic flight dynamics (including spin and departures), and a whole bunch of switches and what not that a lot of people didnt want to have to memorize just to play a video game and blow something up. I remember when I first started playing Janes F-15E, I probably spent a good week just flying over practice bombing ranges learning how to implement all the weapons on the plane and not crash into the ground doing it. I dont have that kind of patients or free time anymore. Now I stick with the space combat sims, where all I need to know is wheres the throttle, how do I select bad guys, and how do I dump energy from shields to weapons and vice versa.

 

[Lonestar155]

Well to this date the most realistic game is Falcon 4.0. It has everything! You can even do a full ramp start up. All sorts of missions such as CAS, sead strikes/escorts/recon. You name it. Check it out.

 

[Brett327]

Well to this date the most realistic game is Falcon 4.0. It has everything! You can even do a full ramp start up. All sorts of missions such as CAS, sead strikes/escorts/recon. You name it. Check it out.

Oh boy! Ground ops!

Brett