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Flight Sim Age Fun!

I am still flying on flight Sims at the age of.....

  • 5-25

    Votes: 21 13.5%

  • 25-35

    Votes: 15 9.7%

  • 35-45

    Votes: 31 20.0%

  • 45-55

    Votes: 38 24.5%

  • 55-65

    Votes: 30 19.4%

  • 65-75

    Votes: 16 10.3%

  • 75 and above

    Votes: 4 2.6%
  • Total voters
    155
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SirBenn21

Charter Member
Hi All

Just out of curiosity and a bit of fun, I thought I would start this thead.
What made me think of doing this is my father in-law who thinks I'm to OLD to play "computer games". :icon_lol:

I know you can see most of the ages under the members names, but I thought I would run a poll none the less.

I started Flight sims, if you could call them that at the time when I got my ZX Spectrum in 1984 at the age of 12

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I'm 37 now, which means I've been playing Flight Sims for 25 Years!

WOW! Has it been that long! :icon_lol:

Anyway please vote in the poll.

Ben
 
MSFS, IBM PCjr, 1984, 14 years old. :ernae:

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And their out of the gate and leading the pack are the 45 to 55 year old kids, whoooohooooo!!!!
 
I don't remember when I started doing this but it was in FS Version 2 on an 8087(?), pre-80286, on a forty pound arm stretcher Sanyo "portable" with a 7 inch screen.

Glenn
 
I had a wire frame sim on my Apple ][ (can't remember the name.) I got an 80286 in '89 and bought MSFS4 at the same time. So, 20 years with MSFS.
 
Fighting Biplanes on intelivision in '78(?) Came back for FS 2002in '03.
 
Right on the cusp at 55...it's the baby boomer bracket, there are more so there will be more!
SirBenn, I only started flightsimming around your age, there may be a bit left for you yet!
20 years on and I couldn't resist updating the chronology, posted some time back, in anger...:)

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Thank heavens FSXI did not materialise on schedule!
 
I'm 35 years old.

I had some very basic flight simulator on my Texas Instruments 99/4A circa 1982. I don't recall what it was called. I remember when you wanted to land, you pressed a key (probably L) and heading would pop up on the screen for where the airport was. You turned to that heading and voila, there was a runway right in front of you, and you were lined up straight for a perfect landing. There was also a combat mode, you pressed a key (probably C) and again a heading would pop up, you turned to that heading and there was little bi-plane lined up perfectly in you sights, regardless of your altitude. One quick pull of the trigger and it would blow up. He wouldn't shoot back and he wouldn't try to avade.

I'm not sure I would call that a "sim" exactly.

In 1985ish, at age 11ish I upgraded to the Commodore 64 and Sublogic Flight Simulator. There was also a stealth fighter simulator on the Commie that I spent much more time with than the civilian Flight Sim.

I also played a game called Thunder Chopper on the Commodore which was a brilliant sim of a Hughes 500 - brilliant for 64k and three colors anyway.

As for the too old for games thing...

Sometimes my girlfriend will call and say ask what I'm doing, I reply that I'm not doing anything.

"Playing your airplane game?"

I want to scream "It's not a game!" and stamp my feet, but that would just make it worse. And of course she's right, it's just an airplane game.
 
I'm 18, and I saw the commercials for FSX on TV and it looked pretty interesting...so I bought it. I joined Sim-Outhouse because it was the only place I could find Piglet's FSX OV-10.
 
I started flight simming about 1970-71. I used to draw corsairs and zero's dogfighting over the slot on my notebook in class. The sound effects used to drive my teachers crazy, RAT-A-TAT TAT.:icon_lol: Back then they called it imagination, now they call it ADD. Computer simming: Atari Red Baron about 1975 or so...........?
 
I'm still sorta a newb compared to most here, my first flight simulator was CFS2 and from there I went and bought FS2000, I couldn't afford a pc until I got my first backpay from the military in 99 and the first thing I went and bought was a pc, the kind that comes put together already, last time I ever did that, lol. :ernae:
 
Turned 40 about 3 weeks ago. I got my first computer in 1984, a Radio Shack Color Computer II with 16K of RAM, a 5.25 inch floppy drive that was bigger than a loaf of bread and a dot matrix printer the size of a Volkswagen. Got my first flight sim at that time. I can not remember what it was called, but it took two joystick to fly the "plane", which was really just a very basic 2D panel looking forward over a very 2D world. The manager, a hottie redhead that I had a majoy crush on, sold me the joysticks for a penny each. I flew that little plane until the floppy drive went kapoot. That was in 1989. Was out of simming until I bought CFS3 in 2004....and really was still out of simming even then as my system would not run CFS3 worth a darn and I just could not get over the arcade feel of that program. Then I bought CFS2 in 2007, and that was when I began simming again! Just got FS2004 for Christmas this last year.

OBIO
 
My addiction started back in the mid 90's. There was a computer at school with FS5 and a yoke. Soon after I got FS95 at home and it went from there. I didn't get heavily involved until FS2002. Lots of good memories :ernae:
 
Sinclair Spectrum?? Tyro!

I bumped into Pontius when he was still doing ground school.

Dave
 
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