The Stunning Evolution of Microsoft Flight Simulator (1982-2024)

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  • Опубликовано: 9 дек 2024

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  • @msb3235
    @msb3235 21 день назад +29

    I started with MSFS 95 and every time a new version came out, I thought, 'I don't think they can improve anymore over that!'. Boy, I've never been so wrong!

    • @maverick627uk
      @maverick627uk 2 дня назад

      My thoughts exactly. The concorde looked stunning even back in 2000. Crazy realistic.
      There was an excellent fighter pilot game call "Air Dominance Fighter by Digital image Design. It had the F22 Raptor and was very addictive with realistic bombs/stealth/?missions etc. Good times! 😊

  • @paulgerrard9227
    @paulgerrard9227 5 дней назад +33

    Miss Meigs. It was home for so long

    • @Fetidaf
      @Fetidaf 4 дня назад +7

      I love that they’re like “yknow what? Let’s make this the only non-realistic thing” and keep it in the game lol
      Still remember the day Daley tore it up…

    • @superhakujin
      @superhakujin 3 дня назад +1

      @@Fetidaf How the hell does a mayor get to just unilaterally destroy infrastructure?

    • @Fetidaf
      @Fetidaf 3 дня назад +1

      @@superhakujin I mean, it was a pretty big deal when he did it.
      I was like 8 and I remember it blowing up the local news for days while they showed barges showing up to get the airplanes off and stuff.
      I looked it up while I made this comment (just to make sure it was Daley) and apparently he was only fined like $30k by the FAA for not giving a 30 day notice lol
      Seems very light and I can’t say I really blame him. Having an airport that close to a city center post 9/11 is a bit nuts and it’s a fantastic park nowadays… still wish meigs field was a thing but I think it turned out alright for everyone involved. And the fact that MSFS kept it in, it’s like we never lost it.

    • @microdesigns2000
      @microdesigns2000 2 дня назад +4

      ​@@superhakujinliberal mayor in a liberal city wanted to strike a blow on the rich to earn some credence in his party. It's called the windy city not for its weather, but for the blow hard politicians. When my children were young, we used to dress them up and drive to Chicago and go to Meigs Field. If you were dressed well, you could walk in the place and no one would question you. We watched the planes for a while, had a picnic in the car and went home. Before 2001, we used to go to O'Hare, but some miscreants destroyed airport freedom.

    • @videodistro
      @videodistro 2 дня назад

      superhakujin....
      His dad was mayor before him. Theu tried to be a patriarchy. There's a reason the call the party a "machine". They were dictators. Welcome to Chicago/Crook County/Illinois.

  • @JimWeintraub
    @JimWeintraub 11 часов назад +1

    My dad brought home an IBM computer and color monitor in 1982/83. The only game we had was Flight Simulator 2.0. I thought it was so cool at the time.

  • @Dave_B33
    @Dave_B33 12 часов назад +1

    I had 2.0 for my Atari 800xl...my dad didn't touch a computer back in the 80's, but he use to love sitting with me and doing this...brings back memories.

  • @videodistro
    @videodistro 2 дня назад +7

    My first Sim was on the C64. It had no graphics out the window, only data display showing speed, direction, alt, ILS and VOR data.... it was "flying" by instruments only!! It was real fun even without graphics. I don't know the name of the software, but it started me out on instrument flying before I ever looked out a window! It was cool.

    • @cyrix_1
      @cyrix_1 7 часов назад

      i remember playing that.

  • @hardcopydk3001
    @hardcopydk3001 3 дня назад +8

    Born in 1979. i grew up with this.

  • @FinalMyle
    @FinalMyle 7 часов назад +1

    I have played everyone of these. lol. I'm not sure if I should be proud of that. I do have one question; why doe sit look like this video was rendered using a potato? lol. I mean the older stuff is hard to find but I could give some better quality cuts of it than that. :D Great stuff though, this brings back a lot of memories of my brother and I sitting in our room when were kids trying to figure out how to play MSFS 82' on a dinosaur of a computer.

  • @chicagorandy
    @chicagorandy 16 дней назад +4

    I've been enjoying the thrill of flight I could never afford in real life with Microsoft since '82. Now I've begun the next learning curve challenge with MSfS 20-24 and have NO regrets on being an early adopter, bugs and all. A solid improvement on the 2020 offering IMHO, worth the $100 it cost me for the Deluxe package. One thing is for certain in life - haters gonna hate and many RUclips negative review vids are proof positive.

  • @JedRothwell
    @JedRothwell 2 дня назад +2

    Wow! It is remarkable to see how much it improved. The scenery in the latest versions is breathtaking.
    Let me offer a suggestion. I finally purchased hardware to control the airplane. A flight stick with many buttons and the rudder controls that go on the floor. A big improvement! They make it much easier to fly.

  • @TaxPayingContributor
    @TaxPayingContributor День назад +1

    Enjoyed 98. I would take off fine, but landings were so difficult I crashed creatively as the point of the game. Playing with my kids, it became a game of which buildings to hit. 2001 came, and we never speak about it again.

  • @colinc4974
    @colinc4974 21 день назад +3

    That brought back a lot o,f great memories, thanks
    Happy msfs 2024 day btw 🎉

  • @jrfreeagent3179
    @jrfreeagent3179 19 дней назад +3

    IBM XT, 286, 386, 386 w/Math Coprocessor Chip, 486, 586 to i9-13900. Flew this simulation on all of them.
    Every version they put out. I love this sim and appreciate all that has been done to make it as good as it is today. Good memories and looking forward to the newest version, which I have now.
    Let the adventure begin.

  • @DasTubemeister
    @DasTubemeister 20 дней назад +10

    I started with Flight Simulator on Sinclair ZX81.

    • @thefrog2009
      @thefrog2009 3 дня назад +1

      So did I! I really miss that sim

    • @the_omg3242
      @the_omg3242 3 дня назад +1

      I still remember typing programs in on that stupid little keyboard. (and half the time they wouldn't work due to some minor misspelling)

    • @thefrog2009
      @thefrog2009 3 дня назад +1

      I seem to remember it took 15 minutes to load the program from an audio cassette!

    • @MatMat-oq9yd
      @MatMat-oq9yd 2 дня назад

      It was only 5min cca :)

    • @thefrog2009
      @thefrog2009 2 дня назад

      @@MatMat-oq9yd it was 15 minutes

  • @drumhaver223
    @drumhaver223 3 дня назад +3

    Started with FS in '83 on a Commodore 64 and thought it was fascinating. I'm still messing with it today (FS 2020).

  • @SpaceCowboy-u7j
    @SpaceCowboy-u7j 2 дня назад +1

    What’s more impressive:
    1. Where we are currently with aviation/aircraft since the Wright Brothers first powered flight?
    or
    2. Where computer technology is today compared to the release of _Flight Simulator?_

  • @alonzovillarreal4666
    @alonzovillarreal4666 22 часа назад

    That first version led me to getting my PPL in 85 and then further. Loved it.

  • @rgbii3224
    @rgbii3224 3 дня назад +2

    I started with MS Flight Sim and a Tandy 1000 in 1989.

  • @birdapotamus937
    @birdapotamus937 День назад

    great video yetty

  • @TonyFromSyracuse101
    @TonyFromSyracuse101 3 дня назад +1

    and someday when they perfect VR in tandem with really great resolution, its going to be insane, you will literally be there

  • @peters972
    @peters972 16 часов назад

    Very nostalgic thank you. So the logic goes, if things improved that fast in a few decades, how can we not consider that we may be living in a simulation, and not base reality.

  • @Gypsy2057
    @Gypsy2057 18 часов назад

    I remember MS FS for the Commadore 64. The plans for just a t and mountains were triangles. I wish I still had it but the floppy disks got worn out and it wouldn't load. The next version I got was 98.

  • @nickcaci7238
    @nickcaci7238 19 часов назад

    Amazing progress. Sort of like the progress of the Wright Flyer to present day. The Wright Flyer could only progress forward with the speed of a slide ruler as history repeats itself with the early semiconductors. …. With the Micro Soft 2000 seeing the stunt flying around skyscrapers, who knew. Gives me the creeps!

  • @FarmerDrew
    @FarmerDrew 2 дня назад

    I started playing on Windows 95. It was the whole family playing, and my USAF Flight Instructor Uncle could land the Learjet on the Aircraft Carrier. Now I'm getting my kids into it.

  • @renegadejagd758
    @renegadejagd758 20 дней назад +2

    someone is cutting onions over here

  • @j2d2Tube
    @j2d2Tube День назад

    The early versions of fs were not Microsoft products. They just came along and bought it later. They have done an amazing job taking it forward. No doubt about that.

  • @Coccoluto
    @Coccoluto 21 день назад +4

    missing Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 (1988)

  • @walley2637
    @walley2637 21 день назад +1

    i played FS 95 back in the day. it was a novelty at best. I then moved on until FS 2004 which i played with friends quite a bit. when FS X came out my pc wouldn't handle it so i skipped that one. in 2021 i started FS 2020 and slowly upgraded my pc so that i play in VR now. But I will be in FS 2024 tomorrow!

  • @gsansoucie
    @gsansoucie 10 часов назад

    Should start with the version for the TRS-80 Model III.

  • @pi.actual
    @pi.actual 3 дня назад

    I started with Sublogic on an Apple II in 1980 but I was already an actual pilot so never paid much serious attention to it until 2020 came out but it wouldn't run on my computer until in 2022 I built one that could handle it. That was certainly a quantum leap but now that 2024 is out I'm holding back. I'm not so much into the gamey aspects of it but if the tech and world views are greatly improved I'll probably get it.

  • @Marklovesfamily
    @Marklovesfamily День назад

    11:30 2024 looks amazing.

  • @templeton3504
    @templeton3504 3 дня назад

    I sure feel like there were others from 82 to 95 hahaha either that or I have some one offs. Somewhere I still have all the boxes from FS 5, 95, 98, 2000, 2002, 2004. I remember when I was 8yo and my dad showed me FS 4.....been hooked ever since.

  • @GeoffreyPatterson-t8t
    @GeoffreyPatterson-t8t День назад

    Yep it's stunning how much MS download simulator has come.😉

  • @ClausB252
    @ClausB252 3 дня назад +2

    You forgot FS1 for Apple II and TRS-80.

    • @ryancraig2795
      @ryancraig2795 3 дня назад

      And the C64. That was before MS bought it (or the company?) from Sublogic, IIRC?

    • @shavetutor
      @shavetutor 2 дня назад +2

      Yep, I had the TRS-80 version!

  • @LouLope
    @LouLope 3 дня назад

    Owed and played pretty much all of them...yes starting in the DOS 2.1(?) days. For me one of the biggest leaps forward was playing MSFS 2020 and now 2024 in VR on a Quest 3. Will never go back to a flat monitor again.

    • @the_omg3242
      @the_omg3242 3 дня назад

      It's ironic because I have a VR headset and a computer than can handle FS2020 in VR with pretty good graphics, but I still do most of my flying on a flat screen using TrackIR.
      With VR I lose stuff like my Stream Deck and the indicators on my HC Bravo. Not to mention the assorted switches on that and the Alpha that I have a hard time remembering without looking at the labels.
      I also can't play for multiple hours in VR like I can with the monitor. It is impressive for short flights though.

    • @LouLope
      @LouLope 2 дня назад

      @@the_omg3242 Yes, flying in VR is definitely not perfect with many back draws I was willing to trade away.

  • @1skyofrog
    @1skyofrog 11 часов назад

    I have been playing since '83.

  • @abpob6052
    @abpob6052 3 дня назад

    Wow. 2006 was a major upgrade.

  • @kevine8736
    @kevine8736 21 день назад

    I've been heavily debating buying this myself cause I want the real life experience and just a joystick regular contor type of setup but man this looks so beautiful and amazing I want it

  • @Stormrider-Flight
    @Stormrider-Flight 2 дня назад +1

    Evolution stopped with FSX. Since then we just got better graphics but less and less content in many simulation aspects.

  • @USAIRFORCE621
    @USAIRFORCE621 3 дня назад

    The reason I think people are so frustrated with MSFS 2024 is because they didn't want to wait for it to be bug free, when new software comes out it needs to be given time to be fine-tuned and people need to have patience, which is why I decided to wait awhile until at least six months to a year because by then everything should be good to go.

  • @CapitaineBrochet
    @CapitaineBrochet 19 минут назад

    I feel old...

  • @MrBobkeenan
    @MrBobkeenan 3 дня назад

    I spend many many hours playing that original MS flight sim

  • @imjinc2k
    @imjinc2k 3 дня назад

    FS 4 ran pretty sweet. Someone needs to remake Corncob 3D, though.

  • @IceTTom
    @IceTTom 16 часов назад

    5:55
    "A truley fun guy!"
    🥴

  • @mkm2485
    @mkm2485 6 часов назад

    I first played mfs in 1987 on an IBM PC, and continued to play it until the 2000s, but rarely played mfs.
    Mfs 2024 is amazing. And maybe in the future the graphics will be more realistic and the addition of a space X model, or even apollo 11 to land on the moon.
    Who knows...

  • @franzcrack
    @franzcrack 2 дня назад

    Weren't any versions between 1984 and 1995?

  • @landseer22
    @landseer22 День назад

    I still have my 5 inch floppy and manual

  • @curtiscroulet8715
    @curtiscroulet8715 День назад

    I played a lot of Flight Simulator in the late 1980s on a company-supplied 8088 PC. When I bought my own computer in 1988, the main thing I wanted to know was, can it play Flight Simulator? Interestingly, though, as I got more advanced computers, I lost interest in Flight Simulator. I haven't used it in well over 30 years.

  • @the_omg3242
    @the_omg3242 3 дня назад

    I tried one of the really early ones either on my Mac Classic, Atari ST, or Amiga. Don't remember which machine, but I had all 3 about the same time and found civil aviation boring compared to combat games. FSX was the one that really got me into it and the oil rig mission with the chopper was one of my favorites. Really liked 2020 but was so disappointed they took out the missions and was looking forward to the career mode in 2024. Turns out most of those flights are boring and repetitive and I just do free flights in 2024 anyways. lol.
    They've sure come a long ways.

  • @AviatorLegend
    @AviatorLegend 21 день назад +1

    What happened between FSX and MSFS 2020? Why such a large gap?

    • @ShivamSPatel-is-on-fire
      @ShivamSPatel-is-on-fire 21 день назад +4

      Microsoft decided to abandon the FS franchise for a bit. in 2012, they built this super weird gamified version called “Microsoft Flight” which looked beautiful but was limited to Alaska and Hawaii. then in 2015, Asobo decided to pick the flight sim back up again due to massive advancements in server power, GPUs, and satellite data.

    • @AviatorLegend
      @AviatorLegend 21 день назад

      @ that’s pretty cool. Is there anywhere I can read about this?

    • @ShivamSPatel-is-on-fire
      @ShivamSPatel-is-on-fire 21 день назад

      @@AviatorLegend just google the history of microsoft flight sim and look at the wiki page. it’s a good overview of the franchise.

    • @mhobin12
      @mhobin12 3 дня назад

      We don’t talk about flight. It never existed. It was best too forget it existed

    • @cutepuppy9585
      @cutepuppy9585 День назад

      Maybe because of the backlash that the 9/11 terrorists used it for training?

  • @cnvi08
    @cnvi08 3 дня назад

    I called this a decade ago.. no one at VATSIM listened. And yes I’m a Founder.
    800008.

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar 20 дней назад +1

    I owned and flew them all.

  • @meteerbil2078
    @meteerbil2078 3 дня назад

    The only one I ever played was the first one...

  • @spacetrucker2196
    @spacetrucker2196 2 дня назад

    wow it was in color? I only had a green screen,

  • @RS-ls7mm
    @RS-ls7mm 2 дня назад

    Actually started in 1980 on Apple and TRS-80. Really crude graphics.

  • @polopowered
    @polopowered День назад

    0:14 Twin Towers!

  • @LisaSimpsonLiberal
    @LisaSimpsonLiberal 22 дня назад

    pog

  • @nerdineer1
    @nerdineer1 20 дней назад

    And now 2024 is out as of 4 hours ago

  • @aureliomarsili3902
    @aureliomarsili3902 21 день назад +2

    Great, thanks !!! IMHO, vintage flight simulation is more fun than turbocharged graphics of FS2020 ...

  • @Southized
    @Southized 8 дней назад

    Still playing fs2004 just got done flight today

  • @Star-Trekking
    @Star-Trekking 2 дня назад

  • @AdamJPestridge
    @AdamJPestridge 5 дней назад

    youre missing the trailer for MFS28

  • @TheAatupaatu
    @TheAatupaatu 3 дня назад

    Flight Simulator 2 was made by SUB LOGIC and not Microsoft.

  • @NeonsStyleHD
    @NeonsStyleHD 11 дней назад +2

    Not quite correct. Flight SImulator started out ini 1983 with subLogics Flight Simulator, which was monochrome. Microsoft then bought out subLogic, and rebranded it as Microsoft Flight Simulator and added CGA Colour.

    • @CarlosMedina82
      @CarlosMedina82 4 дня назад

      The title of the video is "The stunning evolution of MICROSOFT Flight Simulator" 🙄

    • @BiscuitsStuckToTheWall
      @BiscuitsStuckToTheWall 3 дня назад

      I believe I had that one. Found it in a Military BX in 1988 for my Commodore Amiga 500.
      The Flight Sim that hooked me though was F-18 Interceptor for the Amiga.

  • @dmwm771
    @dmwm771 День назад

    The first versions of flightsim generated the most fun whilst the ultra realistic are rather boring now to play.

  • @gnifrusdniw
    @gnifrusdniw 3 дня назад +1

    I had a game F15 strike eagle on i think amstrad pc on 5 1/2 floppy disc that had only 4 colours and worse graphics

    • @BiscuitsStuckToTheWall
      @BiscuitsStuckToTheWall 3 дня назад

      I had one with the same title, F-15 Strike Eagle on Amiga 500. It was pretty fun, there
      were air - air and air - ground missions.

  • @Nookdashiddole
    @Nookdashiddole 5 дней назад

    Ya nannas moustache

  • @beausbargarage6213
    @beausbargarage6213 6 часов назад

    Geez how did we ever play that. It was junk

  • @paulgerrard9227
    @paulgerrard9227 5 дней назад +1

    FS2000 was the one you could fly into the world trade centres ...until they patched it

  • @KuvDabGib
    @KuvDabGib 2 дня назад

    Best part is the ending: Play it on day 1 with game pass! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahaha i dont know a single person out of us 100 on discord who managed to play it on day 1!!
    Ill stick to 2020 version until they fix this last one a bit more.

  • @sharpie842
    @sharpie842 День назад

    Nice graphics but this is as boring as counting sheep. Same goes for train sims too

  • @chuckhaase8330
    @chuckhaase8330 День назад

    Junk

  • @fredfred2363
    @fredfred2363 2 дня назад

    I'm still waiting for a realistic flight sim.
    Sorry, but nothing is close to reality. Nothing.
    No different to a car driving sim...

  • @blackstar1138
    @blackstar1138 3 дня назад

    It’s like a joke