Is Flight Unlimited the first true modern flight sim... and should I have run it on a 486 DX2?

[@escapexls]

I’m so glad I found your channel during my research of Midtown Madness. Your content is so entertaining and underrated. Thank you for not giving up like many people!

[@Lee01Mr]

The evolution of flight sim games is amazing. I got the latest flight sim and its amazing to fly across the world. But it can't beat the classics. And we owend a 486 back when I was young. And at the time they were the best computers. How we miss the old days!

[@TimberwolfK]

When I finally built my own, based around a DX4 chip (the DX2/66 was my dad's), it felt like I'd reached the pinnacle of computers. 100MHz! Surely you couldn't make anything faster!

[@Lee01Mr]

@@TimberwolfK And then to remember the first Pentium computer came out. How jealous we were for the people who owned these beasts and could play Quake on it or Duke Nukem 3D without lag :)

[@vfigplays]

ah, fond memories over doing maneuvers at much too high a speed, overstressing the pitts and causing it to break up in midair… the scream of the instructor as that happens still haunts me to this day

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

That was lovely that was. And the virtual world was VERY smoothly done!

[@GavinAnderegg]

Jelly bunny! This was a great discussion of a game I looked at longingly as a kid, but never thought to play once I had a more powerful machine. The look of this running in 486-o-vision brings back a lot of fond memories. Thanks for this!

[@marcob2316]

Seamus Blackley, what an absolute legend!

[@TimberwolfK]

Yeah, there is a *ton* of stuff he's done since that I didn't mention, if I had we'd have been here hours...

[@FlightSimMuseum]

Fantastic review of this important sim. Thanks for your effort!

[@ThisIsPete]

Was always curious about this and we definitely had the hardware to run it at the time, but my Dad was a hardcore Microsoft Flight Simulator loyalist, and so was hesitant to jump on board with it! Will have to give it a go myself now I'm in control of my own PC gaming library.

[@StormkeeperPU]

I haven't played this game yet, but I ended up getting big box copies of all 3 of the FU games as I was curious about them, and had fond memories of FU2! I naturally got that one, but also the third one because you can combine it with the second game to have a larger map. I got the first one because I had a Classic Mac version as part of a games compilation, and wanted a copy for a PC, as well as also to see where it all began!

[@mausmalone]

Yeah that feels familiar - my family couldn't afford to keep up with new computers so I was using a Cyrix 486 66 up through 1999 until, thankfully, I managed to score a Pentium 166 while dumpster diving. For reference, at the time one of my friends had just built a new system around an AMD K7 500 MHz.

[@Vuusteri]

Thanks, interesting history lesson! Alas, my family didn't have a computer until 1998, so I guess the first proper 3D flight simulator for me was Pilotwings 64. Well, not really a sim, but a good game anyway. But judging from your videos, I take it you were never a "Nintendo kid"?

[@TimberwolfK]

One of my stepsisters had a NES for a bit so I have nostalgia for some of the late '80s titles on that machine but yeah, it was pretty much just PCs with the occasional sprinkling of Sega up until the late '90s.

[@NellWatson]

Terra Nova is a fantastic game, though, and very innovative and technically impressive for the time.

[@UnitSe7en]

I could never run the shareware demo of this on my 486DX/66. Still have never played it.

[@Yesterzine]

It's 26 years. Sorry.