Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 - 31 Years Later!

[@LGR]

If you'd like to try FS4 yourself, the fully-expanded version is emulated in a browser here! archive.org/details/msdos_Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_v4.0_1989

[@koffinkat666]

Crop dusting with the old fart plane, MEMORIES!

[@dadud3]

i have a copy of FS 5.0 (or 5.1) in my attic if you want it. i believe its mostly complete as far as registration cards and manuals go

[@TheGuardDuck]

Awesome!

[@wta1518]

4 more days.

[@ulle85]

Hey Clint have you ever tried the flight game Armor Alley from around 1990? Always wanted to try that with a null modem serial cable 😋

[@scruffythejanitor1969]

I am now obsessed with figuring out the artist for the box and manual art.

[@accountwontlastlong1]

You're Scruffy, the janitor.

[@scruffythejanitor1969]

@@accountwontlastlong1 My Job? Toilets and boilers, boilers and toilets. Plus that one boilin' toilet. Fire me if'n you dare.

[@davidt-rex2062]

@@scruffythejanitor1969 you're fired!

[@Kyle4OH8]

The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long

[@CantankerousDave]

Scruffy The Janitor but how are you with making terlet sangrilla?

[@nbntelevision1]

I’m a commercial pilot today thanks to the old flight sim and a little curiosity at 9 years old. Really gave me a jump start on a lot of things.

[@nbntelevision1]

Anthony Suarez Not really. Passenger airlines aren’t the only flying jobs out there, just the only ones that the general public think exist. Flying people is a boring gig anyway. You don’t get to actually fly the plane much. Far too much idle time.

[@ikennaenwelum7798]

Likewise, brother!

[@visionop8]

That's impressive man. Video games gave you an entire career. That's pretty mind blowing!

[@nbntelevision1]

visionop8 I think this “game” made a lot of pilots. Haha!

[@bpkolos1974]

Good for You! Makes us all glad You persevered on becoming a real pilot! Great stuff! Very nice! Greetings from Kyiv, Ukraine!

[@emmabentley7945]

As A Developer for X Plane 11 ( I make a lot of airports and sell them ) and I have been in the latest flight simulator beta, I started flight simming in 1998, I slowly evolved from an end user from someone who makes a living out of Flight Simulation development. I have waited a long time for you to do a video like this. thanks LGR for doing this !

[@JeremFrancoi]

Thank you for fuelling our dreams, flight sims would never have been the amazing kit of software it is now without people like you.

[@UltimateAlgorithm]

Just curious, are you planning to release airports for the new MFS?

[@emmabentley7945]

@@UltimateAlgorithm we do plan to look into it providing the sdk is good for us :-)

[@emmabentley7945]

Look us up, Windsock Simulations. Or my name on Steam :-)

[@Penoatle]

@@emmabentley7945 That Malaga looks pretty ace. Thank you for your work in this industry.

[@pilotgord]

This was my first flight simulator and fell in love with flying. 30 yrs later, I am now a real life Airline Captain at a comercial Airline!

[@alisakran7063]

That's awesome!

[@crosstie417]

Look at me..... I am the captain now.

[@SHF40k]

now that's a turn of tables, I should start playing that flight simulator to become one too

[@guitarsarelikestupid7200]

My uncle once told me "you can't learn to fly pressing buttons on a computer!" MSFS led me to earn my private pilot's licence. My first real flight my instructor let me take off and land on my own. It seemed easier than on the pc in a way.

[@bwc1976]

@@guitarsarelikestupid7200 Frame rates in real life are better for sure! And as far as "pressing buttons on a computer", that's most of what real-life airline pilots do now.

[@MHTutorials3D]

I bought this in the store when it was released..... Damn, I'm old

[@yisraeleliyahu7495]

I bought that for 500usd 5000usd from today haha

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Me too lol

[@glyph241]

I Must Have Made Created 100,00 “Mechanical Monstrosities” In Experimental ✈️🕳✈️

[@elelly1845]

51?)

[@MrMarci878]

When this released my parents were teenagers lol

[@CerberusProject]

This was 1989?? This actually looks phenomenal for its age.

[@johnphantom]

EGA or 16 color graphics. In 1990 I had a video editing board that did 32bit graphics, or 24bit color (16.4 million colors) with an 8 bit alpha channel for blending graphics with live video. Pic of the Truevision Targa+ 64 that I still have: imgur.com/a/hMe21Qe

[@pritampaul2507]

Flight simulator series has always pushed the graphics to the future in every iteration

[@technicaltapir9741]

Not only graphic but those functions are outstanding. Multiplayer or custom design. Wow...

[@VarietyGamerChannel]

@@johnphantom The Amiga 1000 could do this in 1984.

[@johnphantom]

@@VarietyGamerChannel Amigas originally had 12bit color or 4096 colors, i am pretty sure. The Toaster was of interest to me, especially with its built in time base corrector (TBC).

[@soldadoryanbr7776]

My Man has a shelf just for flight sims

[@JG-nx3jg]

shelf force 1 he calls it

[@eams1234]

primeiro br q encontro nesse canal kkkk

[@superamario6464]

@@JG-nx3jg oh good one! :)

[@soldadoryanbr7776]

@@eams1234 véi,pode ter certeza que qualquer canal que você for,não importa o quão específico que seja vai ter BR, experiência própria

[@MyNameIsBucket]

Looks like about 8 shelves to me.

[@kulrigalestout]

My dad was super into aviation, and when I was about five years old he co-rented an airplane with some other guy. One summer when we were on our way to a family reunion, just before take-off, my dad looked over and said "want to do it?" I was terrified and excited, and all I could do was furiously nod. He smiled, took his hands off the yoke, and punched the gas. With all the grit, determination, and focus a five year old could muster, I held it steady as we gained speed, and when he said "Pull!", I pulled back. Gently, smoothly, partly because my weak little arms could only manage that much force, and partly because I thought that's how it was supposed to go. We gained altitude gently, smoothly, and my excitement grew. Wait wait! Can't get too carried away! Gotta keep it smooth! We soon reached cruising altitude, I sighed in relief, and my dad patted my head and took back the controls. I think that was the same trip when he over estimated the plane's fuel efficiency and ran out of gas halfway between two airports, and probably would have crashed and killed us all if we didn't have a tailwind. Of course, he didn't mention that until we were older and were joking about how he somehow always manages to run out of gas when we're halfway between two towns. I miss my dad.

[@blazer666del]

Your dad sounds awesome... my thoughts are are with you.

[@Time4House]

you had a great dad!

[@Tairygreen]

Nice story! Did you write that yourself?

[@caevon4432]

Kulrig Alestout memeories are precious

[@gary72carol61]

What a lovely story from your past, and those few words at the end just sunk my heart. I will assume it was not because he ran out of fuel. RIP Mr Alestout Snr.

[@samsmith3054]

I was 30 when this came out, and I am embarrassed to say how many hours and hours I spent flying this sim. It was such an improvement over previous MSFS titles, and I played them all....from the first one on my Atari 400XL to FSX, and today, I shall be installing the newest version. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.

[@NedransVikingar]

Did you install it? What are your thoughts? :-)

[@samsmith3054]

@@NedransVikingar I actually tried to install it, but was not able to. I may revisit is again sometime. I am stoked about the new one at the moment. My monitor went down the day before the release, so I have not even purchased it yet. The new monitor will be here on Wednesday, so I'll buy and install then.

[@nigel900]

No need for embarrassment. Today, hordes of unemployed 30 year olds, are forgoing meaningful careers and child support, drinking copious amounts of Mtn. Dew and Red Bull, in order to spend 100+ hours a week play cutting edge XBox games...

[@Zawmbbeh]

Nigel 900 time spent having a bit of fun is not time wasted, as much as you want to deny it you know it’s true.

[@nigel900]

(@Zawmbbeh). Yes... in bits.

[@psivewri]

I used to love playing flight simulator on my 386 back in the day :)

[@xaesthetics1769]

ok.

[@MuhammadKharismawan]

try FS2020 You'd be shocked at how similarly revolutionary it is.

[@bournes9845]

Hello

[@kaijoswilman]

Hold my woodgrain beer

[@LambdaMiscellaneous]

When it got dirty... You cleaned it with eucalyptus oil.

[@Harey0407]

Everyone: Look at the new Flight Simulator! LGR: Flight Simulator 4.0!

[@lucasshipsides1510]

i mean, it literally said it was the new version on the box

[@MrDalek2150]

@@lucasshipsides1510 man. they sure have gone downhill in recent years. /s

[@CleverClothe]

First Flight Simulator 2020 expansion: Craft your own planet Earth!

[@MuhammadKharismawan]

@@MrDalek2150 do they?

[@AverageAlien]

windows explorer: FLIGHT SIMULATOR GAME 1.0 HAS JUST RELEASED

[@Immopimmo]

I remember my friend's dad had this game back in the day. He had this whole gaming setup that we weren't allowed to touch. For someone who was used to Nintendo 8-bit this was super impressive 😄

[@younasqureshi9179]

"Don't mess with daddy's joystick..."

[@CrafterboeyMiner]

@@younasqureshi9179 "Only mommy can mess with it, but not on Sundays..."

[@terribletelevision6980]

This game felt like the most amazingly realistic sim back in the early 90s. Flying over a blocky Paris or Tokyo was just mind blowing. Always love your videos, Clint!

[@JulietKilo-X86]

The new flight sim is releasing 18th aug

[@fontenbleau]

It's like swimming 🏊 in water, can't believe they forgot to add any feeling of winds or any air, basically it's Gravity simulator on surface but not flights at all.

[@2Fast4Mellow]

Pretty much every release looked like it was years ahead and ground breaking. FS98, 2000, 2004 and 2006 (FSX) all got better graphics, more realistic aircraft models and 3rd party developers continued to raise the bar. I still remember the first time I flew in the Level-D 767 in FS2004 (FS9). Later with PMDG QOTS.. And 30 years later Microsoft (with the help of Asobo) did it again. When X-Plane 11 was release everybody was impressed with its graphics and sloped runways. Than comes along a revived simulator from Microsoft in 2019 and suddenly even XP11 looked very outdated. The Flight Simulator franchise always pushed computers to their limits. They did so in 1990, in 2006 and also in 2020..

[@fontenbleau]

@@2Fast4Mellow and again even in 2020 they forgot how to simulate AIR. If you think about it with wind all their boring 💤 simulators getting the main missing part INTEREST, because with wind EVERY flight will be different and new, never the same. They repeating themselves again making basically "Google Earth observer".

[@2Fast4Mellow]

@@fontenbleau I'm guessing that you haven't flow in the new flight simulator yet. MFS has actually the best weather engine I've encountered and is very close to real life. A cross wind does not simply make you move laterally, but in MFS it can actually topple your aircraft if the cross wind is acting on the wrong surface. MFS also got wind pockets which can make your crash during takeoffs or landings. Wind and air are simulated in the new sim and it much better than any engine for ESP or XP..

[@taltigolt]

approaching tall building i thought nooo he would never would he crash into something....

[@Ohno871]

I honestly wanted him to to see what it acts like

[@daveturbo6292]

He has a bit of darkside in him ha ha haaaaaaa

[@bensaisakura4322]

I had Flight Simulator 5.0 and my flights resumed to the exact same things :D

[@bwc1976]

I think most of us did it back then!

[@Andrewtatesbiggestfan]

@@bwc1976 pre 911 it was a lot funner

[@troyskeete8372]

Being a coder, my dad showed me how to manipulate fun aspects of the planes in the source code, from wing shape/length to altering the color of the plane. So many hours of memories. The bonus of him passing on his real life pilot's knowledge was also wonderful. I miss my childhood. 🙂

[@SSofIreland]

"Please sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight." *BUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUB*

[@MrCordycep]

I've never been so grateful for an ad to break the monotony. 😅

[@skiez7430]

OH NO

[@sdFreerey]

??

[@skiez7430]

Freerey dw. My ex used to call me the word “bub”

[@TiagoBullets]

more like BRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBR

[@fartvader84yearsago8]

KZbin: let's do some FS2020 LGR: Let's not.

[@kilrahvp]

2 days, 2 days...

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

What is it

[@yuvaff8322]

@@RolloTonéBrownTown Microsoft flight simulator 2020 is a flight simulator published by Microsoft and will be released in 2020 :)

[@anonymousshoe842]

Tone Thicc Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

[@LGR]

I've been playing FS2020 all week. It's well worth the wait :)

[@BojarskyLeGrand]

Edit: I found the booklet where I read McTulson's name. It is written that he was a "simulation oriented illustrator". But, as LGR replied it could be John Mattos. I can't find his name in the booklet (published in 1989) but that does not mean it is wrong. Sorry if I wrote wrong information. The artist who drew those pictures is Andrew McTulson. I don't know if he can be reached using social networks or anything else.

[@Radioactiveafikomen]

Unfortunately, Google search can't find anyone named Andrew McTulson :-(

[@BojarskyLeGrand]

@@Radioactiveafikomen Yet I'm absolutely certain that I read his name in a booklet years ago. I must check the spelling.

[@worshipsmusic3957]

Certainly worth mentioning - the artwork is timeless

[@LGR]

This would be great if true! I have my doubts though, and so far I have not found any info verifying this. Currently the most promising lead is John Mattos, an artist who is proven to have worked for Microsoft back in the day and has a portfolio of artwork in a very similar style: www.johnmattos.com/index.php

[@BojarskyLeGrand]

@@LGR I found the booklet, published in 1989, McTulson seemed to be a "simulation oriented illustrator" so I thought he could have drawn those pictures. I may be wrong.

[@Bastiatlover]

Dude. This is amazing. This very copy of flight sim sparked my interest in aviation. My father brought me this home from work when I was 5 and I was amazed. I fly real widebody jets these days all because of this. Thank you so much. Loved seeing this again.

[@revokdaryl1]

Did you ever get the opportunity to take off and land at Meigs Field in real life before that cacksucker mayor destroyed it?

[@nameischarles]

I remember when games from the 90s especially simulation games would come with large informative manuals. Those manuals were like an encyclopedia you'd be reading before you even get to play haha but I guess that's what made gaming back then fun.

[@elimalinsky7069]

I used to read game manuals before going to bed. I was especially fond of SGI Gold Box game manuals as that was some glorious reading material.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

The German version of DID's F-22 came with an aircraft encyclopedia and it was awesome. I remember some of the Jane's sims had pretty good in game tutorials on top of giant manuals. Made them pretty easy to pick up and play.

[@mrskizzot]

My father worked for Delta, so I played this so much growing up. I had the old crappy Yokes that you put your ball mouse into. Good times.

[@LGR]

I've been meaning to cover one of those on Oddware! They really aren't great, haha.

[@peteranderson037]

I think I'm going to get one to experience the badness personally.

[@superjuca55]

I've never heard of this, would you have a link for a piicture of one as I can't seem find anything online about it?

[@jasonlisonbee]

I do not miss ball mice. Specifically how often they needed to be cleaned to almost work properly sometimes. For me laser mice were automatically better due to the work and time that goes into cleaning a ball mouse and how often it's needed.

[@UselessDuckCompany]

I played the hell out of this game. It seemed so advanced at the time.

[@devrimyilmaz760]

me too. i was thinking why we found it so realistic??? i cannot understand this feeling? it was super realistic for me.. but how why??

[@wta1518]

FSX has the same feel for me now. After seeing FS2020 I cannot understand how I thought FSX looked good. It’s probably because there wasn’t anything better.

[@BojarskyLeGrand]

@Useless Duck Company Are you the real ducktor?

[@RCmies]

@@devrimyilmaz760 Even though I wasn't even born when this was out I can totally understand why this felt realistic given the context of that time period. It was the best thing out there.

[@crieverytim]

it was

[@nottiification]

I played the hell out of FS2 3 4 and 5 for years and years and loved every minute of it. Mom and dad wouldnt let me put the computer in my room, so i'd take the MSFS manual to bed to read at night & dream about tomorrows flight plan. We took a family trip to Chicago once & the only thing i wanted to see was Meigs field. It was also my go-to game to load on a new pc to bask in the glow of my new-found high performance. Thanks to MSFS, when i eventually went to flight school, the poor flight instructors didnt really have much left to teach me.

[@saketnaik1]

Well I'm just starting my journey,, MSFS 2020 will *hopefully* be my first flight sim, but before I ask my parents for that, I wanted to see what the older versions were like, and honestly, playing on the emulator was pretty fun.

[@anderslarsen1321]

A Shame they shut down and destroyed Meigs field. Not seen it irl, but Ive heard you can dl scenery to put it (back) into FSX

[@bwc1976]

@@anderslarsen1321 I hope someone will make it for FS2020 as well.

[@randallkincaid-shatto5934]

Clint mentioned crop dusting right at the same time that his plane was revealed to be named "farts." Never change, Clint.

[@guitarsarelikestupid7200]

I went crazy with the scenery designer and made my entire town. I also remember a scenery pack that included a massive house that you could fly around, complete with a grand piano. The pack also included huge tunnels and a massive forest.

[@Relmer]

Downloading real time weather data and modeling it in a game in 1993 is mind-blowing. Awesome.

[@mzaite]

Yea, Asobo Can't even seem to manage it in MSFS2020.

[@monosaturated]

I remember feeling blown away by how beautiful I thought the light blue sky was when I played this game as a child. The night sky, with all the few lights on the surface, also spoke to my imagination. I used to try to recreate the landscape on paint programs, like ClarisWorks (when my folks got a Mac after our IBM PC)

[@ranseus]

Heh, talking about "Crop Dusting" with FARTS on the side of the plane... that's synergy.

[@LGR]

I'm just happy someone picked up on this. The details, I'm all about them.

[@ldx8492]

@@LGR Simply beautiful.

[@mikedawolf95]

FAR7S

[@matthewphelps8187]

It feels like a lifetime since I first learned to fly on a 26" CRT on flight sim 4.0. The sound brought back such memories as I was at the flying club at 16 learning how the yoke, peddles and throttle worked. So many hours having the instructor playing as th ATC as I learned the basics of flight.

[@rogerwilco2]

The FS4.0 manual was really great. I taught me a lot about how to fly a plane.

[@anonymousguy7837]

I miss these types of games. Excited for the new Microsoft one!

[@beartackle]

I might have to reduce the graphics of the new game to resemble this older version, but I'm excited as well!

[@SirFaceFone]

@@beartackle If you have Game Pass, all you need is a decent Internet connection.

[@some_person_1]

@@SirFaceFone ... and a decent computer.

[@sharoyveduchi]

it doesn't have plane crashing tho

[@ryancnayr]

n b I reckon it’ll look good on the Xbox one x

[@KaranDeshmukh]

As someone who played the crap out of Flight Simulator 2000, when I was a teenager, this was a weirdly nostalgic retrospective.

[@user-yl4lf9mh1w]

as someone who has played every flight simulator game as they came out..... I feel old

[@Rabolisk]

Haha same! I read the entire manual when I was a kid

[@user-yl4lf9mh1w]

@@Rabolisk Yes! The manuals were such a cool thing back then, and really go you in the mood to experience the game.

[@BILLY-px3hw]

my neighbor had this game he invited me over to watch him fly, I remember once he got airborne I became insanely bored out of my head, I remember just wanting to leave and go home, it was dreadfully boring to watch someone else fly in real-time over a green featureless plain with that droning computer plane engine noise

[@barmymagician2970]

My dad used to love trying to land on a carrier in F19 on the atari st

[@95TurboSol]

For the late 80's this was crazy tech, I remember it in the early 90's as a kid

[@jubalprogject]

3:23 -You removed it from its original packaging! -Nooo! It's no longer a collectible!

[@AtreyuGilbert]

He's done this many times before as far as I know. Not sure what the issue is...

[@jubalprogject]

@@AtreyuGilbert None, it's a joke from The Simpsons

[@AxialFlux]

Fun fact, my Autocad teacher in high school let me design the VoTech building, and surrounding area in FS 4.0 during class. Gave me an A for the year! This would've been '91 or '92.

[@TylerScottMillaway]

Marc Johnston WELL THAT WAS A MISTAKE

[@AxialFlux]

@Morahman7vnNo2 Indeed.

[@Tyneras]

The most amazing thing is how much they were able to fit into those 5.25" floppies!

[@12opsynths]

So many games made me wonder that. Starflight especially.

[@wraithcadmus]

For me Frontier was the big one, a whole galaxy on a single 880kb disk... of course most of it was empty, that's space for you.

[@jasonlisonbee]

@@12opsynths Back then graphics were basic sprites made of very low resolution flat images or otherwise generated from basic vector math.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

My friends and I liked to land on the roof of the World Trade Center like Snake Plisken in "Escape from New York".

[@user-ef6gv4wv1l]

@Callahan1998 along with there being a world trade center to land on

[@Norweeg]

Callahan1998 “Do you like gladiator movies?”

[@Penoatle]

@Callahan1998 Do you like gymnasiums?

[@Penoatle]

"Call me Snake"

[@glenncaughey5044]

Penoatle I was under Dunn

[@WestCooly]

The artist(s) for the art and illustrations should be listed at the front or back of the book, LGR! I hope you find out who it is, those are some neat drawings.

[@c.a.7844]

Wow, I didn't think many people remembered Flight Sim 4.0! This was the first game I ever played - some of my fondest childhood memories are of my dad and I playing this on his black and white MS DOS laptop. For what it was at the time, it was an amazing game/piece of software and ever since playing this game I have always enjoyed dipping into flight sims from time to time. Nowadays I'm especially looking forward to FS2020, but FS4.0 will always hold a special place in my heart. :-)

[@The.dudeinator]

8:32 alternate version of history where on 9/11 every building BUT the twin towers and the Empire State Building was destroyed

[@joshuapurdy7065]

Did you just imply that the Empire State Building was crashed into on 9/11? Your kidding right?

[@Waffles1313]

@@joshuapurdy7065 Perhaps he was implying that it looked like an alternate history where every building was destroyed except for the Twin Towers and the Empire State. Like it was in the video he has a timestamp for.

[@joshuapurdy7065]

Unixsystem oh yeah i read it like five times but my brain didn’t want to understand completely for some reason lol

[@The.dudeinator]

Joshua Purdy Yee I guess I could have worded this better, but ubi sty sten is correct

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

News just in: Thousands and thousands of airplanes have crashed into every single building in NYC, with the sole exceptions being the WTC and ESB

[@TheTweedler]

Just went down a rabbit hole looking for the artist. And while I probably didn't find them I did find someone working in the same area with a similar style around the same time, John Mattos. Looking into the MS Flight Sim 4.0 company I found they were eventually bought by Sierra. So I looked at some Sierra game box art but didn't find anything that looked too similar. I noticed Sierra also owned a company called Dynamix so I checked out their library of games and noticed the art for a game called Arcticfox looked similar. An artist named John Mattos did the box art for that game as well as some very famous stuff such as The Rocketeer cover art and the Indian Jones font. Nowhere can I find a comprehensive list of his commissions but he does state on his website he did work for Microsoft so maaaaaaybe? No definitive proof but I thought I'd share anyway :>

[@tayljordan]

Arcticfox was awesome back in the day

[@LGR]

Probably the most promising lead yet, thank you! His portfolio definitely has that vibe: www.johnmattos.com/index.php

[@pentelegomenon1175]

Arcticfox is the game that supposedly postponed Jeff Tunnell and Kevin Ryan from finishing The Incredible Machine in 1984, although if true it would probably be for the best since they were working for EA at the time.

[@thecorruptedbit5585]

So great that they're re-making it recently! But I suppose this game holds up even today.

[@shadowxxe]

Well not remaking it more just making a new version of it. we hadn't had a new MFS since 2006 when FSX came out so it was long overdue

[@Eevnos]

I put SO many hours into this version of Flight Simulator, back in the day.

[@f900ex5]

Many of us did ...

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

Bruh, at least you had Flight Simulator. My cousin and I would spend hours playing space ship in front of the Windows 95 Starfield screensaver. That shit was lit.

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

Or just playing the same level on the Starcraft demo disk over and over.

[@nirv]

Nobody over 30 with a brain says "lit" or "bruh." Nope. I don't believe you.

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

@@nirv I'm 29, so you're not wrong.

[@nirv]

@@MrC0MPUT3R (geezus)

[@nirv]

@ash that's another way of saying I bet you're real fun at parties. Boring same millennials.

[@TheGuardDuck]

Wow dude, THIS was my childhood! I remember spending hours just buzzing around Meigs doing takeoffs and landings, just because. Learned a lot by experience!

[@abhilashdutta8463]

6:51 , we should see that comming.

[@theoldar]

Thank you for trying to call back the wonder this program generated, rather than making fun of it. I spent at least a thousand hours with Flight Sims 1 through 4.

[@cookiebob_]

I just spent a good 10 minutes pouring over the paused image of all those classic flight Sims. Nostalgia overload!

[@OrderoftheWarlocks]

Love the new intro.

[@aner_bda]

The real weather pack just blows my mind. I can't imagine how cool this would have been in the 90s to dial in to get real weather information into a flight sim. What a novel idea, even now!

[@metalheadmalta]

The real enjoyment of this software was by flying through the USA (and other continents of course), by hopping from one airport (or airstrip) to another... plotting your way across states, or countries.

[@Markimark151]

I can’t believe Microsoft Flight simulator existed in the 1980s, it was mind blown that a simulation game with those graphics were cutting edge at that time!

[@casedistorted]

That’s why I loved A-10 Cuba! As a kid with my dad. Crashing and blowing up my A-10 Warthog was so cool to see in that game.

[@Spalfos]

10:34 The side of that plane _definitely_ says “FARTS”. You cannot convince me otherwise

[@ghostrider2214]

LOL it does but wth was it supposed to say?

[@TheMrVengeance]

@@ghostrider2214 FARTS

[@W.2026]

@@ghostrider2214 Maybe it's FART5

[@pingmann]

@@ghostrider2214 FARTS

[@ripjawfang20]

@@ghostrider2214 he put it as farts

[@JesusisJesus]

I believe there’s millions of 40 year olds who could take off and land a Cessna at Chicago o’hare intl airport.

[@therealsnow]

After flying there countless times in simulators beginning with MSFS 2.0, was was pretty cool to actually land a plane there in real life some 20yrs later!

[@cheezypoofkc673]

Runway 27L. With my eyes closed lol

[@DoctorNemmo]

My dad actually landed a Cessna using his FS4 knowledge ! (and a very relaxed pilot friend who allowed him to do so)

[@alobosk]

Me Me Me!! By FS5 I started downloading airports all around the world and flew a lot over North America. By FS98 I circumvented the planet, opened my VATSIM account, score real Jeppesen VFR and IFR charts for most of the world, and started buying airplanes and scenery. I stopped flying a bit after FSX came out.

[@RainbowscapePictures]

Certainly could take off, but I always crashed landed. LOL

[@Merjia]

You should try "Simple Planes" on Steam, the whole idea of the game is basically the experimental plane designer, you can come up with some absolutely insane designs.

[@waengwang5313]

nah try kerbal space program, and load it with aircraft mods

[@Versuffe]

AND CARS, but if you have a good pc WAHLA! SAY HELLO TO KSP!

[@JayBee10]

I'd love to see you review Microsoft Golf, particularly the 1998/1999 editions.

[@LGR]

Ahh, high school study hall memories right there... why it was installed on the room's PC, who knows, but dang if we didn't play the absolute crap out of it.

[@JayBee10]

LGR I believe a demo of 1998 came with the “Microsoft Plus” add-on for Windows 98.

[@LGR]

@@JayBee10 This was Windows 95 and was the full game! Some teacher probably had a secret obsession, there were no shortcuts to it, just found it in Program Files :D

[@TheGuardDuck]

@@LGR nice!

[@GareksApprentice]

I'd particularly love a look at the earlier ones. Golf for 3.1 (Multimedia Edition) was one of the few PC games my Dad would play, along with Flight Simulator 5.0 & Leisure Suit Larry

[@ChrisNorris]

brings back tons of memories. Played pretty much all versions and most of SubLogic's output too back in the day.

[@pho3nix-]

Thank you for reminding me about "Red Baron" - wow it has been so long since I played that game!

[@WednesdayMan]

Man to think that has been around for 30 years

[@carlvogt7318]

Thank you, this was an amazing review. So many memories, including the add-on packs. The scenery designer was mind blowing. It makes me proud to have spent so many hours on this when I was a kid and to find out so many others had the same experience. I remember the WW1 ace part being basically unplayable, at least with the hardware I had. I did get to try connecting 2 computers at the time since my dad had his own setup. It didn't work great, but at the time was exciting to get a glimpse of the future with online gaming yet to come.

[@knoxduder]

Great video Clint! You should do the entire history of flight simulator, including the post 9/11 change.

[@LGR]

I need to find out the true story behind that, yeah! I swear my uncle had a version of FS2002 with the WTC towers still in it.

[@therealsnow]

Hum I still got the boxed copy of FS2002, I almost wanna install it and go check if the buildings are there still.

[@TheGuardDuck]

That's facinating! Never heard of that before!

[@knoxduder]

LGR I received a reply from a world famous content creator! I’ve been touched by fame! Will you be my friend??😂 In all seriousness, great channel, great work! I love seeing how you’ve evolved your productions and quality over the years, and look forward to your tech tales. Also, it’s nice to hear your voice in other media productions from other content creators. Thank you! My first PC was a 386 Acros. Good luck finding anything out about that brand. Hopefully one day you can do a tidbit on them. The machine was beautiful.

[@knoxduder]

Can you do a history of LGR? A biography of such? What was the inspiration?

[@PhillyFox5]

Loved this game. Fascinated by the “realism.” Eventually got my pilot’s certificate.

[@charlesdoeseverything9716]

Congrats! Would love to have a pilot's licence too one day.

[@DelBoy1967]

Thanks for the video. This brings back memories, I use to use FS4 to practice my NDB & VOR intercepts when doing my PPL in the late 80's

[@cyrilthefish]

Oh wow, so much nostalgia! Was one of the first games i can remember playing on the family's Amstrad 286 (so it ran at a handfull of frames a second lol) but spent so much time on it. A fun scenerio of mine i used to play was to fly up high for a bit, turn off the engines to simulate engine failure, then attempt to land it :P

[@TheGuardDuck]

Me too!

[@funghazi]

OHHH!!! This was my first of many flight sims, the add-ons made this version so much fun, I loved designing airplanes and imagining I was testing them out over Chicago. RIP Meigs Field.

[@sadtrooper7595]

Keep up the great videos Clint they're very informative and interesting. Thank you for filling so much if my time with informational content.

[@SeniorSSol]

Wow, the intro, I play them all but 4.0 was the entry into this era. Remember the game B-17 flying fortress on Amiga 2000. Hours of hours.

[@a351must2]

Wow, looks just like I remember it. FS2020 is going to be my first MSFS since version 4.0. I remember playing with the aircraft design in 4.0 quite a bit and did succeed a couple times at reasonably flyable planes that were Mach 1+ capable. I always found the fields of green quite boring and don't remember what framerate I had to put up with, but played on a Tandy 1000 so at least I got the 16 color mode.

[@Zawmbbeh]

don’t be surprised if the graphics give you whiplash! from what I’ve seen, the graphics on FS2020 are almost real life quality!

[@Vienna3080]

The artwork on these old MS Flight Simulator box art is so amazing, i need to know who made them

[@raas5908]

An illustrator called John Mattos!

[@tornadotj2059]

My father ran his businesses on Managing Your Money for many, many years, on a Compaq Portable that I upgraded and networked over the years.

[@Bandude231]

Brings back so many memories. It's amazing how close our childhoods were.

[@VideoHeadMan]

I remember getting so bored just begging my friend, who was flying seriously, to crash something!

[@xmtxx]

Omg, thank you very much for this video! The memories... I was around 10 when i discovered FS 4. My recollection and experience about it, was exactly the same as you described it. I even bought, on my money, the scenery designer extension, did the same goofing around with the environement and the planes customisation. Didn't have enough money when the concorde extension came around, tough. Loved the game, bu nobody around me knew about it, I couldn't share experience..

[@vcom]

How did LGR literally play every game in his childhood?😂😂

[@zeddie4153]

Because he is a true gamer and also i would guess he had tons of demos on various SW disks like i did hah

[@ZePanthersGang]

@@zeddie4153 holy crap I forgot about demo disks lol

[@maltimoto]

I remember the Scenery Editor...being so heavy on performance that you had a nice "slideshow" when exploring your newly created scenery

[@cvzyl]

Nostalgic! I spent hours playing this and at the time thought it was great. How times have changed.

[@ShinerBockGirlz]

I love how you filmed it in 4k!!! I have flight sim 2020, but i can see how this could be fun, my dad used to play this lol!! Seems like back then you had to use your imagination more!! Which is wonderful!! Beautiful video sir!

[@cockpitraw7172]

This game was really detailed for 1989. I wasn't even born then but still I feel it was way ahead of it's time, great work by the developers. You bring a lot of nostalgia to me especially seeing those huge floppy drivers and those old joysticks. I used to play FS2004 and X for hours and hours when I was a kid and now I am an Airline Pilot :) . Thank you for making this video it bought joy to my heart.

[@djrbaker1]

Funny thing is, Xplane 11, released in 2016 I think, still has the time dependant on the framerate. If you run it lower than a certain FPS, time will pass slower.

[@doohuh]

That's embarassing.

[@SoleaGalilei]

This was my first flight sim too. It really was impressive for its time. Long before things like google earth existed, it felt like a way of exploring the world, even if you had to use your imagination for a lot of it. :)

[@LiamS2005]

3:33 "Flight Simulator features detailed graphics that closely simulate a pilot's actual perspective." Look where we are now... Man has technology come so far in such a short time span, imagine where we'll be in another 30 years.

[@paulderry1576]

You absolutely cannot forget the enormous library of addons from Mallard and SubLogic like the Aircraft and Adventure Factory, Scenery Enhancement Editor, US-East/West, Hawaii, Japan, etc. etc. Really great stuff that I fortunately could get my hands on when I was younger.

[@Rfhuir343]

Nice to see F19 Stealth Bomber in the background. This was one of my favourite games back in the day. I loved the attention to detail and book that came with it. I don’t think I’ve ever come across game as good as this in terms of playability.

[@ragyoo2857]

South coast of england was littered with those ancient era scenery gems : wilmington long man, westbury white horse, etc. Its flying VOR that made me discover those sceneries.

[@swedichboy1000]

Feels like older games were more ambitious than the games of today.

[@HappyMan0203]

I don't really agree, I think modern games are ambitious in different ways. A lot of game ambition depends on the hardware of the time and what the developer wants to do with the game. And tying this back into Flight Simulator, I think it's fair to say that the new game is pretty much the most ambitious Flight Simulator. It's trying to create a near 1-to-1 recreation of the entire place, buildings and all, live weather and flights, etc.

[@squidud]

Agreed. Back then, so many things weren't tried yet and while I love the advanced graphics of today, I often wish dev companies would go back to trying new things instead of using "what works"

[@xFluing]

@@squidud Let's not forget that we're talking about the mainstream here, as there's plenty of games that are still very much ambitious in the indie scene.

[@HappyMan0203]

@@squidud The indie scene is brimming with that sort of experimentation if you're not finding it in AAA games. Those big games do well by doing "what works" because most generally enjoy "what works". Indies are able to experiment more due to knowing they don't have to try and hold onto a reliable base of customers, or have to provide profitable growth to shareholders. Neither are necessarily better than each other, they just have different goals in terms of audience.

[@squidud]

That is very true, and it's a shame that small indie devs don't get more exposure.

[@SuperDarthKelly]

I want to see this full decked out with every expansion possible now

[@StreetComp]

That could be a one of a kind collection seeing as you somehow managed to keep everything that came with each game - srsly amazing!

[@MrLupin_Speen]

Man, I remember my dad wanting this game for his Dos PC back in 1989 but he was busy during this college. Thank you for the nostalgia, Clint.

[@Krakenslayer23]

Imagine showing MFS20 to someone when this was new.

[@TrainsAndGames94]

Remember when Microsoft tried Train Simulator? I do. I loved that in the early 2000s

[@DougGlendower]

After the pandemic or if they can find a modern solution, Airforceproud95 needs to get with LGR and do a 4.0 video together.

[@marctwok]

Thank you so much for this. My Dad used to fly and I spent hours designing planes and nagging him to try them out. This is first time I’ve seen anyone mention the aircraft designer and I was starting to think I’d imagined the whole thing!

[@shaunkruger]

I remember playing FS4 borrowed from a friend even though the first one I remember getting was FS5. One of the greatest oddities I remember about the scenery model in those early versions is that the ground was always rendered as a flat object with mountains placed on it. The elevation of the ground was chosen based on where you were. I recall the experience in FS5 of flying toward a mountain and suddenly having the flat world around me suddenly come up and hit me as everything adjusted for the new ground level of where I was flying. I remember the first time I got to fly a version that actually had a full elevation mesh applied under the world map textures and how much that changed everything for me.

[@kropotkinnie]

well, this is one of the most impressive games i've ever heard of, holy moly

[@spectacularbear]

flight simulator 😍 a part of my childhood thanks to my nerdy dad

[@АлексейГриднев-и7р]

8:31 - if only had they known back then...

[@OpenMawProductions]

Clint's voice is great. But what makes videos like this for me is that jazzy piano in the background. It just sets such a great tone.

[@budyeddi5814]

This took me right back to my childhood, as did your flight sim collection on the shelf!! I'd love to see more videos of these old Sims 📈