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the first one I played was Flight Simulator 2004, and later played alot of FSX. cant wait for FS 2024

Excellent piece of history. Noglistic. I purchased instrument training software, just able to do tracking VORs, doing ILS, etc... it was advertised in a flying magazine, well before SubLogic was launched....

You are not playing any of those versions??? You are just showing the default footage of the game and talk about the history

Not having crash physics is one of the terms from the aircraft manufacturers for allowing Microsoft to use their models

I have been playing since Microsoft flight Simulator 1995. It has really improved a lot. 🙂✈️

Ah fs4 was why I always wanted to be a pilot as a kid. Played all versions from then on and, without ever been in a real aircraft for all my life, started my PPL class in 2013. My first practical lesson was the first time sitting in a real aircraft lol (A Cessna 152 aerobat which is still flying in the club with +20000 hours on the frame!) In 2014 I got my license. Flying flight simulator really helped getting it faster! Since 99% of my flying hours are made in either a Cessna 172N from 1978(ish) or a Cessna 172SP with a Garmin 1000 from 2006, I do hope the 2024 version brings even more realism to the flight model of this type of aircraft!

7:30 I thought you made an editing mistake until I did a web search haha

Seems like a waste. You could have just played the very first version and then the newest version compared those and seen how far they came. You didn't have to play all of them

9:35 I think you were talking about 9/11 at that point

Headphone warning 11:15

FS2002 did have improved crash damage models but Microsoft disabled it in their game that came out in late 2002 for SOME reason, but it was possible to reenable it with console commands.

MSFS Wasn't crushed on release. It took a good few years for them to make it usable.

You didn't mention that the 9/11 hi jackers did some practising and training in Microsoft Flight Simulator it might also have impacted the sales of FS2002

0:08 why the view of the Harbour Bridge from Milsons Point? (I was probably there as a kid for the fireworks that year, so it’s personal) 😂🎉

So, we're just pretending Microsoft Flight (2012) didn't exist?

I can't even play the new Microsoft flight as it forces you to login to some Xbox thing. So I wasted my money buying it.

I played all of them when they came out!

Nice video! Brings back good memories... Various people have pointed out that you missed Microsoft Flight, but there's another Microsoft flight simulator that you haven't played (and probably won't be able to play) which is Microsoft ESP. This was an attempt by Microsoft to get into the commercial flight simulation market by making a version of FSX intended to be used to build flight training devices. It was not super-successful. When Microsoft decided to exit the flight simulation market they licensed the ESP code to Lockheed Martin, who used it to create Prepar3d (P3D), a flight sim platform intended for lower-cost civilian and military projects. P3D 1.0 was basically a re-branded ESP which itself was basically an extended FSX, so add-ons made for FSX could be used in Prepar3d. It was, and continues to be, a descendant of that original Sublogic product from 1978. There was also Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, of which multiple versions were released, based on the core FS code but with air-to-air combat as its focus. Others have mentioned it, but there were later versions of the Sublogic-branded Flight Simulator II (which shared code with the Microsoft versions) for non-PC platforms including Apple II, Amiga and Atari ST. My first Flight Simulator family experience was with the ST version, which was graphically better than the PC versions available at the time. I remember that it shipped with replica sectional charts in the box. That's what kick-started my love of flight simulation and set me on my crazy journey to build a home cockpit that continues with MSFS 2020 and soon, 2024.

I have them all myself including athe floppy disk and the Microsoft flight stick.

You missed Microsoft Flight (2012)

I started my Flt Sim days with Sublogic. Thanks to Bruce, I have spent thousands of dollars on Sim products overthe decades.

I have played each one... as they were released, as I am that old LOL. FS2024 to come and yes I will have to get that too.

I started back in the 80s although I was so young I didn't trifle understand it 😂 really good video and narrated really well. Thank you for the nostalgia and reminder I am getting old haha

7:36 I believe this was the first FS that that me & my family had, back in the day.

Missed out Microsoft Flight (2012), also the mess of DLCs after FSX was released (Acceleration and some service packs)

That was a great overview of the series, thanks for making and sharing!

I've played all of the early generation of Flight Simulator from 1979 - 1989. There was a progression of improvements basically every 2 to 3 years whenever the software was released on a new system. Beginning with initial B&W graphics in 1979 (Apple II, TRS-80), to color graphics 1982 (Dos), to support for scenery disks in 1984 (C64), to independent views and menu UI in 1986 (Atari, Mac, Amiga), and finally custom mods by 1989 (Dos). As impressive modern Flight Sims are it's fun to go back and play these old games to see how far along we have come.

Been playing since the start of the flight sim franchise! My dad was really into aviation and sat me down in front of it as a small child. Crazy how far we've come.

So did I.

Remember it well! My dad bought a Commodore 64 off his co worker , which came with 100+ floppy discs. MSFS was one of them and I was hooked! SOMETIMES the floppy disc just cranked and cranked....endlessly and sometimes just failed to load. But when it did load successfully...which still took a LONG time, it was pretty amazing at the time. Just sticks, pixels, but it was darn cool! I'm pretty sure I have the original box in my attic! I guess it was Windows 95 when I had the next version, I recall that gradient sky , the moon over Chicago and was blown away.., didnt take much back then LOL. FS 98 was a must buy, so was 2000 (Don't recall many issues with that release.), then yeah...2002 - the removal of WTC. I do recall a pretty big website back then were you could download a boatload of scenery for free...if you wanted the WTC back in '02, that was a download. I STILL have those CDs and I should try to load them up on my old PC laptop. Didn't get MSFS after that..until 2020. My jaw dropped, literally speechless after first flying that title. I STILL log hours and hours on that. Now 2024 comes out in 3 days and I am psyched! It really is amazing how far this has come...far as in light years!

You glossed over the fact that Flight SImulator got a lot of flak back in the day because the 9/11 terrorists allegedly used Flight Simulator to practice their attacks. Also ... I'm pretty sure FS2020 was in the works for years before Covid and wasn't just whipped up in a few months to give us something to do. Or maybe Covid was a Microsoft inside job to boost sales?🤣

I remember playing FS on the ZX81.

You missed the one that just had Hawaii but I can't remember what it was called

As someone who regularly flew with FS2000, it was nowhere near as bad as you make out. Also there's one man who made this video possible. Bruce Artwick. Without him, flight simming on home equipment would not be a thing. Your patrons, meh... Bruce is the man.

I have been flying this sim since 1992, Iremember being a kid saying one day it will feel real and well........ it feels real now and expensive.... but worth it

My first msfs was msfs2002 and I fell in love with flight sims ever since.

I am old enough to have remembered the first MS Flight Sim (though was too young to play it) and it is just amazing how far we have come, with a really big leap after around 2000 - 2010 where games started to reach a whole new level.

Really impressed by the video quality!

I’ve still got my Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro. Countless hours of FS98 enjoyment.

You missed one! MSFS2020 was not the first foray after FSX, MS Flight! was, which was a disaster, but it was a MS Flight Simulator. Everyone thought that was the nail in the coffin for a future FS, until the surprise announcement (thankfully !) from MS/Asobo on MSFS2020! A couple of honorable mentions while not a MS FS these came out of the Bruce Artwick move to MS SubLogic Flight Assignment ATP which was the first sim with ATC geared to airliners and Flight Light (plus) My first sim in 1982 was FS1 and had every version since, including FS2024 which I'll get initially via gamepass but will probably end up with the Premium Deluxe version like I did for FS2020

Another weird thing… computers back then were controlled by clock speed. If you had a faster computer it would run the game faster.

you only played them to show the history of flight sim . i played them starting in the late eighties as i was around for it all. dang im old , still flight simming today

Interesting 👍

I played dots… first copy… and the only way to fly was by keyboard

I did NOT know that MSFS2020 was the first in 14 years! Great video!

From what I have seen in the latest FS2024 version it's not a whole lot better than FS2020. The trees still look nothing like the real thing, it all looks hand drawn. I'll wait for the 2028 version, maybe then we'll get true photographic scenery. ☹

You miss the FSX ?

Also: modern FS exists as a showcase for MSFT cloud and AI capabilities. Without that it would never have been made. Asobo had a great "heres the entire world" demo built on Azure and MSFT saw FS as a way to showcase and flex.

Amazing how far its come, I started with 95.

no mention of Microsoft flight in 2012 ? yea it sucked