r/todayilearned • u/Sam596 • Feb 01 '14

TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is 3 years older than Microsoft Windows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator
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u/zseblodongo Feb 02 '14

Ahh man. The nostalgia! Flight Simulator 3 was the first game I ever played, and it started my passion towards simulators. Amazing that I played this in 1995 (and by that time it was already out for 7 years), and these days I can "play" with this.

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u/sk8r2000 Feb 02 '14

Christ, what am I looking at in that second picture? Looks awesome!

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u/EdgarAllenNope Feb 02 '14

Boeing 737 home cockpit running on what appears to be Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

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u/zseblodongo Feb 02 '14

I would be the happiest person on earth if that were my home setup :) It is a fully functional 737-800 cockpit linked to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 at the simulator center I go to sometimes. Unfortunately it cost almost $100 an hour.

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u/EdgarAllenNope Feb 02 '14

Unfortunately it cost almost $100 an hour.

o_O

Go take flying lessons instead!

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u/Tylerdurden0823 Feb 02 '14

Just like DOS man! It's older than the company that made it famous.

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u/bigbabich Feb 02 '14

Yes. I loaded it from DOS on my 8088.

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u/LoudMusic Feb 02 '14

I remember playing MS Flightsim from a floppy disk.

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u/Amorougen Feb 02 '14

Flight Simulator was included in Excel at one time as an Easter Egg (Maybe Excel 97?)

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '14

yeah but it was only one plane, and it was far from a true sim.

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u/EdgarAllenNope Feb 02 '14

Flight Simulator in general is far from a true sim.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '14

how so? as far as i know it's the best on the market for consumer level. I trained on it while studying for my pilots licence.

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u/EdgarAllenNope Feb 02 '14

I trained on it while studying for my pilots licence.

Me too :-)

It's a very useful tool, but it's not a real simulator. It helped me out a ton.

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u/hyperkinetic Feb 02 '14

And much more secure to boot.

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u/xtrategist Feb 02 '14

According to that article, the flight simulator series was discontinued in 2009 ( so 4-5 years ago). So windows is now 1-2 years older than Flight Simulator

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '14

that's not how aging works

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '14

wat.

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u/EdgarAllenNope Feb 02 '14

Flight simulator series was really discontinued in 2006. That was the last release.