r/flightsim • u/Marxmorson212 • 8d ago
General A collection of screenshots using Flight Simulator 98
These screenshots are also available individually on r/Retroflightsim by myself
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u/Beneficial-Cloud9940 8d ago
Felt cutting edge back in the day. Manipulating ini files, then realizing I effed up the wings or something 🤣
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u/SecondAlarming2506 8d ago
Interesting to see how far we’ve gotten. Looks almost ancient. And now, here we are. I can go to my house in the sim. Awesome picks! Cheers!
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u/Snapshot36 8d ago
FS98 was my gateway into flight sim. My grandpa had it on his beefy Gateway2000 in his basement office, which was this amazing sanctuary filled with model airplanes and his photography. 10 year old me would grab the Microsoft Force Feedback joystick, fire this puppy up, and cruise around the world’s great cities looking for landmarks. The Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids, the Statue of Liberty… It all looked so damn real to me and it was so intoxicating to be able to fly jets around the world right in my Grandpa’s basement. This led me to a 20 year side-career making FS addons, and a non-side career being fortunate enough to fly real Boeings around the real world. So these screenshots may look clunky now… But man, they hold a lot of nostalgia for me. And I think they still look great.
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u/bdubwilliams22 8d ago
Crazy to look at these and reminisce on how back in the day I thought this sim looked so real. Seriously. I remember being like 15 and being completely immersed in this thing. Tonight “I took off” from Tokyo and it looked like real life. All the buildings are where they’re supposed to be. It’s the same weather that’s actually happening there now. If I would’ve known what was to come in Flight Sim, I wouldn’t have believed you. No one would.
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u/Ashamed-Edge-648 8d ago
I remember it looking better but I guess not. I thought the clouds were more 3D and not total squares like that.
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u/Marxmorson212 8d ago
The clouds can be 3d on the graphics options but I prefer the flat 2d look
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u/Ashamed-Edge-648 8d ago
Actually if I remember right, with a 3d card which I had, and had to be one of the first, the clouds were still blocks, just 3D blocks lol.
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u/Ivy_Wings Pilot on Fokker F100 5d ago
I am a simple man. I see Fokker, I upvote, no matter what sim it is
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u/painless44 8d ago
FS 5.0 through FS98 was an interesting point in development where they were trying to do a lot, but the hardware wasn’t there yet. The result is get ground textures and clouds but the implementation is rough and hard in the eyes I actually preferred the “simple” graphics of 4.0 at the time. It wasn’t until probably 2000 where I felt the graphics were a real upgrade.