Airline management 2
Back in the day, when Mike and I were still kids, we used to play this game called “Airline” on our computer. At least, that’s what I think it was called. I tried to google it, but all I found was “Airline” from 1982, which sounds too old, and “Airlines” from 1994, which sounds too recent.
Also, when I say “our” computer, I mean our dad’s computer. I don’t remember the exact date he got it, but I vividly remember the day we got our very first, very own personal computer in the house. It was a “286” with MS DOS as an operating system. An we even got a 9 needle printer! It must have been around 1990. I don’t exactly remember, if that game ran on the very first computer, which, if I remember correctly, didn’t even have a mouse. Probably was on the next one. It’s amazing how foggy my memory is. But then, that’s all 30 years in the past.
Anyway, I can totally understand Chuck’s fascination with that kind of game! Although I refrain from installing any game on my computer, because I know how vulnerable I am to these kind of distractions in the office …
Stef
My first computer was a Commodore 64. You had to enter your own code and it ran on a cassette tape. I didn’t get another one until Daddy bought a 486 to play his remote controlled airplane simulator. He had the joysticks to mimic a controller. When the airplane flew off too far, it played “Wild Blue Yonder”.
My first computer wa a ZX81. One of my first games was a flight sim. Anyone familiar with the ZX81’s graphics should be seeing a problem at this point. At 9 years old, I had no idea. I took off, I turned left, the one wiggly line which represented the ground shot up the screen faster than the eye could follow, and the game told me I had crashed. Later, I read in the manual not to turn left because there was a cliff there.
For years, I thought I was weak for being unable to find the willpower to try again. Now, as I think about it for the first time in a very long time, I think I was right not to try again. The game’s graphics were comparable to flying in fog with maybe 100 metres visibility, and I’d never flown before.