Hey friends, I am super excited about this new thing I’ll be doing on Fridays, now that I’ve finished Yakuza. I had so much fun over these last several months playing my favorite classic sims that I’m going to make it a weekly thing! Each week, we’ll go through one campaign in one sim until I finish it or get fed up with it. I’m gonna stick to a few things, such as:
Update 12/15/23
I’m updating the rules as follows:
- I’ll play until my fun runs out. I don’t want any sim to outstay its welcome.
Original Rules
- We’ll do as many theaters/campaigns as are fun.
- I’ll complete every training mission.
- If my pilot dies I’ll just restart a new one and keep going.
The primary goal is finishing a campaign. - If I find a game too difficult or annoying, I give myself permission to move on.
- Sims will now be arranged in order of sims I know that will give me joy, versus sims that are experimental as I’ve not played much of them.
This way I can focus on the fun of playing the sim, which is the primary goal isn’t it? :)
Now I have plenty of sims in the pipe, and I’m going to play through them in basically chronological order of release. Here’s the full list, in order:
I’ve decided to have a list of sims I want to spend more time with, because they give me joy, and sims I can spend less time with if they’re not that great because I’m not as familiar with them. These are as follows:
Sims that I Know Will Give Me Joy – These are sims I know I’ll have fun with:
- SimCopter – Current as of 4/12/24
- EF2000
- Jane’s Fighters Anthology
- Apache
- Hind
- Strike Fighters 2
Experimental Sims – I’ll play these more casually as I’ve little experience with them.
- F-15 Strike Eagle II
- Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
- Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat
- Harrier Jump Jet
- Stunt Island
- Falcon Gold
- 1942: Pacific Air War
- F-14 Fleet Defender
- Wings of Thunder
- iF-16/F-16 Fighting Falcon
- Red Baron 3D
- European Air War
- Enemy Engaged
- Total Air War
- Wings over Flanders Fields
- Enemy Engaged 2
Finihed Sims – These are Sims I’ve finished, for now, and might return to at a later date.
F-19 Stealth Fighter– Finished as of 3/24/23, at least for now.Gunship 2000– Finished on 8/4/23, at least for now!Tornado– Finished on 12/15/23.F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0– Finished on 3/15/24.Novalogic Sim Cavalcade – Playing through all of Novalogic’s flight sims one at a time until they annoy me, then I move on.– Finished as of 4/5/24.
This is going to be so much fun you guys. I cannot wait to dive into all these classic sims. Please let me know if you have any questions, and I’ll see you in the skies on Friday.
