yeah actually i belive this was ours too because I remember thinking it was Van Halen. I know we didnt have 640 RAM we had bare minimum 256K ram
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Come to think of it, mine may have had 256 RAM as well
My first PC in 1997
First flight sims
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Simulator Flight Lite - Sublogic 1995
Computer: All-in-one AST 4050d CPU 50Mhz Cyrix 486dx2
Ah, the mighty ZX81 with a 16K ram pack, alongside a black and white telly and off course, the cassette player to load the game.
Sitting there for five minutes, listening to the screech of the loading screen, hoping that you’d got the volume at just the right level for the sim to load properly (otherwise it was a case of turning the tape over and trying again, after having adjusted the volume a fraction higher or lower), and then eventually you’d be presented with the fabulous graphics as shown(256x192 pixel resolution - and to think people complain about the graphics of MSFS2020!)
Those were the days!
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Flight Simulator 4.0 on a 386 home built machine.
I think it was a 386SX16, it was not a high end one.
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YESSS!! Aces of the Pacific was my first experience with computer flight. LOVED that game. The cut scenes, back story, mission selections… just RAD!
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Version 1.0 i think? IBM Pc Jr.
Original IBM PC with 256K RAM (I had “B” motherboard that could take the 64k memory chips), Flight Simulator Version 1.0.
SubLogic Flight Simulator on a Commodore 128. That was back in the early '80s.
This one on a XT PC in all its monochrome glory…
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We had one of those, too. But I was way too young for flight sims back then. I remember “Ant Attack”, “The Wall” and lots of Arcade titles for most of which I forgot the names… but yes, the cassette player was fun to use (I also remember the microdrive unit).
What a ride from back then up to today 
Commodore 64, Acrojet. The slalom course was horrible!
Can you imagine what kid us would have thought if they saw the graphics for FS2020… I think I’d have just exploded. 
Especially from, “you’ll have to wait another 40 years for this.”
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Hehe … I still remember playing Test Drive on the C-64 and saying “that looks so real!”.
Well …
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Sublogic Flight Simulator II on a Commodore 64 in 1988. Good times…I also soon after got Chuck Yeager Adv Flight Trainer. Once I got a 286 machine in the early 90’s I upgraded to Sublogic ATP!! I remember also having the F117 Stealth Fighter game around same time.
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60fps 4K. 
I’ve actually got my C64 hung on my wall with, “I am the captain, now, and forever.” Written underneath. 
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oh man I remember this! Mine was in 4 colors though Cyan and Pink!!
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MSFS 3.0 on some obscure IBM PS/2 “laptop”.
But what really hooked me up to flight sims was this:
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another classic!
