Yep, KB not MB at 1980. My First PC about 1992 had 4MB of Ram and a 500MB HDD, lol
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“Mission Delta” and “DamBusters” in 1982 on ORIC1 before the great upgrade to ORIC ATMOS!
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Sid Meier’s F-15 Strike Eagle, on my Atari 800. I also had a cracked copy of Sublogic’s Flight Simulator II. These days, I have a CIB copy of FSII, complete with the sectional charts and the amazing printed manual. Great stuff for the early 80’s.
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My first home computer was a Sinclair ZX80. Had to actually solder the components of the motherboard yourself, as it came as a kit. Splurged for the extra 2K memory version as well! Lol
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I was wondering if anyone was going to mention F-19! This was my first sim, on a 486SX with FS5 right behind it. I remember the keyboard overlay for F-19 as well.
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Sublogic Flight Simulator II on an Amiga 2000.
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As a retro game collector this has caught my attention. There’s even a controller for it!
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The ZX81 only had 1K by deafult! you had to add a memory pack for anythign more. It was the ZX Spectrum that had 16/48K depending on the version you bought (the 16K was quickly phased out)
That’s right, I stand corrected 
Psion Flight Sim for the Spectrum 48K and then Digital Integration’s Tomahawk (it had mountains!) for the same - I played Tomahawk a lot more.
I had access to A10-Tank Killer in the early 90s, but the very first PC game I bought (before I purchased the PC 4 months later) was the DOS version of Flight Unilimited in '95 - played a lot of that too.
Just found the box so I thought I’d update my post for posterity
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OMG I’d forgotten about that one - always wanted one but stuck to balsa and doped paper craft around that time 
Flight Simulator 2004:joy:
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Sublogic Flight Simulator II on the Commodore 64. And it was awesome!
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Back in 1992, I was responsible for installing an engineering computer system at the company I worked for. The computers we selected were Silicon Graphics Indigo UNIX workstations. These came with a pre-installed ‘demo’ flight sim program that included a Cessna, F16 and a few other aircraft.
There wasn’t much to it - one airport, a few mountains; but it did have some real advanced features - The scenery (such as it was) was all shaded 3d objects, the flying was extremely smooth and fluid (for the time) and - as a networked system - the two of us who were system administrators - could dogfight each other during our lunch break!
Of course, each of the computers cost as much as a pretty nice family car at the time. Here’s a image from Wikipedia. Anyone else remember this?
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FS 4.0 on a 8088 PC with 40MB HDD.
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