A Look Back
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:24 pmWhen the first computer game came out, it was only available to those who had deep wallets to afford a game, let alone afford a computer that was no powerful than my calculator yet more expensive than a jewel. During the time, it was considered unheard of to even see 3D model of a plane flying over a paper-flat surface that supposed to look like scenery. Then it was considered unheard of to even allow two FS users to play online together because of how dial-up was at the time.
Now here we are today with FS9 sitting on our hard drives that are at least more than 80 gigabytes in space and the sim is so realistic that it makes Pac Man look like a digit on a calculator. We have all taken these advancments so much for granted that there are those who have practically forgotten how lucky we are to even have such graphics.
Here I sit in front of my computer flying a Cessna over a 2D-like terrain with a blue blotch that suppose to represent water while the "square" clouds loom overhead. That's right, I'm talking about FS98. Then came FS2000 and all the others after it. Every time a new version of FS comes out, I time my time to stop what I am doing and look back at all the previous version we have all played and how all of those old versions were once considered "top of the line" at the time.
I can imagine that 10 years from now when a new version comes out, many of us who are young now will look back and say "dang, I can't believe that I ever liked that old sim". It's incredible how technology has advanced in only a span of 21 years since my birth. Many of us once called FS9 as FS2002 with addons. But before that it was us calling FS2002 as FS2000 with addon and so forth. How many of you have ever noticed youself doing that?
Again, it's incredible how technology has advance and how many of us took it for granted. And it's no surprise that FSX is going to be heavy on the systems considering how other companies Sony, Microsoft, etc. are now making game consoles that can put our current hardware to shame. I believe that mankind has now reached a point in the technological evolution where we have no choice but to make a great leap forward in our lifetime rather than just take small steps if we wanted to enjoy the new technologies that are so far ahead that it feels like the early 1900's when we were still learning how to fly.
Now here we are today with FS9 sitting on our hard drives that are at least more than 80 gigabytes in space and the sim is so realistic that it makes Pac Man look like a digit on a calculator. We have all taken these advancments so much for granted that there are those who have practically forgotten how lucky we are to even have such graphics.
Here I sit in front of my computer flying a Cessna over a 2D-like terrain with a blue blotch that suppose to represent water while the "square" clouds loom overhead. That's right, I'm talking about FS98. Then came FS2000 and all the others after it. Every time a new version of FS comes out, I time my time to stop what I am doing and look back at all the previous version we have all played and how all of those old versions were once considered "top of the line" at the time.
I can imagine that 10 years from now when a new version comes out, many of us who are young now will look back and say "dang, I can't believe that I ever liked that old sim". It's incredible how technology has advanced in only a span of 21 years since my birth. Many of us once called FS9 as FS2002 with addons. But before that it was us calling FS2002 as FS2000 with addon and so forth. How many of you have ever noticed youself doing that?
Again, it's incredible how technology has advance and how many of us took it for granted. And it's no surprise that FSX is going to be heavy on the systems considering how other companies Sony, Microsoft, etc. are now making game consoles that can put our current hardware to shame. I believe that mankind has now reached a point in the technological evolution where we have no choice but to make a great leap forward in our lifetime rather than just take small steps if we wanted to enjoy the new technologies that are so far ahead that it feels like the early 1900's when we were still learning how to fly.
