My first simulator was a flight simulator for MSX. Not sure if it was this one: http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/fs2-msx.htm. If I remember correctly it had a kind of framewire panel and scenery but once airborn the top of the screen would turn white and your aircraft would be displayed as a black dot which you could move around on some sort of map, I think. Long time ago and I never used it that much.
After that it was FS98, 2000, 2002 and 2004.
Carlo