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Flight simulator

You fly an aircraft with controls modelled on the real thing: taking off, navigating and landing while minding the instruments, the weather and flight physics. It ranges from highly realistic simulation to arcade-style air combat.

Also known as: flight sim, flight simulation game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1975
    Origin

    Taito's Interceptor (1975) was a first-person arcade combat flight simulator. Sega's Jet Rocket (1970) already simulated flight, but it was an electro-mechanical machine, not a video game.

    Flight simulation video game (Wikipedia)
  2. 1982

    Microsoft licenses Sublogic's Flight Simulator for the IBM PC, giving rise to Microsoft Flight Simulator.

    Microsoft Flight Simulator (Wikipedia)

Subgenres

  • Space flight simulatorYou fly a spacecraft from the cockpit: manoeuvring, docking, trading or fighting between planets and stations. Depending on the game, the challenge is mastering realistic orbital physics or surviving and thriving in an open galaxy.