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Game #4331
Hall of Belated Fame Inductee  Tracon    View all Top Dogs in this genre
Simulation   Flight - Civil

Rating: 8.57 (14 votes)

Tracon box cover

Tracon screenshot
Tracon and Tracon II are two classic ATC games from Wesson, years before their efforts culminated in Tower. The description at MobyGames says it all about this pair of pioneers in aviation software:

"Tracon is an air traffic control simulator, giving you the position of a so-called "ATC" (air traffic controller). You are in charge of the air traffic in a certain sector, making sure that every airplane gets to its destination safely. Your main screen is a radar, which features the aircrafts as green dots or little airplanes, moving at a certain speed at a certain height. The game is a full-talkie, featuring the pilot's voices and those of the ATCs. Interestingly Tracon doesn't use a sound card for that. The voice acting is done over the PC internal speaker. The more traffic is in the air, the more hectic your job becomes. You have to set routes for the planes and organize punctual arrivals. The game also features emergencies, to make your task more difficult. It is possible to connect the game to a Microsoft Flight Simulator installation on another computer.

Tracon was used to train professional ATCs in the early nineties. Then Wesson decided to develop special simulation units for professional users and continue the Tracon series as entertainment."

Compared to the Windows version (also reviewed on this site), these older DOS versions are arguably more realistic (or at least more difficult in my opinion) – although their interfaces are naturally less intuitive than their Windows successor's. If you like ATCs in general, Tracon and Tracon II are must-haves: classic games in the niche genre that remain highly playable even more than a decade later. Two thumbs up!

Reviewed by: Underdogs
Designer: Robert Wesson
Developer: Wesson International
Publisher: Wesson International
Year: 1989
Software Copyright: Wesson International
Theme: Modern
Multiplayer:  
None that we know of
System Requirements: DOS
Where to get it:
Related Links: ATC Simulations
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If you like this game, try: Tracon II, Tower, Tracon for Windows

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