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Well, here's an introduction to flight simulations: these are games that simulate aircraft. Many, many people (including myself - Tiago) enjoy sitting in front of a screen with a piece of plastic in one hand (or, if one has enough money, a piece of plastic in every hand & foot), pretending to be flying something that can range from a few pieces of wood, wire and fabric to 50 tons of winged metal! Now that I'm done with this pointless rumbling, lets put this matter clearly: there are only 2 kinds of flight sim, the In-Yer-Face-Game survey sims and the Hard-To-Get-To-Grips-Unless-You're-A-Propeller-Head(tm) hardcore sims. Actually it's a bit more complex, but not by much.

Survey sims are games first and simulations second. The goal here is to have the player having fun while pretending to be flying an aircraft. Recent games that come to mind are, well, every Novalogic flight sim.

Hardcore sims are a different breed. They aim at making the player feel he is inside the real thing, and therefore forcing him to do all the little tasks needed to make something far, far heavier than air soar up there in the skies.

However, in the old days, you didn't really have this distinction, as the processing power was too limited to have accurate physics and avionics modelling. Long time aficionados may remember that Falcon 3.0 required a math coprocessor (something really expensive and rare back in the early 90s) to run with the advanced flight model.



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Name
Publisher
Year
Avg. Rating
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeFalcon 3.0
Spectrum Holobyte
1991
8.9
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeChuck Yeager's Air Combat
Electronic Arts
1991
8.68
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeF-29 Retaliator
OCEAN
1991
8.96
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeMiG-29M Super Fulcrum
Domark
1991
8.98
Nighthawk: F117-A Stealth Fighter 2.0
MicroProse
1991
8.5
Blue Max
Three-Sixty Pacific
1991
7.53
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeSuper-VGA Harrier
Domark
1992
8.78
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeHarrier Jump Jet
MicroProse
1992
8.25
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeF-15 Strike Eagle III
MicroProse
1992
8.7
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeBirds of Prey
Electronic Arts
1992
8.85
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeCorncob 3D
MVP Software
1992
9.05
Heroes of The 357th
Electronic Arts
1992
7.83
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeB-17 Flying Fortress
Freeware
1992
8.56
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeAces of The Pacific
Dynamix
1992
8.96
Knights of The Sky
MicroProse
1992
9
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeAV8B Harrier Assault
Domark
1992
8.47
A.T.A.C.: A War on Drugs
MicroProse
1992
7.98
KA-50 Hokum
Domark
1992
8.9
Su-25 Stormovik
Electronic Arts
1992
8.88
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeAces over Europe
Dynamix
1993
8.79
Dogfight: 80 Years of Aerial Warfare
MicroProse
1993
9.02
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeFlight Commander
Big Time Software
1993
7.66
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeStrike Commander
Origin Systems
1993
9.02
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeTornado
Spectrum Holobyte
1993
8.93
G-Force
Virgin Interactive
1993
8.75
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeReach for The Skies
Virgin Interactive
1993
8
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeTFX: Tactical Fighter Experiment
OCEAN
1993
9.08
Hall of Belated Fame Inductee1942: The Pacific Air War
MicroProse
1994
8.36
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeOperation Overlord
Virgin Interactive
1994
8.46
Pacific Strike
Origin Systems
1994
8.22
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeU.S. Navy Fighters
Electronic Arts
1994
9
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeFlying Nightmares
Domark
1994
7.07
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeF-14 Fleet Defender Gold
MicroProse
1994
8.4
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeDawn Patrol
Empire Interactive
1994
8.81
Black Knight: Marine Strike Fighter
FormGen
1994
8.26
Evasive Action
Software Toolworks
1994
8.9
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeFlight Commander 2
Avalon Hill
1995
9.04
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeApache Longbow
Interactive Magic
1995
8.33
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeDawn Patrol: Head to Head
Empire Interactive
1995
8.33
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeFirestorm: Thunderhawk 2
Core Design
1995
8.17
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