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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
Snow Strike
Epyx
1989
5.62
Spitfire Ace
MicroProse
1984
7.83
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeStrike Commander
Origin Systems
1993
9.02
Strike Force Harrier
Domark
1988
7.09
Su-25 Stormovik
Electronic Arts
1992
8.88
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeSu-27 Flanker
Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI)
1996
9.03
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeSuper EF2000
OCEAN
1997
9.19
Super Huey
COSMI
1988
6.33
Super Huey II
COSMI
1988
7.94
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeSuper-VGA Harrier
Domark
1992
8.78
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeTFX: Tactical Fighter Experiment
OCEAN
1993
9.08
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeTheir Finest Hour: Battle of Britain
LucasFilm Games
1989
9.27
Thud Ridge
Three-Sixty Pacific
1987
5.18
Thunder Chopper
SubLogic
1989
7.85
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeThunderHawk
Core Design
1991
8.68
Tomahawk
Datasoft
1987
7.27
Top Gun
Thunder Mountain
1986
5.53
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeTop Gun Danger Zone
Konami
1991
7.54
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeTop Gun: Fire at Will
MicroProse
1996
7.96
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeTornado
Spectrum Holobyte
1993
8.93
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeU.S. Navy Fighters
Electronic Arts
1994
9
War Eagles
COSMI
1989
7.36
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeWarbirds III
iEntertainment Network
2000
8.61
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeWings of Glory
Origin Systems
1995
8.93
Hall of Belated Fame InducteeYS Flight
Freeware
2004
9
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