Game Classification

Flight Simulator (FS1) subLOGIC, subLOGIC, 1980 Download it Now !

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS PLAY
(Exergame)

Keywords

Flight - Simulation

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Training

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • State & Governement
  • Military & Defence
  • Education
  • Corporate

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 25 to 35 years old / 35 to 60 years old
General Public & Professionals & Students

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Play-based
(designed without stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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Flight Simulator The conception of the Flight Simulator computer game series, still going strong today, began in the late 1970's with "FS1", created by Bruce Artwick of subLOGIC and released in early 1980. First came the Apple II, with a very scaled down instrument panel on bottom and outside/radar view on top, then the TRS-80, with mere 128x48 monochrome graphics and thus numbers and bars replacing the panel.

There was only one aircraft and one region: a 6x6 grid with "mountains". The user could press "W" and "declare war", entering the WW1 "British Ace" game mode. The objective was to shoot down enemy planes and bomb their base.

Both the Apple II and TRS-80 versions originally came on cassette tape. The Apple II version was updated in 1981 with minor improvements.

Note that the first PC version, Microsoft Flight Simulator (v1.0), was released two years later and is more similar to the 8-bit versions of Flight Simulator II. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Apple II - TRS-80

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