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Thursday, 28 June 2012

Are Online Flight Simulators Influenced by Arcade Developments?

By Clare Johnson


Today, there are some exciting PC flight simulators available. A selection of these were created for consoles and others were created for arcade cabinets, however, they were mainly based around the PC platform.

Flight simulator games are popular all over the world, in fact, the same can be said for the video game industry as a whole. A very popular game is Landing High Japan by Taito and fans of flight simulators sit on the edge of their seats waiting for the same producers to create a flight simulator game. The production of Landing High Japan was very true to life and demonstrated excellent features of real life maps of Japanese airports, including Fukuoka, Haneda, Kansai, Fukuoka, Shin-Chitose and Hiroshima.

Players were able to choose from five aeroplanes and if they chose to make the game more real, they could press a button and allow speech. Each of the planes were designed based on real planes and allowed users to fly with All Nippon Airways. This game had the potential of being an excellent flight simulator online.

Taito revived the arcade title, Midnight Landing, from 1987, by releasing to the arcades, Top Landing in 1988. This game was also based on flight simulation and consisted of similar game play.

It might seem rather strange that Taito waited until 1999 to release this penultimate arcade game. Perhaps they wanted to design a game around the Power PC603e microprocessor. If they continue to think about hardware, gamers might see some online flight simulator games from the same developer. While Taito might not be working on Internet releases, it strangely seems that Google has.

Although Google flight simulator may not be the most advanced software, it could be used for you to become familiar with this type of gaming. An unusual feature of their software is a giant Easter egg and by pressing control+alt+A or similar keys, players can tour the world by flying either the F16 Viper or Cirrus SR22 utility plane. Their maps add a real life experience for the user.

Google Earth is a very popular piece of software. Employers often complain about how much time is lost because of office clerks messing around with it. While it might be fun to waste time with, serious gamers might want to look elsewhere if they want to play a flight simulator.

Sentou Yousei Yukikaze: Yousei no Mau Sora is the sort of game that fans hope eventually gets released as a fight simulator online. Yukikaze was originally developed for the Xbox, but it later joined a host of other Japanese flight simulators for PC. Few flight simulators have an organized plot, but this title was based around a popular anime series. Unfortunately, Yukikaze has not seen a North American release. This might be considered a strange marketing move. Anime and Manga have become very popular outside of Japan in recent years. However, niche games like this might struggle to find an export market.




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