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Monday, July 2, 2012

Are Online Flight Simulators Influenced by Arcade Developments?

By Clare Johnson


Originally, the many PC flight simulator games which are available today, were created for consoles. Some were distributed to the arcades. It is believed, however, that the majority were created with the PC in mind.

The video game industry is active on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and flight simulation games attract players in all countries of the world. Landing High Japan by Taito, illustrates this fact better than any other game. While it was distributed as a cabinet game, players can certainly hope for Taito to develop online flight simulators in the same vein. Landing High Japan featured actual maps from the airports at Haneda, Kansai, Fukuoka, Hiroshima and Shin-Chitose.

Several features made the game considerably more realistic. Conversations were simulated by way of a button marked speak. Players were forced to choose between five individual airliners, and each plane was based off an actual aircraft. Gamers could pretend they were really flying on All Nippon Airways. This is the sort of computer program that could make an excellent flight simulator online.

Taito released flight simulator software for the arcades called Midnight Landing in 1987 and in 1988, released a similar product called Top Landing, which was very similar.

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.

If you are looking for extended features for flight simulators, Google's version is probably not the best choice. Their software does utilize Google Earth and makes the flying experience pretty realistic.

Xbox users enjoyed the game Yousei no Mau Sora, which was created by Sentou Yousei Yukikaze and flight simulator users hope that this game will be released as an online version. The Anime series was used to base this game on and disappointingly to people in North America, it was not released there. Anime and Manga are popular outside of Japan and it is a mystery as to why the producers made this decision.




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