This simulator used simple filled wire frame graphics and a small generic battle space to allow players to fight MiGs in an F-18 or F-16.

Shortly after Microsoft Flight Simulator was released for the 8-bit computer, Microsoft released Jet in 1985. Other games such as the earliest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator (1982) had crude graphics, simple flight models, and a combat option with 'dog fighting' in a World War I Sopwith Camel. releasing their own game called Red Baron in 1980, which used QuadraScan graphics and sound effects to simulate first-person flight combat. The 1980s experienced a wave of more advanced simulation video games, with companies such as Atari Inc. In Japan, it was one of the top ten highest-grossing EM arcade games of 1977, and it released in North America the same year. The gameplay involves the player piloting a helicopter using a throttle joystick (to accelerate and decelerate) and pedals (to maneuver left and right) across a realistic three-dimensional landscape and shooting at military targets across the landscape.

Sega's last EM combat flight simulator was Heli-Shooter (1977), which combines the use of a CPU processor with electro-mechanical components, screen projection and audio tape deck. In 1975, Taito released the arcade video game simulator Interceptor, an early first-person combat flight simulator that involved piloting a jet fighter using an eight-way joystick to aim and shoot at enemy aircraft. Ĭombat flight simulator video games began appearing from the late 1970s. Sega released several other similar EM flight combat games, including Dive Bomber (1971) and Air Attack (1972). Upon its debut, the game was cloned by three Chicago arcade manufacturers, which led to the game under-performing in North America. The game displayed three-dimensional terrain with buildings, produced using special belt technology along with fluorescent paint to simulate a night view. One such EM game was Jet Rocket, a flight simulator released by Sega in 1970 that featured cockpit controls that could move the player's aircraft around a landscape displayed on a screen and shoot missiles at targets that would explode when hit. This technology led to the rise of flight simulation arcade games, initially in the form of EM games. Prior to the rise of modern-day video games, electro-mechanical games (EM games) were produced that used rear image projection in a manner similar to a zoetrope to produce moving animations on a screen.

3.1 Missions, campaigns, mission builders.

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