( The Oregon Trail came out in 1971 and is still with us.) That makes it the second-oldest video-game franchise still in active development. ![]() ![]() Microsoft Flight Simulator, its lineage stretches a few years further back than its official release, in 1982. That’s why it has become the world’s best-selling flight-simulation franchise: The latest edition has sold more than 2 million copies.Īlthough 2022 marked the 40th anniversary of Flight Simulator promised to fit the whole world into your computer, and the game kept its promise. The game’s legacy has extended beyond flight to embody the shift of perspective that flight allows. So it’s only fitting that Microsoft later became the force behind Flight Simulator. He credited their winged invention as “the World Wide Web of that era,” one that shifted the world into a global perspective. In 1999 Bill Gates penned a moving tribute to the Wright brothers.
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