| Almost everyone has a game that they enjoy | | | | outside of the various planes that were available. |
| playing. Before video games, many people played | | | | Soon there were developments in the ability to |
| board games like Monopoly or Life. Beginning with | | | | provide a distant focus point for the pilot of the |
| the development of arcade video games in the | | | | flight simulator game. With the use of a curved |
| 1970's, there have been unbelievable | | | | mirror and wide angle display equipment, a distant |
| improvements, including huge advances with the | | | | focal point representing the horizon made the |
| flight simulator game. | | | | view much more life like. |
| Early flight simulation was used for military | | | | One issue that was resolved soon after was the |
| purposes and didn't become popular with the | | | | fact that most computers didn't have enough |
| general public until the 1970s when programs like | | | | memory to allow the movement of objects to |
| Airfight were developed as an educational flight | | | | flow smoothly. The improvements in graphics |
| simulator game. You were able to choose a | | | | forced computer companies to find a way to |
| military jet loaded with fuel and weapons and | | | | increase the computing power. The increase of |
| shoot down other player's aircraft. | | | | band width offered by internet providers helped |
| Soon arcade games became popular such as Pong | | | | to avoid the jerky motion with video delivery. |
| and Pac Man, but they were rather inferior to the | | | | As video gaming has become more and more |
| games of today, as were the flight simulation | | | | popular, controllers have been added to give more |
| games. At the time, though, they seemed highly | | | | realism. Joysticks, yokes and rudder pedals |
| advanced and they created the baseline for | | | | offered a whole new challenge to the flight |
| future games. | | | | simulator game, but it also made it much more |
| Finally, in the early 1980's, video game consoles | | | | enjoyable. The good thing is that you can still just |
| started to gain popularity and games like Donkey | | | | use your computer keyboard to play a game too, |
| Kong and Zelda were big hits. Other games were | | | | if you can't afford to buy other controllers. |
| created that ushered in the modern style of 3D | | | | Online play opened up a new way to hook up |
| graphics, but most visual effects still looked pretty | | | | with other pilots playing the same game, and fly in |
| 2D and movement was not very natural. | | | | formation. It also allows you to update software |
| The games consoles were soon followed by | | | | and add new downloads more quickly and easily. |
| gaming computers with sounds cards. Game | | | | With technology constantly changing, the realism |
| controllers and joysticks began to be sold with | | | | of the flight simulator game will no doubt keep |
| the systems to allow for more realistic action. As | | | | improving along with it. Soon, you will not be able |
| computer graphics continued to improve, the flight | | | | to tell the difference between what is virtual |
| simulator game manufacturers were able to | | | | reality and what is real. |
| replicate the detailing of both the inside and | | | | |