Graphical Evolution of Microsoft Flight Simulator (1982-2020)
193Evolution of all Microsoft Flight Simulator games from 1982-2020!
Microsoft Flight Simulator (often abbreviated as MSFS or FS) is a series of amateur flight simulator programs for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and earlier for MS-DOS and Classic Mac OS. It is one of the longest-running, best-known, and most comprehensive home flight simulator programs on the market. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed significantly from Microsoft's other software, which was largely business-oriented. At 37 years old, it is the longest-running software product line for Microsoft, predating Windows by three years. Microsoft Flight Simulator may be the longest-running PC game series of all time.
Bob Carson began the development of Flight Simulator in 1977. His company, Sublogic, initially distributed it for various personal computers. In 1981, Artwick was approached by Microsoft's Alan M. Boyd who was interested in creating a "definitive game" that would graphically demonstrate the difference between older 8-bit computers, such as the Apple II, and the new 16-bit computers, such as the IBM PC, still in development. In 1982, Artwick's company licensed a version of Flight Simulator for the IBM PC to Microsoft, which marketed it as Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00.
In 2009, Microsoft closed down Aces Game Studio, which was the department responsible for creating and maintaining the Flight Simulator series. In 2014, Dovetail Games were granted the rights by Microsoft to port the Gold Edition of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X to Steam and publish Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition.
Microsoft announced a new installment at E3 in 2019, simply titled Microsoft Flight Simulator, to be released initially on PC and ported over to the Xbox Series X at a later date. It will be released on August 18 on PC. However, the Xbox edition is likely to come one 2021 or late 2020.
On July 12, 2020, Microsoft opened up preorders and announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC will be available on August 18, 2020. The company announced three different versions of the title — standard, deluxe, and premium deluxe, each providing an incremental set of gameplay features, including airports, and airplanes to choose from] The pricing ranged from US $59.99 for standard, to US $89.99 for deluxe, and US $119.99 for the premium deluxe edition.
Games included in the video:
1982 Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0
1984 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.0
1988 Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0
1989 Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0
1993 Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0
1995 Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1
1996 Microsoft Flight Simulator 95
1997 Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
1999 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
2001 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
2003 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
2006 Microsoft Flight Simulator X
2012 Microsoft Flight
2020 Microsoft Flight Simulator
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