Airfight

Airfight is an early 3D graphics-based multi-user flight simulator, created on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Control Data Corporation (CDC) PLATO system in the early 1970s.[1][2][3]

The software was the first ever 3D flight simulator and the first multi-player flight simulator.[2] The first version was developed by Brand Fortner with Kevin Gorey in the summer of 1974.[4] After its release, it became the most popular game on PLATO until Empire became more popular. This software probably inspired the UIUC student Bruce Artwick to start the company Sublogic,[4] which was acquired and later became Microsoft Flight Simulator.[5]

  1. ^ Fortner, Brand (1974), Airfight (3-D flight simulator)
  2. ^ a b "Airfight (PLATO) 1974". Ultimate History of Video Games. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  3. ^ "My first flight sim? 'airfight' on the PLATO system in the mid 70s". Reddit. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Bruce Artwick and Stu Moment – The Flight Simulator Men". History of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 (DOS) 1982". Ultimate History of Video Games. Retrieved 21 December 2021.