The company would license the game out to Microsoft who would then go on to spend the next twenty years making subsequent titles a staple for their platforms. You might not remember subLOGIC or their first two flight simulator titles appearing on the 8bit machines of the era but you’re likely to know of the legacy they left behind. I suppose if they thought it was worth bundling with the system (that also had Missile Command built in) then it must be a pretty decent game, right? Thankfully there isn’t a shortage of copies of the game – with the release of the XE Game System, Atari produced cartridge versions of Flight Simulator II which were also pack-ins for the machine. Now that I am back retro gaming on my Atari machines it seemed like a good enough opportunity to go back and see just what I had missed out on back then. Why they moved the port from top of the system to the rear is beyond me. The Flight Simulator II cartridge hooked up to my Atari 130XE.
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