## Description
The conception of the Flight Simulator computer game series, still going
strong today, began in the late 1970’s with “FS1”, created by Bruce Artwick of
subLOGIC and released in early 1980. First came the Apple ][, with a very
scaled down instrument panel on bottom and outside/radar view on top, then the
TRS-80, with mere 128×48 monochrome graphics and thus numbers and bars
replacing the panel.
There was only one aircraft and one region: a 6×6 grid with “mountains”. The
user could press “W” and “declare war”, entering the WW1 “British Ace” game
mode. The objective was to shoot down enemy planes and bomb their base.
Both the Apple ][ and TRS-80 versions originally came on cassette tape. The
Apple ][ version was updated in 1981 with minor improvements.
Note that the first PC version, Microsoft Flight Simulator (v1.0), was
released two years later and is more similar to the 8-bit versions of Flight
Simulator II.
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