This morning, all I heard was Northwest this and Delta that and Cincinnati and Memphis and hubs and headquarters and blah blah blah.
With all of this merger talk running rampant – I mean, we’re talking big important stuff here – is it bad that the only thing I could think of was playing Aerobiz for my Super Nintendo?
Games like this amaze me. Like Railroad Tycoon. Or SimFarm. How did games like this get made? Who said, “We need a game that’s actually a job!” and someone else in the room said, “PERFECT!”
Aerobiz was my favorite – you play as an airport executive, you raise ticket prices, you forge into Paris and purchase DC-10s. Now that I think about it, it sounds pretty boring. But I loved it.
Now, if only I had a Super Nintendo. Because I just can’t seem to hop on that emulator bandwagon.
I loved this game — truly loved it.
In general, I love business simulation games, and not enough of them are made. My original favorites were a trio of games for the original Mac which I played for hours in the public library in Pinole, California back in 1984.
– Baron, a real estate simulation (*always* buy the industrial park…)
– Millionaire, a stock market simulation
– Tycoon, a commodities trading simulation (which I never quite understood)
And then there’s Sim City, perhaps the most all encompassing business simulation ever.
Sim City was great – I’ve had and played the shit out of all of them.
But even better than Sim City?
Sid Meyer’s Sim Golf.
You take one part Will Wright, one part Sid Meyer, one part Sims and one part Tiger Woods. I still break this out once every few months and tool around with making my own golf course.
Who’d have thought that when you take Civilization and Sim City and mash them together, you’d have an addicting game featuring Gary Golf.
Mashuno!
You know I love the Aerobiz. My brother and I play Aerobiz Supersonic every now and again.
Corey, I didn’t know you played, we could have brought out the SNES and all 4 of us could have a go at it.
Finally some competition on that game. The CPU sucks.
You didn’t know I played? Were all of those nights playing Aerobiz before we closed FuncoLand just a figment of my imagination??