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]

See also

References
  1. Fortner, Brand (1974), Airfight (3-D flight simulator)
  2. "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. "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.

Further reading
  • Dear, Brian (2017). The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-1101871553.
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