Games of my childhood #5 of 7
Looking back at this, it’s incredible to see just how involved the games I played as a kid were. It’s been an age since I played anything so complex looking. This makes me sad. Airline Tycoon thrust you into the classy, cut-throat world of Airline management. You picked your character out of a few Airline brands (I was always Falcon Lines, and wore a snazzy great suit) and did your best to stay on top of things. Once you got friendly with a petroleum seller, you could speak to a terrorist who hid behind a rotatable wall covered by a fire extinguisher. He could sabotage your competition, making your airline seem better by comparison. Things like overly salted food causing the Pilot to momentarily lose control of the plane. If I’ve noticed one thing looking back at all these games, it’s that they have a quality of good old fashioned humour about them that games don’t seem to have now. At the beginning of each new day, everyone would be called into the Airport manager’s office for debriefing, and a telling off if it was discovered you were the cause of the latest office bombing. It’s a superb game, and watching this makes me want to install it again…
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Still play this occasionally.
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