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Airline Pilots

Airline Pilots is a flight simulator released for Sega NAOMI arcade hardware in 1999. The game simulates flying a Boeing 777 aircraft, and was developed with the input of engineers and pilots from Japan…

1 March 1999

Airline Pilots is a simulator developed by SEGA AM1, released 1 March 1999 on Arcade.

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What Airline Pilots is

Airline Pilots is a simulator game developed by SEGA AM1 and released in 1999. It is available on Arcade only. It runs on Sega NAOMI.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Airline Pilots is a flight simulator released for Sega NAOMI arcade hardware in 1999. The game simulates flying a Boeing 777 aircraft, and was developed with the input of engineers and pilots from Japan Airlines. Two different cabinet models were manufactured. The default type is a typical sit down cabinet with one monitor, while the "DX type" cabinet features three side-by-side 29" monitors, which surround the player to create a "cockpit". The extreme difficulty of "Airline Pilots", combined with a lack of interest in realistic flight simulators, led Sega to manufacture a conversion kit which allowed owners to convert the units into the more popular Sega Strike Fighter. As a result…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Airline Pilots launched on 1 March 1999, within three weeks of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill and Syphon Filter.

Released around the same time: Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill, Syphon Filter.

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When did Airline Pilots come out?
Airline Pilots was released on 1 March 1999 for Arcade.

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