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Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0

Like the previous release, version 4 included scenery for five cities (New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago). It featured CGA through VGA (in EGA resolution) support, and multi-user play…

31 December 1989

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 is a simulator developed by The Bruce Artwick Organization, released 31 December 1989 on DOS.

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What Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 is

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 is a simulator game developed by The Bruce Artwick Organization and released in 1989. It was published by Microsoft. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Like the previous release, version 4 included scenery for five cities (New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago). It featured CGA through VGA (in EGA resolution) support, and multi-user play. Version 4 also supported newer add-ons such as Microsoft's Aircraft & Scenery Designer, and Sublogic's USA scenery series.
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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

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.

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When did Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 come out?
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 was released on 31 December 1989 for DOS.

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