Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1
Flight Simulator 5.1 add the ability to handle scenery libraries including wide use of satellite imagery, faster performance, and a barrage of weather effects: storms, 3D clouds, and fog became true-to-life…
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 is a simulator developed by Microsoft, released 31 December 1995 on DOS.
What Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 is
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 is a simulator game developed by Microsoft and released in 1995. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Flight Simulator 5.1 add the ability to handle scenery libraries including wide use of satellite imagery, faster performance, and a barrage of weather effects: storms, 3D clouds, and fog became true-to-life elements in the Flight Simulator world. This edition was also the first version that was released on CD-ROM and the last for DOS.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 launched on 31 December 1995, within three weeks of Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia and Screamer. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia, Screamer.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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