“Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
Microsoft Flight Simulator
First released in 1982 it is one of the longest-running PC game series and predating Windows by three years it is the longest-running Microsoft product. The latest iteration uses AI-technology to create a 3D map from satellite imagery of Microsofts own map service Bing, allowing the user to travel to any place in the world.
Other Flight Simulators: Aerofly FS4 || X-Plane 12
Reentry – An Orbital Simulator
Join the NASA academy and go through the history of spaceflight from the first manned space flight with Mercury atop the Redstone rocket to landing on the moon with Apollo… and returning home. You can also take up the job of Mission Control on the ground and there are more things to come such as the russian Vostok-1!
Links: Steam
Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2016 Edition
Fed up with space games that insult your intelligence and violate every law of physics? Orbiter is a simulator that gives you an idea what space flight really feels like – today and in the not so distant future. And best of all: you can download it for free!
Link: Orbiter
Train Sim World 3 & 4
