Mirosoft has managed to get practically everyone to agree with its latest Flight Simulator, which has reached overwhelming levels of realism and laid the foundations for a title that will extend over the next few years more as a service than as a launch. punctual. What’s more, proof of that spirit is that just a few days ago it celebrated its 40th anniversary since the launch of the first title in the saga back in the distant year 1982. Do you remember it?
A surprise birthday
Thus, Microsoft did not want to miss the opportunity to celebrate that birthday by remembering its old classics , those titles that laid the foundations of what is the best flight simulator of all time, and that you can enjoy within the current PC release. and Xbox Series X|S. What do not you believe it? Well yes, you will be able to enjoy flying with the first four Flight Simulators that arrived in the 80s, between that year 1982 and 1989, and that are already present after the last update.
Now, these Easter Eggs will not be playable where we want, that is, for example, within the main menu before starting to fly with the new Flight Simulator , but they have been added in a different way , while you wait, for example, for the tower gives you permission to take off, or just standing in the airport terminal while you do some time.
How to access the old Flight Simulator?
The procedure to get to those four original Flight Simulators from the years 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1989 is to access a game in which you must fly with a Diamond DA62, a classic plane model and that surely many of you have flown in one of the game versions. It is thanks to her that it will be possible to remember the old days. How? Well look.
The first thing you must do is, from the interior view of the cockpit, activate the so-called emergency locator that you will see to the right of the control panel, just below the radar screen and that it is possible to identify in the screenshot that you have just above . When you click on that button, you will see on the screen on the left, the HUD, how it suddenly changes.
That activation of the emergency locator in this plane will show the old games on the screen with their original graphic aspect. From Flight Simulator 1 that came with Hercules colors (ie black and white) to Flight Simulator 2, 3 and 4 that will be selectable by clicking on the buttons that appear on the game screen. Look, you can even see the old Microsoft logo, in blue, on the left, a retro wink for the most nostalgic.
Just below the game screen you will see more keys, which are necessary to play a game . In those 80s the number of aircraft controls was not as large as in the 2020 version, and with offering the typical access to the aircraft control (the cursors), remove the brake, increase and decrease the power of the engines and flaps, we already had enough to experience what in the 1980s were the most realistic flight experiences in the world.
So now you know, the new Flight Simulator has a little piece of its history now available to enjoy while we fly peacefully.