In contrast, this "flying game" was really some kind of simulation, where I could explore the 3D world as freely as the air plane would let me move around. Starwing (AKA Starfox) used a special chip in the cartridge and still wasn't as impressive to me, since it was so limited in where you could go. I remember sitting there figuring out how to fly around with this virtual air plane and just watching the scenery and being amazed by how that ancient machine could draw such environments which even the SNES seemed to struggle with. The reason it was so fascinating to me was the way it drew "real 3D" graphics, albeit very primitive wireframe such, and at a very low FPS. ![]() It had a cartridge called "Flight Simulator II" which was very fascinating to me, even though I was able to run DOOM. In the magical mid-1990s, when we already had got our (second-hand) 486 PC and I had both a NES and SNES, I for some reason got my paws on an old Atari "XE Game System" (8-bit, 1987).
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