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It was jammed full of cockpit diagrams, keyboard shortcuts, and navigation maps for my future voyages around the world.
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I remember the car journey home and marvelling at how thick the manual was, and that it opened with a section on basic aviation concepts. If memory serves I made it to at least £18 which was waaaay short of the target, but I think by this point my parents had grown weary of me picking up every 1p coin from the street and presumably hassling every family member who visited for loose change so they finally agreed to make up the rest as I’d clearly displayed enough desire for what I’m guessing they initially assumed was a passing want. … I don’t know why we ended up in Staples so often… neither of my parents had their own business or worked from home… what were we doing with all these office supplies? All the while, every time we went back to Staples, I’d stare longingly at that box. Keep in mind I was only 10-ish and not exactly pulling in the big bucks I received £1.50 a week (£2.86 in today’s money) and that would have to cover a comic and possibly some sweets, but I did mange to start putting some money away and gradually the jam jar funds began to grow. This may have been the single greatest piece of financial education I received because even now I tend to imagine my savings account as that jam jar with a slot cut in the lid (Thanks Dad) that was sealed shut with sticky tape a small notebook beside so that I could keep track of how much I put in there. So my parents told me that if I wanted it, I would have to save up my pocket money for it.
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The screenshots on the back looked phenomenal the nearest thing to photo realistic gaming I’d ever seen, the ability to fly anywhere in the world! I wanted to own Microsoft Flight Simulator ’95, possibly more than I’d ever wanted to own another game, but it was expensive – I can’t really remember how expensive, but way more than ‘special treat’ expensive and way more than a ‘Mega Drive Game’ expensive. In truth an older slightly savvier version of me might have realised that the very fact that it was in Staples should’ve been my first warning sign, but that 10-ish year old version of me was transfixed by this box. It also wasn’t at all the place that you should be buying ‘games’. It was in Staples that giant of office supplies that ruled the world as a kind of evil empire at a time when Rolodex and Filofax were status symbols. Especially as there was often a smaller box inside and who had the shelf space at home to store these things? I don’t think that I managed to retain a single big box from my childhood. Either way, looking back, it was kind of dumb.
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PC games were different however, they came in novelty oversized cardboard boxes, a fitting reminder of the PC master race’s superiority perhaps… or maybe it was just to take up more of a shop display because there weren’t as many of them.
In the 90’s console games had neat plastic cases that stacked nicely, the newly launched PS1 has sleek jewel cases for its games, and even the Sega Saturn had its own unique aspect ratio version along the same theme. Oh yes, this was the time of big box versions. I guess it must’ve been 1995… or 1996… around then anyway… when I first saw the big box version of MSFS95. Oh, how I wanted Microsoft Flight Simulator ’95. I’ve played plenty of games that felt somewhere close to ‘a job’ in the past including ‘Viscera Cleanup Detail’ and ‘SpaceChem’ so I can understand that there is appeal in performing virtual-mundane tasks.Īlmost immediately after having this thought however I suddenly remembered something: Microsoft Flight Simulator ’95. … and if this is your thing then drive-on good person, drive-on! I’m not judging. I wandered away from the stand with two distinct thoughts: firstly, despite being touted as something super realistic, it’s clearly not because who drives a bus from a third person perspective? and secondly that this is a game I don’t understand. Aside from the odd curb clipping incident and missing a stop by a few feet (shocking!) very little happened for the few minutes that we stood and watched four different people have a go.
Strolling around the halls of Rezzed last weekend, my wife and I paused for a while to watch ‘Bus Simulator’ it’s a game where you drive a bus… around a route… and stop to pick up passengers.
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