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Airfight is an early 3D graphics-based multi-user flight simulator, created on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Control Data Corporation (CDC) PLATO system in the early 1970s.[1][2][3]

The software was the first ever 3D flight simulator and the first multi-player flight simulator.[2] The first version was developed by Brand Fortner with Kevin Gorey in the summer of 1974.[4] After its release, it became the most popular game on PLATO until Empire became more popular. This software probably inspired the UIUC student Bruce Artwick to start the company Sublogic,[4] which was acquired and later became Microsoft Flight Simulator.[5]

See also

• Microsoft Flight Simulator (1982)
• SGI Dogfight, a Silicon Graphics multi-user flight simulator (1985)

References

Further reading

• Dear, Brian (2017). The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-1101871553.

External links

• "Airfight (1974) – First 3D flight simulator". Ultimate History of Video Games. YouTube. 4 May 2018.
• "The history of Airfight, one of the first multiplayer flight combat simulation games". The Life & Times of Video Games. YouTube. 4 May 2018.

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