Love at first flight?
Video games are amazing escapism, aren’t they? One day you’re exercising your destructive tendencies, running through a jungle smashing crates as a wild-eyed marsupial or wrecking some poor bloke’s car as you escape from the cops; the next, you’re living out one in a collection of incredibly niche job-related fantasies — from becoming the operator of your very own theme park to taking over the management of your favourite football team.
Originally released in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation (and later Sega Saturn and Windows PCs), Koei’s Air Management ’96 definitely belongs to the latter camp, being less about pulse-raising action and more about savvy business planning, clever budgeting, and the satisfaction of a job well done. A successor to the video game Air Management for 16-bit consoles (known as Aerobiz in the West), it was available exclusively in Japan, but has now received a complete English translation (for the PS1 version), courtesy of the hacker/translator Saralene, as of yesterday.
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Love at first flight?
Video games are amazing escapism, aren’t they? One day you’re exercising your destructive tendencies, running through a jungle smashing crates as a wild-eyed marsupial or wrecking some poor bloke’s car as you escape from the cops; the next, you’re living out one in a collection of incredibly niche job-related fantasies — from becoming the operator of your very own theme park to taking over the management of your favourite football team.
Originally released in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation (and later Sega Saturn and Windows PCs), Koei’s Air Management ’96 definitely belongs to the latter camp, being less about pulse-raising action and more about savvy business planning, clever budgeting, and the satisfaction of a job well done. A successor to the video game Air Management for 16-bit consoles (known as Aerobiz in the West), it was available exclusively in Japan, but has now received a complete English translation (for the PS1 version), courtesy of the hacker/translator Saralene, as of yesterday.
Read the full article on timeextension.com