![]() ![]() ![]() There are a few exceptions, like Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space, the old C64 game Project: Space Station, the Atari’s Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space and Microsoft’s flight sim spinoff Microsoft Space Simulator. Games about a recognizable modern space program featuring realistic rocketry and orbital mechanics, though? They are vanishingly rare. Most, though, don’t really involve anything even resembling celestial and orbital mechanics often, like in Star Wars, they fly more like planes than like actual rockets. And one of the very first video games, “Spacewar!” for the DEC PDP-1 minicomputer, featured two ships dogfighting in the gravity well of a star. There are some, like the long-running Elite series, that do feature realistic momentum and thrust, but gravity is rarely part of the equation. Yet games featuring realistic spaceflight are quite rare. SpaceQ featured Canada’s own Mass Effect series, where players jet from planet to planet in a growing war against ancient alien robots, as only one of countless examples. ![]() Sure, many games are based on science-fiction settings, featuring spaceships blasting each other with lasers. Space has a strange position in modern gaming. Enhanced Satellite Communication Project – Polar.Licensing Physicians for Practicing Medicine in Space March 14, 2023 ![]()
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