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Fighter Pilot

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Change of subject: Games. 2D scrollers were more or less a kind of natural choice for machines of the 80s with sprite rendering capabilities. Game titles with 3D graphics were more of a challenge, especially because the calculation of the corresponding 3D objects including Z-buffering with only a few megahertz was definitely a challenge.

But titles like Elite have shown, that it was possible.

But there was another 3D genre. Namely that of flight simulators. And one of the more famous ones from the beginning of the 80's was Fighter Pilot.

Rob Caporetto took a look not only at Fighter Pilot, but also at some other titles for Atari, the C64 and the Spectrum, and published a worthwhile video on the subject.

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