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[[File:Aerobiz_6541.jpg|frame| [[Incredibly Lame Pun|The sky is the limit.]]]]
Aerobiz was a [[Simulation Game]] made in 1992 by Koei, a company that is big on simulation games. The basic premise is you are starting a new international airline and you have to lead it to global dominance against three other competing airlines. The game provides a wide range of freedom and surprising level of depth and complexity for a 16-bit
* ''Aerobiz'' -- released in 1992 on both [[Super NES]] and [[Sega Genesis]]
* ''Aerobiz Supersonic'' -- Released in 1994 on both [[Super NES]] and [[Sega Genesis]]
* ''Air Management '96 '' -- released in 1996 on [[Sega Saturn]] only in Japan
Each successive installment expanded gameplay by adding more aircraft, more cities and adding or refining features and interface. The first installment is the most famous while the other two are nearly unheard of
As a player, you have control over routes flown, planes purchased, peripheral businesses bought, advertising, maintenance & service budgets, regional hub opening, and other business aspects. However, the game still subjects you to (mostly) historically accurate political and economic events (such as wars), natural disasters & weather effects, and random events (such as forced landings or crashes). For example, a player starting an airline in Moscow in any of the cold war eras of play, would initially be restricted to buying only Soviet aircraft and major relations disadvantages in trying to open routes to western cities.
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* [[AFGNCAAP]]: The player is this type of character as the CEO of a major global airline.▼
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* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: The game restricts your airline to no more than 40 total routes.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The AI would continue to purchase outdated, inefficient airliners even after newer, cheaper and more efficient planes are made available. would regularly place the largest, most inefficient airliners in its fleet on low density routes and then leave them there despite losing big bucks and its competition (you) opening the same route with a small, high efficiency airliner and turning a profit.
* [[Console Wars]]: Initially ported to both the [[Sega Genesis]] and [[Super NES]] consoles, the final installment was on the [[Sega Saturn]] only.
* [[Easy Logistics]]: You never have to worry about ensuring adequate ground support equipment is available for your airliners at their destinations, nor do you have to worry about flight scheduling, maintenance issues, etc...
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* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up|The Great Aviation Economics Mess Up]]: ''Supersonic'' predicted supersonic airliners and 1000+ passenger super-jumbo jets in the 2000's.
** It also failed to portray a large number of very prominent cities that cropped up in the late 1990's & early 2000's, such as Dubai, UAE.
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** On a lesser scale, it also predicted the next Airbus airliner would be the A350 (which is only now being conceptualized), and that McDonnell-Douglas would produce the early concept "MD-12" (a stretched MD-11) and still be an independent manufacturer.
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: ''Supersonic'' featured "Glider", "Prop", "Jet", "Jumbo Jet", & "Supersonic" difficulties.
** [[Non
*** This gets reversed at the highest difficulty, where the goals don't change, but the computer drops its [[Artificial Stupidity]] and [[Let's Get Dangerous|gets serious about competing with the player]].
* [[Instant Win Condition]]: Regardless of size or overall passenger totals, the first airline to meet all the goals, wins. This can lead to some odd situations where a large airline, dominating the passenger totals, profits by big margins, loses to a much smaller airline that happen to dominate their home region and expand into three otherwise ignored regions.
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* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: Though most aircraft have historically accurate phase-in and discontinuation dates, they don't feature accurate seating capacities or operational ranges.
* [[Karl Marx Hates Your Guts]]: Though you can sell old aircraft to "World Lease" at half-price, you can never purchase any used aircraft to bolster your fleet, and all aircraft are sold at a fixed price which never moves even as the design ages.
* [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules]] / [[Not Playing Fair
* [[No Bulk Discounts]]: Aircraft prices are not eased by purchasing in large quantities. However, manufacturers will sometimes offer their planes at half-price for one turn. One cannot imagine how much money Boeing loses when you buy 10x 747-400s at half price and never purchase another one again.
* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: Justified as the goal is to start and expand an airline.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The ''Supersonic Era'' from the 1994-released ''Aerobiz Supersonic'' has the player starting in 2000.
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