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* The original ''[[Strider Hiryu|Strider]]'' assumes that the Soviet Union will still be around by the year 2048. In fact, the first stage is set in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, a former Soviet state now known as Kazakhstan.
* ''[[Harpoon]]'' was around ''before'' the Soviet Union collapsed. After it happened, there was a big scramble to create new scenarios that weren't obsolete. Of course, since it was a simulation the existing ones were still developed.
* ''[[Aerobiz]]'': The second entry in the series predicted supersonic airliners (despite being banned overland since the 1970s due to damage caused by sonic booms) and 1000+ passenger super-jumbo jets in the 2000's, missing the large scale move from regular airliners to smaller, more fuel-efficient Regional Jets for most small and medium-sized routes. 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, and the terrible economic impact that the 2000's would have on airlines around the world.
** 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.
** Work on a device that would eliminate the damage of supersonic flight began in 2016, a year ''after'' the game ends, and only reached air testing stages in April 2022.
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