Trivia / Microsoft Flight Simulator

• Demand Overload: The success of the 2020 game caused flight sticks to sell out in many stores.
• Distanced from Current Events: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 had a patch issued to remove the World Trade Center after the occurrence of the September 11 attacks. In all following releases, starting from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002, the World Trade Center remains absent, and the Crash Damage feature is absent.
• Follow the Leader: A variant; this series started a trend of other games named [X] Simulator that use an italic version of Helvetica Ultra Compressed (or something that looks similar to that typeface) for their logos' font, such as Farming Simulator and the satirical Goat Simulator.
• Killer App:
  • In The '80s, the game was a de facto test of IBM Personal Computer compatibility along with the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. If a clone could run the game, it was assumed that it could run any other IBM PC program.
  • The 2020 game became one of the PC games to play (especially for those with Xbox Game Pass for PC^note Renamed as PC Game Pass in 2021 or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate) during the COVID-19 Pandemic as travel became heavily restricted.
• Long-Runners: If you count the Sublogic-produced FS1 Flight Simulator from 1979 as part of the series, Microsoft Flight Simulator belongs to the elite group of games with releases spanning across six decades. Even if you don't, the first Microsoft Flight Simulator arrived in 1982, making it Older Than the NES.
• Multi-Disc Work: The physical edition of the 2020 version comes on an insane ten discs.
• Sequel Gap: The gap between Microsoft Flight Simulator X and the 2020 "reboot" spans 14 years.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Microsoft is intent on releasing the 2020 game's Top Gun: Maverick expansion on the exact same month as Maverick itself - no Delayed Release Tie-In for that content. And when Maverick was placed on the shelf (see its Trivia page), well...

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