September 1, 2003

AeroBiz

Well, I hope everyone had a laborious Labor Day weekend. I did, doing a little bebop up to Baylor to see my sister, where luckily the basketball team didn't attempt to kill me. That'd be a cool new tagline for Baylor as a school: Come here or we'll kill you (we mean it). And then after that, I went down to San Antonio where I got some quality time with Willy Ed and his band of delinquent slubberdegullions. For everyone who thinks I made up the word slubberdegullion, stuff this in a sack and boil it. I don't know why I'm writing any of this because it generally bores my butt off when I'm reading about what someone did over the weekend. So, I'll spice it up a little bit and say that Will and I killed a unicorn while I was down there. We're still arguing over who gets to keep the horn.

Back like two years ago, there was this Super Nintendo game that I was really into called AeroBiz, where you simulated running your own airline. It's a game that would only appeal to autistic children and myself. That's not a knock on us as a game playing group, but you don't see lots of 9 year olds gathered around the Super Nintendo, exclaiming "I need some runwyas at the Cairo airport ASAP or Aero Booty is screwed!" Anyway, I was playing it today some on my SNES emulator and it's just as good as I remember it. But if you're to do a sim game based on being the CEO of an airline, why not do it for all sorts of stuff? Here are a few scenarios I'd like to see played out in games for the Super Nintendo:

  • Cashier at a Wax Museum
  • Regional Manager for a Corndog Supply Store
  • Manager of Quality Control for a Wig Factory

    If people thought Grand Theft Auto was good, just wait until those blockbusters come out, especially if you could get some super immersive 3d crap going. Also, those games would need a game pad, kind of like Dance Dance Revolution or Track and Field for Nintendo. I don't currently have the resources to make these games a reality, but I'm sharing them so all of us will know what's up when Microsoft comes out with Corndog Tycoon or Sim WigFactory.

    Posted by Cody at September 1, 2003 7:17 PM
  • Comments

    hello Cody,
    my name is Don and i also loved the thought of being a CEO of an airline, i cant find it though for an emulator, so if you know where i could, that would be way cool. I had a lot of fun playing the game in my youth.

    Posted by: Don Williams at April 8, 2004 11:47 PM

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