Aerobiz

business simulation video game for the Super Nintendo and Mega Drive/Genesis

Aerobiz  Review

Aerobiz (Air Management: Ōzora ni Kakeru in Japan) is a business simulation video game for the Super Nintendo and Mega Drive/Genesis game consoles, released in 1992 by KOEI.As CEO of an international airline, the player has a limited amount of time to expand their business to become the industry leader against three other airlines (either AI-controlled or human opponents). The player has control over many aspects of how their airline develops, such as the name, investments, what routes to fly, plane purchases, and much more while at the mercy of world events such as politics (for instance, if you run your airline out of Moscow, you can initially only buy Soviet planes, and you have a harder time negotiating with Western nations) and natural disasters. The player can also get the company involved in peripheral businesses such as hotels.The sequel Aerobiz Supersonic was released in August, 1994 for the SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis. The player is presented with a wider variety of options in everything, but the game play is much the same. Another sequel known as Air Management '96 was released only in Japan for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation.