''A320 Airbus'' is an

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released in 1991 in which the player pilots an

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. The game was developed over three years with cooperation from

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, and

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. The game was written by Rainer Bopf for the

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and converted to the

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by Christian Jungen. The most recent version of the game is 1.44. In 1993, Thalion published two data disks which could be played as a separate game. They were based on the latest version of the game engine, but focused on different flying areas. ''Europe Edition'' covered the area of Europe and ''USA Edition'' covered the area of USA. In the latter the player was able to choose the region of West Coast USA or North East USA. In 1995, Games 4 Europe published an official sequel called ''A320 Airbus Vol. 2''. It was entirely written by Rainer Bopf with no additional help from third parties.

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* * * 1991 video games Airbus A320 family Amiga games Atari ST games DOS games General flight simulators Single-player video games Thalion Software games Video games developed in Germany {{amiga-game-stub