The biggest hint is that this is called 'Microsoft' Flight Simulator. Read more: Best gaming laptops for 2020 Sorry, Mac gamers And, the game takes up almost 130GB of hard drive space, so better clear off some room. I'm using a laptop with a Nvidia 2080 GPU and Core i7-9750H right now, and that's just about acceptable, if I drop the resolution to 1,920x1,080 pixels. The 'official' minimum specs to play the 2020 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator is an Intel Intel Core i5-4460 CPU, Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 (or Radeon RX 570) and 8GB of RAM. Obviously the best option is a high-end flight stick, but many of the top models are sold out right now. I could have gone into the settings and tried to remap some of the controls manually, but instead I switched to a gamepad, which worked better. The game didn't seem to recognize this, or if it did, it didn't care. My laptop, of course, did not have a separate number pad. But, during the tutorial, one of the very first instructions was to take control of the yoke by using the number pad. On my first attempt, I went with the keyboard-and-mouse control option on my gaming laptop. Good luck playing with a keyboard and mouse It feels a lot like the 3D view in Google Maps, with satellite images skinned over 3D structures.

Guiding myself by local landmarks from the Statue of Liberty to the Gowanus Canal, I quickly found my neighborhood, and by following the elevated subway tracks, was able to buzz right by my building, which was rendered at a decent level of authentic detail.

Naturally, one of the first things I did in Microsoft Flight Simulator was to take off from JFK airport and attempt to find my Brooklyn apartment. I have not particularly kept up with the genre, but the hype around the 2020 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator got me interested in strapping in and giving it a go. The first flight sim I ever played was Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer back in the late 1980s on my Tandy 1000.

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