12 Video Game Genres That Desperately Need A Comeback

4. Flight Simulators

The Genre: Though the flight sim genre was held up through the 2000s by series such as IL-2 Sturmovik, the undisputed king was Microsoft Flight Simulator, which launched way back in 1982 and released its last edition in 2006. So authentic was the game by this point that it could actually be used to train pilots, and for those without the money or nerve to do it for real, it was a way to experience a fraction of the thrill of flying an aircraft. What Happened: It was a niche genre to begin with, but as the gaming audience became larger in the mid-2000s, it just didn't seem profitable to keep these games pumping out, and so short of action-based efforts like H.A.W.X., War Thunder and so on, the more delicate side of the genre died out. Why It Needs A Comeback: Because it's been almost a decade since the last MSF game came out (aside from last year's enhanced Steam edition), and enthusiasts are long overdue an upgrade of their old software. If there can be train simulators, garbage disposal simulators and even pigeon dating simulators in the modern age, there has to be room for a resurgence of authentic flight sims.