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Pilotwings Super Nintendo
A first-party flight simulation game for SNES featuring a variety of aerial vehicles and challenges.
Pilotwings is a flight simulation game developed and originally published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Players join an amateur flight school and take on a variety of flight-based challenges in order to complete certifications for a series of graded pilot licenses, with the ultimate goal of earning the highest certification and their golden "pilot wings". The game heavily showcases the Mode 7 graphical capabilities of the SNES, which are used to simulate three-dimensional spaces without relying on more processing-intensive rendering methods such as polygons.
Pilotwings was released within a month of the Super Famicom's November 1990 launch in Japan. It was a launch title for the SNES' North American debut in 1991.