Microsoft Flight Simulator comes on 10 discs

Fancy getting a physical copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator instead of the digital version? Then expect it to come on 10 discs.

That’s 10 double-layer DVDs, publisher Aerosoft, which struck a deal with Microsoft to ship a physical version of the game across Europe, revealed.

“Aerosoft will bring the two boxed versions of this venerable simulator to customers in Europe,” Aerosoft’s Mathijs Kok wrote in a forum post. “Including 10 (!) double-layer DVDs and a printed manual in a spectacular box, it is an ideal way of entering the new age of flight simulation.”

Is 10 discs a record for a video game? It might be. Roberta Williams’ 1995 point-and-click Phantasmagoria came on seven discs. 1998 point-and-click Black Dahlia came on eight discs. 2004 MMO EverQuest 2 came on nine discs (with one bonus disc included). I remember The Secret of Monkey Island 2 came on 11 floppy disks for the Amiga, but that was diskettes, not discs. Different ball game.

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So, what do you get for your 10 discs? Well, the retail version of Microsoft Flight Simulator contains the simulator code itself (which is relatively small in terms of data), and the virtual world it’s set in, which, according to Aerosoft, is around 90GB. There’s also “optional online streamed content”, and optional third-party files.