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Airline Tycoon Deluxe

Viva Media LLC
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Platforms
Windows PC
Alcohol Reference, Mild Suggestive Themes, Mild Violence, Use of Tobacco
No Interactive Elements
Rating Summary

This is a business simulation game in which players manage an airline and compete against other airline tycoons. Players can manage personnel, buy and maintain airplanes, take out loans, and select specific routes or flight types (e.g., passenger or cargo). Players can also engage in unconventional business practices to beat out the competition: they have the ability to hire a man to perform acts of sabotage on competitors' daily operations. The list of harmful acts range from the comedic to the disturbing: adding too much salt to food, publishing a fake press release, hacking a bank account, putting bacteria in coffee, bombing an office (depicted), causing a plane to crash (not depicted)—dialogue conveys that people "could have died." [italics added] While players are often scolded, penalized, or punished by the head manager when sabotage has been carried out, the ability to hire a man (dressed in army fatigues, brandishing machine guns) to cause competitors' airplanes to crash accounts for the Teen rating. During the course of the game, players can interact with several characters around the airport (not just the saboteur), including a female sales clerk wearing a low-cut dress that exposes moderate cleavage. In one sequence, players find her bra in an overhead compartment (amidst high heels and a bottle) and return it to the sultry clerk, who responds, "Oh, thank you. I've been looking for it everywhere." Managers, mechanics, and patrons are often depicted with cigarettes in their mouths—sometimes taking a few puffs.

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