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396:- obviously, it's difficult to find sources for such an old and obscure computer game. Bearing that in mind, I think the references found by Fences & Windows above are sufficient to keep this stub. It's pretty borderline, but the references show that it did at least exist; and theoretically this article could be expanded to say more about it. 319:
The relevance of anything like this needs anchoring with secondary sources, if nobody else has written about the significance of this program and slotted it into the history of the genre then we can't do it ourselves. There are numerous books and magazines which delve into the history of video games,
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of flight simulation history at all? Was it influential on subsequent flight simulation software in any way? Was it often cited as an example (doesn't seem so if I have to judge from the scarcity of references on thge web)? Also, what sense does it make to "keep" and "merge" an article that's barely
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My third link had the 1979 link, but got rejected as a spam site. :-( And of course none of those links are actually usable as refs). It appears to have been reprinted a number of times, which adds to the confusion, and It seems to have also gone under the names 747 and Jet Simulator Electronic
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Nice hunting. But as a type-in program it's unlikely to have any reliable third-party verification. The Moby Games submission claims that its publication date was November 1982? I remember typing the BASIC code for this into my ZX Spectrum ::
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Seemingly fails to meet notability guidelines, has had templates pointing to that for quite a while, but was still left dangling. I couldn't readily find any information about this program in a web search.
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It seems that some users have found some (weak) references, and although I don't believe the references that have been found assert notability in any way, I'd like to
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from a 1982 BYTE, and a bunch of mentions on messageboards, but I'm yet to turn up something that nails down 1979. I'll do another ound of googling tonight.
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and figure out appropriate merge target. Doesn't need to be lost from flight sim history. Just needs to worked in appropriately somewhere.
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=%2BJetset%20%22flight%20simulator%22%20&um=1&ned=uk&hl=en&sa=N&tab=sp
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one sentence? If information about this game needs to be moved into another article, one may as well rewrite. --
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Uninvolved editors are asked to review the debate and close it as Nomination Withdrawn.
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The editor who nominated this article for deletion wishes to Withdraw the nomination.
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due to the lack of secondary sources, not a potential merge since nothing has been
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
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and what they uncover is what the focus should be on. No evidence of
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
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BJ
19:26, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Jetset (video game)
Jetset (video game)
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LjL
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20:18, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
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Marasmusine
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10:58, 5 July 2009 (UTC)


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