I remember seeing and playing the flight sims of the 80s as a kid and being so bored by basically staring at a line on the screen (horizon), nothing happening f

I remember seeing and playing the flight sims of the 80s as a kid and being so bored by basically staring at a line on the screen (horizon), nothing happening for what felt like hours and then ‘crashing’ which just said ‘game over’, young me having no clue what happened. I can reason the difference between old and modern games, but for me gameplay has not been ‘more fun’; I find 80s Gradius the same pleasure to play as the latest Doom (and Crash 2+3 or Monkey Island 1+2 better than anything I can find now, but taste, you know). With simulators (cars, planes, ...) however I see how far we came; those I simply did not find playable until far into the 2000s and this really looks amazing. I consider Alien Isolation a sort of simulator of the original Alien movie (the feel is the same for me); this was attempted in the 80s as well and failed as well. Now it works perfectly.