Back in the day Virgin Atlantic (and others?) hosted a version of the SNES. I played Link to the Past on a flight from London to Cape Town and, as the first lon

Back in the day Virgin Atlantic (and others?) hosted a version of the SNES. I played Link to the Past on a flight from London to Cape Town and, as the first long haul flight I'd been on, I thought it was normal. By far the best in-flight gaming experience I've had [0]. Pretty much all carriers have D-pad controllers, though the inputs tend to be very spongy. I don't think people use them much anyway because the touch screen is more intuitive and orienting the controller with respect to the screen is a surprisingly bad user experience (some are vertical, some are horizontal, wrapping never works well). The games are improving a bit because the hardware is actually quite good now (some of the newer aircraft even have per-seat bluetooth). American has Plants vs Zombies, for example. I've played Luxor somwhere, and there are occasionally good puzzlers like Sokoban which I rarely play anywhere else. Annoying that the game has to cache and reload every time there's an announcement. The mid 00s systems are pretty terrible, but newer seat back displays are pretty great in terms of resolution/quality for what they are. [0]https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Gateway_System https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Gateway_System