Flight Simulator II from subLOGIC was released for Christmas 1983, with Softalk writing The biggest new entry was an old entry refurbished. Flight Simulator II, an enhanced graphics version of the old standard, could have sold a million if SubLogic could have made and shipped them. One Chicago store sold twenty-two copies in forty-eight hours and couldn't get more before Christmas. No product had stronger demand in December that this one..

Version 2.0 of this game was released in 1984.