Play Air Management - Oozora ni Kakeru (Japan) on sega Online

Game Overview

Ever wanted to run an airline without leaving your couch? Air Management - Oozora ni Kakeru on the Sega Genesis is basically that—a weirdly addictive little sim where you’re suddenly in charge of flight routes, ticket prices, and keeping your planes from turning into money pits. The menus are all in Japanese, but after fumbling through the first hour, you start picking up the icons (fuel costs still haunt my dreams).

What’s cool is how it mixes big decisions—like buying new jets—with tiny details, like watching your pixelated planes taxi around crudely drawn airports. It’s got that early ‘90s charm where everything looks like it was drawn on graph paper, but somehow that just makes routing flights between Sapporo and Osaka more satisfying. Just don’t expect modern tutorials—half the fun is figuring out why your airline keeps going bankrupt by 1993.

If you’ve got patience for retro Japanese sims, this one’s a quirky time capsule worth dusting off.