1998 arcade-style aircraft racer Plane Crazy gets a Championship Edition upgrade

Originally released in 1998, Plane Crazy from Inner Workings returns with the newer Plane Crazy Championship Edition from ZOOM Platform. At the original release it had a pretty mixed rating, partly due to the high difficulty of it. ZOOM Platform have been updating a getting refreshed releases out for a bunch of retro games like The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki back in May.

See the release trailer below:

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New in this edition:

• Support for high resolutions.
• Modern gamepad support.
• Additional quality of life configuration options:
  • Auto-skip all intros.
  • Invertible Y-Axis when using gamepads.
  • Permanent first person cockpit view option.
• Modern system compatibility and crash fixes, ensuring the game runs smoothly on today’s hardware and operating systems.

Over an email to GamingOnLinux a ZOOM Platform rep mentioned they aimed to ensure it worked smoothly on Linux via Wine / Proton and they noted: "To get technical for a bit, the last thing we were waiting for was figuring out the best way to force the native version of a dll we use that wraps the controller API to map the analog controls to modern controllers.
For Steam, we asked Valve to update Proton. It's live already via experimental and our Steam app is pinned to that version.

zoom-platform.sh will just use that same fix through Proton by utilizing the UMU database to link our ID with the Steam appid."