Ford simulator 3

Ford Simulator 3 continues the peculiar tradition of turning car shopping into a computer game. Created by The SoftAd Group, it offers a snapshot of Ford vehicles and automotive technology from the early 1990s, when computers were still perfectly happy displaying information in a handful of colors. The program is less about high-speed racing and more about examining cars, comparing information and getting familiar with the Ford range. Naturally, anyone expecting something resembling modern Forza should adjust their expectations before starting. Its value today is largely historical: it shows how manufacturers were already experimenting with interactive software as a way to promote products. For retro-computing enthusiasts, it is an amusing time capsule from an era when a car catalogue on floppy disk could qualify as sophisticated multimedia.