History VideoGame / LandingSeries

* CreatorProvincialism: Half of the airports in ''Midnight Landing'' and three of the eight airports in ''Top Landing'' are in Japan, more than any other country in either game. ''Landing High Japan'', as the title indicates, takes place exclusively in Japanese airspace.

* OddballInTheSeries: ''Landing Gear'' is the only game in the series where you fly something other than an airliner, and the only one to use a flight stick instead of a yoke.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The crew and air traffic controllers throughout the series all speak in pretty fluent English, except in ''Top Landing'' where the crew and ATC have noticably non-native enunciations.

* SoundCodedForYourConvenience: Hearing the flight attendant announce that the plane has landed is a sure-fire indicator that you've landed successfully. If you go too long on the runway without hearing her, expect to lose by "Course Out" instead.

* SoundCodedForYourConvenience: Hearing the flight attendant announce that the plane has landed is a sure-fire indicator that you've landed successfully. If you go too long on the runway without hearing her, expect to lose by "Course Out".

* SoundCodedForYourConvenience: Hearing the flight attendant announce that the plane has landed is a sure-fire indicator that you've landed successfully. If you go too long on the runway without hearing it, expect to lose by "Course Out".

** In ''Top Landing'', you get a simple voice-over and LosingHorns if you fail a landing via a Course Out or an Over Run, but if you outright crash the plane, you get a very jarring crashing sound with no voice or jingle.

After ''Landing High Japan'', Taito would go on to produce the ''Jet de GO!'' SpiritualSuccessor series, which covers more aspects of a typical flight.

* VideoGame3DLeap: ''Top Landing'' is a presentation example, implementing 3D graphics into the series for the first time (in ''1988'', no less!). ''Midnight Landing'' in contrast has no polygons, with sprites of lights being the only indicators of depth.

* ''Top Landing'' (1988) -- Featuring proper 3D graphics unlike ''Midnight Landing'', ''Top Landing'' adds a take-off level, and seven of the eight airports are new (Tokyo's and Osaka's airports are also featured in ''Midnight Landing''). This time, the player may choose the eight airports in any order they wish. Weather conditions have been added as well; flights may take place in clear skies, cloudy skies, or during a rainstorm.

* ProductPlacement: ''Landing High Japan'' uses Boeing aircraft with the All Nippon Airways livery. [[TropesAreTools This isn't a bad thing]], since the whole point of the game is to immerse yourself in the concept of landing a commercial jet carrying a few hundred passengers in it.

Compare ''VideoGame/DenshaDeGO'', another Taito series that simulates operating mass transit vehicles.

* CreatorProvincialism: Half of the airports in ''Midnight Landing'' and three of the eight airports in ''Top Landing'' are in Japan. ''Landing High Japan'', as the title indicates, takes place exclusively in Japanese airspace.

* ProductPlacement: ''Landing High Japan'' uses Boeing aircraft with the All Nippon Airways livery.

* OddballInTheSeries: ''Landing Gear'' is the only game in the series where you fly something other than an airliner.

* LicensedGame: ''Landing High Japan'' uses Boeing aircraft with the All Nippon Airways livery.

* ''Landing Gear'' (1996) -- The OddballInTheSeries, ''Landing Gear'' features a wider variety of aircraft to pilot than the other three games, such as light propeller planes, fighter jets, and even a Space Shuttle. It also uses a flight stick rather than a yoke.

** While the games try to [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality balance playability and realism]], one notably odd aspect about the games is that you can land your passenger jet with the nose ''down''. In reality, jets land with the nose up and on the rear landing gear first.

* ''Top Landing'' (1988) -- Featuring proper 3D graphics unlike ''Midnight Landing'', ''Top Landing'' adds a take-off level, and seven of the eight airports are new (Tokyo International Airport[[note]]now Haneda International Airport[[/note]] is also featured in ''Midnight Landing''). This time, the player may choose the eight airports in any order they wish. Weather conditions have been added as well; flights may take place in clear skies, cloudy skies, or during a rainstorm.

The ''Landing'' series is a set of flight simulation games by Creator/{{Taito}}. In each game, the main focus is on landing aircraft, usually passenger jets. Which, as part of the series being designed to simulate flight, is [[NintendoHard harder than it looks]].