Parsoft Interactive, or simply Parsoft, is a former computer game company known for their series of technically advanced flight simulator

Flight simulator

A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and various aspects of the flight environment. This includes the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they react to applications of their controls and other aircraft systems, and how they react to the external...

s. Their first release was Hellcats Over the Pacific

Hellcats Over the Pacific

Hellcats Over the Pacific is a flight simulator computer game for the Apple Macintosh computer written by Parsoft Interactive and released by Graphic Simulations in 1991. Hellcats was a major release for the Mac platform, one of the first 3D games to be able to drive a 640 x 480 x 8-bit display at...

on the Apple Macintosh in 1991, which they followed in 1992 with Missions at Leyte Gulf, an expansion pack. In 1995 they released A-10 Attack!

A-10 Attack!

A-10 Attack! is a combat flight simulator for the Apple Macintosh computer released by Parsoft Interactive in 1995. The game features an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft that takes part in a variety of missions in West Germany during a hypothetical limited conventional attack by the Warsaw Pact...

to critical acclaim on the Mac, following that up with A-10 Cuba in 1996. Partnering with Activision

Activision

Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...

, A-10 Cuba was also released as a stand-alone game for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, and this partnership led to the Windows-only 1999 release of Fighter Squadron: The Screamin' Demons Over Europe

Fighter Squadron: The Screamin' Demons Over Europe

Fighter Squadron: The Screamin' Demons over Europe is a Windows-based World War II theme combat flight simulator released in 1999. The game was written by Parsoft Interactive and released by Activision. It was designed for the Windows 95/98 operating system...

(SDoE). The pressure of the SDoE release led to the programmers going their separate ways, and by 2002 the company was dissolved.