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“I mainly flew in old piston engines,” he says as he plays. Now, every afternoon he uses Microsoft Flight Simulator and explores the skies in a turboprop aeroplane. Stationed in Borneo during the Indonesian confrontation of the 1960s, he spent his military career in aircraft, dropping supplies for British troops stationed in the jungle along the Indonesia-Malaysia border. In the bedroom of retired army air dispatcher Frank Durrans, there is a powerful PC with an ultra-wide monitor and an array of complicated flight controllers. Simulators are great for learning about the signalling and safety systems as well as general railway operations Some of the most ardent fans of job sims are people who do the jobs themselves: the literal busman’s holiday. There's even a suitably festive snow blizzard - in deep space! On-screen action is accompanied by original renditions of popular Christmas carols, composed specifically for this episode.And if you think that everyone playing these sims is still engaging in a form of escapism, tapping into jobs they never attempted in real life, you’d be wrong. Floating Christmas gifts can be collected in order to extend the arsenal at the player's disposal. Christmas ornaments, bows, ribbons, bells, and holly fly everywhere during the heat of battle.

Major enemies are also appropriately decorated with rows of blinking Christmas lights. The chicken fray is punctuated by fights against massive enemies disguised as Christmas elves, Santas, and other well-known holiday figures.

The Christmas Edition is characterized by festively dressed chickens which attack relentlessly in colorful groups and meticulously choreographed formations. Joined by an unlikely ally, players will travel to foreign, unexplored galaxies in an effort to locate and destroy the egg cannon before it reaches Earth. In this episode, the chickens have constructed a gigantic cannon capable of launching planet-scale eggs against Earth, with the ultimate goal of destroying Christmas by encrusting humanity in an impenetrable wall made of egg white. Chicken Invaders puts players at the forefront of a battle against invading intergalactic chickens, bent on revenge against the human race for our oppression of Earth chickens.