Jr East Train Simulator Build 11779437 -

For the first time in three years, Tetsuya smiled.

“Sorry, cow,” he muttered.

He paused the simulation. Rewound the audio log. JR EAST Train Simulator Build 11779437

/comment: This is why we build simulators. Not to escape reality. To return to it without dying. For the first time in three years, Tetsuya smiled

Tonight, he was running the 6:15 a.m. local from Ōtsuki, E233 series, in a driving snowstorm. Build 11779437 had changed the game. Tetsuya smiled. “Sorry

As the train slid into the virtual platform, he opened the developer console and typed:

He could have braked. But a real driver on that real train? At that speed, on frozen rails? You hold. You sound the horn. You accept the impact.