Before my brother started flying for Southwest about 30 years ago, he was a “check airman” for the regional airline that he flew for. He gave other pilots their check rides on the simulator that they leased at SeaTac. It cost more than the Metroliners that they flew at the time. He let my dad and I experience the simulator on a couple of occasions. It was quite an experience compared to PC simulators of the time... The entire cockpit was identical to the real thing, and it had hydraulics to move things around and ads to the realism. My dad got sick the first time and would not sit in it after that.
I had to fly through boxes spaced “100 miles” apart . . . at 10,000 mph they flew by like picket fences.