Megafortress
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Developer(s) | Artech Digital Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Three-Sixty Pacific |
Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Amiga |
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Genre(s) | Simulation |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Megafortress (also known as Megafortress: Flight Of The Old Dog) is a flight simulation video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and released by Three-Sixty Pacific Inc in 1991. The game takes place in the late 1980s and early 1990s and features three distinct sets of missions: Red Flag (USAF) training exercises at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, a fictional series of missions during the First Gulf War, and a special mission which reenacts the plot of the novel Flight of the Old Dog.
Gameplay[]
The game is played as a 1st person flight simulator. The player can fly the EB-52 from six stations ranging from the pilot's station to the electronic warfare officer's station.[1]
A player earns a promotion from successfully completing a set of 5 missions. The highest rank that can be achieved in the game is brigadier general (35 missions). If the player completes the special mission known as Flight of the Old Dog, he/she is immediately promoted to brigadier general. However, after the player completes 99 missions, he/she is automatically retired.
Release[]
The packaging illustration was done for Three Sixty Pacific by Bay area illustrator Marc Ericksen, who had previously created cover art on four battle sets of the V for Victory series, as well as their release of Das Boot.[citation needed]
Reception[]
Computer Gaming World in 1992 favorably reviewed the game's graphics, interface, and sound card audio, and recommended it to players "looking for a game with more emphasis on strategy and less seat-of-the-pants dogfighting".[2] A survey that year of wargames with modern settings gave the game four and a half stars out of five.[3] and the magazine named it one of the year's best simulation games.[4] In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title four stars out of five,[5]
References[]
- ^ Megafortress Flight Manual.
- ^ Travena, Stanley (January 1992). "Teaching the "Old Dog" New Tricks". Computer Gaming World. p. 122. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ^ Brooks, M. Evan (June 1992). "The Modern Games: 1950 - 2000". Computer Gaming World. p. 120. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ "CGW Salutes The Games of the Year". Computer Gaming World. November 1992. p. 110. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ Brooks, M. Evan (January 1994). "War In Our Time / A Survey Of Wargames From 1950-2000". Computer Gaming World. pp. 194–212.
External links[]
- Megafortress at MobyGames
- Scott A. May (April 1992). "Megafortress computer game evaluation". COMPUTE!. No. 139. atarimagazines.com. p. 104.
- 1991 video games
- Amiga games
- DOS games
- Flight simulation video games
- Video games developed in Canada
- Military of the United States in fiction