Super Strike Eagle

Super Strike Eagle F-15 Super Strike Eagle
North American box art
Developer(s)	MicroProse
Publisher(s)	JP Asmik Ace Entertainment NA MicroProse EU MicroProse
Designer(s)	Dave A. Wagner Steven J. Pujia
Composer(s)	Scott Patterson Jeffery L. Briggs
Series	F-15 Strike Eagle
Platform(s)	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release date(s)	JP November 26, 1993 NA March 1993 EU November 25, 1993
Genre(s)	Combat flight simulator
Mode(s)	Single-player
Rating(s)	ESRB: n/a (not rated)

Super Strike Eagle, known in Japan as F-15 Super Strike Eagle (Ｆ－１５スーパーストライクイーグル, F-15 Supa Sutoraiku Iguru), is a combat-oriented arcade video game.

This video game involves flying airplanes that tests the player's Sidewinder missile and machine gun firing skills against various non-aligned nations that were historically notorious for housing extremist leaders during the Cold War. The game was released in North America, Europe, and Japan approximately simultaneously. All three versions of this game use the English language for both text and speech and offer identical gameplay to each other. The original manufacturer's suggested retail price of this game in North America was $29.99 ($48.25 when inflation is taken into effect).

Gameplay

General gameplay

There are various types of targets in the game, including air, land and water targets in an environment that gives players permission to freely roam around the battlefield; limited only by the player's fuel supply. Land targets include nuclear power plants (but often include anti-air weapons and tanks); the player may suffer from radiation sickness after destroying nuclear plants when not at a safe distance to do so. The player will eventually need to use one of his/her limited sorties to have it healed; neglecting to do so will have fatal results. Weapons in the game include guns, missiles, electronic jammers, and bombs. Each mission on every war theatre consists of both mandatory and optional targets.

Shooting the optional targets results in the accumulation of a higher score which can double as a respect meter for bragging rights. Furthermore, destroying airfields, although not necessarily required to complete a mission, would stop opposing fighters taking-off to take the player down. In the more advanced missions, players can shoot chemical weapons factories and terrorist camps for bonus points. Although the game cannot be saved through a video game battery, there are a number of passwords the player can use to resume his/her mission at the appropriate place. Crashing the airplane and being killed in action will result in the flags (located at the United Nations building in New York) being lowered to half-mast. Dying in the game will also produce the playing of Taps while the world mourns the deceased pilot.

There is a practice round and then the player is thrown into real-life combat zones in order to test the skills learned in the practice round. Targets become progressively difficult to destroy. Unlike most shooter games, the player only has one plane. If the player crashes, the game is over and a screen indicating the nations (if any) that were reclaimed by the player displays.

Plot

A player shoots down a Soviet MiG fighter plane.

The game takes place in 1993, during the Bill Clinton administration in which America was basking in patriotic and economic prosperity. This was only possible by vanquishing the Soviet Union out of existence through decades of police actions and diplomatic sanctions that threatened the economic livelihood of the now-defunct nation. As a result, the Soviet Union would collapse two years prior to this date; making America into the prosperous and pre-eminent superpower it was during the 1990s.

The character is essentially a rogue hitman who works for the United Nations. His sole objective is to bring various governments around the world back into cooperation with the UN. Each time a military campaign against a certain regime is completed, the flag of the nation in question is again raised at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York, United States of America. Libya, Iraq, Cuba, and North Korea offer Soviet-manufactured weapons like the MiG-27 and the MiG-29 for the player to shoot at.

External links

• F-15 Super Strike Eagle at superfamicom.org
• F-15 Super Strike Eagle at super-famicom.jp (Japanese)

See also

• Super Air Diver
• Turn and Burn: No-Fly Zone