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F-15 Strike Eagle (video game)

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For the strike fighter, see F-15E Strike Eagle.
F-15 Strike Eagle
F-15 Strike Eagle
Cover art
Developer(s)MicroProse
Publisher(s)MicroProse
Designer(s)Sid Meier
Platform(s)Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy, PC-8801, Sega Game Gear, MSX, NES, IBM PC, ZX Spectrum, Arcade
Release1985
1986 (Amstrad CPC), 1987 (ZX Spectrum).[1] 1991 (Arcade)
Genre(s)Combat flight simulator
Mode(s)Single player

F-15 Strike Eagle is an F-15 Strike Eagle combat flight simulator first released in 1985 by MicroProse. It is the first in the F-15 Strike Eagle series comprising also the sequels F-15 Strike Eagle II and F-15 Strike Eagle III.

Gameplay

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ZX Spectrum screenshot

The game begins when the player selects Libya (much like Operation El Dorado Canyon), the Persian Gulf, or Vietnam as a mission theater. Play then begins from the cockpit of an F-15 already in flight and armed with a variety of missiles, bombs, drop tanks, flares and chaff. The player flies the plane in combat to bomb various targets including a "primary" and "secondary" target while also engaging in air-to-air combat with enemy fighters. The game ends when either the player's plane is destroyed or when the player returns to base.

Ports

Like most of Microprose's early titles, the initial releases were for the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 800XL. Shortly afterwards, the game was ported to the IBM PC, being one of the first games that the company released for IBM compatibles. The initial IBM release came on a self-booting 5.25" floppy disk and supported only CGA graphics, but a revised version in 1986 was offered on 3.5" disks and added limited EGA support (really just the existing CGA graphics, but with the ability to change color palettes if an EGA card was present). The popularity of F-15 Strike Eagle led to several more ports on the NES, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC, NES, Game Boy, and Game Gear.

Reception

F-15 sold over 1.5 million copies,[2][3] and was MicroProse's best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987.[4] Computer Gaming World in 1984 called F-15 "an excellent simulation" with "excellent documentation". It stated that "the action is fast and furious ... the graphics are excellent".[5] The game won the "Action game of the Year" in the magazine's 1985 reader poll.[6] Compute! listed the game in 1988 as one of "Our Favorite Games", stating that it "makes jet fighter combat nerve-wracking and fun at the same time".[7]

References

  1. ^ Strike Eagle at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
  2. ^ "Management, Trevor Chan". Enlight Software. n.d. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
  3. ^ "2006 Walk of Game Inductees, 2006 Lifetime Achievement, Sid Meier". Walk of Game. n.d. Archived from the original on May 29, 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
  4. ^ Ferrell, Keith (December 1987). "The Commodore Games That Live On And On". Compute's Gazette. pp. 18–22. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  5. ^ Battles, Hosea Jr. (December 1984). "F-15 Strike Eagle". Computer Gaming World. p. 39.
  6. ^ "Game of the Year". Computer Gaming World. November–December 1985. pp. 32–33.
  7. ^ "Our Favorite Games". Compute!. May 1988. p. 12. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
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