Megafortress

Megafortress
Developer(s)	Artech Digital Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Three-Sixth Pacific Inc.
Platform(s)	DOS, Amiga
Release date(s)	INT 1991
Genre(s)	Simulation, strategy
Mode(s)	Single-player

Megafortress is a flight simulation video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and released by Three-Sixty Pacific Inc in 1991. The player takes command of the fictional EB-52 Megafortress created by the military and espionage novelist Dale Brown.

Gameplay

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.

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]

The player earns promotions from successfully completing missions. The highest rank that can be achieved in the game is brigadier general. If the player completes the special mission, they are immediately promoted to brigadier general. The Megafortress is also mentioned in the book Dreamland Revolution by Dale Brown, used by "Dog" Bastain to dive into a Chinese aircraft carrier, armed with a nuclear bomb-carrying plane.

References

1. ^ Megafortress Flight Manual. 

External links

• Megafortress at MobyGames
• Scott A. May (April 1992). "Megafortress computer game evaluation". COMPUTE! (atarimagazines.com) (139): 104. http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue139/104_Megafortress.php.