B-1 Nuclear Bomber

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B-1 Nuclear Bomber
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Developer(s) Microcomputer Games Inc.
Publisher(s) Avalon Hill
Designer(s) M. Evan Brooks
Platform(s) Vic-20, Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, DOS, TRS-80
Release date 1983
Genre(s) Flight simulator
Mode(s) Single player
Input methods Keyboard

B-1 Nuclear Bomber is a flight simulator game based on piloting a B-1 Lancer to its target and dropping a nuclear bomb. The USSR is one of the target countries. The game was developed by Avalon Hill and Microcomputer Games, Inc, and released in 1983 for the VIC-20 and other computers.

The game box details a sample scenario set in the future on July 1, 1991 for a bombing run over Moscow - which turned out to be just months from when the Soviet Union actually officially ended as a country on December 31st of that year.

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