Spitfire Ace

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Spitfire Ace is a flying combat video game for several 1980s home computer systems. It was the first video game designed and programmed by noted game industry figure Sid Meier.^{[citation needed]} It was developed for Atari 400/800 (1982), Commodore 64 (1984) and DOS (as a booter, 1984). The Atari version was written by Meier and the game was ported to DOS by R. Donald Awalt.^{[citation needed]} The Commodore 64 version was by Dale Gray and Ron Verovsky.^[1]

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The game puts the player in the pilot's seat during World War II. Flying the Supermarine Spitfire, the player defends London during The Blitz.^{[citation needed]} The game offers 15 different scenarios that include France, Malta and D-Day.^{[citation needed]}

Considered crude by today's standards, the graphics for this game were reasonable for the era of computers it was designed for. Because of the crude graphics, many planes were nearly identical in representation.^{[citation needed]}