Operation: Desert Storm (video game)

Operation: Desert Storm
Developer(s) Bungie Software[1]
Publisher(s) Bungie Software[1]
Distributor(s) Bungie Software
Designer(s) Alex Seropian
Platform(s) Mac OS
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Military strategy
Mode(s) Single-player
Media/distribution Floppy disk (Physical)
System requirements

Hard disk drive
640 KB of RAM or greater

Operation: Desert Storm was a top-down tank shooter for the Macintosh.

Summary

This video game marked the second game published with the Bungie name after Gnop!.[2] The game was programmed by Alex Seropian in 1991, who published and duplicated the game himself.[2] It only sold about 2,500 copies[3] and was based on Operation Desert Storm, a conflict in the Middle East that was going on at the time.

The game featured twenty levels, culminating in the city of Baghdad with the final enemy being a giant Saddam Hussein head. It also came with a glossary of military terms and trivia which was needed in order to bypass the copy-protection in the game, and authentic maps of the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations.

References

  1. ^ a b c Operation: Desert Storm release information at GameFAQs
  2. ^ a b Bungie's Official History
  3. ^ 1up description