Spitfire Ace is a flying combat video game for several 1980s home computer systems. It was one of the first video games designed and programmed by noted game industry figure Sid Meier. 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.[1] The Commodore 64 version was by Dale Gray and Ron Verovsky.[2]
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.[3] The game offers 15 different scenarios that include France, Malta and D-Day.
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.