B-1 Nuclear Bomber
| B-1 Nuclear Bomber | |
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| Developer(s) | Microcomputer Games Inc. |
| Publisher(s) | Avalon Hill |
| Designer(s) | M. Evan Brooks |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, DOS, TRS-80, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A |
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| Genre(s) | Flight simulator |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Distribution | 5.25" Floppy disks |
B-1 Nuclear Bomber is a flight simulator game based on piloting a B-1 Lancer to its target and dropping a nuclear bomb.[2] The USSR is one of the target countries. The game was developed by Avalon Hill and Microcomputer Games, Inc, and released in 1980 for the Apple II and other computers.[3]
The game box details a sample scenario set in the then-future of a bombing run over Moscow on July 1, 1991, which turned out to be just months before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26 of that year.
Reception
In March 1983 B-1 Nuclear Bomber tied for eighth place in Softline 's Dog of the Year awards "for badness in computer games", Atari 8-bit division, based on reader submissions.[4] A 1992 Computer Gaming World survey of wargames with modern settings gave the game zero stars out of five, stating that "its play mechanics were embarrassing when it was initially released".[5]
References
- ↑ B-1 Nuclear Bomber Release Information for Commodore PET - GameFAQs
- ↑ Two Games Of Strategy, Dale F. Brown, COMPUTE! ISSUE 49 / JUNE 1984 / PAGE 72
- ↑ B-1 Nuclear Bomber for Apple II (1980), Moby Games
- ↑ "Everybody Doesn't Like Something". Softline. 1983-03. pp. 22–23. Retrieved 28 July 2014. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Brooks, M. Evan (June 1992). "The Modern Games: 1950 - 2000". Computer Gaming World. p. 120. Retrieved 24 November 2013.