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Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf is a shoot ’em up video game released by Electronic Arts (EA) in October 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was inspired by the Gulf War and depicts a conflict between an insane Middle Eastern dictator, General Kilbaba, and the United States. The player controls an Apache helicopter and attempts to destroy enemy weapons and installations, rescue hostages and capture enemy personnel while managing supplies of fuel and ammunition.
The game opens with a self-proclaimed general named Kilbaba invading one of his neighbors, a small but wealthy emirate in the Persian Gulf. Installing himself as dictator, Kilbaba quickly begins fortifying his position with military weapons and installations, including facilities for building nuclear bombs. The United States decides to send in a single helicopter, piloted by the player’s unnamed character and aided by a co-pilot, to infiltrate and destroy Kilbaba’s forces in a series of swift strikes.
Desert Strike is a shoot ’em up game in which the player pilots an AH-64 Apache helicopter (albeit modified with a Fenestron rotor). The game is less frantic than typical shoot ’em ups, with the addition of greater strategic elements. The action takes place on open, multi-directional scrolling levels viewed from an isometric perspective. The player views the action from outside the helicopter, rather than from within the cockpit.
Levels consist of several missions, which are based around the destruction of enemy weapons and installations, as well as rescuing hostages or prisoners of war, or capturing enemy personnel. The Apache is armed with a machine gun, more powerful Hydra rockets and yet more deadly Hellfire missiles. The more powerful the weapon, the fewer can be carried: the player must choose an appropriate weapon for each situation. Enemy weapons range from soldiers with small arms, to anti-aircraft missiles to tanks and armoured cars.
File Name | Desert Strike |
Cart Size | 643KB |
Region | USA |
Version | 1.0 |
Developer | Visual Concepts |
Genre | Shoot 'em up |
Platform | Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) |
Release Date | October 1992 |
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