Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
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| Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center;">Image:Desert strike.jpg</td></tr> | |
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| Developer(s) | Electronic Arts Inc.
<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Publisher(s)</th><td>Electronic Arts Inc.</td></tr><tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Designer(s)</th><td>Mike Posehn, John Manley</td></tr> |
| Release date(s) | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, DOS, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Lynx, Sega Genesis, SNES
<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Media</th><td>8-bitcart</td></tr><tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Input</th><td>Game controller</td></tr> |
Desert Strike: Return To The Gulf is a computer game for the Amiga, DOS, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Lynx, Sega Master System and SNES platforms.
[edit] Description
The first game in the Strike series. A year after the Gulf War, a self styled General named Kilbaba (Muababa in the GBA version) takes over an Arab Emirate and threatens to start WWIII against its enemy in the West, the U.S. The whole world holds their breath as the President chooses you to destroy Kilbaba and his terrorist army before he launches a nuclear attack on the world!
You must fly a specially designed AH-64A Apache on a series of missions from rescuing MIAs, destroying power plants, to blowing apart SCUD missiles! Take out his defenses while trying to find out Kilbaba's plans. Take on the Madman and forever rid this threat....in the desert!
[edit] Trivia
George Bush (Sr), president of the US at the time Desert Strike was first released, along with his wife Barbra show up in the game ending sequence.
The game was pulled from some shelves in the UK because of numerous references to the 1991 Gulf War.
The design of the Apache in Desert Strike is not what it really is in real life. The tail rotor in back from the game is circular with the tail blades in cased like a circle, with the wing piece placed on top. The actual military design has the tail rotor looking more simple, with the tail blades attached freely, with the wing piece placed on the bottom. Simply, the design is more different and it is likely due to legal reasons or game design. also, the real Apache is not capable of carrying extra personnel, (you can pick-up up to 6 MIA's in the game) as it just has seats for the pilot and gunner.
Desert Strike was released for about every major system at the time except the NES, due to hardware or graphic limitations.
The Strike games for the SNES and Genesis don't use Battery Backed RAM; instead, they use passwords.
