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Blue Max is an informal name of ''Pour le Mérite'', a German military decoration from 1740 until the end of World War I. Blue Max may also refer to: * ''Blue Max'' (video game) (1983) and its sequel ''Blue Max 2001'' * ''Blue Max'' (board game) (1983) * ''The Blue Max'', a 1966 film * 2d Battalion, 20th Field Artillery (United States), known as "Blue Max" during the Vietnam War * Blue Max, one of protagonists in the video game ''Sky Kid'' * Blue Max, the band of American guitarist Howard Luedtke * Blue Max, a fictional character from ''The Han Solo Adventures ''The Han Solo Adventures'' is a trilogy of novels set in the ''Star Wars'' fictional universe by American science-fiction novelist Brian Daley. It follows the smuggling days of Han Solo and Chewbacca two years before the events of the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pour Le Mérite
The ' (; , ) is an order of merit (german: Verdienstorden) established in 1740 by Frederick the Great, King Frederick II of Prussia. The was awarded as both a military and civil honour and ranked, along with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Order of the Red Eagle and the House Order of Hohenzollern, among the highest orders of merit in the Kingdom of Prussia. The order of merit was the highest royal Prussian order of bravery for officers of all ranks. After 1871, when the various German monarchy, kingdoms, grand duchy, grand duchies, duchy, duchies, principality, principalities and Hanseatic League, Hanseatic city states had come together under Prussian leadership to form the federally structured German Empire, the Prussian honours gradually assumed, at least in public perception, the status of orders, decorations, and medals of Imperial Germany, honours of Imperial Germany, even though many honours of the various German states continued to be awarded. The ' was an honour confe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Max (video Game)
''Blue Max'' is a scrolling shooter written by Bob Polin for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Synapse Software in 1983. It was released for the Commodore 64 the same year. U.S. Gold published the Commodore 64 version in the UK in 1984 and ported the game to the ZX Spectrum. In 1987, Atari Corporation published ''Blue Max'' as a cartridge styled for the then-new Atari XEGS. The player controls a Sopwith Camel biplane during World War I, attempting to shoot down enemy planes and bomb targets on diagonally scrolling terrain. The game is named after the medal Pour le Mérite, informally known as Blue Max. Its theme song is "Rule, Britannia!". In 1984, Synapse released a sequel, ''Blue Max 2001''. While the original was well received, the sequel was considered disappointing. Gameplay The game opens with the player's aircraft parked on a runway while a rendition of "Rule, Britannia!" plays. After selecting control and difficulty options and pressing start, the screen shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Max 2001
''Blue Max 2001'' is a diagonally-scrolling shooter written by Bob Polin (also credited as Rob Polin) for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Synapse Software in 1984. A Commodore 64 version was released the same year. ''Blue Max 2001'' is the sequel to 1983's '' Blue Max'', also by Polin, with the player piloting a futuristic hovercraft instead of a World War I biplane. Critics found the game disappointing compared with the original, citing the indistinct graphics and confusing documentation. Gameplay Reception In contrast to the positive reception given to ''Blue Max'', reviews of ''Blue Max 2001'' on both Atari and Commodore systems were mixed. ''Ahoy!'' called the Commodore 64 release an "exciting sequel" which "extends and refines the elements which made the original game popular, while it introduces enough new challenges to generate fresh excitement." ''Zzap!64'' labeled it "one of the most disappointing sequels of all time". Reviewer Julian Rignall wrote, "The graph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Max (board Game)
''Blue Max'' is a multi-player board game of World War I aerial combat over the Western Front during 1917 and 1918. Each player is a fighter pilot of the British, French, American, or German air service. Each game is a single dogfight, in which players try to shoot down as many enemy planes as possible without being shot down themselves. There is no limit to the number of players in a single game. It was first published by Game Designers Workshop (GDW), in 1983. The game is named after the prestigious German order Pour le Mérite, informally known as Blue Max. History ''Blue Max'' was designed by Phil Hall and originally released in 1983. A reprint of the boxed version was released in 1992. An updated miniatures version was released in 1995 that included early war aircraft designed by Alan Wright. The miniatures version did not include the aircraft counters or map of the boxed versions. ''Blue Max'' was selected as one of the best one hundred games by Games Magazine in 1993 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Max
''The Blue Max'' is a 1966 British war film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. The film was made in DeLuxe Color and filmed in CinemaScope. The plot is about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I. The screenplay was written by David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and Gerald Hanley, based on the novel of the same name by Jack D. Hunter as adapted by Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina. In contrast to films that romanticize the flying aces of the Great War, ''The Blue Max'' depicts the protagonist as a man who appears to have no regard for anyone but himself. Set against the realities of modern warfare, the film also explores the decline of chivalry and the advent of total war. Plot In spring 1918, Imperial German Army Corporal Bruno Stachel leaves trench warfare behind to become a fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service. He desires to win Germany's highest medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2d Battalion, 20th Field Artillery (United States)
The 20th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army. It served in France during the First World War with the 5th Division, at St. Mihiel and Lorraine before inactivation on 5 September 1921 at Camp Bragg, North Carolina. The regiment's distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 20th Field Artillery on March 28, 1933. It was redesignated as 20th Field Artillery Battalion on August 12, 1948; redesignated as 20th Artillery on June 13, 1958; and redesignated for the 20th Field Artillery on September 1, 1971. In 1966-67. The 6th Battalion (155 mm) was stationed at Fort Carson CO under the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division. During the Vietnam War, it had the mission to train and maintain Basic Combat Training and Field Artillery Advanced Individual Training. The 6th Battalion was awarded the Belgium Fourrager for its actions in WWII. Currently, the regiment has only a single battalion on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Kid
is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade video game released by Namco in 1985. It runs on Namco Pac-Land hardware but with a video system like that used in ''Dragon Buster''. It is also the first game from Namco to allow two players to play simultaneously. The game was later released on the Famicom (brought to the American Nintendo Entertainment System by Sunsoft), and both this version for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U and the original arcade version for the Wii were later released on Nintendo's Virtual Console service, and for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives line of digital releases. The NES version was also ported to arcades for the Nintendo VS. System as VS. Super Sky Kid, but promotional materials and the cabinet for this version just use the name VS. Sky Kid. A sequel named ''Sky Kid Deluxe'' was released in 1986. It introduced several new enemies and missions, and was the first game to run on Namco's then-new Namco Syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Luedtke
Howard Luedtke, also known as Howard "Guitar" Luedtke, is an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and musician. Luedtke is considered one of the best slide guitar players in the American midwest, and currently tours with his band Howard "Guitar" Luedtke & Blue Max. Blue Max is a Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin based blues-rock band that has been performing in the upper Midwest for the past two decades. Luedtke interprets the blues material by Johnny Winter, John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon. Biography Early life Howard, from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, has been playing guitar since 1964. "I grew up with the Beatles, Hendrix and the Stones," says Luedtke. "Then in '69 or '70 I was first exposed to the classic blues and was fascinated by it." Howard played in a variety of blues, rock and country bands, in the Wisconsin area during the early seventies including Black Cat Bone Band in 1974. He formed his own band in 1982 called Blue Max. Music career Averaging over a 150 show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
