''FireHawk'' is an unlicensed game developed by

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which was released by Camerica for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game has the player being commissioned by the

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to stop the trafficking of drugs into the

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. The player flies an Apache helicopter to different places around the world and the player must destroy the drug traffickers' factories. It is very similar to '' Desert Strike'' and the rest of the "

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" series, and nearly identical to '' Raid on Bungeling Bay'', which was released for the Commodore 64 in 1984 as well as the Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX computers in 1985. On 1993, an unrelated action game Firehawk (Super Nintendo) was shown by

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.Nintendo Power, Pak Watch - Summer CES, Publication date: August 1993, Volume: 51, Pages: 113 In 1992 it was released by

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for the Nintendo Entertainment System (cartridge and

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), Atari ST and Amiga.

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