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Carrier Strike
''Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44'' is a 1992 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. It is a successor to Grigsby's earlier title ''Carrier Force''. Gameplay Set in World War II, ''Carrier Strike'' is a computer wargame that simulates battles in the Pacific War, Pacific Theater between the Allies of World War II, Allies and Imperial Japan. Development ''Carrier Strike'' was designed by Gary Grigsby for Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). It began development as "an offshoot" of ''Gary Grigsby's Pacific War'', which was in production at the time; the initial version of ''Carrier Strike'' was made during a week of free time on that project. Grigsby explained that ''Carrier Strike'' was his way of revisiting his early game ''Carrier Force'' (1983). He told ''Electronic Games'', "I liked the subject matter and, given the evolution in computer capability and my programming skills, I wanted to refine it." ''Carrier Strike'' was devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strategic Simulations
Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher of over 100 games from its founding in 1979 to its dissolution in 1994 (though the brand was in use until around 2002). The company focused on computer wargames then later added role-playing video games. SSI published the '' Panzer General'' series and the official video game adaptations of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. History The company was founded by Joel Billings, a wargame enthusiast, who in the summer of 1979 saw the possibility of using the new home computers such as the TRS-80 for wargames. While unsuccessfully approaching Avalon Hill and Automated Simulations to publish wargames, he hired programmers John Lyons, who wrote '' Computer Bismarck''—later claimed to have been the first "serious wargame" published for a microcomputer"Titans of the Computer Gaming World"''Computer Gaming World'', March 1988 p.36.—and Ed Williger, who wrote '' Computer Ambush''. Both games were written in BASIC as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |