War in the Gulf
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War in the Gulf is a third game in the tank combat series, following from Team Yankee
and Pacific Islands
. The game imagines a situation in which Iraq invades Kuwait for a second time.
The player commands the platoon of 16 tanks presented on screen split in four pieces. Each piece is a command center for four units. The player must control the tanks by moving them and shooting on arcade screen and planning their moves on the tactical screen. Action is purely mouse-driven. A major consideration involves destroying buildings for money and preventing other from being destroyed.
Team Yankee (video game)
Team Yankee is a video game adapaptation of the 1987 Harold Coyle's World War III novel Team Yankee that was developed by Oxford Digital Enterprises for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS systems....
and Pacific Islands
Pacific Islands (video game)
Pacific Islands is a computer game developed by Empire Interactive in 1992 for the PC/MS-DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.-Plot:Pacific Islands is a tank simulation game which simulates platoon-style tank combat. A member of the Soviet Communist Party has seized control of the fictitious Yama Yama Isles in...
. The game imagines a situation in which Iraq invades Kuwait for a second time.
The player commands the platoon of 16 tanks presented on screen split in four pieces. Each piece is a command center for four units. The player must control the tanks by moving them and shooting on arcade screen and planning their moves on the tactical screen. Action is purely mouse-driven. A major consideration involves destroying buildings for money and preventing other from being destroyed.
External links
- War in the Gulf entry at The Hall of Light: The Database of Amiga Games
- War in the Gulf entry at MobyGamesMobyGames-Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...