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Air Strike

[Unfinished 1982] You're piloting a biplane through enemy territory. Drop bombs on factories and ammunition depots. Engage enemy planes in dogfights to the death! Due to the popularity (especially with APh and…

31 January 1999

Air Strike is a video game, released 31 January 1999 on Intellivision.

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What Air Strike is

Air Strike was released in 1999. It is available on Intellivision only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

[Unfinished 1982] You're piloting a biplane through enemy territory. Drop bombs on factories and ammunition depots. Engage enemy planes in dogfights to the death! Due to the popularity (especially with APh and Mattel programmers) of the Biplanes game in the Triple Action cartridge, APh proposed this one-player version. A prototype was shown to Mattel with scrolling mountain terrain and targets that could be bombed. The plane graphics, sound effects and flight control were lifted directly from Biplanes. (Enemy planes, which would have presented an artificial intelligence-programming challenge, were not included in the prototype but promised for the finished game.) Marketing (not as crazy…
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What it launched against

Air Strike launched on 31 January 1999, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VIII, Super Smash Bros., Syphon Filter and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VIII, Super Smash Bros., Syphon Filter, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Quick answers

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When did Air Strike come out?
Air Strike was released on 31 January 1999 for Intellivision.