Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Rising is a simulation video game based on Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising and released in 1988 by MicroProse. The player is put in charge of an American SSN submarine in the Norwegian Sea…
Red Storm Rising is a simulator developed by MicroProse Software, Inc., released 31 December 1988 on Atari 5200, Amiga, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Red Storm Rising is
Red Storm Rising is a simulator game developed by MicroProse Software, Inc. and released in 1988. It is available on Atari 5200, Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Red Storm Rising is a simulation video game based on Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising and released in 1988 by MicroProse. The player is put in charge of an American SSN submarine in the Norwegian Sea Theater with the overall role of a hunter killer performing various missions in the context of the global conflict described in the book representing a campaign. Its original Commodore 64 version was co-designed and co-programmed by the legendary game designer Sid Meier.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series
Red Storm Rising is the second of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. It arrived a year after The Hunt for Red October. The next entry was The Hunt for Red October in 1990.
What it launched against
Red Storm Rising launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
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