Battlehawks 1942

Battlehawks 1942
Developer(s)Totally Games
Publisher(s)Lucasfilm Games
Producer(s)Noah Falstein
Designer(s)Lawrence Holland
Programmer(s)Lawrence Holland
Michael Breen
Artist(s)Ken Macklin
Martin Cameron
Writer(s)Victor Cross
Richard Halsey Best
Noah Falstein
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST
ReleaseOctober 1988[1]
Genre(s)Combat flight simulator
Mode(s)Single-player

Battlehawks 1942 is a naval air combat combat flight simulation game released in 1988 by Lucasfilm Games. It is set in the World War II Pacific air war theatre, and was the first of Lucasfilm Games' trilogy of World War II flight simulations, followed by Their Finest Hour (1989) and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (1991). The 127-page manual for Battlehawks 1942 includes a 100-page illustrated overview of the Pacific War. The preface to the manual was written by Richard Halsey Best, who commanded the dive bomber squadron that sank two Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway.

  1. ^ Part One: The Early Years, 1982 - 1989 (2006-04-28). "LucasArts Entertainment Company | 20th Anniversary". Archived from the original on January 27, 2007. Retrieved 2013-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)