| Blue Lightning | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Blue_Lightning_Jaguar_CD_cover_art.jpg) Cover art in all regions | |
| Developer(s) | Attention to Detail |
| Publisher(s) | Atari Corporation |
| Producer(s) | Sean Patten |
| Designer(s) | F. B. Stu Stuart Tilley |
| Programmer(s) | Andrew Howe Jon Howard |
| Artist(s) | David West Ian G. Harling Joanne Surman Kristi-Louise Herd |
| Composer(s) | Ian Sharp Will Davis |
| Platform(s) | Atari Jaguar CD |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Combat flight simulator, shoot 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Blue Lightning is a 1995 combat flight simulator video game developed by Attention to Detail and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar CD. It is a conversion of Epyx's 1989 Atari Lynx title of the same name, and one of the pack-in games for the Jaguar CD. In the game, the player assume the role of a rookie fighter pilot from the Blue Lightning squadron, taking control of multiple military aircraft across various missions to stop general Drako, who betrayed the United Nations and gained power of military organizations through corruption to expand his organized crime empire all over the world.
Blue Lightning was announced in 1994 as one of the first upcoming titles for the Jaguar CD add-on, being advertised as a sequel to the Lynx original, but went through a troubled development cycle. Attention to Detail faced problems when making the game at the same time the Jaguar CD hardware was being finalized, with the staff not understanding how gameplay from the original game worked when recreating it for Jaguar. The game garnered mixed reception from critics and retrospective commentarists; most felt divided regarding the audiovisual presentation while criticism was geared towards its gameplay, which was compared unfavorably with the original game, After Burner (1987), and Air Combat (1995).