Hellcat Ace

Hellcat Ace
Original Atari box cover
Developer(s)MicroProse
Publisher(s)MicroProse
Designer(s)Sid Meier
Programmer(s)Atari
Sid Meier
C64
Ron Verovsky
Dale Gray
IBM PC
R. Donald Awalt
Platform(s)Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC
Release1982: Atari
1983: C64
1984: IBM PC
Genre(s)Combat flight simulator
Mode(s)Single-player

Hellcat Ace is a 1982 combat flight simulator video game written by Sid Meier for Atari 8-bit computers and published by MicroProse as their first program. The game was an immediate hit and led Meier to write several new releases for the Atari home computers. Ports of Hellcat Ace were released for the Commodore 64 in 1983 and IBM PC compatibles in 1984.