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Red Baron | |
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Developer(s) | Atari, Inc. |
Publisher(s) | Atari, Inc. |
Platform(s) | Arcade |
Release | May 1981[1] |
Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Red Baron is an arcade video game developed by Atari, Inc. and released in 1981.[1] A first-person flight simulator game, the player takes the role of a World War I ace in a biplane fighting on the side of the Allies. The game is named after the nickname of Manfred von Richthofen, German flying ace. The game uses the same monochrome vector graphics and similar hardware as Atari's own Battlezone; both were developed at the same time. Like Battlezone, the player is presented with a first-person view of the action. Both Battlezone and Red Baron use additional hardware, an "Auxiliary" board, to perform the mathematical computations required for simulating a 3D environment.