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The game is set during the Last battle of the battleship Bismarck of World War II and revolves around the Bismarck attempting to escape a pursuing fleet of Royal Navy ships, who desire to avenge the deaths of 1,412 men in the sinking of the flagship and "pride of the Royal Navy", HMS Hood. The game received positive reviews upon release ...
Computer Bismarck is a computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations (SSI) in 1980. The game is based on the last battle of the battleship Bismarck, in which British Armed Forces pursue the German Bismarck in 1941. It is SSI's first game, and features turn-based gameplay and two-dimensional graphics.
Wyatt Lee reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and compared it to Action in the North Atlantic and stated that "players who like one of these games will definitely like the other." [ 1 ] The book The PC Games Bible said that "The centre point is the recreation of the gunnery battle between the Bismarck and the HMS Hood and Prince of ...
Sink the Bismarck!, a 1960 film based on C. S. Forester's book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck "Sink the Bismarck", a 1960 song by Johnny Horton inspired by the film of the same name. Computer Bismarck, a 1980 computer game that simulates the battle. Unsinkable Sam, a ship's cat on board Bismarck who allegedly survived the sinking and was ...
Battle for Italy: 1983 Battle of the Bulge: 1965, 1991 Beat Inflation: 1975 Bismarck: 1962, 1979 Sinking of the Bismarck: Bitter Woods: the Battle of the Bulge: 1998 Black Spy: 1981 Blackbeard: 1991 Blitzkrieg: 1965 Book of Lists: 1979 Bowl Bound: 1978 College football: Breakout: Normandy: 1993 Britannia: 1986 First published by Gibsons Games ...
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Sink the Bismarck! was the inspiration for Johnny Horton's highly popular 1960 song, "Sink the Bismarck", [8] credited by Variety with boosting the film's American gross alone by an estimated half a million dollars. [9] The film had its Royal World Premiere in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh at the Odeon Leicester Square on 11 February 1960.
Vice-Admiral Günther Lütjens had successfully commanded the Operation Berlin mission before being appointed as the fleet commander for Operation Rheinübung. Operation Rheinübung (German: Unternehmen Rheinübung) was the last sortie into the Atlantic by the new German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 18–27 May 1941, during World War II.