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The game simulates training, combat missions and sorties in a tour of duty in the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in the European Theater of Operations aboard a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber during World War II. It was followed by B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th in 2000.
The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3] In contrast, Samuel Bass of NextGen gave it a negative review, saying that the game was filled with several bugs, crashes and other technical issues, and felt that those issues made the game "unfinished". The only positive remarks that he gave are ...
B-17, Queen of the Skies is a solitaire board wargame published by On Target Games in 1981 that simulates flight missions in a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress bomber during World War II. The game was acquired by Avalon Hill and republished in 1983.
Boeing built 6,981 B-17s; another 5,745 were built by Douglas and Lockheed under a collaborative effort, according to Boeing. A B-17 with 13 people aboard crashed at a 2019 air show in Connecticut ...
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.
B-17: Fortress in the Sky is a 2007 combat flight simulator video game for the Nintendo DS developed by American studio Skyworks Technologies Inc. It takes place during World War II in the air war over Germany and the occupied territories in the autumn of 1944.
Danny Goodman of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games said in 1983 that B-17 Bomber was his favorite Intellivoice game, praising the voices and noting that the game and others "made the voice an integral part of game play". [3] B-17 Bomber was well received, gaining a Certificate of Merit in the category of "1984 Best Videogame Audio-Visual ...
This was followed later in 1969 by the tenth Test Series game, Flying Fortress II. Dunnigan was planning to produce a boxed game called Luftwaffe in 1971, and released the two Flying Fortress games to try to decide which version would become the new Luftwaffe. (A third game, B-17, was also going to be considered for Luftwaffe, but was never ...