{{Short description|1989 video game}} {{more citations needed|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox video game |title = Fighter Bomber |image = Fighter Bomber coverart.png |caption = European cover art |developer = Vektor Grafix |publisher = {{vgrelease|EU|Activision UK|NA|Accolade}} |designer = Andy Craven<br>John Lewis<br>Ciaran Gultnieks |programmer = Ian Martin<br>Peter Featherstone |artist = Derrick Austin<br>Mark Griffiths<br>John Guerin |composer = Paul Summers |released = 1989 |genre = Combat flight simulator |modes = Single-player |platforms = Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, ZX Spectrum }}
'''''Fighter Bomber''''' (released as '''''Strike Aces''''' in the USA) is a combat flight simulator developed by Vektor Grafix and released in 1989 by Activision UK for several platforms.
==Gameplay== In the game, the player participates in the annual ''Strategic Air Command Bombing and Navigation Competition'' at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. Aircrews from around the world come here to compete against each other, undertaking three missions which are monitored and points are awarded. The best aircrew then receives the ''Curtis E. LeMay Trophy''.
The player can choose between six different planes. After having selected the aircraft the player has to select a mission, and then appropriate weaponry for the selected mission from an array of weapons consisting of different types of missiles and bombs.
==Reception== ''Computer Gaming World'' in 1990 approved of the large variety of aircraft and the scenario editor, but criticized the graphics as inferior to that of competitors such as ''A-10 Tank Killer'', and claiming to support sound card audio when only a few portions of music did so. The magazine concluded that "''Strike Aces'' is not a ''bad'' product; it simply did not live up to its potential in execution".{{r|dille199012}} 1992 and 1994 surveys in the magazine of wargames with modern settings gave the game two and a half stars out of five.<ref name="brooks199206">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1992&pub=2&id=95 | title=The Modern Games: 1950 - 2000 | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=June 1992 | accessdate=24 November 2013 | author=Brooks, M. Evan | pages=120}}</ref><ref name="brooks199401">{{Cite magazine |last=Brooks |first=M. Evan |date=January 1994 |title=War In Our Time / A Survey Of Wargames From 1950-2000 |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=114 |magazine=Computer Gaming World |pages=194–212}}</ref>
==Further reading== *''{{ill|Jeux et Stratégie|lt=Jeux & Stratégie|fr}}'' nouvelle formule #5<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/jeux-et-strategie-nf-5/page/20/mode/2up | title=Jeux & stratégie NF 5 | date=March 1990 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="dille199012">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1990&pub=2&id=77 | title=Bomber, Man | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=December 1990 | accessdate=16 November 2013 | author=Dille, H. E. | pages=75 |issue=77}}</ref> }}
==External links== *{{moby game|id=/strike-aces|name=''Strike Aces''}} *{{Internet Archive game|id=msdos_Strike_Aces_1990|platform=MS-DOS|title=Strike Aces}}
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Category:1989 video games Category:Accolade, Inc. games Category:Activision games Category:Amiga games Category:Amstrad CPC games Category:Atari ST games Category:Combat flight simulators Category:Commodore 64 games Category:DOS games Category:Single-player video games Category:Vektor Grafix games Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom Category:Video games set in South Dakota Category:ZX Spectrum games