F-15 Strike Eagle (PC, 3 1/2" Disk) Slash - 1992 USA, Canada Release

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F-15 Strike Eagle
Title
F-15 Strike Eagle
Product ID
19703-40200
Product UPC
019703402004
Platform(s)
Packaging
Retail Box
Media
3 1/2" Disk
Copyright date(s)
1992
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Description from the packaging.

America's #1 jet fighter simulation.

Strap into your ejection seat and get ready for challenging and exciting modern jet fighter combat with F-15 Strike Eagle!! Fly combat missions, engage enemy aircraft, and destroy enemy ground targets in the skies of Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. All the sophisticated tools of modern electronic air warfare are modern electronic air warfare are available including computer assisted targeting, Heads Up Display (HUD), airborne radar, and ground tracking target display maps. As the F-15 pilot, you employ your air to air missiles, cannon, and high explosive bombs to accomplish air defense and strategic deep interdiction bombing missions. The F-15's defenses include surface to air missile launch indicators, electronic counter measures (ECM), afterburners, flares, and full aerobatic capabilities to outfight, out fly, or outthink enemy aircraft, air to air missiles, and surface to air missiles!! Seven different combat missions, four skill levels, and infinite number of combat scenarios offer continuous stimulation and excitement!! F-15 will thrill and challenge you and give you the chance to prove you have the "Right Stuff" of an Eagle fighter pilot!!

System Requirements

PC Boot Software
Required CPU
XT 8088/8086
Required RAM
128K
Supports Joystick
Yes
Supported Video
CGA
EGA

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Retail Box cover F-15 Strike Eagle. Retail Box back F-15 Strike Eagle.

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Package Contents

The Slash version includes the manual, a Boot Disk Read Me First! insert and one 3 1/2" disk. The Slash version can be distinguished from the original Microprose version by these characteristics:

  • The Slash version box looks different than any Microprose version. The Slash box is a setup box with a solid blue border. The spines all have a solid blue border with the game title set inside a yellow outline.
  • The Microprose version has a system requirements label on the the lower left front corner of the box wrapping to the left spine of the box. The Slash version has no system requirements label. On the Slash version the system requirements are printed on the front lower left corner of the box. The Slash version also has a small printed label that says '* NOTE: DRIVE A: MUST BE A 720KB OR A 1.44MB 3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE.'
  • The quality of the contents inside the Slash package are of lower quality than the original Microprose release.
    • The disk labels on the Slash version are printed on a dot matrix printer
    • The Slash manual is on plain paper

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