Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
Desert Strike, developed by Tiertex, published by Domark and distributed by Tengen for the US in 1994.
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Player's Review
"DESERT STRIKE: RETURN TO THE GULF "Aerial combat at its finest.
THIS MADMAN'S MILITARY MACHINE IS AIMED AT YOU! He came from out of nowhere a ruthless tyrant with a huge arsenal and a bad attitude. He's got hostages. He's got SCUDs. You've got a problem. The President himself has chosen one pilot to fly a series of pre-emptive strikes against the Madman's massed forces in the desert- and pal, that pilot is you! Your mission: fly a single Apache gunship, bristling with high-tech weaponry, straight down the tyrant's throat before he turns his weapons of destruction on the world!"
Another unique version of the game. On the surface this appears to be a Tiertex re-implementation of the earlier Master System game by 'The Kremlin' (Domarks in house dev team). The same green helicopter and oddball control but the terrain seems to be zoomed out with smaller sprites for objects and vehicles making everything harder to see on the small screen. The cuts go much deeper though with overly simplified terrain and smaller map overall as well as a weaponry system that doesnt work that well (bullets and rockets on same button) which worked just fine in the MS game. The opening presentation is completely different and the mission screens barely exists as everything has to fit in a much lower resolution. Usually Game Gear conversions go the other way and zoom in with bigger sprites to be more easily visible on the small screen. The Game Gear version is still challenging through with every enemy bullet doing huge amounts of damage and there doesnt appear to be much in the way of hidden armour pickups.
The longplay shows all missions played in order. At the start of each mission I will show all the objectives and then head on out. As there is no scoring system in this game I may not worry about completing everything and move on when the game says I can. With limited ammo I don't want to be shooting at everything I see,
Overall, it is probably not the version to play unless you do only have a game gear. Everything is there that makes it Desert Strike but it's cut back so much, it may not hold your interest to the end. Amazingly, desert strike was followed up with conversions of jungle and urban strike which didn't appear on the Master System.
00:00:00 Titles / Intro
00:04:16 Air Superiority
00:13:22 Scud Buster
00:29:05 Embassy City
00:46:49 Nuclear Storm
THIS MADMAN'S MILITARY MACHINE IS AIMED AT YOU! He came from out of nowhere a ruthless tyrant with a huge arsenal and a bad attitude. He's got hostages. He's got SCUDs. You've got a problem. The President himself has chosen one pilot to fly a series of pre-emptive strikes against the Madman's massed forces in the desert- and pal, that pilot is you! Your mission: fly a single Apache gunship, bristling with high-tech weaponry, straight down the tyrant's throat before he turns his weapons of destruction on the world!"
Another unique version of the game. On the surface this appears to be a Tiertex re-implementation of the earlier Master System game by 'The Kremlin' (Domarks in house dev team). The same green helicopter and oddball control but the terrain seems to be zoomed out with smaller sprites for objects and vehicles making everything harder to see on the small screen. The cuts go much deeper though with overly simplified terrain and smaller map overall as well as a weaponry system that doesnt work that well (bullets and rockets on same button) which worked just fine in the MS game. The opening presentation is completely different and the mission screens barely exists as everything has to fit in a much lower resolution. Usually Game Gear conversions go the other way and zoom in with bigger sprites to be more easily visible on the small screen. The Game Gear version is still challenging through with every enemy bullet doing huge amounts of damage and there doesnt appear to be much in the way of hidden armour pickups.
The longplay shows all missions played in order. At the start of each mission I will show all the objectives and then head on out. As there is no scoring system in this game I may not worry about completing everything and move on when the game says I can. With limited ammo I don't want to be shooting at everything I see,
Overall, it is probably not the version to play unless you do only have a game gear. Everything is there that makes it Desert Strike but it's cut back so much, it may not hold your interest to the end. Amazingly, desert strike was followed up with conversions of jungle and urban strike which didn't appear on the Master System.
00:00:00 Titles / Intro
00:04:16 Air Superiority
00:13:22 Scud Buster
00:29:05 Embassy City
00:46:49 Nuclear Storm
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