Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
The player controls the helicopter from an overhead, isometric perspective. The Apache is equipped with three weapon types: a machine gun and two types of missiles of different strength. During the missions…
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf is an arcade, released 31 December 1992 on Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System/Mark III.
What Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf is
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf was released in 1992. It was published by Domark Software. It is available on Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System/Mark III.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player controls the helicopter from an overhead, isometric perspective. The Apache is equipped with three weapon types: a machine gun and two types of missiles of different strength. During the missions, the player must beware anti-aircraft guns, missile launchers and tanks, outmaneuvering enemy fire or destroying the enemy weaponry. The Apache is destroyed if its fuel runs out, or if the armor (functioning as health) is completely depleted. However, armor can be replenished by bringing back MIA soldiers and prisoners of war back to the landing zone. There are also fuel, ammo and armor pickups available on the field.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1992 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points below the year average.
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