Hellcats Over the Pacific
Hellcats Over the Pacific is a flight simulator focusing on the Pacific Theater of World War 2. The player assumes the role of a Grumman F6F Hellcat pilot in both land and carrier-based missions using guns and…
Hellcats Over the Pacific is a simulator developed by Parsoft Interactive, released 31 December 1991 on Mac.
What Hellcats Over the Pacific is
Hellcats Over the Pacific is a simulator game developed by Parsoft Interactive and released in 1991. It was published by Graphic Simulations. It is available on Mac only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hellcats Over the Pacific is a flight simulator focusing on the Pacific Theater of World War 2. The player assumes the role of a Grumman F6F Hellcat pilot in both land and carrier-based missions using guns and bombs. Hellcats used a special algorithm that Eric Parker initially programmed on a Sun SPARCstation to speed up the display of graphics on the screen. Hellcats offered amazing 256 colors at a time when 16 colors were the norm and (for the time) insanely smooth and fluid animations. The game was a huge hit on the small Macintosh gaming market, selling more than 50,000 copies. It ranked for years in the "most popular games" sections of magazines like Inside Mac Games and won Macworld…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Hellcats Over the Pacific launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams and Baseball Stars 2.
Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Baseball Stars 2.
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