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Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is a World War II combat flight simulation game by Lawrence Holland, released in October 1989 for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS systems. It was the second game in the…

1 October 1989

Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is a simulator developed by Lucasfilm Games, released 1 October 1989 on Amiga, Atari ST/STE and DOS.

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What Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is

Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is a simulator game developed by Lucasfilm Games and released in 1989. It is available on Amiga, Atari ST/STE and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After humbling all of Europe, the dreaded Third Reich planned to bring Great Britain to its knees. Pilot British Spitfires and Hurricanes against the Luftwaffe's Messerschmitt fighters or Stuka, Dornier and Heinkel bombers. Or climb inthe German cockpits to dogfight against the gallant pilots of the RAF.
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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

Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain launched on 1 October 1989, within three weeks of Disney's DuckTales, SimCity and Shadow of the Beast.

Released around the same time: Disney's DuckTales, SimCity, Shadow of the Beast.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain come out?
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain was released on 1 October 1989 for Amiga, Atari ST/STE and DOS.

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