Pacific Islands (video game) explained

Pacific Islands
Developer:Oxford Digital Enterprises
The Mystery Machine
Publisher:Empire Interactive
Released:1992
Genre:Strategy
Modes:Single-player
Platforms:MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST

Pacific Islands is a computer game published by Empire Interactive in 1992 for the MS-DOS, Amiga and Atari ST. It is the sequel to the 1987 video game, Team Yankee.

Plot

Pacific Islands is a tank simulation game involving platoon-style combat. A member of the Soviet Communist Party has seized control of the fictitious Yama Yama Isles in the South Pacific that are an important outpost for the Western nations. The player will have to regain control of the islands in five missions.

Reception

Computer Gaming World criticized Pacific Islandss lack of infantry (making the machines guns useless) or air power (despite the aircraft on the box art), both faults that existed with Team Yankee. The magazine concluded that it "comes closer to a Nintendo game than a wargame".[1] The game was reviewed in 1993 in Dragon #189 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.[2]

Reviews

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Empire's Team Yankee & Pacific Islands . Computer Gaming World . December 1992 . 5 July 2014 . Savage, Richard . 172.
  2. The Role of Computers . Lesser . Lesser . Lesser . Hartley . Patricia . Kirk . amp . Dragon . 189 . January 1993 . 57–62.
  3. Web site: ST Format (Issue 35) - June - 1992: Atari magazine scans, PDF.
  4. Web site: Amiga Computing Magazine Issue 049. June 1992.
  5. Web site: CU Amiga Magazine Issue 027. May 1992.
  6. https://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=4540
  7. https://archive.org/stream/Amiga_Format_Issue_035_1992-06_Future_Publishing_GB#page/n49/mode/2up
  8. Web site: Pacific Islands: Team Yankee 2 review from Amiga Action 32 (May 1992) - Amiga Magazine Rack.
  9. http://www.atarimania.com/mags/hi_res/atari_st_action_59_64.jpg
  10. https://archive.org/stream/Amiga_Power_Issue_13_1992-05_Future_Publishing_GB#page/n94/mode/2up
  11. Web site: Zero Magazine Issue 32 . June 1992.
  12. http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/pacifici.htm#pacificislandsaj
  13. Web site: TheOne Magazine Issue 44 . May 1992.
  14. http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=4326