B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

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Developer(s) Wayward Design
Publisher(s) Hasbro Interactive
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release
  • NA: December 15, 2000 [1]
  • EU: December 2000
Genre(s) Combat flight simulator
Mode(s) Single-player

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th is a combat flight simulator developed by Wayward Design and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse brand in 2000 as a sequel to the 1992 flight simulator B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action . Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015. [2]

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Reception

The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3] However, Samuel Bass of NextGen gave it a negative review, saying, "Scuttled before it can even get off the runway, B-17 is simply a betrayal of MicroProse's fans." [12]

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  2. ↑ "Purchase Agreement between Atari, Inc. and Rebellion Developments, Stardock & Tommo" (PDF). BMC Group. July 22, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th for PC Reviews". Metacritic . Fandom. Archived from the original on May 20, 2022. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
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