Operation Keystone (video game)

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Publisher(s) Overt Strategic Simulations
Release1986
Genre(s) Wargame

Operation Keystone is a 1986 video game published by Overt Strategic Simulations.

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Gameplay

Operation Keystone is a game in which the player is in command of the Gato-class submarine USS Tang against the ships of the Japanese Navy. [1]

Reception

Mark Bausman reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World , and stated that "This reviewer found Operation Keystone to be an excellent game that maintains a good feel of real-time combat activity." [1]

Reviews

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References

  1. 1 2 Bausman, Mark (September–October 1986). "Operation: keystone". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 31. pp. 22, 41.
  2. https://spotlightongames.com/list/reviews.html