Battlehawks 1942
| Battlehawks 1942 | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Totally Games |
| Publisher | Lucasfilm Games |
| Producer | Noah Falstein |
| Designer | Lawrence Holland |
| Programmers | Lawrence Holland Michael Breen |
| Artists | Ken Macklin Martin Cameron |
| Writers | Victor Cross Richard Halsey Best Noah Falstein |
| Platforms | MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST |
| Release | October 1988 |
| Genre | Combat flight simulator |
| Mode | Single-player |
Battlehawks 1942 is a naval air combat flight simulation game released in 1988 by Lucasfilm Games. It is set in the World War II Pacific air war theatre, and was the first of Lucasfilm Games' trilogy of World War II flight simulations, followed by Their Finest Hour (1989) and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (1991). The 127-page manual for Battlehawks 1942 includes a 100-page illustrated overview of the Pacific War. The preface to the manual was written by Richard Halsey Best, who commanded the dive bomber squadron that sank two Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway.