Lost Patrol (video game)

Lost Patrol
Cover art by Bob Wakelin
Developers
  • Shadow Development
  • Astros Productions (MS-DOS)
PublisherOcean Software
Designers
  • Ian Harling
  • Simon Cooke
Programmers
  • Simon Cooke
  • Nick Byron
ArtistIan Harling
Composers
  • Chris Glaister
  • Jonathan Dunn
PlatformsAmiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Release
  • 1990: Amiga, Atari ST
  • 1991: MS-DOS
GenreAction role-playing
ModeSingle-player

Lost Patrol, also known as The Lost Patrol, is a survival action role-playing strategy video game developed by Shadow Development and published by Ocean Software for the Amiga and Atari ST computers in 1990. An MS-DOS port by Astros Productions was published in 1991. Set during the Vietnam War, the game follows a squad of United States Army soldiers who are stranded behind enemy lines after their helicopter crashes, and must reach a U.S. military outpost for rescue.