Action Stations! (video game)
{{Short description|1990 video game}}
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| title = Action Stations!
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| developer = Conflict Analytics
| publisher = Conflict Analytics
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| released = 1990 (DOS)
1991 (Amiga)
| genre = Turn-based strategy
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Action Stations! is a 1990 video game published by Conflict Analytics.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89519928/the-philadelphia-inquirer/|title=Armchair wars:From American Revolution to tecchno thrills|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|page=76|date=July 12, 1990|accessdate=November 25, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}}
Action Stations! Scenario Utility Disk was also released.
Gameplay
Action Stations! is a game in which the focus is the involvement of surface officers in conducting war at sea.
Each player gives orders to their ships for the next 3 minutes of game time. The orders are then executed simultaneously.
Game play includes provisions for salvo chasing, spotting of the fall of shot by aircraft, flares dropping by aircraft and the use of smoke for cover. There are scenarios from a small one with the German Graf Spee against 3 Allied cruisers to large scenarios like the battles around Ironbottom Sound.
Each ship has detailed armor specifications and comprehensive data about the types of guns each has with rates of fire and penetration being taken into account.
Reception
Lt. H. E. Dille reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that it was "a superlative first effort. The play value is superb and completion of all the scenarios included with the game could take players up to a year of standard play to master."{{cite magazine |last=Dille |first=Lt. H. E. |title=Action Stations: Tactical Naval Simulation From An Officer's Perspective |magazine=Computer Gaming World |date=February 1990 |volume=1 |issue=68 |pages=56, 60}}
Bob Proctor reviewed the Action Stations! Scenario Utility Disk for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "No matter how much one enjoys the basic Action Stations! program, this new module offers something to extend every wargamer's enjoyment of the product."{{cite magazine |last=Proctor |first=Bob |title=Ships, Scenarios and Utilities: More Action Stations! Fun |magazine=Computer Gaming World |date=June 1992 |volume=1 |issue=95 |pages=112–113}}
=Reviews=
- Raze - Nov, 1990{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/RAZE_Issue_01_1990-11_Newsfield_Publishing_GB/page/n89/mode/2up | title=RAZE - Issue 01 (1990-11)(Newsfield Publishing)(GB) | date=November 1990 }}
- Zzap! - May, 1991{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/zzap64-magazine-073/page/n53/mode/2up | title=ZZap!64 Magazine Issue 073 | date=May 1991 }}
- Amiga Format (1991-06){{cite web | url=https://amigareviews.leveluphost.com/actionst.htm#actionstationsaf | title=Amiga Reviews: Action Stations! }}
- ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - May, 1991http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=10679
- Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1991
- Amiga Joker (1991-05)http://amr.abime.net/issue_1562_pages
- Amiga User International (1991-06)http://amr.abime.net/review_7503
- Fire & Movement #76{{cite web | url=https://spotlightongames.com/list/reviews.html | title=Index to Game Reviews in Magazines }}
References
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Category:Turn-based strategy video games
Category:Video games developed in the United States
Category:Video games set in the 1920s