Air Power (video game)
{{Short description|1995 video game}}
{{More footnotes needed|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Air Power
| image = Air Power video game.jpg
| caption =
| developer = Rowan Software
| publisher = Mindscape
| released = {{vgrelease|WW|1995|NA|November 6, 1995}}
| genre = Combat flight simulation
| platforms = MS-DOS
|alt =
}}Air Power is a video game developed by Rowan Software and published by Mindscape for MS-DOS, and released on November 6, 1995.{{Cite web |date=1996-11-11 |title=Mindscape: Press Release: Mindscape Unveils Flagship Web Sites at Comdex |url=http://www.mindscape.com/cgi-bin/omixlink?1139577084+company_info/press_releases/pr_battl.html |access-date=2023-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961111052705/http://www.mindscape.com/cgi-bin/omixlink?1139577084+company_info/press_releases/pr_battl.html |archive-date=1996-11-11 }}
Gameplay
Reception
{{Video game reviews
| rev1 = Computer Game Review
| rev1Score = 73/79/71{{cite web | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19961221183412/http://www.nuke.com/cgr/reviews/9601/airpower/airpower.htm | url=http://www.nuke.com/cgr/reviews/9601/airpower/airpower.htm | title=Lead Zeppelin | author1=Snyder, Frank | author2=Chapman, Ted | author3=Honeywell, Steve | work=Computer Game Review | date=January 1996 | archivedate=December 21, 1996 | url-status=dead }}
}}
Computer Game Review summarized Air Power as "an interesting idea that comes up short in the game play department." In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Air Power the 9th-worst computer game ever released.{{cite magazine | author=Staff | title=150 Best (and 50 Worst) Games of All Time | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=November 1996 | issue=148 | pages=63–65, 68, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 84, 88, 90, 94, 98 }}
Reviews
- LeveL (Czech magazine) #11 (12/1995)
- PC Gamer Vol. 3 No. 3 (1996 March)
- PC Format (1995-12)https://archive.org/details/pc-format-cd-gold-winter-1995/page/n45/mode/1up
- GameSpot (1996-05-01){{cite web | url=http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/airpowerbattleintheskies/review.html | title=Air Power: Battle in the Skies Review }}