Street Hawk (video game)

{{Short description|1985 video game}}

Street Hawk is a video game based on the Street Hawk TV series. It was developed by Ocean Software in the 1980s for the ZX Spectrum home computer. When the original development work on the game stalled in 1985, a new version had to be quickly produced from scratch by their in-house team to fulfill orders for Kays Catalogues and never went on general release.{{Cite book|last1=Wilkins|first1=Chris|title=Ocean - The History|last2=Kean|first2=Roger M|pages=38–39|publisher=Revival Retro Events|year=2013}} This version is sometimes known as the "subscribers edition" as a it was also supposed to be sent as a free gift to new subscribers of Crash magazine, but instead the magazine eventually had to offer a choice of other Ocean games—Ping Pong, Movie, Super Bowl and Green Beret—as alternatives.{{cite magazine |title=Two US Gold or Ocean games free!|magazine=Crash|issue=18|publisher=Newsfield|date=July 1985|page=17|url=https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._18_1985-07_Newsfield_GB/page/n51/mode/2up|access-date=4 November 2021}}{{cite web|title=Street Hawk' - The 1st CATALOGUE edition|magazine=Ocean Software Ltd on Facebook|issue=|publisher=Facebook|date=9 July 2016|page=|url=https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.549995581792450.1073741924.159443427514336&type=3&comment_id=550077141784294&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D|access-date=4 November 2021|archive-date=4 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104220903/https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.549995581792450.1073741924.159443427514336&type=3&comment_id=550077141784294&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22:%22R%22%7D|url-status=live}}

Ocean went on the develop another version of the game for release in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. The Commodore 64 version was 90% complete but was canceled by Ocean due to lack of profitability from programming delays.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/streethawk/ |title=Streethawk (C64) - 1986 Ocean - GTW64 |year=1986 |access-date=November 3, 2021 |archive-date=October 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015235726/https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/streethawk/ |url-status=live }} In Spain it was distributed by Erbe Software with the name El Halcón Callejero.