''Fighter Bomber'' (released as ''Strike Aces'' in the USA) is a

combat flight simulator Combat flight simulators are vehicle simulation games, amateur flight simulation computer programs used to simulate military aircraft and their operations. These are distinct from dedicated flight simulators used for professional pilot and mili ...

developed by Vektor Grafix and released in 1989 by Activision UK for several platforms.

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In the game, the player participates in the annual ''Strategic Air Command Bombing and Navigation Competition'' at

Ellsworth Air Force Base Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located about northeast of Rapid City, South Dakota, just north of the town of Box Elder, South Dakota, Box Elder. The host unit at Ellsworth is the 28th Bomb Wing (28 BW). Assi ...

South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...

. Aircrews from around the world come here to compete against each other, undertaking three missions which are monitored and points are awarded. The best aircrew then receives the ''Curtis E. LeMay Trophy''. The player can choose between six different planes. After having selected the aircraft the player has to select a mission, and then appropriate weaponry for the selected mission from an array of weapons consisting of different types of missiles and bombs.

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Computer Gaming World ''Computer Gaming World'' (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006. One of the few magazines of the era to survive the video game crash of 1983, it was sold to Ziff Davis in 1993. It expanded greatly through ...

'' in 1990 approved of the large variety of aircraft and the scenario editor, but criticized the graphics as inferior to that of competitors such as ''

A-10 Tank Killer ''A-10 Tank Killer'' is a 1989 combat flight simulation video game for DOS developed and published by Dynamix. An Amiga version was released in 1990. The game features an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft. Following the success of ''Red Baron' ...

'', and claiming to support sound card audio when only a few portions of music did so. The magazine concluded that "''Strike Aces'' is not a ''bad'' product; it simply did not live up to its potential in execution". 1992 and 1994 surveys in the magazine of wargames with modern settings gave the game two and a half stars out of five.

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* * {{Authority control 1989 video games Accolade (company) games Activision games Amiga games Amstrad CPC games Atari ST games Combat flight simulators Commodore 64 games DOS games Video games set in South Dakota Video games developed in the United Kingdom ZX Spectrum games

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