''Operation: Desert Storm'' is a top-down tank shooter for the

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. It is the first commercial game released by

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''Marathon Scrapbook'', pages 1-2. From the ''Marathon Trilogy Box Set'', Bungie, 1997. and the first game released after their incorporation. It followed the

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title '' Gnop!'', published by Bungie co-founder

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under the Bungie name prior to incorporation. ''Operation: Desert Storm'' sold about 2,500 copies and was based on the events of the ongoing

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. The game features twenty levels, culminating in a mission set in

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, Iraq with the final enemy being

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. It comes with a glossary of military terms and trivia which was needed in order to validate the copy-protection in the game, and authentic maps of the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations.

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