''Street Hawk'' is a

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based on the ''

Street Hawk ''Street Hawk'' is an American superhero television series that aired for 14 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television. Its central characters were created by Paul M. Bel ...

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. It was developed by

Ocean Software Ocean Software Ltd was a British software development company that became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester. ...

in the 1980s for the

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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

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and never went on general release. 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—''

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'', ''

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'', ''Super Bowl'' and ''

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''—as alternatives. Ocean went on the develop another version of the game for release in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and

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. The Commodore 64 version was 90% complete but was canceled by Ocean due to lack of profitability from programming delays. In Spain it was distributed by Erbe Software with the name ''El Halcón Callejero''.

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* *{{WoS game, id=4938, name=Street Hawk (1986 Version) 1985 video games 1986 video games Amstrad CPC games Cancelled Commodore 64 games Ocean Software games Video games developed in the United Kingdom ZX Spectrum games