A-10 Tank Killer Summary
Dance with the angels!
Or, perhaps, salt the earth. A-10 Tank Killer is a flight sim game, based upon the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt. First released in December 1989 on the PC, or DOS (Disk Operating System). This game saw the players take control of an A-10, and participate in the Gulf War, as well as a fictional European scenario. Upon release, it, along with its sequel, had a combined sales number of over 250k. Keep in mind, this was well before computer games had taken off, and the advertisements weren’t as robust as they are now.
A-10 Tank Killer Premise
There’s no plot in the sense of a connected storyline. However, there are missions to undertake, and it does take place during the Gulf War. That being said, most of the missions consist of being assigned an objective. Then flying to said objective and blowing it up. You select your loadout for the mission, and off you go. The missions are connected, in the sense that if you perform badly in one, another mission will be much more difficult.
A-10 Tank Killer Main Characters
- You. The pilot of the A-10 Warthog, it is your job to fly free and destroy enemy encampments.
A-10 Tank Killer Titles of Video Games in the Series
- A-10 Tank Killer (1989)
- A-10 Tank Killer 1.5 (1991)
A-10 Tank Killer Cheat Codes
Not a lot of cheat codes this time around, but there is one that might be useful.
Abort Bad Mission
The game normally disables the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] warm boot combination. However, If a mission ends badly and you wish to stop the game from saving that result, press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] during the brief period of time when the game loads the next part of the program. The aborted mission will not appear on the game file.
A-10 Tank Killer Cheat Code FAQ
Can you play this anywhere? Yes and no. You can generally find this game on various websites. But in Germany, it was placed on the “Index” and made unavailable to the public.
Does this have Joystick support? It does! Along with a keyboard and controller.
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