Red Storm Rising IBM PC MPS Labs 1989

Red Storm Rising 1989

Red Storm Rising is a nuclear submarine computer simulation released by MPS Labs of Microprose in 1989 for IBM PC MS-DOS 2.11-3.11. Red Storm Rising is based on the Tom Clancy and Larry Bond war novel of the same name, published in 1986.

Red Storm Rising was designed by Sid Meier and Arnold Hendrick; the original C64 version was programmed by Sid Meier, Richard Orban and Silas Warner. The IBM PC version was programmed by Richard Orban, Darrell Dennies, Joe Hellesen and Bill Becker.

Red Storm Rising is the best submarine strategy game ever made.

Red Storm Rising displays in 256-color VGA 320x200. It requires an i808x or 80x86, 384K RAM and 256K vRAM.

Red Storm Rising Features

• Setting: World War III
• 4 difficult levels
• 11 scenarios
• 5 US submarine classes
• 37 Soviet warships
• 5 radar and sonar devices
• Good AI
• Red Storm Rising manual written by Arnold Hendrick: 100 pages

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