Gary Grigsby's Pacific War
Strategic Simulations Inc. released Gary Grigsby's Pacific War for IBM PC MS-DOS 3.2 in 1992. Pacific War was designed and programmed by Gary Grigsby. What makes Pacific War impressive -- aside from its scope and historical realism -- is that it displays in hires and employs extensive hotkeys and smooth hardware mouse cursor, which makes it easier on the eyes and comfortable to play.
Pacific War is a Grand-scale turn-based wargame that treats the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War from 1941-1945. In Pacific War players assume the role of Supreme Commanders Nimitz of the U.S. or Yamamoto of Japan as they deploy strategic assets of land, sea and air in the Pacific Theatre, which encompasses 78 million square miles of territory.
Pacific War consists of five campaigns and two scenarios:
- Campaign 41 (7 December 1941 to End of the War)
- Campaign 42 (2 May 1942 to End of War)
- Rising Sun (7 December 1941 to 31 March 1942)
- Coral Sea/Midway (2 May 1942 to 30 June 1942)
- Guadalcanal (7 August 1942 to End of War)
- Marianas (12 June 1944 to End of War)
- Leyte Gulf (13 October 1944 to End of War)
Each turn in Pacific War represents one week and each hex represents 1 mile.
Pacific War Features
- 1-2 players
- 5x campaigns & 2x scenarios
- Scalable hex-grid map with 3x terrain-types: open sea, coastal, land
- 3x play levels of human & computer involvement
- Orders Phase & Execution aka Combat Phase
- Weather & Day/night cycling
- 22x combat forces
Pacific War Technical
Pacific War displays in 16-color EGA 640x350, but its active map drawspace is only 640x288. Pacific War requires an i80286 CPU, 570,000 bytes of free conventional memory and an EGA video card with 256K of vRAM.
Pacific War audio supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro I, Sound Blaster Pro II, AdLib Regular, Media Vision Thunder Board, Roland LAPC-1 and PC Speaker.
Pacific War was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DD diskette or 1x 5.25" 1.2MB HD floppy disk and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Installer for Pacific War and UNARJ v2.21 by Robert K. Jung. The install size is 1.4 megs and consists of 57 files.
Pacific War controls support mouse and keyboard.
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War manual: 155 pages
Gary Grigsby's War in Russia copy protection: manual word look-up
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