Air-Sea War – Battle
1978 video game
Air-Sea War and Battle are two games that were released together as the fourth cartridge in the official Philips line of games for the Videopac. In North America, the same game was released as Armored Encounter! / Subchase! for the Magnavox Odyssey².
Air-Sea War
This was one of the more premium releases, along with Wall Street Fortune and Quest for the Rings, that was released with a Board, pawns, and a video cartridge in a video/board hybrid release. The board was not offered in the United States.
Air-Sea War is a two-player game with player one controlling an aeroplane which is constantly moving from the right to the left of the screen while trying to drop bombs onto a boat controlled by player two, which is moving from left to right, and trying to fire missiles up at the plane. Both the bombs and missiles can be controlled after firing. There are also two neutral craft in the water. A point is added for each hit on the enemy, and one is deducted for each hit on a neutral craft, although scores can never be in the negatives.
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