Atari 8-bit

Eastern Front (1941)

Description

A strategic turn-based wargame for the Atari 8-Bit computer line. Eastern Front puts you in charge of the German armada as they start their infamous Russian campaign, or as it was known at the time "Operation Barbarossa". The game is played from an overhead scrolling map that encompasses the entire eastern European theater, and from which you select your units and issue orders based on their action points and strength which are defined by their appropriate control zones. Isolate units, and their strength starts to go down proportionally.

Only 1-player mode is supported against an AI that actually processes its moves between turns, giving out finer solutions the longer the player takes to make his moves.

Alternate Titles

• "Eastern Front (1941): A Historic Military Strategy Game" -- Tag-lined title
• "Eastern Front 1941" -- In-game title

Part of the Following Group

• Historical conflict: World War II

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The first really tough computer wargame

Maury Markowitz (222)

The Press Says

Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Nov, 1991		100
Tilt	Nov, 1982	4 out of 6	67
Micro 7	Jan, 1984		67

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Trivia

Release history

Eastern Front was released in three different variants. The first two were a 16 KB cassette version and a 32 KB floppy version with improved graphics. Both for the Atari 400 and both developed by Chris Crawford and released through Atari's APX (Atari Program Exchange), a semi-independent label which sold bare-bones releases mainly developed by independent programmers. Some APX games became so popular that eventually they received the full Atari treatment and got an "official" release. This is what happened with Eastern Front, which received its third and final release in 1982 for the Atari 800 in a 48 KB floppy version with improved AI and additional difficulty levels.