B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th!

Released

December 2000 on Windows

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Wayward Design Limited

Moby Score

7.4

#7,272 of 158K

Critics

77% (23)

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(9)

Ranking

#2,708 on Windows

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42 players

Genre: Simulation
Perspective: 1st-person
3rd-person (Other)
Vehicular: Flight / aviation
Vehicular combat
Setting: Historical events
World War II

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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th! is a single-player only flight sim featuring the famous WWII bomber, made by some of the team who also created B-17 Flying Fortress for MicroProse.

You can take control over every of 16 positions available in this plane: Pilot, Gunner, Bomber or communications officer. You can also fly one of the escort fighters (P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, and P-47 Thunderbolt) or German fighters (Bf 109, FW 190, and Me 262).

The flight model is very accurate, as is the graphics and sounds used to represent plane damage.

In addition to managing the aircraft and bombing missions, one also has to manage the bomber crew, take care of the wounded, make sure they don't panic under fire, almost like in an RPG.

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B-17空中堡垒：第八飞行中队 - Chinese spelling (simplified)
Б-17 Летающая Крепость 2 - Russian spelling

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Managing Director	Andrew Walrond
Technical Director	Dominic Robinson
Programming Co-ordination	Chris Keegan
Game Programming	Andrew Walrond Chris Keegan John Shave Gavin Whitlock
Front End Programming	Andrew Crowley Andrew Wilton
Flight Simulation	Andrew Walrond
Aircraft Simulation	Andrew Walrond Gavin Whitlock John Shave
Terrain Simulation	Andrew Crowley Andrew Thomason Dominic Robinson
Visual Effects	Mario D'Onofrio
Sound Programming	Chris Keegan
Renderer Programming	Andrew Crowley Andrew Thomason Dominic Robinson Mario D'Onofrio
Tools Programming	Andrew Thomason Chris Keegan Dominic Robinson
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Porn links

One of the data files of the original version of the game contained links to hardcore porn websites.

According to the developer, this was caused by, during development, merging several different data files into one larger file. Every time a file was added to the large file, space was allocated. However, when too much memory was allocated, the extra space was filled with what was on the disk there before.