DragonStrike (DOS)

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Description

A dragon flight simulator set in the AD&D world of Dragonlance. Fly dragons through the War of the Lance. When you successfully complete a mission, you can advance in rank, gain magical items and hit points or get a better dragon. The 20 missions include intercepting enemy dragons, destroying enemy ships and protecting the forces of good.

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Alternate Titles

• "Dragon Strike" -- Alternate spelling
• "ドラゴンストライク" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting: Dragonlance
• Dungeons & Dragons (D&D / AD&D) licensees
• Fantasy Creatures: Dragons
• Gameplay feature: Dragon flying / riding
• Top Shots / Topshots releases

User Reviews

The first and only Dragonride RPG-simulator	Silverblade (1482)
this game combines RPG and Flight Simulator elements better than any other (with the possible exception of Wing Commander)	Gothicgene (83)
There aren't many fantasy simulators to compare this one to, but even if there were, it would have been tough to beat	ududy (59)	unrated

Critic Reviews

Dragon	Sep, 1990		100
The Games Machine (UK)	Jul, 1990	85 out of 100	85
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	1990	82 out of 100	82
PC Leisure	Jun, 1990		80
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Nov, 1992		80
Compute!	Mar, 1991		75
Power Play	Jul, 1990	74 out of 100	74
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Jul, 1990	8.6 out of 12	72
100 aktuelle PC-Spiele	1990	7 out of 10	70
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Dec, 1990	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Cover

The game box's cover features a painting by artist Keith Parkinson, earlier used as the front cover to Tracy Hickman's 1984 RPG module "Dragons of Hope".

Music

The AdLib music of this game obviously used the standard sound bank which came with Visual Composer while many games were slowly starting to use custom sounds. Even if that sound bank was cheesy (especially the snare drum), the musical arrangement was way superior to most demo .rol files which were available at that time, including those that came with the card.

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