Task Force 1942
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Task Force 1942: Surface Naval Action in the South Pacific is an MS-DOS video game released by MPS Labs (MicroProse) in 1992.
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Task Force 1942 | |
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Developer(s) | MPS Labs |
Publisher(s) | MicroProse |
Director(s) | Lawrence Schick |
Designer(s) | Lawrence Schick Ed Fletcher |
Programmer(s) | Ed Fletcher |
Artist(s) | Max D. Remington III |
Composer(s) | Jeffery L. Briggs Roland J. Rizzo |
Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
Release | 1992 |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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The game is a surface naval simulation which allows the player to operate single ships or a task force made up of ships, from the United States Navy (USN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), or the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the South Pacific during WWII. It was designed to run under PC DOS or MS-DOS, version 5.0 or higher. The specific historical setting was the series of ferocious naval engagements fought around the largest island in the Solomon Islands chain, Guadalcanal, in 1942.