Blue Max is a 1983 flight simulator by Synapse Software, released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers. In 1984 it was released for the ZX Spectrum by U.S. Gold. In 1991 a remake or sequel, Blue Max: Aces of the Great War, was developed for the Amiga and MS-DOS by Three-Sixty Pacific. The game is named after the German order Pour le Mérite, informally known as Blue Max. Its theme song is Rule, Britannia!
In Blue Max, the player controls a Sopwith Camel biplane during World War I, attempting to shoot down enemy planes and bomb targets on the ground. |