THE MAKING OF: JETSTRIK

The game that dropped a bombshell on the CD32’s launch lineup, Jetstrike was an arcade flight sim oozing with detail and wacky humour. Mike Bevan speaks to creators Aaron and Adam Fothergill

IN THE KNOW PUBLISHER: RASPUTIN SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: SHADOW SOFTWARE   RELEASED: 1994 PLATFORM: AMIGA, AMIGA CD32, PC_DOS GENRE: FLIGHT.SIM/SHOOT.‘EM.UP The idea behind Jetstrike is a simple one: pick any plane from the dozens available in your hanger, load it up with weapons, and fly out across a scrolling landscape, dealing out as much damage to the enemy SPUDD (Society of Particularly Undesirable Dastardly Dudes) installations as possible. And if you end up going down in a huge fireball and bailing out, pick another aircraft and do it all again. A mixture of Defender, Harrier Attack and every Top Gun cliché you ever heard (in a good way, mind) it’s silly, hard as nails and absolute buckets of fun. For the creators, Aaron and Adam Fothergill, it was the culmination of…

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