Now here is something that may excite some old-school PC gamers. MicroProse is back. Yeap, you read that right. This legendary company is officially back and will offer original and high-quality games in the strategy and simulation genres. Furthermore, the team has announced three new games.
These three games are: Task Force Admiral, Second Front and Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age.
Task Force Admiral is a single-player experience centered on the command of an early Pacific War US Navy carrier task force. The game will put you in the nerve-wrecking role of the admiral in charge.
On the other hand, Second Front is an accessible WWII turn-based tactical game. The game will sport all the depth of a paper wargame and the ease of a computer simulation.
Lastly, Sea Power is a deep modern naval combat warfare simulation that pits Nato and Warsaw Pact against each other in a tense, hide and seek-based, confrontation. It’s also worth noting that the lead designer of Cold Waters is working on Sea Power.
Before closing, MicroProse stated that it will make more announcements in the future. The team aims to constantly grow its line-up, so we are really looking forward to it.
Enjoy the following trailers and stay tuned for more!
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This is good to hear. They developed some really good to great games back in the day. One of the first computer games that I bought was F-15 Strike Eagle for my Commodore 64. It became one of my favorite games.
They also developed:
Civilization I and II
Pirates
X-COM: Enemy Unknown
Master of Orion
and many, many other really good to great games. Back in the day you shopped for boxed video games that you couldn’t return even if they were lousy. Seeing the name MicroProse on the box often meant quality.
it would be nice to see civilization II on gog, for me the most beautiful of the series
I’ve fond memories of Gunship on the 8-bit home micros. Big card box, keyboard overlay and a huge manual. Happy days regardless of the deforestation caused!
Gunship oh hell yeah, When you are trying to fly back after a hard mission and every part is yellow or red and you are trying to glide back to base to get that silver medal. 😉
Loved that game on C64/Amiga
You mean UFO: Enemy Unknown
I think you’re right.
Grand Prix 1, 2, 3 & 4 were also from Microprose.
You already beat me to it!
Geoff Crammond. Legend!
GP4 is still great to this day.
Hell yeh!
are those fly sims?
Brings back some good memories, good to see them back.
Grand Prix 1, 2, 3 & 4 were also from Microprose
I grew up on the games the brand made. Good stuff.
Brings tears to my eyes. They made the very first games I got with my first PC back in 1995. F117A Stealth Fighter, and one about submarines; can’t recall the name now.
Glad to see them back. Wonder how much of the original company is still there though.
Played the the hell out of F117. Sure, it had nothing on F16 fighter games but how many could actually control those F16? Very few On the otter hand, F117, F19, F22 and even F14 were very easy to play and – dare i say – fun.
Sid Meier’s Red Storm Rising?
Another brilliant game of it’s day.
You mean, MicroProse “the name”, is back? Or, MicroProse “the people”, are back? I can’t imagine many people who made MicroProse what it was in the 80s and 90s, have returned with the name.
In any case, one can hope whoever these people are who bought the name, will do it some justice. I’ll see what they have to offer. I just hope they put quality over graphics. Looking around these days, it’s obvious that graphics over quality, just doesn’t amount to much.
As much as I loved the original MicroProse games of Pirates, Airborne Ranger, Project Stealth Fighter, etc. etc, I’ll remain a bit skeptical of what will come out of this version of the company. I just have little-to-no-faith of any kind, in modern gaming.
I’ve gone from buying 20-30 games a year, once upon a time, to about 2-3 games a year today. Let’s see what “MicroProse” will do with itself.
The name. According to Wikipedia the name has been passed around multiple times over the past decade and it looks like another company just purchased it for the name recognition. They’re no more the Microprose of old as Atari is the Atari we grew up with.
Just the name, but even if the OG crew would return, that’s not a guarantee of great new games.
I dont know jack about MicroProse but they seme chill, they actually contracted with bluedrake making 2 games a WW2 online game and a Modern Free game like squad.
Original Gunship 2000 and the Artic expansion please.
Talk about a blast from the past, They truly made some of the best games of the 80’s / 90’s era. Its great to have them back, even if its just the band name.