1986". It won the award for best simulation game of the year according to the readers of Crash. In 1987, Computer Gaming World named Gunship as its action game of the year, in 1988 the game joined the magazine's Hall of Fame for games highly rated over time by readers, and in 1996, the magazine ranked it as the 102nd best game of all time. Legacy A follow-up game, Gunship 2000, was released by MicroProse for several platforms between 1991 and 1996. Its successor, Gunship!, followed in 2000 for Microsoft Windows only. References Further reading Gunship Commodore 64 manual Gunship Academy - full text of Richard Sheffield's 1988 book about Gunship External links Gunship on the Amiga at The Hall of Light (HOL) Images of Commodore 64 version of Gunship box and manual at C64Sets.com 1986 video games Amiga games Amstrad CPC games Atari ST games Central America in fiction Cold War video games Commodore 64 games DOS games Combat flight simulators FM Towns games Helicopter video games MicroProse games MSX games NEC PC-9801 games Origins Award winners X68000 games Sid Meier games U.S. Gold games ZX Spectrum games Video games developed in the United States Video games set in the United States Video games set in Asia Video games set in Europe Video games set in North America Video games set in the Middle East