The Hunt for Red October (1987 video game)

The Hunt for Red October is a video game based on the 1984 book "The Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy. It was released in 1987 and was available for the Atari ST, Amiga, Apple II, Apple Macintosh, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Commodore 64 and IBM PC. A port for the Apple IIGS was released in 1989. The player must navigate the "Red October" towards U.S. waters while avoiding the Soviet Navy. The game is a combination of submarine simulator and strategy game.
Reception.
"Computer Gaming World" in 1988 described it as an excellent submarine simulator, controlled entirely by mouse. The replay value of the game was also praised, as the Soviets change tactics with each game. A 1992 survey in the magazine of wargames with modern settings was much more negative, giving the game one and a half stars out of five and stating that it "probably did more to turn off purchasers to the wargame genre than any other product". "Antic" recommended the ST version of the "Hunt for Red October" to fans of the novel or submarine games.