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1942: The Pacific Air War

MicroProse Software, Inc · Atari · 2015-04-01

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 01, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 01, 2015 (Linux), Apr 01, 2015 (Mac), 1994 (DOS)

They were desperate, daring and deadly! For the past 50 years, only the courageous veteran pilots of World War II knew the real risks of fighting the legendary Pacific air wars. Now it's your turn!

57%
positive of 51 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
$6.99
steam price (US)
1942: The Pacific Air War is combat flight simulation developed and published by MicroProse for MS-DOS in 1994. It is based on the U.S. and Japanese Pacific War conflict from 1942 to 1945. An expansion pack, 1942: The Pacific Air War – Scenario, was released in 1995. A sequel, European Air War, was released in 1998. Tommo purchased the rights to 1942 and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 64% of 11,774 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.89-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 28 of 52 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$0.692015-04-012026-09-242015-04-01 — best price $5.242015-11-27 — best price $1.882016-04-22 — best price $1.742016-10-20 — best price $1.742017-01-30 — best price $6.992017-06-22 — best price $1.742017-11-01 — best price $6.992018-01-03 — best price $6.992018-05-16 — best price $6.992018-08-30 — best price $1.742018-11-27 — best price $6.992019-03-04 — best price $1.742019-05-20 — best price $6.992019-09-25 — best price $6.992019-11-26 — best price $1.742020-01-24 — best price $6.992020-05-25 — best price $2.992020-08-23 — best price $6.992020-11-16 — best price $6.992021-02-05 — best price $1.742021-04-05 — best price $5.992021-07-15 — best price $1.742021-11-16 — best price $6.992022-01-20 — best price $2.992022-04-11 — best price $1.742022-07-21 — best price $1.392023-08-07 — best price $3.492024-01-04 — best price $6.992024-05-02 — best price $5.992024-09-18 — best price $1.492025-02-13 — best price $1.792025-06-18 — best price $1.192025-10-08 — best price $5.992026-02-04 — best price $5.992026-05-30 — best price $5.992026-09-10 — best price $5.992026-09-24 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RetroFlightStrategySimulationWorld War II

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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