In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Dam Busters the 68th greatest British film of the 20th century. The film was widely praised and became the most popular motion picture at British cinemas in 1955. The film's reflective last minutes convey the poignant mix of emotions felt by the characters – triumph over striking a successful blow against the enemy's industrial base is tempered by the sobering knowledge that many died in the process of delivering it. The film was based on the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson. The film recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe dams in Nazi Germany with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb. Flight handling is excellent for its time, and the multiple views and multiple stations (bombadier, pilot, gunner, and navigator) foreshadow MicroProse's excellent B-17 Flying Fortress years later.ĭefinitely a classic, albeit forgotten, sim that deserves to be mentioned alongside BAO Software's classic Jet and many others.The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. squadron who bombed a number of crucial dams in Germany in WWII, earning the name "the dambusters." Your mission is to follow in these heroes' footsteps, although you must contend with various air hostiles on your way to the dams.Īlthough there is really only one mission (dam bombing), you can choose what stage of the mission you want to start from. The plane's place in aviation and war history is secured by the heroic deeds of an R.A.F. Despite primitive CGA graphics, The Dambusters is surprisingly complex for its time, offering multiple views, control options for the cannons, and various instruments on an authentic-looking panel.Īlthough you can only fly one plane in the game, it's a very special plane that is rarely modeled in flight sims: the Lancaster bomber, a fearsome bomber of the British R.A.F. Decent conversion of Sydney Development's ( Evolution) very early World War II flight simulator, released for the C64 in 1984.
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