Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

D
MS-DOS 0 subscribers

0 plays 1992 #Strategy

Gary Grigsby's Pacific War is a 1992 computer wargame for MS-DOS from Strategic Simulations It covers World War II in the Pacific between the Japanese Empire and the Allies, which include the United States, the British Empire, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Philippines, and China. The main map of the game stretches from north of the Aleutians to southern New Zealand and Australia, and from the eastern coast of India to the West Coast of North America. It includes aircraft carrier operations, amphibious assaults, surface bombardments/engagements, strategic bombing, kamikazes, and the submarine war against naval and merchant shipping.

A follow-up was published in 2004: War in the Pacific.

From Wikipedia's article Gary Grigsby's Pacific War, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

Comments

Live chat

Connecting…

Chatting as a guest · Sign in to use your name
0/300

Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

No reviews yet

We found no critic scores for this game, and too few players have rated it.

Review scorecard

  1. Graphics — Not scored Unavailable
  2. Sound — Not scored Unavailable
  3. Control — Not scored Unavailable
  4. Fun Factor — Not scored Unavailable

No category score or overall rating is available for the unscored slots.

Full reviews

GamePro face key

  1. 1.0Wake me up when it's over0+ out of 100
  2. 1.5Wake me up when it's over+ thumbs-up40+ out of 100
  3. 2.0Could be better50+ out of 100
  4. 2.5Could be better+ thumbs-up60+ out of 100
  5. 3.0Good job68+ out of 100
  6. 3.5Good job+ thumbs-up75+ out of 100
  7. 4.0Great job!80+ out of 100
  8. 4.5Great job!+ thumbs-up85+ out of 100
  9. 5.0Outstanding!90+ out of 100

GamePro named the five whole-number faces; a thumbs-up adds half a point to the same caption. GamePro’s original rating-face design, adapted from Ryan Quintal’s 2018 vector recreation; cleanup for YouConsoles.

Conflict Korea MS-DOS 0 plays • 1992
A Line in The Sand MS-DOS 0 plays • 1992
The Great War, 1914-1918 MS-DOS 0 plays • 1993
Clash of Steel MS-DOS 0 plays • 1993
Conflict: Middle East MS-DOS 0 plays • 1991
No Greater Glory MS-DOS 0 plays • 1991
Serf City: Life is Feudal MS-DOS 0 plays • 1993
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3 MS-DOS 0 plays • 1992
Panzer General MS-DOS 0 plays • 1994
Clash of Steel II: The Future Edtion MS-DOS 0 plays • 1995
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty MS-DOS 323K plays • 1992
Renegade Legion Interceptor MS-DOS 0 plays • 1990
Wargame Construction Set II: Tanks MS-DOS 0 plays • 1994
Dark Legions MS-DOS 0 plays • 1994
Sid Meier’s Civilization MS-DOS 1.2M plays • 1991
Second Front: Germany Turns East MS-DOS 0 plays • 1990
The Definitive Wargame Collection MS-DOS 0 plays • 1989
Red Lighting MS-DOS 0 plays • 1989

Save to...