B-17: Fortress in the Sky is a combat flight simulator video game for the Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

. The game was released in North America on June 19, 2007 and in the PAL region on September 21, 2007. The game takes place during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

in the air war over Germany and the occupied territories in the autumn of 1944.

Basic details

The game has separate missions. Each mission has two parts. The first part is usually fighting off attacks from other aircraft with machine guns that are placed in different locations on the plane. The second part is bombing the required targets. Each mission has specific targets that need to be bombed.

External links

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