Blue Lightning is a pseudo-simulation computer game in which the player controls a military airplane. The game was one of the first games for the Atari Lynx, released in 1989 and was programmed by Epyx

Epyx

Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before renaming the company to match in 1983...

, headed by lead programmer, Brian Bowhay, (who also developed the Lynx).The game is considered by many to be one of the best air-combat games on any handheld.

In 1995 a remake, developed by Attention To Detail

Attention To Detail

Attention To Detail was a Warwickshire-based British software house that endured nearly 15 years, from its foundation by five University of Birmingham graduates in September 1988 to their liquidation in mid-2003...

, was released as a pack-in game for the Atari Jaguar CD

Atari Jaguar CD

The Atari Jaguar CD or Jag CD is a CD-ROM peripheral for the Atari Jaguar video game console.Late in the life span of the company, Atari released this long-promised CD-ROM unit. The unit hit shelves on September 11, 1995 and retailed for $149.95. The device sat atop the Jaguar console, snapping...

. The remake was poorly received. It was often criticized for having graphics, animation, and gameplay that are "not that much of an enhancement over the Lynx version", which many claimed did a much better job of showing off the hardware than the Jaguar CD version did.