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Instruction booklet · January 1993

The Hunt for Red October

Arcade1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

The SNES version of "The Hunt for Red October" is one of 11 games that uses the Super Scope accessory, though it is only used to play bonus stages that put the submarine in first person view, where the player has to destroy a number of enemies and projectiles. The use of the Super Scope is optional.

Specifications

Released
January 1993
Developer
Riedel Software Productions
Publisher
Hi Tech Expressions
Players
1
Genre
Arcade
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
The Hunt for Red October
Themes
Action · Thriller · Warfare
View
Side view

What the magazines said

No magazine scores on record yet.

BE KIND, REWINDJanuary 1993
#1 songI Will Always Love YouWhitney Houston#1 albumThe BodyguardWhitney Houston / SoundtrackAdmit one · #1 movieAladdin$15,642,073 weekend
Vol. 3 · No. 72Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢
The Omaha World-Pixel
Week of January 1, 1993
Jan. 3

In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

💵 $57.99 in a 1993 catalog · about $129 today

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