The Hunt for Red October (1987 video game) The Hunt for Red October (1987 video game) The Hunt for Red October is a video game based on the book "The Hunt for Red October". It was released in 1987 and was available for the Atari ST, Amiga, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Commodore 64 and IBM PC. A port for the Apple IIGS was released in 1989. The player must navigate the "Red October" towards U.S. waters while avoiding the Soviet Navy. The game is a combination of submarine simulator and strategy game. "Computer Gaming World" in 1988 described it as an excellent submarine simulator, controlled entirely by
The Hunt for Red October (film) test of time". In contrast, "Newsweek"s David Ansen wrote, "But it's at the gut level that "Red October" disappoints. This smoother, impressively mounted machine is curiously ungripping. Like an overfilled kettle, it takes far too long to come to a boil". Vincent Canby, writing for "The New York Times", opined that "the characters, like the lethal hardware, are simply functions of the plot, which in this case seems to be a lot more complex than it really is". "The Hunt for Red October" was nominated and won several awards in 1991. In addition, the film was also nominated for AFI's