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 novel as "the most satisfactory novel of a sea chase since C.S. Forester perfected the form". Due to an extensive marketing campaign by the Naval Institute Press for their first published work of fiction, which was initially aimed on the military, the book sold 45,000 copies by March 1985. Clancy said in a 1991 interview: “I thought we’d sell maybe five thousand or ten thousand hardcovers and that would be the end of it. I never really thought about making money.” After Reagan's endorsement, "The Hunt for Red October" topped the national bestseller lists, particularly "The New York Times". It