Winged Samurai

For the book by Henry Sakaida, see Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots.

Winged Samurai is a 1980 video game designed by David Wesely and published by Discovery Games for the Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80, and Atari 8-bit computers.

Winged Samurai
Publisher(s)	Discovery Games
Designer(s)	David Wesely
Programmer(s)	Stephen Goss[1]
Platform(s)	Apple II, PET, TRS-80, Atari 8-bit[1]
Release	1980

Gameplay

Winged Samurai is a game in which the player is in command of 16 Japanese fighter aircraft and must destroy bombers on their way to Rabaul.^[2]

Reception

Forrest Johnson reviewed Winged Samurai in The Space Gamer No. 33.^[2] Johnson commented that "Unfortunately, in creating this historical authenticity, the programmer sacrificed the game to the simulation. The display is purely two-dimensional, and the graphics are unimpressive. ... The game is not real time. You can take all day to make your combat decisions. ... Recommended to historical aviation gamers."^[2]