History VideoGame / ASPAirStrikePatrol

** [[GoldenEnding Manage to win the game with high enough marks in your force/supplies/opinion meters and you'll be treated to a hero's welcome.]] [[NintendoHard This is NOT easy to do.]]
* NintendoHard: The final mission gives you three chances before aliens invade and take over Earth, being a absolute BulletHell where you have limited resources. Earlier you had more of a chance but then there are a number of endings.

* BottomlessMagazines: Your aircraft's cannons have these. You can hold down the trigger all day without running out of ammo or hurting your logistics score. This is the main advantage the A-10 has over the F-15E, as its cannon fires downward and is ''great'' for destroying enemy vehicles without wasting supplies. Averted with missiles and bombs, though. Once you run out of those, you've got to return to base to rearm.

* TimedMission: '''All''' missions in the game are time-sensitive, but the time you have for each is measured in hours and days, so you won't run out while in the mission zone. Rather, fractions of hours are deducted every time you head into the combat zone, return to base for refueling and rearming, or when switching aircraft/weapon loadouts while at base. If you crash or run out of fuel during a mission, a ''huge'' chunk of time is wasted in rescuing you (to say nothing of what it means for your Supplies rating). During missions though, you ''are'' subject to a fuel gauge. In most cases you ''will'' have to return to base during the mission in order to refuel at the very least. If you linger too long in the mission zone and run out of fuel, you crash ''and'' take a big hit in your logistics score for crashing.

%%* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: If this happens, [[NonStandardGameOver the game is over]].

* BottomlessMagazines: Your aircraft's cannons have these. You can hold down the trigger all day without running out of ammo or hurting your logistics score. This is the main advantage the A-10 has over the F-15E, as its cannon fires downward and is ''great'' for destroying enemy vehicles without wasting supplies.\\
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Averted with missiles and bombs, though. Once you run out of those, you've got to return to base to rearm.
** HyperspaceArsenal: No matter if you're flying an F-15E or an A-10, your aircraft will carry several times the amount of missiles and bombs that their RealLife counterparts can carry.

* FriendOrFoe: Be careful where you're aiming. If you hit your own troops, it '''will''' make the news.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: GNN will air reports highlighting your screw-ups if you screw up too much.
* [[ItsUpToYou It's Up To You]]: No effort is made to make you feel like you're part of a larger air campaign, as your plane seems to be the only Coalition combat aircraft in the skies. There's plenty of friendly forces on the ground, but they mostly mill around doing nothing, and rarely fire on enemy forces.

* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Aliens]] are manipulating Zarak's leaders.
** HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: TheManBehindTheMan's forces are never directly confronted in the game, only mentioned and rumored in briefings.

* MookChivalry: No matter how many [=MiGs=] the Zarakis have in the air, only one of them will attack you at any time--and only when that [=MiG=] is shot down does the next one appear in the mission zone (after a brief respite that is).

** GoldenEnding: Manage to win the game with high enough marks in your force/supplies/opinion meters and you'll be treated to a hero's welcome. [[NintendoHard This is NOT easy to do.]]

** If your Opinion score is low, the epilogue states that the heavy civilian casualties, caused by the SCUD attacks and bombing of non-military targets, led to numerous outbreaks of terrorism and warned not to enter politics, as it would take a minor miracle to regain the public's trust.

** ItsAWonderfulFailure: If you happen to fail the final mission in any way, you get treated to watching a nuclear holocaust [[spoiler: which ends in aliens conquering the Earth]].

* ShownTheirWork: The F-15E (though just referred to as an "F-15") and A-10 both have access to the same kind of weapons they're typically armed with from the time period.\\
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On the other hand, despite the accuracy used in the planes flown by the players, Zaraki vehicles aren't based on what the Ba'athist Iraq forces had during UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar. They ''are'' still mostly based on real military vehicles, though; the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Soviet MiG-29 Fulcrum, Mi-24 Hind, T-80 main battle tank, SA-4 Ganef]] (spelled "Gannif"), and the [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships British Rapier SAM]] (including a tracked variant called the "Rolland"). The only real problems are that the T-80s have anti-aircraft missiles (they have anti-''tank'' missiles in RealLife), and that there are trucks said to be armed with "Swatter" anti-aircraft missiles (a NATO reporting name given to a type of Soviet ''anti-tank'' missile).

* TimedMission: '''All''' missions in the game are time-sensitive, but the time you have for each is measured in hours and days, so you won't run out while in the mission zone. Rather, fractions of hours are deducted every time you head into the combat zone, return to base for refueling and rearming, or when switching aircraft/weapon loadouts while at base. If you crash or run out of fuel during a mission, a ''huge'' chunk of time is wasted in rescuing you (to say nothing of what it means for your Supplies rating).\\
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During missions, though, you ''are'' subject to a fuel gauge. In most cases you ''will'' have to return to base during the mission in order to refuel at the very least. If you linger too long in the mission zone and run out of fuel, you crash ''and'' take a big hit in your logistics score for crashing.

** Global News Network (GNN) is a clear take on Creator/{{CNN}}.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: If you manage to keep a high Opinion rating, GNN will run reports extolling the weapons and technology being used to fight the war.

* BattleThemeMusic: Any time a [=MiG=] engages you, the background music changes depending on the plane you're flying. If it's an [=F-15E=], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFl17mbX68 the music is energetic and encouraging.]] If it's an A-10, however, [[https://youtu.be/J-MrDwidBaM?t=125 the music is threatening and dramatic,]] as if underlining that you're not the hunter--you're the ''hunted''.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: If this happens, [[NonStandardGameOver the game is over]].

** If your Opinion score is low, the epilogue states that the heavy civilian casualties caused by the SCUD attacks led to numerous outbreaks of terrorism and warned not to enter politics, as it would take a minor miracle to regain the public's trust.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Getting the Perfect Ending requires you to find and destroy every SCUD missile, which is by far the hardest task in the game, as the locations of the launcher sites are always randomly generated.

This game receives an equally obscure SpiritualSequel in Nintendo 64 called Chopper Attack (Wild Choppers in Japan), however, it was a pure ActionizedSequel with the game instead taking place in a BananaRepublic, none of the logistics operations present in this game, and player now piloting one of many types of attack helicopter.

** [[ItsAWonderfulFailure It's A Wonderful Failure]]: If you happen to fail the final mission in any way, you get treated to watching a nuclear holocaust [[spoiler: which ends in aliens conquering the Earth]].

* OutsideGenreFoe: [[spoiler: The aliens.]] Their involvement is foreshadowed in some of the mission debriefings, but there's still not much information on ''why'' they're doing what they're doing.
** In the spiritual sequel Chopper Attack, [[spoiler: you directly fought the aliens in the true last level if played in Hard difficulty.]]
* PaletteSwap: The [=MiG=]s are all the same model, apparently, but their colors signify how they'll attack you.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Getting the Perfect Ending requires you to find and destroy every SCUD missile which is by far the hardest task in the game as the locations of the launcher sites are always randomly generated.