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{{Distinguish|AH-64D Longbow (video game)}}
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{{Short description|1995 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title=Apache
|image=Apache Coverart.jpg
|developer=Digital Integration
|publisher=Digital Integration
|designer=
|engine=
|released=September 22, 1995
|genre=[[Combat flight simulation]]
|modes=[[Single-player]], [[multiplayer]]
|platforms=[[DOS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Macintosh]]
}}

'''''Apache''''' is a video game released by Digital Integration in 1995 for [[DOS]] and [[Macintosh]]. The game is a [[combat flight simulation]] of the American [[AH-64D]] Apache Longbow helicopter. A successor, ''[[Hind (video game)|Hind]]'', was released in 1996.

==Gameplay==
In campaign mode, the player can choose which 3 areas to enter in a tour of duty. The campaign mode also plays video clips and has a briefing before any mission. The player is given a choice of [[Weapon|ordnance]], and is able to zoom in on the mission map, giving them a satellite view of the area or target and meteorological data.

==Reception==
{{Video game reviews 
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| PCGUS = 95%<ref name=pcgamerus>{{cite journal | author=McDonald, T. Liam | journal=[[PC Gamer US]] | url=http://www.pcgamer.com:80/reviews/1311.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990819170243/http://www.pcgamer.com/reviews/1311.html | archive-date=August 19, 1999 | title=''Apache'' | date=October 1995 | url-status=dead | access-date=May 24, 2019 }}</ref>
| CGW = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=cgw>{{cite magazine| author=Basham, Tom |title=Whirlin' Dervish of Destruction |date=October 1995 |issue=135| magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]] | pages=118, 120 }}</ref>
| PCGUK = 90%<ref name=pcgameruk>{{cite journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010622145736/http://www.pcgamer.co.uk/games/gamefile_review_page.asp?item_id=75 |url=http://www.pcgamer.co.uk:80/games/gamefile_review_page.asp?item_id=75 |title=Menacing |issue=7 |author=West, Allie |journal=[[PC Gamer]] |archive-date=June 22, 2001 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 24, 2019 }}</ref>
| NGen = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=nextgen />
| rev5 = ''PC Games''
| rev5Score = A<ref name=pcgamesrev>{{cite magazine | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961018122621/http://www.pcgamesmag.com/games/Dec95/apache1295.html | url=http://www.pcgamesmag.com:80/games/Dec95/apache1295.html | title=''Apache: The Combat Helicopter Simulation'' | magazine=PC Games | author1=Alexander, Sasha | author2=Chang, Robert | date=December 1995 | archive-date=October 18, 1996 | url-status=dead | access-date=May 24, 2019 }}</ref>
| award1 = Best Simulation<ref name=pcgamerusawards />
| award1Pub = ''[[PC Gamer US]]''

}}

''Apache'' was a commercial success, with global sales above 200,000 units by February 1996. More than 120,000 of these sales derived from the United States.<ref name=apachesales>{{cite press release | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970619000210/http://www.imagicgames.com/pr.dir/prapache.html | url=http://www.imagicgames.com:80/pr.dir/prapache.html | title=Interactive Magic's first title, ''Apache'', sells more than 200,000 worldwide | publisher=[[Interactive Magic]] | date=February 8, 1996 | archive-date=June 19, 1997 | url-status=dead | access-date=May 24, 2019 }}</ref>

A reviewer for ''[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]'' called the game "a stunningly realistic simulation of one of the most complex military aircrafts{{sic}} of all time". He complimented the effectiveness of the polygon graphics, the selection of modes for network and modem play, the extreme realism of the flight simulation, and the balance and ingenuity of the scenario designs. He gave it five out of five stars.<ref name=nextgen>{{cite journal|title=Striking!|journal=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=11|publisher=[[Imagine Media]]|date=November 1995|page=181}}</ref>

''Apache'' was named the best simulation of 1995 by ''[[PC Gamer US]]'' and—tying with ''[[Flight Unlimited]]''—''[[Computer Games Strategy Plus]]''.<ref name=pcgamerusawards /><ref name=cgm1995awards>{{cite journal | author=Staff | journal=[[Computer Games Magazine]] | title=A Decade of Gaming; Award Winners of 1995 |date=November 2000 | issue=120 | pages=56–58, 60, 62, 66, 68, 70–76 }}</ref> ''PC Gamer US''{{'}}s editors wrote, "With all of its difficulty and realism options cranked up to maximum, ''Apache'' can be played as a hard-core simulation of the world's best attack helicopter, [... and] novice air-combat pilots — or those who simply enjoy a good shoot-'em-up — can reduce the difficulty level until ''Apache'' plays like a fast-paced, no-holds-barred arcade-action game."<ref name=pcgamerusawards>{{cite journal |date=March 1996 | title=The Year's Best Games | pages=64, 65, 67, 68, 71, 73–75 | journal=[[PC Gamer US]] | author=((Editors of ''PC Gamer'' ))| volume=3 | issue=3 }}</ref>

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==References==
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==External links==
* {{MobyGames|id=/apache|name=''Apache''}}
* http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/apache-review/1900-2538013/
* https://web.archive.org/web/19980215035035/http://www.machome.com/GameGuide/Simulations.html
* https://archive.org/stream/powerplaymagazine-1995-07/PowerPlay_07_1995#page/n39/mode/2up/

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[[Category:1995 video games]]
[[Category:Classic Mac OS games]]
[[Category:Combat flight simulators]]
[[Category:Digital Integration games]]
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[[Category:Games commercially released with DOSBox]]
[[Category:Helicopter video games]]
[[Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games]]
[[Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Video games scored by Richard Joseph]]
[[Category:Video games set in Cyprus]]
[[Category:Video games set in Korea]]
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