Special Forces
Special Forces is a tactical shooter video game developed by Sleepless Knights and published by MicroProse in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. A team of special operatives are to infiltrate enemy territory to complete various objectives. It is a sequel to Airborne Ranger.
Special Forces
- Date
- 1991
- Publisher
- MicroProse
- Genre
- action game
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Special Forces is a tactical shooter video game developed by Sleepless Knights and published by MicroProse in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. A team of special operatives are to infiltrate enemy territory to complete various objectives. It is a sequel to Airborne Ranger.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Special Forces. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q9340148
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Special Forces • Developer — Sleepless Knights • Publisher — MicroProse • Designer — Jim Bambra • Programmer — Mark Fisher Keith Jackson • Director — James Hawkins • Producer — Steve Perry • Artist — Anthony Rosbottom • Writer — Rob Davies • Released — 1992 • Genre — Tactical shooter, stealth • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Gameplay
Gameplay
Special Forces lets the player select a team of four from a squad of eight operatives. Once a mission is selected in one of the four regions (temperate zone, arctic, desert and jungle - daytime and nighttime variants) the player is briefed. Objectives include hostage rescues, destroying specific objects and reconnaissance missions. The game displays a top-down view of a part of the mission area in various configurations (one viewport per soldier up to four views at the same time in split-screen mode). The player also has access to a strategic battle map with enemy locations visible (there is no fog of war in the game).
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- United Kingdom
Named but not plotted · 1
Special Forces is associated with United Kingdom.
Country
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Collectables
20,755 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- SpauldingOrganisation
- Spaulding Manufacturing CompanyOrganisation
- SpawnWork
- Special Criminal InvestigationWork
- Spectral Force 3Work
- SpectreWork
- SpectrobesWork
- SpectromancerWork
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a copy of Special Forces?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.