Task Force 1942

Task Force 1942: Surface Naval Action in the South Pacific is a DOS PC game, released by MPS Labs (MicroProse) in 1992. The game is a surface naval simulation which allows the player to operate single ships or a task force made up of ships, from the United States Navy (USN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and Royal New-Zealand Navy (RNZN), or the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the South Pacific during WWII. It was designed to run under PC-DOS or MS-DOS, version 5.0 or higher. The specific historical setting was the series of ferocious naval engagements fought around the largest island in the Solomon Islands chain, Guadalcanal, in 1942, including the following: Battle of Tassafaronga Battle of Empress Augusta Bay Naval Battle of Vella Lavella Battle of Savo Island Battle of Cape Esperance First and Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Battle of Kula Gulf Source: Wikipedia, "Task Force 1942", available under the CC-BY-SA License.