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'''''Stunt Island''''' is a [[flight simulation]] [[video game]] for [[MS-DOS]] [[IBM PC compatible|PC]]s released in 1992. It was designed by Adrian Stephens and Ronald J. Fortier and published by [[Disney Interactive Studios|Walt Disney Computer Software]]. The game, marketed as "The Stunt Flying and Filming Simulation", provides an island which contains a number of different film sets, such as a large city, anvarious small towns, airports, oil rigrigs, a canyon, and an [[aircraft carrier]], and many others locations situated on a fictional island off southern California. TheThere is a free flight mode, where the player can simply fly around in a variety of different aircraft which have unique flying characteristics and flight envelopes. Additionally, the player can position cameras and props around these sets, and create triggers to start actions including the camera panning and an object moving. The game also has an editing mode where the player can splice together taped footage and insert sound effects. The game world is small and it is impossible to leave the area of the island without returning to it. The game runs well under DosBox from ver. 0.65 to present. The game was heavily patched more than a year following its initial release. The last patch, V3 removed copyright protection and addressed many issues. [[GOG.com]] released an [[Emulator|emulated]] version for [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Mac OS X]] and [[Linux]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Release: Stunt Island |url=https://www.gog.com/news/release_stunt_island |website=[[GOG.com]] |publisher=[[CD Projekt]] |accessdateaccess-date=October 14, 2019 |date=December 22, 2016}}</ref> This GOG version, and the one offered by Steam, appear to be the unpatched ver. 1.0 release of the game.

The game engine for ''Stunt Island'' was co-developed by [[The Assembly Line]]. It is capable of simultaneously rendering several hundred simple 3D objects on a typical early 1990s PC with [[Intel 80386i386|386 processor]] at 33&nbsp;MHz with two megabytes of [[Random-access memory|RAM]].

The graphics of the game are rendered in [[256 colors]] at 320x200 resolution ([[Video Graphics Array|VGA]]) and the airplanes are shaded using [[Gouraud shading]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}

''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' in 1993 praised ''Stunt Island''{{'}}s graphics, ease of use, editing features, and variety of aircraft, concluding that "it represents the future of simulation products [and] also a step toward a future where films can be created completely on the microcomputer".<ref name="trimble199303">{{cite newsmagazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=104 | title=Stunt Island - A Star Is Made! | workmagazine=Computer Gaming World | date=March 1993 | accessdateaccess-date=6 July 2014 | author=Trimble, Timothy L. | pages=78}}</ref> That year the magazine gave it a Special Award for Innovation, and nominated it for Simulation Game of the Year.<ref name="cgw199310">{{cite newsmagazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=111 | title=Computer Gaming World's Game of the Year Awards | workmagazine=Computer Gaming World | date=October 1993 | accessdateaccess-date=25 March 2016 | pages=70–74}}</ref> The game also received a Critics Choice Award for Best Consumer Product from the [[Software Publishers Association]],<ref name="cgw199305">{{cite newsmagazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=106 | title=Awards - Thy Name Is Controversy | workmagazine=Computer Gaming World | date=May 1993 | accessdateaccess-date=7 July 2014 | pages=146}}</ref> and was nominated for an award at the 1993 [[Game Developers Conference]].<ref name="cgw199307">{{cite newsmagazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=108 | title=The 7th International Computer Game Developers Conference | workmagazine=Computer Gaming World | date=July 1993 | accessdateaccess-date=12 July 2014 | pages=34}}</ref>

In 1994, ''[[PC Gamer UK]]'' named ''Stunt Island'' the 45th best computer game of all time. The editors wrote, "A great little package, but as with many 'games' of this type, its rewards are only visible if you're willing to invest time and effort. We strongly recommend you do just that."<ref name=pcgameruktop50>{{cite journalmagazine | author=Staff | journalmagazine=[[PC Gamer UK]] | title=The ''PC Gamer'' Top 50 PC Games of All Time |date=April 1994 | issue=5 | pages=43–56 }}</ref>

*''[[The Movies (video game)|The Movies]]''

* [httphttps://www.planetmicarmknechted.com/orbitsicentral/siharborstunt.htmhtml '''Stunt Island HarborCentral'''] - A fan site

* [https://webwww.archive.org/web/20041012093112/http://games.groups.yahoomobygames.com/group/sifagame/stunt-island '''Stunt Island Filmmaker- Review'''s Association]at - a [[Yahoo!Moby Group]Games]

* [httphttps://tinkerbrainwww.youtube.com/stunt_island@stuntislandcentral/ File archive ofvideos '''Stunt Island Central - YouTube''' films and(many otherSI materialmovies)]

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