Blue Lightning (1995 video game)

Blue Lightning
Cover art by Steve Lang
Developer(s)	Attention to Detail
Publisher(s)	Atari Corporation
Producer(s)	Sean Patten
Designer(s)	F. B. Stu Stuart Tilley
Programmer(s)	Andrew Howe Jon Howard
Artist(s)	David West Ian G. Harling Joanne Surman Kristi-Louise Herd
Composer(s)	Ian Sharp Will Davis
Platform(s)	Atari Jaguar CD
Release	NA/EU: September 21, 1995
Genre(s)	Combat flight simulator, shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single-player

Blue Lightning is a 1995 combat flight simulator video game developed by Attention to Detail and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar CD. It is a conversion of Epyx's 1989 Atari Lynx title of the same name, and one of the pack-in games for the Jaguar CD. In the game, the player assumes the role of a rookie fighter pilot from the Blue Lightning squadron, taking control of multiple military aircraft across various missions to stop general Drako, who betrayed the United Nations and gained power of military organizations through corruption to expand his organized crime empire all over the world.

Blue Lightning was announced in 1994 as one of the first upcoming titles for the Jaguar CD add-on, being advertised as a sequel to the Lynx original, but went through a troubled development cycle. Attention to Detail faced problems when making the game at the same time the Jaguar CD hardware was being finalized, with the staff not understanding how gameplay from the original game worked when recreating it for Jaguar. The game garnered mixed reception from critics and retrospective commentarists; most felt divided regarding the audiovisual presentation while criticism was geared towards its gameplay, which was compared unfavorably with the original game, After Burner (1987), and Air Combat (1995).