Many of these additions were collected by Lead Pursuit, which arranged an official license of the original code base from the owner Atari these were published as Falcon 4.0: Allied Force in 2005. In 2000, a source code leak allowed continued development of the game by members of the gaming community, including bug fixes and new campaigns. After MicroProse was purchased by Hasbro, official development ended.
HoloByte had acquired MicroProse in 1993, and started using that name for all of its titles in 1996. The game is the ultimate development in the Falcon series from Spectrum HoloByte that began in 1984. Falcon 4.0's dynamic campaign engine runs autonomously.
The game is based around a realistic simulation of the Block 50/52 F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter in a full-scale modern war set in the Korean Peninsula. Game Review Falcon 4.0 is a combat flight simulator video game developed by MicroProse and published by Hasbro Interactive in 1998.
