Team Apache was, along with Flying Nightmares 2, one of the titles jettisoned by Eidos after producer and former Apache pilot Bryan Walker left for Jane's. SSI/Mindscape snapped up Team Apache and saw its UK-based developer, SIMIS, through the final stretch. Knowing they were not going to be able to compete with the rigorous modeling of Longbow 2, they decided to pitch it as an upper-mid-level sim in terms of realism - a game that was more readily playable than Longbow, yet more accurate than Comanche, but with its own twists. Those twists, and the sharp graphics engine, are what make the game.