USSNimitz
| USS Nimitz | |
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| Appears in | Game Boy (Team Play) (1990) |
TheUSSNimitz is a nuclear-powered aicraft carrier of theUnited States Navy. The first ship ofits self-titled class, it is the oldest-serving aircraft carrier in the world. It is featured in theGame Boy issueTeam Play.
History[edit]
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TheNimitz is stationed somewhere in the Pacific, near an unhabited island that has been turned into afortress byTatanga's forces.Greg Campbell, an ordnance officier on the ship, notices the black cloud that signal Tatanga's arrival, but is told by his crewmateJose to stop his mind wandering and focus on their usual tasks. After Greg summonsMario, Mario takes off from the carrier's deck in theSky Pop alongside twoF-14 Tomcat.
Badly damaged during his engagement with the island fortress' defenses, Mario makes a crash landing on theNimitz's deck and is caught by Greg. Greg eventually agrees to give Mario access to the ship's weapons and draws up the schematics for the "Sky Pop Defense System", which are eventually found and discussed by two confused officiers in the carrier's Air Operations Center.
Now heavily armed, Mario takes off again. He is seen by a shocked command tower operator, but the man is shut down by his superior who orders him "I didn't see anything. You didn't see anything either." As Mario now fights on even terms with Tatanga's forces, one of theNimitz'sF/A-18 Hornets wanders in the combat zone and is targeted by the island's defenses, giving Mario an opening to land. The plane shoots a tank that was sneaking up on Mario but it is badly damaged and has to limp back to the carrier. Having seen the extent of the damage, Mario takes off and help the F/A-18 makes a safe landing on the ship's deck.
Mario and Greg have a final conversation on theNimitz's deck before Mario warps back into theGame Boy. As he does so, a formation of U.S. Navy planes observe the island fortress's destruction and flies back to the carrier.
