Gary Grigsby's Pacific War is a 1992 strategy wargame released by Strategic Simulations, Inc.

It includes aircraft carrier operations, amphibious assaults, surface bombardments/engagements, strategic bombing, kamikazes, and the submarine war against naval and merchant shipping.

Players decide what will be attacked or defended, appoint commanders, and provide the resources (aircraft, ships, and land combat units) to accomplish the goals.

The Japanese player receives Preparation Points based on Japan's oil reserve.

Alternately, players can select the entire war from December 1941 Pearl Harbor, or a slightly shorter version from 1942 to surrender.

Matrix includes a non-historical scenario which starts after a hypothetical Japanese victory at Midway.

Computer Gaming World in March 1994 published a map from SSI as part of about 30 pages of supplementary material, including an index, improved table of contents, checklists, and playing suggestions.

[1] In 2004, SSI founder Joel Billings wrote that Pacific War "sold between 15,000 and 20,000 units at full price, and many more as part of multi-product wargame bundles.

It warned that the game's difficulty, user interface, and lack of a tutorial or paper map made it appealing only for dedicated wargamers willing to spend "ten to twenty hours just learning to play".

[3][1] A survey of wargames that year in the magazine gave the game four stars out of five, calling it "The simulation of the Pacific ...

[4] The magazine named Pacific War the 1993 Wargame of the Year,[5] and in 1994 wished that Great Naval Battles Vol.