"Megaforce is the name of an action film made in 1982 directed by former stuntman Hal Needham. The film starred Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Edward Mulhare, Evan C. Kim, and Henry Silva.
The film featured a "phantom Army of super elite fighting men whose weapons are the most powerful science can devise", including realistic 3-D holograms and combat vehicles such as a motorcycle called the "Delta MK 4 Megafighter" equipped with missile launchers. The movie included extremely unrealistic scenarios such as those motorcycles (and dune buggies) with missiles that destroyed main battle tanks. The dune buggies, "megadestroyers" or "megacruisers", also had lasers that could destroy a tank in a single shot. In the film finale, the main character's motorcycle activates small (~2 ft or 0.6 m) fold-out wings and flies.
It was also made into a computer game most notably for the Atari 2600. It is being re-released on the Xbox 360 via its Xbox Live Arcade download services sometime in 2007.
A sequel titled Deeds not Words was considered, but it was scrapped due to poor performance of the original film.
The never-released Hotwheel of the flying bike.
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