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• Nooodle

  Dec 26, 2022

  havent even started playing yet, reading the manual. i love it
• gamedeal user

  Apr 9, 2015

  Night Dive Studios has been able to get the rights to F-19 Stealth Fighter and make it available again commercially like this, which is great. You won't see a lot of playtime on this game on my account yet as of when I'm writing this review, but that's because I played this game bunches as a kid and as of this writing just launched this version to be sure it was working etc. This was a fun game I enjoyed. It's a simulation in that there's a lot of things to keep track of (how you first successfully take off by actually getting the momentum and then getting yourself to lift off the ground, how you deploy chaff when being targeted, how you go after mission objectives and try not to be captured, etc.). I'm actually super happy it's available again like this. That said, I recommend reading the game instructional material linked to from the game page. Back in the day, even I as a veteran player would sometimes forget which key would push the throttle to max or get the brakes to quit so that I started moving forward, and referring to at least jotting down some keys common to my play was useful since the game is spending visual space on your cockpit and not on what keys interact with that cockpit. Also, recommend saying YES to playing with a joystick when you launch the game. The game is really played with a joystick with the keyboard having some supplemental actions on it that were too excessive for the two (at the time) joystick buttons. The way Night Dive has packaged this with DOSBox means current gamepads will work as your joystick if you wake them up before launching the game - whatever counts as the first two buttons on the gamepad or flightstick or whatever you have will be the two buttons that the game listens to. I know Night Dive released Strife: Veteran Edition and I've heard their involved in rescuing other games that have disappeared from apparent ownership before... I'm glad to see this on here and I'm about to click on their link to see what else they've rescued so far. Kudos to Night Dive for bringing this out!
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2015

  Finaly, I get my Christmas present ! uuuuhh... 20 years later.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 25, 2015

  I can't even say this is just nostalgia, I played this well into adulthood (under the impression it was abandonware). I'm glad I can finally absolve my guilty conscience of all those pirated hours. This must be the first time I've ever heard the sound effects as they were meant to be heard instead of just beeps and bloops, too. PRO TIPS FROM THE PROS: - Tired of hearing the engine whine? alt + v will let you cycle through different levels of sound. All but the highest leave out engine noises. - On a long boring stretch of flying back to your landing site, with nothing to do in the meantime? Alternate hitting shift + z and shift + x every couple of seconds. Shift + z speeds up time, but only seems to work for a few seconds. shift + x puts you back into normal mode. - The way to earn the big points is on Cold War, not Conventional War. You make more points for flying around unseen than you ever could from blowing stuff up - If your game is running really choppily and your controls suck, it's not the game. What you're experiencing is lag. "Lag? This game? On my modern machine? How could that be?" Well, DOSBox isn't emulating a modern machine. Throw some more cycles it's way with ctrl f12. Somewhere in the 15000 cycles range will cure all your problems (default is 3000) More controls here: http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=603
• gamedeal user

  Feb 29, 2016

  F19 Stealth Fighter is a gem from Microprose of late 1980s. Early Microprose released several fight simulators which gradually became better and better, especially from gameplay perspective. F19 is the top Microprose game before Civilization and it has the last Sid Meier's flight simulator gameplay, the endpoint of Sid's flight evolution if you will. F19's gameplay is a brilliant mixture of flight simulator and stealth. To my knowledge, currently it is still unique. In other words, you will not find a similar gameplay in modern games. The core idea is the following. You, as a pilot of a stealth plane, go into the night far behind enemy front lines to hit special targets. The sky is full of patrolling MiG's, a lot of SAM's keep watch, and any clue or radar blip can alarm and the enemy will start to intensively search you. To be stealthy, you need to use landscape, watch the radar's and plane's activities, and, the most important, understand doppler and impulse radars and make relatively flight according to them (skim the manual due to it is a core feature). Beware, the controls is tricky and you have to read the manual to take off and use weapons. The game is realistic and not very hardcore, but deep and replayable. There are three types of bombs (among >20 weapons) with different way of using (bombing), more then ten types of targets (bunkers, ships, SAM, ...). Enemy units are randomly generated and you will have to think how to sneak through the enemy, hit target/take photo, and safely back home. If you prefer better graphic you can look at the game "F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0". It has the same gameplay, but more pixels and more scenarios.
• veck2p0

  Mar 29, 2016

  You know those stories about "my first bike" or "my first trip to disneyworld?" Well this is "my first flight sim." I'll even say that it stands up well against some from today. It offers an incredible amount of realism and depth, especially for its time, and challenges in many ways. This is a fantastic game for anyone, as long as you can remember all the keybindings. And don't feel bad if you can't do a carrier landing; just eject nearby and you'll still clear.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 23, 2016

  This game took up a large portion of my childhood. A wonderful flight sim, with a good amount of tactics involved. Even the manual is worth a read with the details and tactics it provides. However, some machines have an issue with Dosbox not properly recognizing the = key, which prevents you from being able to throttle forward and thus leaves you stuck on the runway in game. After some searching, I found this to be an issue with Dosbox and some Windows drivers. Once I fixed it, the game worked wonderfully again. If you have this issue, check if Windows has installed one of your keyboards as Japanese/106/109, and reinstall it as a standard generic. Details: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=18465
• Vhailor2003 (RIP Tika 2007-2017)

  Apr 26, 2016

  Sweet merciful crap. It's back! It's really back! One of my earliest memories from when I was a tiny micro-kid back in ancient times was going to my grandpa's house and seeing this game on his computer. He had a tendency to earn distinguished flying crosses and then die horribly before he could get back to base. ... Anyway. I naturally sank about 11 billion hours into this game before the advent of things like graphics and operating systems that weren't DOS came along and drew me into other things. But now it's back! Having tried it out (And earning a distinguished flying cross and then dying before getting back to base on my first mission; grandpa would be proud.) I can say it is still epic and awesome. ..Probably. You might have had to have been there back when it came out to really -get it.- And by that I mean it doesn't really have graphics. Or decent sound. Or a particularly responsive flight model. But dammit it's a piece of my childhood and I love it to death for that. Plus, you know, it has on the fly generated missions that nothing else does. And who doesn't want to strive for those super shiny medals you can awarded after a mission if you do good? Or try to survive 99 missions and make it to brigadier general? You know you want to. And besides, it's super cheap to buy. Who doesn't love cool cheap things? 11/10 for people who thirst for nostalgias. 7.5/10 for people who like old school cheap things that are also good, but who might not have played the original or have any idea what's going on when they try to fly the plane or why things keep exploding.
• Lich9966

  Nov 7, 2016

  Best old simulator game ever it is from my heart long a go!!!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 5, 2017

  When I was in the 10th grade or so, my best friend and I had bonded over a shared love of jets and military stuff. Plus we were both generally nerds in every sense of the word. He used to come over to my house and I'd load this up on my old 386. He wasn't very good at flying with a joystick, and since this game has so many keyboard commands (seriously, download and print out a keyboard guide off the net if you want to play this), he'd run tactical/nav with the keyboard and I'd pilot. We got fairly good, where we were playing on Veteren difficulty. We'd racked up a few medals, earned some ranks, and since we thought we were superheroes, we decided to go for the highest score possible. We loaded up with the best missiles we could find and set out. Our goal was to not only destroy the primary and secondary objectives, but take out any targets of opportunity we came across. We did, we spent every single missile and every single bullet, taking out tanks, convoys, bridges, SAM sites, enemy fighters, airports, you name it. By the time we were done we were completely out of fuel and ammo. We had to coast in for a landing, but we made it! Then the debriefing screen, then the ranks and medals. We got at least 4 or 5 medals on that mission, including the Congressional Medal of Honor! We were screaming, we thought that was the coolest thing ever. And still, 25 years later, we talk about that epic mission. Well, I'm happy to report that this game still works perfectly. I have a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, it got picked up and works fine. I downloaded a keyboard shortcut sheet off the internet and sent my friend a picture of it, said "Hey, I have a working copy of this, wanna play?" 10 minutes later he's at the house with a few beers, we fired the game up, and, well... it wasn't quite just like riding a bike. But a few missions later and we were stomping heads just like old times, it was great! This game has a full damage model, with various info screens you can switch to. You can get a camera view of your target, or you can look at your fuel/waypoints, you can check damage, look at mission objectives, and that's all on the right screen. The left screen lets you switch between a nav map and a radar. In the middle is your radar signature. The filled area at the bottom is how much signature you're giving off, then you can see radar pings coming down from the top. Red bars are ground radar and blue bars are air radar. The goal is to stay low and slow enough to keep your signature down, sneak in, take out the targets, and sneak out. It's very tense and satisfying. Maybe there's a SAM site pinging hard, and it's causing a lot of problems for you. There's nothing quite like taking out that monster with a sneak attack before it sees you. If someone does get a ping on you, you'll start getting notifications like "F-5 taking off from such and such airbase" as they scramble jets to look for you. Watch out for the F-4's, they have mean radar capabilities. So yeah, pick this up. They don't make games like this any more. Horrific graphics aside, this is still one of the best flight sims ever made!