F-19 Stealth Fighter
by MicroProse
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Format: 5.25 inch diskettePlatform: Windows
Publisher: MicroProse
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Customer Review: Jurassic Sim!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Though I wouldn't play it until after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this game was for me a very late 1980's affair, a relic of the cold-war. Based on Testors/Italieri's conceptual design model kit of the then-still-classified "stealth fighter", the game allowed you to fly missions in hotspots all over the world: Iran, Cuba, Libya (it wasn't enough to hate Khaddafy, the game ridicules Libya by giving it the easisest missions) and scariest of all, the Soviets' arctic redoubt of Murmansk. The latter was already well known for anybody who'd read either "Hunt for Red October" or "Red Storm Rising". For those of us still in HS, "F-19" was the closest we'd get (or want to get) to the epic action of those books or the host of copycats.
The thrill of F-19, and what makes it a fun idea today, is that it was the sim that most effectively dealt with the one-man-air force conceit of pre-"Falcon 3.0" sims, in which your jet does the work that would occupy an entire air wing. Here, you use your limited invisibility to sneak into enemy airspace, locate specific targets and destroy them. You can't rely on wingmen because solitude is part of your elusiveness. You're on your own, but this sim doesn't correspondingly make things easy for you, and once you've crossed the line between myaerospace and hell, the difference is palpable.
F-19 not only offers thousands of square miles of busy and unhospitable (if poorly modeled) terrain, but a host of counter-air and ground-attack weapons with distinctive attack profiles. HUD symbiology and weapon effectiveness are distinct. Use the wrong weapon on a target and even the best marksmanship will prove useless.
Ofcourse all this simming will require a fast and modern computer!
Hahhh. I;m sorry about that, but I had to do that. Fats computer, get it?
Anyway, if you've got a working 486, or even a 386, you can hook it up to one of those CRT's that people are leaving on their curbs for special pick up. Along with "Red Baron" and Virgin's "Shuttle", this is a great excuse to dust off your legacy pre-Pentium system.
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