
- 47/100
- Players6 ratings

1990 · Flight simulation · Shooter
Air Diver
Sega exclusive
Your mission is to find and eliminate the enemy terrorists. They are extremely well armed, and central intelligence informs us that they may have the backing of several unfriendly extraterrestrial nations...
- Released
- 9 March 1990
- Platforms
- Sega Genesis
- Genres
- Flight simulationShooterSimulation
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- Asmik Ace Entertainment
- Modes
- Single-player
- Themes
- Action
- Country
- Japan
About
Air Diver: F-119 Stealth Fighter Simulation (エアダイバー) is a combat flight simulator video game released by Asmik in Japan, and by Seismic in North America in 1990 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive console. It is notable as being one of the two first third party published titles for the console in North America. A follow-up, Super Air Diver was released exclusively for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System years later.
Keywords
- modern warfare
- combat flight simulator
- modern military
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Air Diver is a combat flight simulator similar to After Burner, played in first-person view (from inside the cockpit). The player must pilot the fictional F-119D Stealth Fighter against terrorists operating out of the Middle East, waging a constant battle against U.S. forces and backed by several hostile governments, including the Soviet Union (although the back of the US package says that the terrorists are backed by extraterrestrial beings). Players must use their stealth capabilities to evade detection and free the globe from torment by oppressive anti-American regimes.
Boss fights are similar to those in other arcade combat flight simulator games. The player's score is tabulated similarly to games found in video arcades. Missions can take place either during the day or at night.
Reception
Air Diver received mixed to poor reviews. EGM's reviewers were perhaps the most positive, giving it decent grades of 6 and 7, praising the detailed art but criticizing the repetitive gameplay and choppy scrolling. French magazine Micro News gave it a "garbage" rating, calling it a "pale copy of After Burner". Similarly, German magazine Power Play said it "looks like a dusty propeller plane" when compared to After Burner, and "not a good debut for Asmik", rating it 37%.
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Platform libraries
- Sega Genesis gamesLicensed games
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