1987 · MicroProse · Flight simulation · Simulation
Project Stealth Fighter
Rule the night! Take the pride of American Stealth technology and take on the best the Warsaw pact technology can offer! Dodge between radars, sneak under enemy fighters, and take out your primary objectives and secondary objectives with your limited weapons onboard, then make your way home. Can you survive all the way to general and win the Congressional Medal of Honor?
- Released
- 1987
- Platforms
- AmigaAtari ST/STECommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXMS-DOSZX Spectrum
- Genres
- Flight simulationSimulation
- Developers
- MicroProse
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- Warfare
- Country
- United States
About
Project Stealth Fighter is a combat flight simulator released for the Commodore 64 in 1987 by MicroProse, featuring a fictional United States military aircraft. During the time of the game's release, there was heavy speculation surrounding a missing aircraft in the United States Air Force's numbering system, the F-19. Project Stealth Fighter was later renamed F-19 Stealth Fighter and was remade in 1988 for the 16-bit systems with much improved graphics.
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
In the game, the player take on the role of a fictional fighter pilot flying missions of varying difficulty over four geographic locations: Libya, the Persian Gulf, the North Cape, and Central Europe.
Reception
The game was critically acclaimed. Computer Gaming World in 1987 stated that Project Stealth Fighter pushed the limits of 8-bit hardware (noting the resulting great difficulty in landing at airfields) but concluded favorably: "Timely? It couldn't be more so. Realistic?
Yes ... Challenging? Definitely!" In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title two stars out of five, stating that F-19 and F-117 had superseded it.
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