F-19 Stealth Fighter - Amiga Version

Time for another classic from Microprose - F-19 Stealth Fighter for Amiga. This was actually my first flight sim along with F/A-18 Interceptor that I remember playing. It hit the market in 1990, two years after PC release. Compared to PC version it had better art and sound but run a bit choppy on 500 model with Motorola 68000 CPU clocked at little over 7 MHz (as most sims did on that system).
Nevertheless it was fun to play and offered wide variety of gameplay - from stealth recon/spy runs during cold war to full blown strike missions during conventional conflict. It depicted four fairly large hot zones - from open deserts of Libya and Persian Gulf, snowy and cold North Cape to green countrysides of Central Europe.
Amiga version also gave you the option to fly the F-117, though it only differed from the F-19 in its external appearence. DOS version got that also in later "patch", but you had to manually swap the 3d model file inside game's directory. Here you would get nice select screen before the flight.
Ultimately when I want to fly the F-19 nowadays, I prefer the PC version for the analog joystick controls and fluid gameplay.
Since Microprose has risen from the ashes, would you like to see a modern remake of this game?
F-19 Stealth Fighter Amiga Playlist:
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[@johnabel5943]

Wow! I just got time-warped back to age 11 with my Amiga. 30 years later, still simming. I permanently attached the keyboard overlay with super glue, and built a fully enclosed cockpit out of cardboard.

[@yaantsudnbesdai972]

As a teen, I spent VERY, VERY MANY hours on this game and mastered it as though I was either training for -- or actually an air force pilot. Very realistic and difficult and time consuming combat flight sim. I had the Atari ST version of this game. I flew hundreds of missions over about a 4 year span. I remember that the manual was about 200 pages long (?) and revealed everything about the F-117 A Stealth Fighter which had only recently come to the knowledge of the public -as this was a top secret and newly-developed jet. The manual also went over specs and details of armament such as "freefall" slick bombs, "laser-guided" air-to-ground bombs/missiles such as the "Maverick" (I remember still all these years later that the Maverick had a 32 km range and that it was radar-lock fire and forget), "Aamram" and "Sidewinder" air-to-air missiles, how to avoid radar (fly around doppler radar S.A.M.S., and into at 90 degree angles pulse radar S.A.M.S., and the 200 page manual also covered armament and specs of enemy and friendly aircraft, ships, tanks, etc. and the 4 geographical area of conflicts that this game encompassed (Libya, Qatar, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union), etc. etc. etc. The manual also described how to 'raise' the radar signature of the Stealth Fighter to make it less stealthy (higher air velocity and altitude) and how to 'lower' the radar signatures of the Stealth Fighter to make it more stealthy (fly slower and at lower altitudes), etc. Still remember so so many details after all these years... All this RIGHT BEFORE the Gulf War conflict of 1991. I was already much more knowledgable of all these many details before the gulf war and gulf war Stealth pilots were in '91 -- back in '88 when this game came out... Actual Stealth Fighter pilots flew MANY MISSIONS during the gulf war between our allies and Iraq to free Kuwait. Before this '91 conflict, Stealth Fighter jets had almost never been used.... Years later, this is still about the most comprehensive and realistic combat flight sim I've ever played. I wish that someone would make a 're-make' of this game with modern day graphics, etc. but otherwise not change too many other aspects of this flight sim...

[@666okano]

F-18 Interceptor but then there was this. Blew my mind as kid, came here for a nostalgia trip after playing DCS :D

[@sedlo]

So many hours spent on this! Thanks for the memories!

[@malcolmparsons4808]

Thank you for the memories. How things have changed.

[@mrdeathgaming1457]

got to love the fart sound when the landing gear comes down :) At the end he gave a thumbs up for destroying a target not on the list! ahhh good ol days.

[@Skidjit]

My Saturday routine was waking up at 630 and flying a mission in F-19 on a 386 PC when I was a kid.

[@rogerdarkman157]

One of my favorite first sim. Great.

[@BaronSFel001]

Microprose, although its titles starting in the late 80s were definitive on PC, remained very kind to Amiga users. This is a key example, being my favorite alongside Pirates! and Red Storm Rising for the platform. US support for the Amiga cut off in 1991 (perfectly understandable why) but I wish more of their games made it over here.

[@maciek_kn9339]

F-19 and F-15 Strike Eagle II were considered in early 90`s as the most realistic simulators :D I played them for hours. Plus Flight Simulator 4. Great memories.

[@gpgp01]

I hope the new Microprose keeps good gameplays and campaigns that old Microprose games had.

[@BenLewis-ni1zb]

Imagine a modern upto date version of f19!

[@johnwiesen4440]

I had this when ti came out. Comming from a ZX Spectrum 128K to this was a very big leap in to the sky. I had a lot of the Microprose games. Now I use DCS World.

[@mrdeathgaming1457]

Just heard Microprose are back! let's hope a remake of this classic is in the offing!

[@dharkbizkit]

12 polygons, 10 frames per second.. yet we were impressed

[@damsonn]

This was enough back then ;)

[@prichardgs]

I loved that game!

[@blacklisted4885]

I remember there being so many buttons I couldn't even play it

[@pinfox4117]

Speaking of the F19 series, its sequel, f117a had a mac port. www.macintoshrepository.org/5190-f-117a-nighthawk-stealth-fighter-2-0 along with a fairly more accurate cockpit and higher resolutions coming from the screenies

[@sentrysapper45]

That's cool, I never realized it had a Mac port! I remember being somewhat jealous that Mac users got better versions of certain games I liked when I was a kid stuck with my parents' 486 PC.

[@damsonn]

Yeah, I've seen it. I even tried to run it on Basilisk II mac emulator - it all works well untill I enter the cockpit and the game crashes with "error type 4".

[@sentrysapper45]

I never played F-19/F-117 on the PC back in the day, but I've had the opportunity to rectify that in recent years thanks to GOG. I can confidently say with no nostalgia goggles that these games absolutely hold up. Looks like the Amiga version had better graphics and sound (I particularly like how vibrant the colors are) at the cost of loading times and framerate.

[@Thribbulous]

My all time favourite game. Thanks for making this. 👍

[@vincgordo5861]

"mum, i need a new 120hz screen to play F19 stealth fighter !!!!"

[@mrdeathgaming1457]

anti aliasing was just a pipedream on this game :) the best thing about this game was limping back to base and picking up some medals!

[@TrainmasterCurt]

This is not the (Real) F-19A Spectre, this is the Ertl diecast and the one based on the P.C game. Air Diver was the only game which got the accuracy of the stealth fighter, but changed the name to F-119.

[@somethingelse4878]

I liked f16 combat pilot better

[@mrdeathgaming1457]

There must be some rich dude/ette/they who has a few quid that could remake this game exact same gameplay uber graphics.

[@raymondyee2008]

I got "F-117 Stealth Fighter 2.0" which was the remake of this game though I guess for some they would want the original which was this (this one is indeed better including the successful landing screen). Wonder if this was the hottest game back in the 80s since the F-19 was what buzzed about in the community about a stealth fighter.

[@sentrysapper45]

It definitely made a splash back in the day. F-19 received "Game/Simulation of the Year" accolades from several publications at the time, and it still cropped up in a few "Best Games of All Time" lists several years later. It even made an appearance at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in 1989 as an exhibition called "Flight Enters the Computer Age." It's funny looking back at what we now know about the so-called "F-19." The closest thing the Air Force ever had to such a plane was the "Have Blue," two F-117 prototypes that were almost visually identical to the production model, only slightly smaller. Their vertical stabilizers were also spaced out and pointed inwards instead of the production model's "v" configuration.

[@danielmorenocavalle338]

El manual era una pasada............y el juego....,.., pero el manual..,..wow.

[@danielmorenocavalle338]

Me gustaba más el de c64😅