F/A-18 Interceptor (1988) Amiga 500 Longplay

[@swedehog69]

I saw this game in the store and immediately bought an Amiga 500 with all my money. Had no money for the rest of the month, best purchase ever :)

[@Dunstire]

I was going to say the exact same thing almost word for word.I got the half meg upgarde too for 'better' sound.If memory serves me well,that was an additional £100.Loved the Amiga and this game but could never get past the 'air-craft carrier sub' mission

[@AerialEyesProduction]

@@Dunstire Me too it was so hard. The only way I could land on the aircraft carrier was if i took off and did a loop without turning at all haha. It was sooo hard to line up

[@massimotin]

Yes played all the night long the first day ....

[@Hobbes22]

That’s awesome, loved my Amiga and this was one of my first games.

[@ShadowGaro]

Hahaha that's one way to get into gaming 😂 My dad bought us an Amiga around the same time I was born, and I played it long after it became outdated, as we didn't get a new computer till the 2000s. The framerate is hard to adapt to but some Amiga games still do things no modern game has done.

[@DrBIeed]

Back when Electronic Arts used to pay attention to detail. This game deserves overhaul with modern graphics. Leave the game play EXACTLY the same. One of my top 5 favs on Amiga.

[@SezerPAL]

Please share other favs?

[@AdyB2008]

I remember playing this, and I was THERE in every mission. The music; the sounds; it was incredible! Nowadays the new kids don’t even know how good they have it etc. Oh, God, I’ve become old! 😂

[@Romanplaystation]

Spot on. I only played this now and again at my friends house, but it has stuck with me all these years, because it was so incredibly immersive for me. Same with Microprose Formula 1 game on the Amiga. Nowadays, I can play Ace Combat, and Gran Turismo on Playstation VR, and it blows my mind. But the 'young uns' are just like " meh ". 😅

[@Airwolfr]

I loved this game, I even remember purchasing. 1MB memory expansion card for it......ahh the memories.

[@jdtippet7002]

I had a burnt copy on disc. No instructions. Had no idea how to play always crashed. Never got anywhere. Seeing this now at 43 is a blessing. Thank you.

[@Tertius_Oculus]

I remember it clearly: Watching Top Gun + Iron Eagle and afterwards a few rounds in EA's Interceptor. The music, the atmosphere. They got it so right.

[@Docjonel]

Remember visiting relatives in Germany in 1989. My cousin couldn't speak much english, I spoke even less German, but we spent several hours playing this in his bedroom far into the night on his Amiga PC and had a blast. I couldn't believe how far computers had come in just a few years from the Apple II.

[@kurtr1181]

THE top game in my opinion for Amiga. Just my opinion. Many hours on this. I still have the game box even though I lost track of the Amiga.

[@StoutProper]

Speedball 2 and North and south were pretty good but the vector graphics on this were groundbreaking at the time

[@darthkinta8934]

Tremendous game. The effort I put into landing on the carrier before doing a F14 Maverick to blow away some Mig 25s off the coast of California. It was immense.

[@darthkinta8934]

​@@StoutProper oh Speedball 2. Still this was beautiful. Gorgeous to play. Spinning that wheel to get the code to play each time. Wonderful times.

[@StoutProper]

@@darthkinta8934 speedball 2 was brilliant, can’t believe it’s not a real game

[@darthkinta8934]

@@StoutProper it was a glorious game. Got it free with the half meg expansion (££££s for 512kb. I upgraded to 64gb DDR5 on my PC for a little more that). If only it were a real life thing. The Bitmap Brother's team in the game were brutal, aptly named Brutal Deluxe if my memory serves me correctly.

[@zbyseklipka406]

Jay Miner ("the father of the Amiga") said at one time his favorite Amiga program was the game F/A-18 Interceptor.

[@iolaoCocco]

In the training mode I once managed to fly upside down the trainer's aircraft and keeping it stable like in Top Gun. This is probably the best war flight simulator I've ever played.

[@jkkay477]

22:50 You're supposed to change the range of the radar screen as you get closer to the MIGs. That's why you're having so much trouble finding them. Pressing the "R" key switches the radar screen between a 40 mi, 10 mi and 2 mi radius.

[@blazer666del]

And stop landing at 250kts !!

[@meterpaffei5810]

What a great game! I sometimes played it with two Amigas against my neighbor.

[@Spatje-d4m]

This and Sherman M4 were my favorite simulators.

[@robbielawson4828]

I recall getting 3 games with the console in 89 / 90. This one, New Zealand Story & Batman the Movie.

[@Music-tg5is]

Console?!!

[@leighbennett1961]

The batman pack

[@rlaw2244]

Same.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

My brother bought an Amiga 500 back in 1990 or 91. He got the pack that included F-18 Interceptor, Indiana Jones and the last crusade, and Kick-off. We later bought Operation Thunderbolt, and Total Recall. I can't remember right this moment if we got any other games for it.

[@spearPYN]

I love flat or gouraud shaded 3d polygon graphics -- perfect retro style that stood the test of time. IMHO it aged better than the later texture mapping that was supposed to be "photorealistic".

[@CouchCoop128]

I remember staring in awe at that pan into the Airport...the frame rates seemed smooth back then 🤣 holy sh*t

[@davidecasoni6724]

Era il 1988 ,quanti ricordi!F18 interceptor è stato Il mio secondo simulatore di volo dopo F19 stealth fighter per C64! Fu un grande passo avanti, con F18 ti sentivi un vero pilota! Era il 1988......😢

[@luxdico]

thx 4 the upload, this game meant a lot to me. Once I passed all the missions, I remember just flyin' around, tryin' to recreate some angles from the top gun movie. Yeah the amiga 500 ruled supreme back then. And I still can't understand how commodore could lose against IBM or apple. But there you go.

[@reignofvictories2573]

Yeah the Amiga did rule back then! Glad you enjoyed and thanks for the comment 🙂

[@SolitaryBro]

I can remember that qualifying mission.. I took off from carrier, went straight up in a loop, flew over the carrier upside down, then ended the loop and lined up on approach..... Done..

[@Hebdomad7]

My Dad managed to land upside down on water...

[@Nikioko]

Me too.

[@jonathancox7219]

This is the way

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

This works ok if you use the keyboard only, but joysticks can tend to be sensitive and the slightest emphasis to either side and your fighter will veer off course. The lack of crosswinds makes using the keyboard so easy 🤣

[@paulcousans4254]

What a game, first proper flight simulator I played back in late 1988. Would play this for hours on end just flying around and marvelling at the awesome graphics and freedom you had. Such a massive upgrade from games on my Amstrad CPC 464.

[@HawthornHawk]

Seeing the San Fran bay area in this and it in Microsoft Flight Sim 2020.. Its really staggering far software graphics have come.

[@JarlStaubhold]

Loved that game back in the days.

[@nospammuppet7017]

I thought this was the dogs danglies back in the day, I still remember to this day my first landing on that carrier -)

[@GayorgVonTrapp]

The days when gameplay came first. Classic.

[@tobytoxd]

Nostalgia! Thanks for sharing this old gem :)

[@josephh927]

I absolutely loved this game on my Amiga 500. The 1st time I started to get into these games was after I played and beat Top Gun on the NES. I saw the demo of this and knew I had to get it. I think it was the 3rd or 4th game I bought. A short time later, I bought an Adspeed accelerator which brought the Amiga up to 14 mhz. The game plays beautifully at that speed. Later I got a A2000 using 030 @ 25 mhz and that was way too fast. Spent many hours on this game and it will always be one of my all time favs on Amiga.

[@lostcause78]

I remember playing this with my friend as a little kid. We didn't understand English and didn't know how and what to deploy to help with the pilot in the water so never got past that mission.

[@indraallian6371]

WOW! This was my first real computer game. It got me hooked on gaming for real! 😎

[@nickthelick]

Shift F10 for afterburner? If I remember correctly? Ooh it's only been 29 years I think?!

[@oingpla]

I can remember the screen shots on the box were the same as the actual games graphics! Many a Saturday morning hogging the colour telly in the kitchen to play this! ✌🏼🌍

[@juliusfucik4011]

I played this game for so many years. I understood very little of it. I was 7 years old.

[@brianfury9790]

all my favroite games was on the Amiga, what a machine

[@2K8Si]

The music during the loadup screen would only happen if you had 1MB (Yeah, ONE Megabyte) of memory installed in your Amiga... How the times have changed. :)

[@scottenman2005]

Ready Player 1 wasn't just a great movie, it was my life lol Amiga 4ever

[@P0cketfull0fsunshine]

Amazing game which was not surpassed for many years IMO. So many hours...

[@RohanGillett]

I never saw this game when I had my Amiga 500. But I did have Falcon I and II. The graphics on this machine (for the time) were simply amazing. But landing the planes ... /ouch.

[@turricanedtc3764]

It breaks my heart that you did such a good job of playing through the missions, but didn't configure your emulator to have 1MB - it improves the audio immensely.

[@balki7]

Would love to see a 500kb vs 1mb RAM comparison. I remember the guy at the computer shop insisting I get a RAM upgrade. Didn't really understand it back then but slightly skeptically convinced my dad to buy the chip. First time I fired up F/A-18 again after the new RAM chip I was blown away by how much better the sound and graphics were.

[@kurtr1181]

"You're vector 310 for bogey." Ooh yeah, I got this.

[@fx4085]

Fond memories, thanks for the share

[@ibd1977]

Who managed to land on the soviet submarine carrier in the final missions?

[@stever285]

I could never figure out how to kill it, I landed on it a dozen times one day, thought it was funny they'd rearm me so I could go back up and keep shooting at them....still couldn't kill it.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

@@stever285 despite what Bob Dinnerman (the programmer and game designer) claims, you can't actually destroy the carrier sub. You only have to destroy the enemy fighters that appear in the region. Unfortunately there's a glitch that happens around an unacceptable 40% of the time where you shoot down all of the fighters, but you don't get a 'mission success' message. The game will continue on, and if you land and exit the mission, it will count as a failed mission. It's been identified as a glitch because even if you destroy the fighters very quickly, you can still 'fail' the mission. So, there is no timeframe attached to completing it.

[@stever285]

@@Aquascape_Dreaming So, I've spend half my life believing I was an abject failure, my career as a fighter pilot ended before it began and all because of a poorly coded computer game. Seriously, I'd never heard that, I'd guessed you couldn't destroy the sub though. I don't know how many time I flew that mission but I never did beat it no matter how it ended.

[@matthewstrange3778]

Yes, it refueled and rearmed you 😂 i must have shot hundreds of missiles into that ship 😂😂😂

[@brett1538]

I remember the blue wheel code generator

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

I hated that thing. Something happened to the disk we had, and from then onwards, the blue code wheel was no longer accurate. The only code that we knew would work was 0000, which was 000. So we had to keep restarting missions until we got a code that we knew would work.

[@blazer666del]

This game came with my amiga.. Although it looked impressive it ran like a pig... so I had to buy an accelerator (68030 30mhz) which cost me more than the amiga itself! lol... but the game ran butter smooth then... The amiga was so underpowered, even at the time they should of put at the least a 68020 in it.. still I loved my Amiga....

[@marcellotota7390]

se ripenso alle giornate passate a giocarci da piccolo....

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

Amazing how in the 1980s the MIG-29 looked exactly like the F-16 😂 P.S. I'm not talking about the mission where you have to recover the stolen F-16s. If you manage to get a Mig 29 to belly land at San Francisco International Airport, you can get up close and see that it looks EXACTLY like an F-16.

[@gochem3013]

I can hear a stereoscopic engines. Do you think this is a massage of our ears? BTW, This sound is a lot better than F-16 Falcon (Amiga).

[@dmg8530]

Awesome game! :)

[@Timepiece80]

They already made the game of Top Gun Maverick back in 1988.

[@lilwondair4836]

what? where is the intro music? interceptor without interceptor theme? no way!!!

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

In the version we had growing up there was just one constant tone, the same sound you hear on the mission briefing screen and satellite map view. It played throughout the game menu. I actually preferred this to the Top Gun style music that the Amiga 1000 version had.

[@lilwondair4836]

@@Aquascape_Dreaming didn't know there were two different A500 versions? - thankfully I owned the one with the music. ...man, I still have got the box around here ...nostalgia. one of the few original games I actually bought at store

[@leighbennett1961]

@@lilwondair4836 the music kicked in if you had the half meg memory expansion.

[@mikek6049]

@@lilwondair4836 same game just auto added extras if you had 1mb of ram. I got my memory upgrade for wings and dungeon master but F18 improvements was a welcome and unexpected bonus

[@thejetfighter]

Looks a lot like Jetfighter: The Adventure (1988) for PC

[@doctorsocrates4413]

I gave up..could never takeoff lol.

Oh man, please, next time reduce motor noise in video editor or audacity etc and put Top Gun cover music I'm background. ASMR perfect

[@StuartHollingsead]

without looking, tell me what the flight ceiling was.

[@ShadowGaro]

18:09 Jesus that's one way to put her down I guess.

[@power2084]

Not bad, but you should change your radar range (keyboard: r) when the enemy comes close.

[@sambrown9494]

Was this related to JetFighter(II) on the PC? The graphics and gameplay look very similar (ie both are amazing!)

[@FuzzWoof]

Yup, Bob Dinnerman programmed Interceptor on the Amiga and then designed and was part of the programming team for the Jetfighter series on PC.

[@simonnomis5302]

thats not how you make turns with an airplane.....

[@davidspencer7254]

Retaliatory was superior