Halloween Special Microprose's F-117a Stealth Fighter 2.0

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[@Kolcobrzuch]

This, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Chuck Yeager, Janes ATF and WWII fighters are my roots:) Good old times. Thanks for bringing the memories.

[@ColonelAkirNakesh]

Yes!! Remember flying the AC-130 with the US Navy Fighters expansion?

[@Kolcobrzuch]

​@@ColonelAkirNakesh Had to miss that one:(

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@ColonelAkirNakesh That thing is the only reason I want that bird in DCS...

[@Zatracenec]

WW2 Fighters...such a great sim. My father used to come to me, when I was in that museum-like menu, and sat next to me just to listen to the music, because that was the music of his youth (is it youth?, I dont know).

[@Kolcobrzuch]

@@Zatracenec This. The soundtrack was great. Most of the time .I can't remember the soundtrack from the game but this and maybe Doom are the exemptions.

[@tinuzz88]

Haha, this is so cool. I love to see how things have changed over the years and how these old classics hold up.

[@willhartsell2283]

Used the play the hell out of this when I was younger. It was such and “upgrade” over the F19 version

[@Squid2650]

Well that brought back memories, I had the predecessor as well F-19 Stealth Fighter, was really fun back then.

[@ToumalRakesh]

You make me wanna pick up my F-117A remake again...

[@RedKiteRender]

Honestly i've not seen anything since that replicates the stealth flying aspects like it since.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@RedKiteRender We need this thing in DCS. And since FlyingIron are making one for XP11, I hope they'll make one for DCS after delivering the A-7E. Jane's ATF also had some stealth mechanics and an RCS scope that helped navigating around the threats.

[@interestingstorey]

Haha nostalgia rush. This was my first flight sim as a kid. I thought it was hilarious to set the difficulty at high and fly nap of the earth for 40 mins. Your score would skyrocket and you'd get the medal of honor for taking a picture of some random fuel silo.

[@Air-Striegler]

Played the shoe out of this game among many other Microprose gold nuggets - first on Amiga 500 (+ 1MB upgrade) and from 1994 on on my 1st PC 4.86 DX2. Good times those were. Great upload!

[@flyer7807]

Ah, the good ol' days, I remember them well. Also, that reminiscing sigh when a 30 years old game had a better mission briefing screen than DCS today.

[@rajunkajun5969]

This, F19, F15 strike eagle 1-3, and A10 tank killer, and gunship 2000, were majority of my childhood.

[@akisakis7980]

My uncle had the "F/A-18 Interceptor" and i was 6 years old when i played it for first time. So many memories lol

[@ColonelAkirNakesh]

I didn't have this one, but played the crap out of F-19! I remember my dad sneaking into my room late one night and leaving me the box by my bed like some flight sim fairy.

[@RedKiteRender]

Oh man a flight sim fairy! That's awesome!

[@Hoobee26]

That is an awesome Dad move.

[@Air-Striegler]

Now that's an exemplary dad!

[@ColonelAkirNakesh]

@@RedKiteRender yeah...he still is! He got me the Viper and Syria for my birthday.

[@NWestmoreland]

I loved this game as a kid! Recently rediscovered it too. Gunship 2000, Falcon 3.0, Janes F-15, classics. Running on a retropie. Thanks for this.

[@yogiparashara4016]

Boy that brings back memories. I also used to have this game and I loved it 👍👍

[@flightsimstuff5417]

Man, ya makin me feel old here. Used to keep my room dog up late with all the beeps, burbs, and buzzing sounds. Makes you appreciate just how much more imagination you needed with the early flight sims; we have it soooo good now. The manuals back then were great too.

[@Air-Striegler]

It was the manuals and the follow up literature one would hunt for, that really lightened up the fire of imagination during game time, isn't it? Oh those wonderful manuals, keyboard overlays and posters. You really need to have been a screenager in the late analog days, to appreciate that hunter-gatherer-collector sensation.

[@RedKiteRender]

Big manuals were the best thing, sat reading them for hours waiting for my next chance at the computer!

[@Air-Striegler]

@@RedKiteRender Kids of the 80ies & 90ies REJOICE!!!

[@manolog.9962]

Wow, that really brought back childhood memories. Thank you for making this video.

[@CheckSix]

Oh blast from the past, I put some serious time into this, and Chuck Yeagers combat simulator

[@Zatracenec]

You made my day. I used to play F-19 and F-16 Combat pilot on ZX Spectrum. Then my father bought 486 DX2, hardcore rig :-D. And first sim I saw, was this. Man...I have never felt so blessed ever since. :-D People today don't understand what real jump in graphics quality means. So awesome. We had Sound Blaster and when I saw that intro....oh my God. My blood pressure was through the roof. Great stuff as always, RedKite.

[@RedKiteRender]

This was a fantastic looker back in it's day!

[@Zatracenec]

@@RedKiteRender I still love its look. But for some reason, I'm not able to run it through my DosBox. :-(

[@RedKiteRender]

@@Zatracenec This is the GOG version, which is a pre-setup DosBox install if that helps.

[@Zatracenec]

@@RedKiteRender Oh cool. Thanks a lot. I didn't know it's on GOG. Thank You.

[@manuelgreil4306]

Memories.......(actually, I played "F-19 Stealth Fighter" a lot more)

[@alfiekhoury]

you brought so many good memories... my first combat sim days...

[@shaunl452]

Well flown sir! I remember this being as revolutionary an upgrade to F-19 as the clouds were recently in DCS ! I built a retro gaming console last year based on a Raspberry PI and managed to get this working on it in a DOS emulator. Also F29 Retaliator, Falcon 3.0 and Gunship 2000!

[@Skidjit]

Have more time in F-19 but still awesome to see the old school MicroProse sims get some attention.

[@RedKiteRender]

Oh yeah it'd be great.

[@antonbatura8385]

Oh the memories. Thank you very much. Maybe next time you'll want to have a go at the Tornado sim, mission planner and all? That was another underappreciated jewel of its time.

[@MrPhantom453]

Thanks Mr Kite. Nice trip down memory lane. I well remember playing this one (and many other Microprose titles). Well done on getting it running. Strangely I don't remember it being that "chuncky" on the graphics.

[@RedKiteRender]

Put in perspective to older sims, it's pretty sharp!

[@Viddub]

Nice I played the heck out of this game thanks for bringing back good memories

[@redboers]

This takes be back to the good old days

[@Donik0420]

I want more of this and all the other old flight sims. Man you're taking me way back with this!

[@RedKiteRender]

I'll be taking on a Maximum difficulty mission tomorrow with the Microprose F-117a :)

[@aladecombatevirtualcuba4405]

years and yeras flying this in cuba, since i have 12 years in 1997. this is my childhood

[@richjones859]

Oh man the memories

[@martinlagrange8821]

This is running in DosBox ? Its a real nostalgia trip, in the early days of the SVGA this was a sheer delight and colour festival, remember it fondly for being the most gorgeous sim of its era. Thanks for the very welcome nostalgia trip !

[@RedKiteRender]

Yep DOSBOX

[@ernestwinslow7316]

The very good old days of flightsims. Also the budding period of my flightsims hobby. To think that I can now fly in a bit closer to real life with all the VR , jetseat vibration is just amazing. The EF2000 by DID, the Jane's, Novalogic{ Commache) were some of the platform this addictive hobby took form for me. How combat flightsims has progressed despite it now being a niche within a niche market in the gaming industry. Thanks for bringing the nostalgic experience back with this video.

[@RedKiteRender]

Honestly mindblowing how far tech has come.

[@cayenne7792]

As real as it gets

[@rgrlee71]

I played the hell out of that game, back in the day.

[@Tamburello_1994]

I played the hell out of this game back in the day!

[@williamsternritter3214]

F19 and this, the highlights of my simulator youth. The incredibly detailed graphics! :)

[@pjefferson2011]

Think i still have this in my loft but no Amiga to play it on lol

[@robintaylor1490]

My favorite was Falcon 3

[@angrypandaification]

You have a very dead pan delivery for your videos, so hearing you chuckle also made me laugh as well... I never played this game when I was younger, mostly just the Aces series and Janes games. Great video nonetheless, love your content.

[@HEATER_]

Boy RK, that took me right back to the 90s!!! WAY more planned out that I would've done it. Well done sir! How did you even get that to play?

[@RedKiteRender]

Look up Gog (Good old games) they sell games complete with the necessary fixes or emulation required to run them on today's computers :)

[@Mo-mw4zg]

Really have to be a brain surgeon to play these older games. I love it.

[@Phoenix_VR]

The crash is realistic, this is an Air-force plane that has a soft landing gear and it hit the runway at the excess of 220Knots!!

[@RedKiteRender]

The trick to landing in this is the AOA needs to be correct (green, centre) Which if you watch the landing it was, right until the last second when i flared! If i hadn't tried to flare the aoa would of remained correct and I'd of been fine. Landing and stall speeds were both rather high in this for some reason.

[@Phoenix_VR]

@@RedKiteRender touché, 16bits doesn't help with depth perception

[@RedKiteRender]

I've straight up flown my F-117a directly into a hillside because there's no surface detail to gauge distance with in the past!

[@hornetsnest1296]

Memories!

[@alpiinoo135]

Nice video!

[@Zatracenec]

When I see this, I really would like to have it in DCS. That would be a blast.

[@RedKiteRender]

I think the actual act of flying a mission will often be fairly uninteresting in DCS, but the planning and suspense aspects would be fantastic.

[@Zatracenec]

@@RedKiteRender I agree. Still it´s just a bomber. But the current version with amazing weather and top quality modelling and graphics...I would still enjoy it. I´m more helicopter guy, but like to enjoy all modules. And of course, Your channel would be Nr.1 go-to place for learning and getting better.

[@PeteV80]

F19 and this one is what I started on. Still waiting for sim with their career/uniform tracking

[@pacshb]

What is the recommended landing speed? 210 kts with 60% thrust did seem a little high

[@fabioarrigoni1089]

Grazie.

[@RedKiteRender]

Very kind of you!

[@TheSirBlackbird]

Fighter bomber ;)

[@keithsimpson2150]

The scale and attempt at a complete mission are really cool for such a fun game to play. Nothing else was like this era of sims for me. LOMAC bit too much Warthunder bit too little

[@AlexanderGarzon]

I usted to play that one !

[@simpedros4766]

Wow in my memory the graphics were so much better. Haha. I remember ef2000 and total air war being absolutely superb as well but now I’m assuming they look like this.

[@RedKiteRender]

For their time, they were, just go back and look at what came before this!

[@matube73]

I played this heaps

[@juancho420]

Strike Eagle, F-19, Gunship, Task Force 1942, Pegasus, EA Strike Fleet, SSI Overrun

[@Drjet670]

Haha, it bring me a memory of when I played it with a keyboard. :)

[@RedKiteRender]

Well, the joysticks were not much better than keyboard being digital inputs too!

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@RedKiteRender On the Amiga, yes. I was using analogue sticks on PC since like end of 1993, was a Gravis Analog. That was such a step up from the Quickshot II Plus. I think I got the Gravis Analog Pro (with 4 instead of just 2 buttons and a throttle wheel) in 1995. 1997 was the year of the MS Sidewinder 3D Pro (4 axes, 8 buttons + hat, what an upgrade!) then... well, got the Precision Pro, Precision 2 and FFB2 after that. The latter of which is what I still use today. But I also still have all the others except for the original Gravis Analog non-pro.

[@L0kias1]

You must have forgot you can just blow up those radars to make your mission easy

[@RedKiteRender]

This was the realistic mode, where you're meant to fly it stealthily, i don't have a-a missiles and extremely limited a-g weapons. So alerting fighters would be a poor choice.

[@Karza_357]

Not bad for a 1991 game.

[@RedKiteRender]

Honestly holds up pretty well today framerate and low resolution aside, prime candidate for a remaster.

[@AnAmericanDodo]

Where did you pick this one up from? GOG?

[@RedKiteRender]

Yep this is the GOG version

[@CocoDave37]

Did you fly this mission with your WinWing HOTAS or 3 button thrustmaster from 1999? :)

[@RedKiteRender]

Haha no sadly i didn't have a joystick back then, flew this on keyboard :)

[@dits17]

I played this on my Amiga A500

[@samd8016]

How do i play this on a modern computer?

[@ilejovcevski79]

Oh man! This was the successor to F-19 right? And the easy mode for this one was actually the F-19? I only flew the former and never got my hands on this version. It's quite the the achievement if you ask me, how creative they got with the stealth missions back then and how many features they implemented that we never hear of again. I remember enjoying the cold war missions the most, where you lost the most points if you got detected and the goal was usually spying, photo reconnaissance and anti terrorist strikes!

[@RedKiteRender]

Yep! those were great fun, though the camera was always a little fiddly to get right! Also had stealth drop off missions requiring you to land on an unmarked field runway. Nothing quite like it to this day.

[@johnroscoe2406]

MicroProse released F-19 when there was only unconfirmed news and rumors of a new stealth aircraft; popular media and even Tom Clancy assumed it would be designated the F-19, and assumed it would use the rounded curve profile philosophy of stealth. Once the official announcement of the F-117 came about, Microprose went ahead and released the updated title with the proper model and designation.

[@ilejovcevski79]

@@johnroscoe2406eye, true!

[@udo1614]

nice 😍

[@damsonn]

A true classic, played the hell out of it back in the day on Amiga 500 and later on PC. MPS did some pretty immersive sims back then. Gunship 2000, Harrier Jump Jet, F-15 Strike Eagle 3, F-14 Fleet Defender were among the best of the early 1990s MPS flight titles. Many think that Thief or Splinter Cell introduced stealth mechanics to games, they are wrong, F-19/F-117 did that long before that. I love your DCS vids but I can see you appreciate the oldies as well. I was wondering what was your favorite flight sim(s) from the 90s? BTW, some time ago I made a remake of Amiga intro to F-117, you can check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmKUp2eMoLqYpJo

[@RedKiteRender]

I think, it may well be Chocks Away! (W/ extra missions) Not as complex, but it had local co-op play! Which i did a lot of. Otherwise i reckon it's got to be Stealth Fighter 2.0. Gunship 2000 holds a spot, thanks to it's mission planning. Along with Fleet defender for that radar / RIO seat!

[@kraziivan_]

RIP

[@user-zd1fv5sq5w]

Can the F-117A be played on Windows 11?

[@RedKiteRender]

Sure, using DOSBox, which is included in the good old games version of it.

[@horstweihrauch1]

happy harroween:)

[@simonnomis5302]

oh God so many hours on this...You should made Birds of Prey and Tornado...and last wings over vietnam...

[@RedKiteRender]

Never did play them, I've got Tornado, and intend to play it some time though!

[@DrMoe.Lester]

Oh shit this is a lot more sketchy than I remember.

[@skypiratez]

Nice… but easy.. I used to play Hard missions with my F19 in Nord Cape loaded with 12 snakeeyes and gun, obliterating everything in my path and ultimately winning a congregational Medal of Honor for such mission… And yes, I was gunning down a trio of MiG 29, 31 and Su 27 and then whoever dared to cross my path.. LoL P.S. landing with 1% fuel

[@thelmaviaduct]

DI Tornado or go home.

[@RedKiteRender]

Not very spooky though! I actually missed that one 'back in the day' Got a copy of it been meaning to give it a go.

[@thelmaviaduct]

@@RedKiteRender 200ft terrain following at 550kts with a JP233 run is pretty scary lol Still the best mission planner ever done imho Nice vid btw 👍🏿

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@RedKiteRender Same, bought it after DCS BS and A-10C, was still worth it.

[@joepiscapo1879]

I got tons of hours in tornado. Best Sim ever and I still play it

[@ronaldwatson1951]

I really appreciate this video and enjoyed playing the game, however once detected it was hell returning to base. You realized that you were going to fast and tried landing anyway??? Genius I can safely say you're not, but don't be so fixated on completing this video. 🤔

[@RedKiteRender]

AOA was on speed right until a second before landing my friend, wasn't too fast. Just an oddity in how AOA works when i flared. Part 2 has me trying a maximum difficulty mission, and that was hell trying to get home after detection!

[@ronaldwatson1951]

@@RedKiteRender I'll stayed tuned in, appreciate your response 👍