I'm one of the older ones here. Was on active duty in the USAF when this came out. Spent many hours one this sim before the USAF even fully acknowledged its existence. Got addicted to this game and Red Storm Rising. 'Just one more mission' became my battle cry. Good memories. I still have the 5.25" floppies somewhere in my closet! LOL!!!
@@Raptorel The Air Force did have state of the art simulators for the pilots and those who needed to know. However the 'game' based on unclassified, best guess information. For its time this game was cutting edge for entertainment purposes
The majority of my knowledge of the geography of the Middle East and Europe / North Norway is based on hours playing this game. I am now a pilot as well.
Haha, I had a similar experience learning about Nordic and Russian territorial waters from playing John Ratcliff's Seawolf game...sadly I never became a crewmember for a sub.
@@warrax111 radar works in line of sight, so if the aeroplane is visual with the radar then the radar can detect it. Since the earth is a globe and the surface is curved then there is a shadow of the radar beam caused by the curved surface. Also, lower to the ground means planes can fly down valleys behind hills to mask themselves from search radar.
I used to play this as a little kid in the early 90's. My dad had this game and he'd give me tips when he'd see me playing it. I always found it beautiful and relaxing, I'd play it for hours. Great times.
Back when games came with great manuals that you could use as reference materials for current (of the period) military tactics. The best I had was "Aces of the Pacific", I could put it on my bookshelf of history texts and it would fit right in.
Arguably the best flight sim of all time. What a manual too! Read the whole thing like a book and can say most of my recognition of aircraft today is based on it :)
I used to stay up really late playing this game at night and my brother and i tried to muffle the sounds from the desktop with our hands (the sounds from my games came from the actual pc board until we finally got Soundblaster speakers and sound card lol). My dad would wake up at 2 am and caught us with the room door closed playing this game in the dark. Landing the plane was the hardest in realism mode, but easy mode landing was ridiculous bc you could drive on the water lol.
My dad got this for me for christmas back in 1989 for my Tandy 1000 ex, definitely in my top 10 games played. Let's not forget that manual that came with the game, I must've read trough it a dozen times or more, loved all the detailed descriptions of the ordinance provided.
This game brings back memories. Played this when it first came out on my MS-DOS computer. I thought the graphics were great ... it was the 90's after all!
This was the first PC game that I was ever introduced to, together with Prince of Persia, back in 1992. It used to be my favourite flight simulator, then I in 1996 I moved to EF2000, until I found out more about Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2001, and today I fly MSFS2020 in VR and can't believe this is where I started!
Dam...I used to play this almost 3 decades ago now. Makes you really appreciate the simplicity again...but the new sims really have come a LONG way with modern computer tech. I wish they had a modern remake of this particular game...THAT would be pretty cool. Kind of show what this game could be today. There are so many run and gun type games out there...would be refreshing to get into "stealth" mode again:)
Probably my favorite PC game of the 80s. Pretty sure I didn’t have a soundblaster at the time I was into this and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything but PC speaker noises from this game.
Ahhh, takes me back to the heady days of 1980's movies and music, when the world trembled under the weight of big hair, and Russians sounded scottish, and half of everything epic sounded like it was scored by Basil Poledouris.
I have discovered the existence of this game by chance and I have to say the fact that something using such primitive graphics looks so detailed is very impressive! It also seems to be quite deep in terms of mechanics. Truly, creativity is the only limiting factor when it comes to designing awesome games
One of my favorite games. Used to play it as a kid on my very first computer: a 386 SX. I didn't have the manual, so getting past the copy-protection was trial and error, until I started recognizing the planes. I got the Congressional Medal of Honor after one of the missions -- I don't remember much other than I finished all the objectives, did a fair bit of extra damage, had a fair bit done to myself, and barely made it back.
I would come home from school and play this game for hours every day. This brought back some good memories, especially that advertisement screen, played the crap out of pirates too
Wow my friend !!! Your EMV (visibility) was really low with this tecnique. A bit frustrating to fly under 100 feet or at 110 knots but the result was absolutely achieved . Very great my friend !!!
I played the hell out of this on my Tandy. I think my crowning achievement of awesome in it was attacking the sub pens in thye North Cape. I remember that one being exceptionally hard to beat but I got it. I was 11 at the time. Good times.
Saw the DCS 2.9 release video and came back to this, how far the Graphics and computing in general have come! Unbelievable, I used to love this game and played it for hours nonstop. Loved the gun fight and landing through external cameras :)
One of the best games ever! Great memories. Learned to fly alone. Learned the intro exams by trial and error! (lol) I never got how to do cold war missions and never get detected.
I played lot f 117 and mig 29 and falcon love old sims I'm currently playing wing comander. Born in 1999 so I'm probably the only one in my genration who enjoys the golden age of sims
Wow. Brings old memories. My dad bought me this simulator and I played it on a 386 when I was 7-8 years old. I remember that the sound of the engines were awful and the game ran at around 3 frames per seconds but it was fun
Only reason I am here is because I noticed Jerry had this game on his computer desk in an episode of Seinfeld (season 9 episode 9) and I wanted to see what it was like. Looks cool but I can't imagine Jerry playing it lol
I hated North Cape theater, in my opinion the most difficult one. In contrast, I got the Medal of Honor in Central Europe a couple of times. Hands down, my favourite flight "sim".
This is big brother of F-15 II. I always liked the ’movieness’ of these games. They had excellent ballance of being HC sim but still easy to play from getgo. Thank you for all the developers!
This game also were immortalized in esoteric novel of famous Victor Pelevin "Prince of Gosplan" (also there were Prince of Persia, Tank Abrams and others old games)
Truthfully, the reality was the F-117 Nighthawk. During the development of this game, the Nighthawk wasn't declassified and revealed to the public. Don't quote me on this but I believe the Nighthawk was declassified as this game was being released, and the developers created an F-117 3D model to swap with the old F-19 one so you could fly it in game.
В 1991м году ходили с парнями поиграть в венгерский 286й находящийся в студии Сасовского Летного Училища Гражданской Авиации. Мне было 13 лет. Как мы туда вообще попали и имели привелигированный доступ- отдельная история. У того 286го была частота процессора 10 мГц и был турборежим- 16 мГц, включающийся с отдельной кнопки на горизонтальном корпусе. Одной из игр на дискетах 5,25 была именно эта- f 19. Даже в турборежиме игра имела худшую графику чем в этом видео. Например панель, где распологается ручка тяги двигателя была прямоугольной. А здесь скругленная панель. Я такую видел уже на 486м шораздо позже. Мощный симулятор! Ностальгия до сих пор
Back in the day my relatives had this. My uncle cracked the copy protection so presumably whatever would have been in the booklet didn't need to be referenced in order to play it. I don't remember there being any other option than the shrill PC speaker. The shortcut to turn the engine sound effect off, (if I remember correctly) was CTRL-V ... Probably one of the first hot key shortcuts that I ever memorised! I wish that I still had the copy of that cracked version - It seems that I lost it some time after 2009 when I last remembered loading it up. By then, it still had the save file campaigns with funny pilot names from when my Uncle, Aunts and cousins had created them some time in the early 90's. Good times... Edit 14th Aug 2022 : I've just discovered that I still have this old cracked copy :-)
I bought this when it first came out (in '88?) at 14 years of age, using my lawn mowing money. Bought it at an appliance store while my folks were shopping for a new fridge. Back then all kinds of stores would have a shelf or two dedicated to selling computer games. Funny how the cost of games hasn't increased that much.
I played this and the F-15E Strike Eagle II sim (also from Microprose) as a kid. Both were basically the same game, but they were awesome, nonetheless. I remember I even copied the scenario files from this F-19 game into the F-15E directory and the F-15E game still was able to load and play the scenarios. One of the differences between this game and the F-15E one was that the F-15E sim used a "Mirage F-1" model for the Mig-25 enemies (but actually the "Mirage F-1" model still looked like a delta-winged Mirage III-like model) whereas this game used a more proper Mig-25 model (actually it was shared with the friendly F-18's model, iirc).
This was the first video game I ever played as a 5 year old, my dad had to land the plane for me because I couldn’t figure it out. Playing on the DOS computer at the old airport where he worked.
I used to play this a lot as a kid. Without knowing English and having no idea what the mission is. Still it was fun and engaging. I played Retaliator as well.
Dad bought an old 286 with CGA monitor and no sound card in late 80s and we played this game for hours! The F-117 was super top secret and not even public yet, but was known of and the F-19 is what they guessed it was. Dad would pilot and I would be his navigator and ordnance man on the keyboard. No sound card got screeeeeech the whole mission. And the lag probably because we had underpowered machine. 😝
This is the first computer game I ever played on my Grandpas Dell 316 computer. I never got the hang of it as I was so young. That keyboard overlay was very confusing to my young self. I tried to shoot down planes and think I may have hit a few.
정말 좋아했던 PC게임. F19 1991년 학교 전산실의 8086 XT PC 집에서 구매한 80286 AT MONO 에서 F19 복제판 깔린 3M 5.25인치 디스켓 두 장 번갈아 넣고 MS DOS 에서 주구장창 쳐 넣던 명령어.. C:>>f19_ 추억 돋네요. 1991년.. 용돈 모아 서점에서 매뉴얼 책도 샀었죠.
I recall completing 99 missions and reaching the rank of Bgen and getting the CMOH finishing my last mission at the Persian Gulf at conventional war scenario.
I love to play this in the middle of 90's in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. These games taught me some English vocabulary, but I was a kid and know nothing about geography and aircraft, so I was sure that F-19 is a real Russian interceptor. I knew nothing about confrontation or Cold War. The USA was the country I would like to Russia will be someday. All the great things in my house were from the USA, Japan or Germany in those days. My Ukrainian relatives used to live in my flat for months. I myself visited Kiyv, Odesa, Sevastopol, and Mykolaiv with a lot of pleasure, nobody hated me and we spoke the same language. Why my people became this shit with fucking Putin. My motherland is diseased with fascism now
honestly, I bet Steam made at least some contact with the creators of this game and offered them some compensation. It is abandoned ware... it's so abandoned you probably can't even torrent it. It's so abandoned, that if steam offered $70 it's $70 they didn't have before. Good on steam for rebuilding this game, and good on kaglecom for advertising it so we can study it. Before you go into hysteria, please absorb the notion that I don't care.
long mission bug makes most if the long north cape missions impossible. I don;t think the bug was on original hardware and probably exists in dosbox only
Slow the intro music down (try .75), and it will sound familiar... "I want your love, I want your revenge, I want your love, I don't wanna be friends!"... Freaky, right? I remember playing this as a kid over 20 years ago and that part always sounded raunchy to me. I think my PC ran it kinda slow, which is why I knew to slow the video down.
Also, for landing. Learn to fly the pattern, it will make landing much easier. All runways in game are aligned 000/180. Approach runway from 270/090. Turn to 000 or 180. Fly till runway is 45 degrees from you. Turn to 090/270. When runway is about 10 degrees from you, turn to 000/180 and youi'll be aligned at center line. Make sure ILS is on, intercept glidescope and keep your speed between 180 to 200 knots and follow glidescope in. You'll hit the perfect landing every time.
Guybrush Threepwood Thank you, makes sense now. The copy I have came with my 486 and is probably version 435.01. Superb flying by the way! I'll try your tactics to see if I make it through a mission on that difficulty
I bought, from STEAM, F-19 Stealth Fighter, I installed and tried it. I must add that I also own a version for AMIGA, bought about 25 years ago! I remember that I could do all the missions in every scenario, even at levels of "ELITE" opponents. In this recently purchased PC-DOS version, I found how impossibly difficult it was to get the same results. In particular the very high number of enemy fighters in flight and, in the most difficult levels (veteran or elite), already directed on my plane, even if I had not been tracked by any radar! At the "elite" level, although many devices can be implemented to avoid detection, sooner or later they are discovered and tracked. Well, in the version purchased by me on STEAM, from that precise moment, no less than three to five enemy planes fly at a time. If I can shoot one down, at least 3 of them will appear in its place! In the end, you can also shoot down 15 or 20 enemy planes but always having at least 2 or 3 behind to threaten you, and this for the rest of the mission. In particular in the Persian Gulf missions, like those in the video, already at the moment of take-off, almost on Kuwait City, there are already 3 enemy interceptors in aggressive patrolling! Obviously in such circumstances we can not resist for long. I also tried to hit the air bases, from which I hypothesized that the enemy planes could start, but it was useless. Always remains at least one enemy air base that, even very far from the battle site, always manages to send us an abnormal number of enemy aircraft. Now as the fuel is consumed much faster if you are engaged in the air duels, after about 10-15 minutes of these fights, you can find out how already more than a third of the fuel has been consumed, while you remain very far from hitting both the primary target that the secondary one of the mission. Hence the impossibility of completing any "elite" mission in any scenario. Do you think that, I tried for an entire afternoon to complete an "elite" mission, just in the Persian Gulf scenario, well until late at night, even if I changed many tactics, I could not have any positive result. Once discovered, it was always the end! Now, since I can see how all the aggression that I have experienced, in this video ... there just is not, I have to assume that it is different versions or ............. that I am a particularly unlucky person !!!
Did anyone ever manage to successfully destroy that submarine pen? I remember you had to use a particular type of missile and I could never get that thing to explode!
One of the funnest games I played as a young teen, even if it wasn't realistic (if you want a good military flight sim, try the Falcon series), but again, it was a lot of fun.
Alt-V turns off first engine sound, second press will turn off warnings and third will cancel all sounds. My best score was 1903 in Europe with Cold war Air-to-Ground mission. You are only credited flyinf over enemy territory, so avoid flying over water when possible. And you have to load camera and 3 extra tanks to reach real high score
Pro Tip, to get a nice high score and the Medal of Honor if you dont't have it: Set to Persian Gulf, Cold War, Strike MIssions and Elite or Veteran opponents. Get airstrip mission. Land at airstrip. Taxi to end of airstrip. Leave and go sleep for the night. Come back. Fly rest of mission. Enjoy your massive score.
I had the model kit for the F-19 as a kid.. boy were we ever led astray about the true shape and design of the real stealth "fighter". Glad they never developed those rounded wings, wouldve handled like Flying Monkey Poo.
Played this on my old atari St, good sound though gameplay maybe not as good compared to other pc versions. I played the heck out of this game. Central Europe was my fav theatre and the handbook was awesome. Good Times.
I'm one of the older ones here. Was on active duty in the USAF when this came out. Spent many hours one this sim before the USAF even fully acknowledged its existence. Got addicted to this game and Red Storm Rising. 'Just one more mission' became my battle cry. Good memories. I still have the 5.25" floppies somewhere in my closet! LOL!!!
Did you save the floppy disk drives too...would need one of them to load the game 😀
One of my favorite air sim games ever.
+Jonnie Bangkok Actually still have an old system with both 5.25" and 3.5" drives still installed.
I remember just knowing what they all looked like because as a kid I was a huge military vehicle junkie. =D
The USAF didn't have a better simulator? :))
@@Raptorel The Air Force did have state of the art simulators for the pilots and those who needed to know. However the 'game' based on unclassified, best guess information. For its time this game was cutting edge for entertainment purposes
The majority of my knowledge of the geography of the Middle East and Europe / North Norway is based on hours playing this game.
I am now a pilot as well.
Haha, I had a similar experience learning about Nordic and Russian territorial waters from playing John Ratcliff's Seawolf game...sadly I never became a crewmember for a sub.
Same
as a pilot, could you explain why he is flying so low? It is because to avoid some radars?
@@warrax111 radar works in line of sight, so if the aeroplane is visual with the radar then the radar can detect it. Since the earth is a globe and the surface is curved then there is a shadow of the radar beam caused by the curved surface. Also, lower to the ground means planes can fly down valleys behind hills to mask themselves from search radar.
haha
Used to love this game back in the early 90's. Pushed my old IBM 386 to the limit.
Before the pentium came out :)
It on my Tandy 1000 !
Tandy 1000ex for me. Yeah it did push it.
I was playing it on a Compaq portable with a monochrome green screen.
IBM 286... 😬
I used to play this as a little kid in the early 90's. My dad had this game and he'd give me tips when he'd see me playing it. I always found it beautiful and relaxing, I'd play it for hours. Great times.
Oh man, I adored this game - and that amazing manual. I'd pour over it!
me to xD i waas like 10 years old
It's crazy to look back, now that stuff like flight sim 2020 came out, I kind of miss the old
I still have that manual lol, it's the size of a book
Back when games came with great manuals that you could use as reference materials for current (of the period) military tactics. The best I had was "Aces of the Pacific", I could put it on my bookshelf of history texts and it would fit right in.
Arguably the best flight sim of all time. What a manual too! Read the whole thing like a book and can say most of my recognition of aircraft today is based on it :)
F15 Strike Eagle for me.
I used to stay up really late playing this game at night and my brother and i tried to muffle the sounds from the desktop with our hands (the sounds from my games came from the actual pc board until we finally got Soundblaster speakers and sound card lol). My dad would wake up at 2 am and caught us with the room door closed playing this game in the dark. Landing the plane was the hardest in realism mode, but easy mode landing was ridiculous bc you could drive on the water lol.
Hahahaha i played this game in jakarta in 1995
It's been... 32 years ago!!
It really brings back memory. I was still in high school. Had no kids back then.
Heck, I WAS the kid
@@sombongkualat Halooo salam kenal dari Indonesia, pak.
Saya mainnya tahun 1988
@@cosmopolitan4598 halooo juga. Mantap sekali game ini. Juga game battle drone
no complete STOP; or past grey area; your score WAS NOT logged to datenbank.
Spent hours and hours playing this late at night on school nights when I was a kid. The best simulator ever. Memories!
My dad got this for me for christmas back in 1989 for my Tandy 1000 ex, definitely in my top 10 games played. Let's not forget that manual that came with the game, I must've read trough it a dozen times or more, loved all the detailed descriptions of the ordinance provided.
There's a lot of people playing F-19 again lately. Makes me happy to see it.
This game brings back memories. Played this when it first came out on my MS-DOS computer. I thought the graphics were great ... it was the 90's after all!
We thought this looked amazing until F117 came out, that was such a step up!
I played that at my Aussie cousins place in Melbourne first time ever, least an hour of fun.
F-19, Fighter Bomber, F-15 Strike Eagle II, Gunship 2000. These were my fly sim games... :) So many awesome memories doing missions.
Microprose could do no wrong for a period, fantastic library of sims that really trolled my grade point average in university.
So many good memories of this, so much fun, played it for years. This, gunship and red storm rising.
This was the first PC game that I was ever introduced to, together with Prince of Persia, back in 1992. It used to be my favourite flight simulator, then I in 1996 I moved to EF2000, until I found out more about Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2001, and today I fly MSFS2020 in VR and can't believe this is where I started!
can't believe after all this years I'm still thinking about installing this game again and looking it up on TH-cam..best sim ever!
Ive installed yesterday 😉
Here i am again 5 years later!
Dam...I used to play this almost 3 decades ago now. Makes you really appreciate the simplicity again...but the new sims really have come a LONG way with modern computer tech. I wish they had a modern remake of this particular game...THAT would be pretty cool. Kind of show what this game could be today. There are so many run and gun type games out there...would be refreshing to get into "stealth" mode again:)
Probably my favorite PC game of the 80s. Pretty sure I didn’t have a soundblaster at the time I was into this and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything but PC speaker noises from this game.
Holy crap I had this game as a kid and had no idea what the hell I was doing. Looking at it again now, its a very cool game.
I just blew up the planes instead of stealthing.
Ahhh, takes me back to the heady days of 1980's movies and music, when the world trembled under the weight of big hair, and Russians sounded scottish, and half of everything epic sounded like it was scored by Basil Poledouris.
I have discovered the existence of this game by chance and I have to say the fact that something using such primitive graphics looks so detailed is very impressive! It also seems to be quite deep in terms of mechanics. Truly, creativity is the only limiting factor when it comes to designing awesome games
One of my favorite games. Used to play it as a kid on my very first computer: a 386 SX. I didn't have the manual, so getting past the copy-protection was trial and error, until I started recognizing the planes. I got the Congressional Medal of Honor after one of the missions -- I don't remember much other than I finished all the objectives, did a fair bit of extra damage, had a fair bit done to myself, and barely made it back.
Just like in good times. Played it nearly 30 years ago 🤘😎
I would come home from school and play this game for hours every day. This brought back some good memories, especially that advertisement screen, played the crap out of pirates too
Wow my friend !!! Your EMV (visibility) was really low with this tecnique. A bit frustrating to fly under 100 feet or at 110 knots but the result was absolutely achieved . Very great my friend !!!
The manual that came with it nice shiny pretty nice cover and box.
I played the hell out of this on my Tandy. I think my crowning achievement of awesome in it was attacking the sub pens in thye North Cape. I remember that one being exceptionally hard to beat but I got it. I was 11 at the time. Good times.
yes the subs took multiple runs
Saw the DCS 2.9 release video and came back to this, how far the Graphics and computing in general have come! Unbelievable, I used to love this game and played it for hours nonstop. Loved the gun fight and landing through external cameras :)
One of the best games ever! Great memories. Learned to fly alone. Learned the intro exams by trial and error! (lol) I never got how to do cold war missions and never get detected.
Design: Sid Meier. Is anyone surprised this game is solid? Not me.
Wow.... This game, and Jack Nicklaus' golf game.... So many memories!
I played lot f 117 and mig 29 and falcon love old sims I'm currently playing wing comander. Born in 1999 so I'm probably the only one in my genration who enjoys the golden age of sims
1997 +/-5 years had some of the best sim and space games. Hope you'll enjoy all of them.
Wow. Brings old memories. My dad bought me this simulator and I played it on a 386 when I was 7-8 years old.
I remember that the sound of the engines were awful and the game ran at around 3 frames per seconds but it was fun
Only reason I am here is because I noticed Jerry had this game on his computer desk in an episode of Seinfeld (season 9 episode 9) and I wanted to see what it was like. Looks cool but I can't imagine Jerry playing it lol
Ive always loved that opening music at the title screen!! So awesome!
Loved this game. Spent 000s of hours flying it 👍😊
I hated North Cape theater, in my opinion the most difficult one. In contrast, I got the Medal of Honor in Central Europe a couple of times.
Hands down, my favourite flight "sim".
I agree, North Cape was harder because of the density of the enemy forces and because of the ground there
wow man it bring back memories. You haven't lost your touch, nice!
This is big brother of F-15 II. I always liked the ’movieness’ of these games.
They had excellent ballance of being HC sim but still easy to play from getgo.
Thank you for all the developers!
My muscle memory still knows all the keys and I'm probably capable of identifying all planes
Oh man, I used to play the heck out of this. I must have logged thousands of flight hours.
This game also were immortalized in esoteric novel of famous Victor Pelevin "Prince of Gosplan" (also there were Prince of Persia, Tank Abrams and others old games)
I still like the design of that hypothetical plane over the reality. This game should get a remake even if the reality turned out to be the F-22.
Truthfully, the reality was the F-117 Nighthawk. During the development of this game, the Nighthawk wasn't declassified and revealed to the public. Don't quote me on this but I believe the Nighthawk was declassified as this game was being released, and the developers created an F-117 3D model to swap with the old F-19 one so you could fly it in game.
The best sims of my childhood - f-19/f-117, lhx, gunship 2000, and Microprose Dogfight
В 1991м году ходили с парнями поиграть в венгерский 286й находящийся в студии Сасовского Летного Училища Гражданской Авиации. Мне было 13 лет. Как мы туда вообще попали и имели привелигированный доступ- отдельная история. У того 286го была частота процессора 10 мГц и был турборежим- 16 мГц, включающийся с отдельной кнопки на горизонтальном корпусе. Одной из игр на дискетах 5,25 была именно эта- f 19. Даже в турборежиме игра имела худшую графику чем в этом видео. Например панель, где распологается ручка тяги двигателя была прямоугольной. А здесь скругленная панель. Я такую видел уже на 486м шораздо позже. Мощный симулятор! Ностальгия до сих пор
I used to play this game a lot in 1992!
29 years ago!!!
30년 전 아련한 기억이 떠오르게 만드는 영상이네요. 정확히 1988년 동네 컴퓨터 학원에서 처음 접하고선 신세계를 경험 했었더랬죠.
이후 마이크로 프로즈에서 F15도 출시되었고 사운드 카드 설치하고 조이스틱도 사서 밤새워 즐겼던 기억이 새록새록 납니다.
Back in the day my relatives had this. My uncle cracked the copy protection so presumably whatever would have been in the booklet didn't need to be referenced in order to play it. I don't remember there being any other option than the shrill PC speaker. The shortcut to turn the engine sound effect off, (if I remember correctly) was CTRL-V ... Probably one of the first hot key shortcuts that I ever memorised!
I wish that I still had the copy of that cracked version - It seems that I lost it some time after 2009 when I last remembered loading it up. By then, it still had the save file campaigns with funny pilot names from when my Uncle, Aunts and cousins had created them some time in the early 90's. Good times...
Edit 14th Aug 2022 : I've just discovered that I still have this old cracked copy :-)
I bought this when it first came out (in '88?) at 14 years of age, using my lawn mowing money. Bought it at an appliance store while my folks were shopping for a new fridge. Back then all kinds of stores would have a shelf or two dedicated to selling computer games. Funny how the cost of games hasn't increased that much.
fanatico a muerte de este juego, pero jamas habia oido su musica porque no tenia Sound Blaster ni nada de eso, el speaker normalito
that was a fun game. My old computer didn't even have external speakers, so I used the motherboard's internal speaker, the thing was so super loud.
I played this and the F-15E Strike Eagle II sim (also from Microprose) as a kid. Both were basically the same game, but they were awesome, nonetheless. I remember I even copied the scenario files from this F-19 game into the F-15E directory and the F-15E game still was able to load and play the scenarios.
One of the differences between this game and the F-15E one was that the F-15E sim used a "Mirage F-1" model for the Mig-25 enemies (but actually the "Mirage F-1" model still looked like a delta-winged Mirage III-like model) whereas this game used a more proper Mig-25 model (actually it was shared with the friendly F-18's model, iirc).
Played this game for 100s of hours in early 90s on my x86 XT PC. I remember it had a 200 page manual.
This was the first video game I ever played as a 5 year old, my dad had to land the plane for me because I couldn’t figure it out. Playing on the DOS computer at the old airport where he worked.
I used to play this a lot as a kid. Without knowing English and having no idea what the mission is. Still it was fun and engaging. I played Retaliator as well.
Dad bought an old 286 with CGA monitor and no sound card in late 80s and we played this game for hours! The F-117 was super top secret and not even public yet, but was known of and the F-19 is what they guessed it was. Dad would pilot and I would be his navigator and ordnance man on the keyboard. No sound card got screeeeeech the whole mission. And the lag probably because we had underpowered machine. 😝
Excelente juego y buen game play. Muchas gracias por compartir. 👍
I got the PC DOS version, but in mine the sounds does not play like this...
still remember flying North cape...so many hours on this
Back when game devs were real men and games were proper games eh! When we actually appreciated that thing called "playability".
This is the first computer game I ever played on my Grandpas Dell 316 computer. I never got the hang of it as I was so young. That keyboard overlay was very confusing to my young self. I tried to shoot down planes and think I may have hit a few.
정말 좋아했던 PC게임. F19
1991년
학교 전산실의 8086 XT PC
집에서 구매한 80286 AT MONO
에서 F19 복제판 깔린
3M 5.25인치 디스켓 두 장 번갈아 넣고
MS DOS 에서
주구장창 쳐 넣던 명령어..
C:>>f19_
추억 돋네요.
1991년..
용돈 모아 서점에서 매뉴얼 책도 샀었죠.
47:09 I like that you did that village, just for the Craic
I recall completing 99 missions and reaching the rank of Bgen and getting the CMOH finishing my last mission at the Persian Gulf at conventional war scenario.
I love to play this in the middle of 90's in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. These games taught me some English vocabulary, but I was a kid and know nothing about geography and aircraft, so I was sure that F-19 is a real Russian interceptor. I knew nothing about confrontation or Cold War. The USA was the country I would like to Russia will be someday. All the great things in my house were from the USA, Japan or Germany in those days. My Ukrainian relatives used to live in my flat for months. I myself visited Kiyv, Odesa, Sevastopol, and Mykolaiv with a lot of pleasure, nobody hated me and we spoke the same language. Why my people became this shit with fucking Putin. My motherland is diseased with fascism now
Un juego de mi infancia, muy bueno.
Brings back memories wow
>BTW! Does anuone know how to turn darn "Altitude/Stall" Warning sound Off!?
Lower your gear down. If your speed is low it's safe.
Now available on Steam!
+cuddly1clare I think it's F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 that is on sale.
We can do ourselves a favor and get it from GOG.
honestly, I bet Steam made at least some contact with the creators of this game and offered them some compensation. It is abandoned ware... it's so abandoned you probably can't even torrent it. It's so abandoned, that if steam offered $70 it's $70 they didn't have before. Good on steam for rebuilding this game, and good on kaglecom for advertising it so we can study it.
Before you go into hysteria, please absorb the notion that I don't care.
long mission bug makes most if the long north cape missions impossible. I don;t think the bug was on original hardware and probably exists in dosbox only
Great memories! I used to play it ok my 286 1 megabyte ram pc and with keyboard only 😊
Slow the intro music down (try .75), and it will sound familiar...
"I want your love, I want your revenge,
I want your love, I don't wanna be friends!"... Freaky, right?
I remember playing this as a kid over 20 years ago and that part always sounded raunchy to me. I think my PC ran it kinda slow, which is why I knew to slow the video down.
wat
Used to go to 60,000ft & launch a Harpoon. I'd then hit missile view & fly about in front of it for a cool view....and damn that SAM site at Pechenga!
Also, for landing. Learn to fly the pattern, it will make landing much easier. All runways in game are aligned 000/180. Approach runway from 270/090. Turn to 000 or 180. Fly till runway is 45 degrees from you. Turn to 090/270. When runway is about 10 degrees from you, turn to 000/180 and youi'll be aligned at center line. Make sure ILS is on, intercept glidescope and keep your speed between 180 to 200 knots and follow glidescope in. You'll hit the perfect landing every time.
"Drink up, it's party time!" LOL
omg, it's available on steam. I'm playing it now!
Is this the PC version of F19? If so, how did you get it to use the sound blaster instead of internal speaker?
+Koning Rosekraans Yes, this is the PC version and on latest F-19 version 435.04 had support for SB/Adlib sounds added
Guybrush Threepwood
Thank you, makes sense now. The copy I have came with my 486 and is probably version 435.01.
Superb flying by the way! I'll try your tactics to see if I make it through a mission on that difficulty
I bought, from STEAM, F-19 Stealth Fighter, I installed and tried it. I must add that I also own a version for AMIGA, bought about 25 years ago! I remember that I could do all the missions in every scenario, even at levels of "ELITE" opponents. In this recently purchased PC-DOS version, I found how impossibly difficult it was to get the same results. In particular the very high number of enemy fighters in flight and, in the most difficult levels (veteran or elite), already directed on my plane, even if I had not been tracked by any radar! At the "elite" level, although many devices can be implemented to avoid detection, sooner or later they are discovered and tracked. Well, in the version purchased by me on STEAM, from that precise moment, no less than three to five enemy planes fly at a time. If I can shoot one down, at least 3 of them will appear in its place! In the end, you can also shoot down 15 or 20 enemy planes but always having at least 2 or 3 behind to threaten you, and this for the rest of the mission. In particular in the Persian Gulf missions, like those in the video, already at the moment of take-off, almost on Kuwait City, there are already 3 enemy interceptors in aggressive patrolling! Obviously in such circumstances we can not resist for long. I also tried to hit the air bases, from which I hypothesized that the enemy planes could start, but it was useless. Always remains at least one enemy air base that, even very far from the battle site, always manages to send us an abnormal number of enemy aircraft. Now as the fuel is consumed much faster if you are engaged in the air duels, after about 10-15 minutes of these fights, you can find out how already more than a third of the fuel has been consumed, while you remain very far from hitting both the primary target that the secondary one of the mission. Hence the impossibility of completing any "elite" mission in any scenario. Do you think that, I tried for an entire afternoon to complete an "elite" mission, just in the Persian Gulf scenario, well until late at night, even if I changed many tactics, I could not have any positive result. Once discovered, it was always the end! Now, since I can see how all the aggression that I have experienced, in this video ... there just is not, I have to assume that it is different versions or ............. that I am a particularly unlucky person !!!
Of course it's going to the PC version. No console could ever play this. They weren't powerful enough. And now a days, they're to powerful for it.
I always wondered what the USAF back in the 80s thought of this game while the F-117 was operating in secret.
i played this as a kid in the early 90's
Did anyone ever manage to successfully destroy that submarine pen? I remember you had to use a particular type of missile and I could never get that thing to explode!
Woah, what a throwback
1991년, 내가 가장 좋아하던 DOS 게임.
학교 전산실에서 8086 XT PC, 집에서 내 80286PC에서 즐기던 그 게임. 게임 매뉴얼도 샀었지.
One of the funnest games I played as a young teen, even if it wasn't realistic (if you want a good military flight sim, try the Falcon series), but again, it was a lot of fun.
저 당시 내가 생각한 스텔스기가 딱 저 스타일이 맞는데... 예상도나 프라모델도 바로 저 모양이었고..
I didn't know you can view/display enemy data...
in 1986 went to a computer show to buy the parts to make a top of the line gaming computer just so I could run this game.
Alt-V turns off first engine sound, second press will turn off warnings and third will cancel all sounds. My best score was 1903 in Europe with Cold war Air-to-Ground mission. You are only credited flyinf over enemy territory, so avoid flying over water when possible. And you have to load camera and 3 extra tanks to reach real high score
I scored just as HIGH as Giglio. !!!
I loved this game....and all the others created by Microprose and also Spectrum-Holobyte (Falcon).
Did you use a joystick or keyboard for flying the plane?
keyboard
>BTW! Does anuone know how to turn darn "Altitude/Stall" Warning sound Off!?
Alt + V
EGAME.EXE can be copied from earlier version to turn off annoying low altitude pull-up warning sound in Realistic flight.
Ah the good old days of flight sims.
What a realistic simulator, I thought at the time
Pro Tip, to get a nice high score and the Medal of Honor if you dont't have it: Set to Persian Gulf, Cold War, Strike MIssions and Elite or Veteran opponents. Get airstrip mission. Land at airstrip. Taxi to end of airstrip. Leave and go sleep for the night. Come back. Fly rest of mission. Enjoy your massive score.
I had the model kit for the F-19 as a kid.. boy were we ever led astray about the true shape and design of the real stealth "fighter". Glad they never developed those rounded wings, wouldve handled like Flying Monkey Poo.
Excellent sim of the greatest fighter that never was...
F19 cuantos recuerdos!
Great job mate ! :-)
beautiful sound!
well i was played on 286 b&w
Hard to believe that the USAF used this as a training sim for their stealth pilots.
Played this on my old atari St, good sound though gameplay maybe not as good compared to other pc versions.
I played the heck out of this game.
Central Europe was my fav theatre and the handbook was awesome.
Good Times.
I miss this so much can you imagine if they remade this it would be insane.