Project Stealth Fighter

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Project Stealth Fighter
Single-player

Project Stealth Fighter is a

16-bit
systems with much improved graphics.

Gameplay

Takeoff before a night mission (C64)

In the game, the player take on the role of a fictional fighter pilot flying missions of varying difficulty over four geographic locations:

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!"[3] In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title two stars out of five, stating that F-19 and F-117 had superseded it.[4] Compute! in 1988 called the game "a superlative flight simulator". It praised the graphics, stating that they improved on those of the company's F-15 Strike Eagle. The magazine concluded: "If you're to have only one flight simulator in your library, let it be this one ... Project: Stealth Fighter is Microprose's best".[5] The Commodore 64 version's review in Zzap!64 said that the "Project Stealth Fighter is excellent, and sets new standards to which other must now aspire".[6] ACE stated the game as certainly enjoyable and the rating for C64 version is 863 out of 1000.[7]

Project: Stealth Fighter was awarded the

Origins Award for "Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1987".[8]

The game was nominated for the

Golden Joystick Awards '88 in the category "Best Simulation - 8 Bit".[9]

A port to the ZX Spectrum version was first advertised in 1988 prior to the game being renamed for the 16-bit releases.[10] By the time it was published late 1989, it used the F-19 Stealth Fighter title in-game but was still packaged as Project Stealth Fighter.[11] A review in Your Sinclair called it "the best Speccy flight sim to date".[12]

Both the Spectrum and Commodore 64 versions were subsequently reissued as F-19 Stealth Fighter[13][14] in the same packaging as the 16-bit versions.[11][15]

In late 1990, the combined sales of F-19 Stealth Fighter across four platforms took the game into the UK Top 20 All Format games chart.[16]

References

  1. ^ Game review, Zzap magazine, Dennis Publishing, issue 47, November 1989, page 16
  2. Newsfield Publications
    , issue 35, March 1988
  3. ^ Brooks, M. Evan (December 1987). "Project: Stealth Fighter". Computer Gaming World. p. 26.
  4. ^ Brooks, M. Evan (January 1994). "War In Our Time / A Survey Of Wargames From 1950-2000". Computer Gaming World. pp. 194–212.
  5. ^ Bobo, Ervin (February 1988). "Project: Stealth Fighter". Compute!. p. 51. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  6. ^ Scan
  7. ^ "Project Stealth Fighter". ACE (4): 60, 61. January 1988.
  8. ^ "The 1987 Origins Awards". The Game Manufacturers Association. Archived from the original on 2012-12-16.
  9. Future Publishing
    : 62. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  10. ^ "Project Stealth Fighter – Coming Soon For Your Spectrum". Crash. No. 57. Newsfield. 22 September 1988. p. 55. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  11. ^ a b "Project Stealth Fighter Also known as F-19 Stealth Fighter". Spectrum Computing. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Project Stealth Fighter". Your Sinclair. No. 47. Dennis Publishing. 10 October 1989. p. 16. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Spectrum review: F-19 Stealth Fighter". Crash. No. 73. Newsfield. 25 January 1990. p. 118. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  14. ^ "F-19 Stealth Fighter – Spectrum". The Games Machine. No. 28. Newsfield. 8 February 1990. p. 54. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  15. ^ "Project Stealth Fighter - Also known as F-19 Stealth Fighter". Lemon64. Kim Lemon. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  16. ^ "The Gallup All Formats Top 20". Computer and Video Games. No. 107. EMAP. 16 September 1990. p. 65. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

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