F-19 Stealth Fighter

F-19 Stealth Fighter is a combat flight simulator developed by MicroProse and released in 1988 for MS-DOS and 1990 for Amiga and Atari ST. Based on a fictional United States military aircraft, it is a 16-bit remake of Project Stealth Fighter released for the Commodore 64 in 1987. It was ported to the NEC PC-98 in Japan. The MS-DOS version was re-released on Steam in 2015. F-19 Stealth Fighter was developed before the public unveiling in 1988 of the F-117 Nighthawk attack aircraft – which the video game sought to represent – and carried over the focus on the fictional F-19 from Project Stealth Fighter, based on the 1986 F-19 model kit released by Testors. Although an aircraft selection screen offering the real F-117 was added, MicroProse's rendering of the optional "real" jet was based on the deliberately vague 1988 press photo of the aircraft and had distinctly wrong, stubby and wide proportions. Critically acclaimed, the game was followed in 1991 by Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0, which finally removed the old, fictitious aircraft design and instead offered only a new, much more accurate model of the real F-117.