The F-14's Representation in Other Games

[ironroad]

Please feel free to add-on to this as you like:

1980s

 

After Burner

After Burner II

Top Gun

 

Top Gun: the Second Mission

 

 

Sonic Fury (Action Max VHS Game)

 

 

 

1990s

 

G-Loc: Air Battle

 

Lock On

 

Tomcat Alley

 

Top Gun: Fire at Will (PC)

Edited December 1, 2018 by ironroad

[ironroad]

1990s Continued...

Top Gun: Fire at Will Playstation(PS1)

 

Fleet Defender: F-14 Tomcat

 

Jane's U.S. Navy Fighters

 

Jane's USNF 97 (U.S. Navy Fighters 97)

Edited December 1, 2018 by ironroad

[ironroad]

Hot dayum it was glorious time to be alive in those days!

[Gunslinger22]

Feel defender was amazing, everything from the briefs to mission design was so emmersive! Hopefully HB will deliver those feeling and much more!

[Deano87]

Hot dayum it was glorious time to be alive in those days!

 

I honestly think its an amazing to be alive RIGHT NOW.. we're just about to get an incredibly realistic version of a F-14... AND we have VR goggles!:D:D:D

[javelina1]

I honestly think its an amazing to be alive RIGHT NOW.. we're just about to get an incredibly realistic version of a F-14... AND we have VR goggles!:D:D:D

 

 

^^^ THIS! indeed. :thumbup:

[Alicatt]

it also featured in Argonaut Games's Birds of Prey

 

Had many happy hours playing that on the Amiga and the F14A+ could supercruise at Mach 2 :D

[Nexus-6]

1990s Continued...

Top Gun: Fire at Will Playstation(PS1)

 

Fleet Defender: F-14 Tomcat

 

Jane's U.S. Navy Fighters

 

Jane's USNF 97 (U.S. Navy Fighters 97)

You forgot one.

 

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[Dehuman]

 

How I spent my teenage years.

[VZ_342]

Jet Fighter 3

 

[Eldur]

This was one of my faves back then:

 

 

And the most recent representation has been this which I'm still flying every now and then:

 

 

Time for Heatblur to take the throne now

[macidcrook]

I spent more time in US Navy fighters than any other game. I wore out 2 thrustmaster Pro FCS playing that game.

[DGC338]

 

Also the original jet fighter with carrier quals and all

 

Edited December 2, 2018 by DGC338

[Nanne118]

There is also a vehicle that appears to be heavily stylized on the F-14 in the upcoming Just Cause 4. I'll post some footage when I get my hands on it (in a couple of days)

[Cann0nF0dd3r]

LOVED Topgun: Fire at Will when i was a kid! Still have my CDs for it too!

[mwlue]

Feel defender was amazing, everything from the briefs to mission design was so emmersive! Hopefully HB will deliver those feeling and much more!

 

Me second that! Fleet defender seems to be best cat sim back in those days. MISS IT!

[Top Jockey]

Indeed a nostalgic thread @ironroad.

 

... there's also:

 

- Aerosoft's F-14X for FSX ;

- F-14A & B for FlightGear.

[Top Jockey]

My "path" along with stuff related to the F-14 Tomcat, here in the country most to the west of Europe :

 

In the early 80's, there was "ZX Spectrum".

This was the PC early days here, and for this computer I don't recal any software specific about the Tomcat.

 

(Only in late 80's or early 90's saw the world famous TOPGUN movie.)

Early 90's - got TOPGUN for Game Boy.

 

1995 or '96 a cousin offered me : TOPGUN: Fire at Will !, for my 486 PC.

Besides the movie, this PC game was the main reason for my growing interest in the F-14.

 

Around this time, also tried Afterburner I at arcade galleries at the malls.

Late 90's tried: Afterburner II for Sega Saturn.

 

Early 2000's bought the outstanding Tomcat Alley for PC (which I never forgot once I saw it for Sega Mega Drive the first time.)

The full motion vídeo, along with the fictional missile aiming reticule, really attracted me to this format.

 

Also tried Ace Combat 5: Squadron Leader for PlayStation 2.

 

2012 or so, tried Flight Gear's F-14.

Then Strike Fighters 2: North Atlantic came out.

Even being a "light sim" this one was also very good... and was the ONLY reason why I updated to Windows 7 at the time.

 

The last was Aerosoft's F-14X for FSX.

This was the most feature complete and realistic sim I've played relating the F-14, but understandably lacked the combat aspect.

Also bought the Mile High Sims NAS Miramar scenario for FSX, and VRS weapons tacpack.

 

 

About that F-14's "flagship" for PC gamming - Fleet Defender:

 

Unfortunatelly when it came out in the 90's, I've never seen it here in Portugal ... if I did, my school achievements at that time, would probably have been worst...

 

And that Gentlemen, was my "path".

Edited December 6, 2018 by Top Jockey

[macidcrook]

 

This is what i remember when seeing the Top Gun game for sale in the store, and why i never bought it. I saw the photo shopped double stores and thought it would be a lame game haha i was still very happy with US Navy Fighters anyways

[VMFA117_Poko]

Couple more I remember:

Edited December 3, 2018 by Poko24

[aileron]

That Strike Fighters 2 looked impressive. Wow. Bummer I didn't know about it.

[streakeagle]

That Strike Fighters 2 looked impressive. Wow. Bummer I didn't know about it.

 

Until Flaming Cliffs 3 was patched to have professional flight models, the Strike Fighters series was more realistic aside from slightly more simplified avionics and a terrain engine the looked dated from the time the game was originally released in 2002. The Strike Fighters 2 series remains the best combat flight sim for 1950s to 1980s air combat considering its unmatched plane set, historical terrains/campaigns, and the unbelievable number of free user addons available.

 

But when Strike Fighters stopped development / patches in favor of simple mobile games at the same time that DCS World started adding the MiG-21, F-86, and UH-1, I made the jump. I can only hope that DCS will someday have the terrains with ground objects and to some extent the plane set of the Strike Fighters series, particularly Vietnam and Israel as well as Korea and Germany. But DCS World moves very slow. At least there is an F-4E planned somewhere over the horizon.

 

If the Heatblur F-14 is at least as good as the Viggen, then the F-14A is going to be one of the best DCS World modules and make all previous games featuring the F-14 look like crap. I am very much looking forward to flying an early F-14A with tempermental TF30 engines. Challenging but rewarding to learn, fly, and fight.

[Nexus-6]

If the Heatblur F-14 is at least as good as the Viggen, then the F-14A is going to be one of the best DCS World modules and make all previous games featuring the F-14 look like crap.

I wouldn't worry.

[Top Jockey]

Are you people training your carrier landings ?

 

Thank you DOSBox 0.74 !

 

Learned how the thing works, and yesterday used my TOPGUN: Fire at Will! CD's from 1996 !!!

(Was a little pain to get the joystick to work correctly though.)

[Top Jockey]

These are from the unbelievable :

 

Mile High Sims's NAS Miramar scenario (circa 1986), for FSX.

(For those who like the immersion feeling, that's probably very well spent money.)

 

That's a pity I didn't keep more photos from the base / hangars / flight line, and I have not FSX neither the tons of stuff installed now.

 

And no, I wasn't trying to kill Maverick - just to show the point the developers went:

The film character is included in the scenario, in the road at the end of Runway 24R...

 

edit:

 

The aircraft itself is obviously not related with the scenario developers, it's the Aerosoft's F-14X for FSX.

(The most realistic portraying of the Tomcat I've seen so far, systems and external model wise.)

Edited December 4, 2018 by Top Jockey