GAMEPLAYS – The Jetfighter

There is certain charm in some “ancient” video games. They make you go a trip back in time where the graphics, and the gameplay were very “archaic” for today’s standards but still manage to be fun and entertaining.

One of those game I found out about thanks to the suggestion of a viewer on Instagram is F-14 Tomcat, a combat flight simulation video game for the MSDOS platform released in 1989, or 1990 according to some sources.

There is also an older version of the game released in 1988 for the Commodore 64 but I haven’t tried it yet.

F-14 Tomcat Gameplay

The following is a gameplay of the game that I published on The Jetfighter’s YouTube channel. All those gameplays are included in its own playlist for everyone to watch, share and enjoy.

F-14 Tomcat Download

Despite the age of this game, it’s still pretty easy to find on the Internet. The following is a list of sites where you can download the installation files and give this game a try on your own PC.

Wings Over Vietnam: multiplayer gameplay

By The Jetfighter

On December 4, 2023

In GAMEPLAYS

Wings Over Vietnam: multiplayer gameplay

I found out about the Strike Fighters saga playing the base game Strike Fighters 2. For me, this game offers a perfect combination between hard core simulation and arcade style combat flight gameplay and, even though the game has been around for a while (it was released in 2008), has a great community of players and modders that has improved, expanded and kept the game alive for more than a decade.

But, despite being an excellent flight simulation videogame, Strike Fighters 2 has a big flaw: its total lack of multiplayer capabilities. Something that a game like this desperately needs and has even been asked to its developer but with no answer for it.

A multiplayer past

Since the game I knew first has a number two in the name, I wanted to play the beginning of the saga since the same community of players and modders I mentioned earlier let me know that those first games did have the multiplayer option available.

Unfortunately, those games were not compatible with the new versions of Windows since they were released in 2004, the times of Windows XP. Fortunately, as time passed by, I found out that there is a way to make those games to work on modern PCs. Process I shared in this page a couple of posts ago.

Wings Over Vietnam Multiplayer

Just as Strike Fighters 2, this first saga has different chapters/upgrades, one of those chapters/upgrades is known as Wings Over Vietnam. Once I got it to work on Windows 11, I wanted to test the so-called multiplayer this first games had and how good or bad it is.

I tried to find someone to test it over Internet with no avail. So, due to the lack of voluntaries I set up my own LAN network at home to make a multiplayer test flight. Long story short, it worked!

In the video bellow I show how I set up the multiplayer session on both PCs and its performance.

LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2: My first mission flying the MIG-29S

By The Jetfighter

On November 22, 2023

In GAMEPLAYS

LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2: My first mission flying the MIG-29S

Since my PC cannot run DCS, a friend of mine sent me some information about this flight simulation game called “LockOn”. As I researched more about this title, I found out that this game is actually the “father” of DCS, developed by the same company: Eagle Dynamics. As soon as knew this I immediately had to get my hands on this sim, so here we are.

In this video I’m flying my favorite Russian fighter jet, the MIG-29. Despite being a game released almost two decades ago I have to say that this game is still a kiss ass simulator. And the best of all is that there is still a community of players creating MODS for it and flying online missions from time to time.

I’m working to build a community around The Jetfighter so I recently opened a Discord Server to have a place to meet and communicate to other flight simulation fans around the world.

You’re all invited to join and flight with me in this adventure, click on the following link to join: The Jetfighter’s Discord Server.

Flight simulation old and new

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F-14 Tomcat for MSDOS (Activision, 1989) – Gameplay