U.S. Navy Fighters and Marine Fighters

I used to love playing flight simulations, and U.S. Navy Fighters, and the subsequent expansion Marine Fighters were favorites. They were packaged together as a single U.S. Navy Fighters Gold (still running under DOS), and remade into Jane's U.S. Navy Fighters '97 for Windows.

The original game featured a fictitious campaign in Ukraine flying mainly the F-14 Tomcat, while the Marine Fighters expansion added a campaign in the Kurile Islands and VSTOL aircraft such as the AV-8B Harrier II. The Windows version added a Vietnam campaign.

The flight models were highly authentic (for those days) and the graphics were good. Flying without a joystick was possible but not as enjoyable. And since not every player is a trained fighter pilot, the game throws in various "cheat" options to make the game easier to play.

I used to spend hours on end "flying" these missions, and now, with DOSBox, I get to relive those days again!