Project Stealth Fighter

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In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave the title two stars out of five, stating that F-19 and F-117 had superseded it.^[4] Compute!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]

• Project Stealth Fighter at MobyGames
• Project Stealth Fighter at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
• Project Stealth Fighter at Lemon 64
• Project Stealth Fighter Manual on Steam