230 · Stealth ATF
Stealth ATF is a flight simulator in which you pilot a F-117A, a.k.a. Nighthawk in several missions.
In every mission's beginning and ending the player has to take off and land the plane respectively, from a side view. Failing to land after completing the target objectives means failing to succeed in mission and thus having to replay it.
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Longplay
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
F-35
Top Gun Gameplay
Imagineering
Disney Imagineering
Show notes
- Something Deadly in the Air
- NES Longplay
- Introductions
- Overview
- The player completes mission briefings in the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft; controlling every aspect of the military flight experience from exiting the runway and battling other fighters while airborne to landing the plane after the battle is over
- Gameplay
- Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
- UI
- Take Off
- Fighting
- Limited missiles
- Damage to aircraft
- Altitude
- STEALTH MODE
- Landing
- Controls
- Different Runways
- Some levels will have a very long runway on solid ground, while others may have a very short one on a carrier out in the ocean.
- A crash means you have to redo the whole mission
- 3D
- Altitude is crazy high yet the ground looks imminent
- Because it’s just a horizon line there’s not much to help
- Variety of missions
- Top Gun
- Select Missiles
- Less loose in the cockpit
- More landing instructions
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- Published by Activision, but the developer Imagineering (Not to be confused with Walt Disney Imagineering) was mostly making 2600 games before this. This was their first NES game
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- Ghostbusters II (NES)
- Heavy Shreddin' (NES)
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