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Exhibit - NATO Fighters
Release Date - 1991
Platform - PC
Developer - Janes Combat Simulations
Publisher - Electronic Arts
In collection - Yes
Comments - NATO Fighters by Janes Combat Simulations and Electronic Arts allowed you to fly over 100 military aircraft from the 1950's era to tomorrow's superfighters, including the F-117A Stealth Fighter.

NATO required Advanced Tactical Fighters to run. It has since been ported to Windows 95 (yay!) and released as part of Fighters Anthology (1998). (Check out my huge guide to these sims).

Player aircraft added to the Advanced Tactical Fighters lineup were:

• Eurofighter 2000
• F-16 Falcon
• Saab JAS 39 Gripen
• Su-35 Flanker

As well, you were now able to fly any aircraft in the sim - over 100 different types! This was the biggest line-up of flyable aircraft ever seen in a combat and has yet to be equalled.


Of course, to achieve this number, many aircraft shared cockpit art and there were a few boo-boos made in the aircraft data. I remember the F-111 having only 3,000 lbs of fuel as a notable gaffe... it actually holds 3,000 GALLONS ! (about 18,000 lbs)



Corrections to aircraft data and the ability to fly any aircraft had been available for a couple of years thanks to the work of 3rd party (fans) utilities that ran under Windows. (The sim ran in DOS).


Two dimensional bit-map soldiers, but soldiers none-the-less

Objects in the sim :
AAA and SAMs
Aircraft - Attack and Bombers
Aircraft - Fighters
Aircraft - Logistics
Aircraft - Reconnaisance
Aircraft - Rotary Wing
Buildings
Misc. Objects - MiG- Microwave - Moose
Ships
Vehicles - Armour
Vehicles



Crimean Peninsula
Graphics Preferences

Some of the other aircraft :


MiG-29 Fulcrum
Flying the MiG-21
B-1B Lancer

Links

A moving map display finally appeared in the cockpits of NATO Fighters. You could also download target info from AWACS, J-Stars and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft.

Examples of computer graphics: the 1990s

Graphics resolutions in the late '90s.


Texture Mapping 101

MiGMan's Fighters Anthology guide has over 200 pages describing how to fly in US Navy Fighters, Marine Fighters, Advanced Tactical Fighters and NATO Fighters.
It includes:

• Checklists covering the basics, air to air, air to ground and emergencies.
• Downloadable training missions
• An extensive campaign near the South China Sea, where you can fly both sides of the conflict in the F/A-18 Hornet, F-14 Tomcat and the Chinese Shenyang MiG-21.
• A guide to the Vietnam campaign from US Navy Fighters '97

Here: Fighters Anthology