F29 Retaliator

aka: F-29 Retaliator

Released

1989 on Amiga

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Publishers

Developers

Digital Image Design Ltd.

Moby Score

7.7

#4,109 of 157K

Critics

80% (24)

Players

(33)

Ranking

#101 on Amiga
#168 on Atari ST
#704 on DOS

Collected By

38 players

Genre: Simulation
Perspective: 1st-person
Vehicular: Flight / aviation
Vehicular combat
Setting: Contemporary

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Description official descriptions

This flight simulator puts you in the cockpit of either the F-22 or the fictional F-29.

Choose from four campaigns with increasing difficulty: a training campaign in Arizona plus real war campaigns in the Pacific, the Middle East and in Europe.

Each campaign includes a variety of missions involving both dogfights and air-to-ground attacks.

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Credits (Amiga version)

9 People (7 developers, 2 thanks)

Produced by	Digital Image Design Jon Woods
Concept and Design	Martin Kenwright
Lead Programmer (Amiga)	Phillip Allsopp
3D Programming	Phillip Allsopp Russell Payne
3D and Static Graphics	Martin Kenwright
Additional 3D Graphics	Joanne Drury
Music and Sound	Matthew Cannon
Manual by	Martin Kenwright
Thanks to	Michael Flint Gary Bracey

Trivia

Add-on

ZERO magazine (Issue 12, October 1990) had a Special Mission that required the original game to play. In it, the player took control of a Retaliator in the Arctic Ocean, and ended up dogfighting with Russian MiGs, as well as alien ships -- looking suspiciously like escapees from Battlestar Galactica (the original, kids) -- from the team's next release, Epic.

Bugs

This game is widely regarded as being quite bugged. One amusing example I'm aware of is that, even after you eject, you still have control of the plane, so it's actually possible to hit yourself with it.

F22

The (real) F22 on the box covers looks nothing like the (fictional) F22 that is actually in the game. Also, contrary to what many believe, the F29 does exist (though not as a fighter), as the X29 experimental aircraft and, in contrast to the above mentioned F22, the F29 and the real X29 look the same.

The Amiga and Atari ST box art, as well as the title screen image in all versions, is based on Lockheed Martin concept art. It's a painting by Syd Mead made in 1988 of the then secret F22 fighter plane, aka the Advanced Tactical Fighter.