Hello, my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of Retro Dogfight! In this episode, we look at the seminial massively multiplayer flight sim series that began in 1998, the Air Warrior series! This includes:

• Air Warrior
• Air Warrior II
• Air Warrior III

I learned a LOT during this episode. For example, did you know this was the first graphical massively multiplayer game? Before this, it was all text-based games like popular multi-user dungeons, or MUDs. I had no idea!

Even though these were primarily multiplayer games, there’s a lot of single-player fun to be had here, and if you have patience, these can be very educational sims. There’s a lot to love here, and a lot of fun to discover. Air Warrior III, for example, has hundreds of missions and many campaigns, and is definitely worth exploring if you have an interest in flight sims covering the time periods these games cover.

Next time on the show, we’re gonna zag a bit and answer your questions! Thank you so much for sending in so many wonderful questions! We can’t wait to answer them!

Thank you so much for listening, and we hope you enjoy the show!

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Hello, my friends, and welcome to this episode of Retro Dogfight! This one is a doozy, my friends! Last episode, we looked at the much-beloved Amiga-only F/A-18 Interceptor by Robert Dinnerman. I wasn’t aware of this at the time, but he then went on to create the long-running and popular Jetfighter series, which spanned seven games over seventeen years!

So, we decided to take on the daunting task of not just talking about one game in the Jetfighter series, but the ENTIRE SERIES. This includes:

• JetFighter: The Adventure
• JetFighter II: Advanced Tactical Fighter
• JetFighter III
• JetFighter: Full Burn
• JetFighter IV: Fortress America
• JetFighter V: Homeland Protector
• JetFighter 2015

This series began in 1988, the same year as the F/A-18 Interceptor, and continued through 2005. It’s a fascinating time capsule of not only flight simming, but also video gaming as a whole, from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s, and all the technological changes that occurred during that fast and furious time in gaming. We had a lot of fun talking about this series. Hell, some of us even had fun playing the games.

Next time, we’re going to discuss a series that is important not just to multiplayer flight simming, but to multiplayer games as a whole: The Air Warrior series!

Also, as I mentioned previously, we’re doing a Q&A! We’re taking your questions — up until December 15th, 2025 — and we’ll then record an episode answering them to the best of our ability. It should be a fun change of pace that we hope you enjoy!

Thanks so much for listening, my friends, and we’ll see you next time!

*Cover provided by MobyGames

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Hello my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of Retro Dogfight! I first have to make an apology. There was a heat wave going on in Los Angeles as we recorded this, so I had a fan going directly on me. I tried my best to hide it, but you can hear it a little bit whenever I talk, so, apologies on that.

For the actual episode itself, welcome to the first episode in which we talk about only one sim! The legendary:

• F/A-18 Interceptor

Which came out in 1988 for the Amiga. Now, I never owned an Amiga, but both Chase and Denny were deep, deep, deep into the Amiga ecosphere, so not only are they very familiar with this sim, they take us on something of a deep dive into the history of the Amiga itself.

Now, never having owned an Amiga myself, I was fascinated to hear all this history about the meteoric rise and similarly quick fall of this legendary series of computers. I hope you find it as enlightening as I did.

Oh, and don’t worry, we also discuss the sim.

Next time on the show, we’re gonna kind of stay in-theme. F/A-18 Interceptor was conceived by a bloke called Robert Dinnerman, who went on to create and produce most of the entries in the long-running Jetfighter series.

So, in what will surely be a feat for us, we’ll be discussing the entirety of the Jetfighter series in the next episode. It’ll be a fascinating discussion, as it’s something of a time capsule covering late 80s and 90s flight sim gaming.

So, thank you so much for listening. We hope you enjoy the show, and we’ll see you next time!

PS. We’re going to record a Q&A! You can use the contact form or the Discord or the comment form to ask us questions!

*You can find the Amiga books we discussed here.

*Cover provided by MobyGames

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