I loved this game so miuch, and what with the current presidential fracas surrounding the F-35-in which President Trump has forced Lockheed Martin to the bargaining table after suggesting Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet could do a better job-the find seemed timely. My parents dutifully keep anything that they think may be of nostalgic worth, and this was the jackpot, hidden in a box of other games next to my bed. I remember vividly the day my dad bought it for me for around £2 at a local boot sale. I found my old copy of the 1997 PC game Joint Strike Fighter a few weeks ago whilst staying at my childhood home over Christmas. So to me, a nine-year-old, budding pilot learning to fly in his bedroom in the late 1990s, getting the chance to strap into the cockpits of two relatively unheard of, cutting-edge fighter jets designated the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed Martin X-35 was a tantalizing prospect. F-19 Stealth Fighter for DOS, released in 1988, let players soar in what was essentially a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk before it was even revealed to the public (the F-19 was based off a Testor's model kit that predicted America's next stealth fighter), while NovaLogic's F-22 Raptor flight sim was released just one month after the fifth-generation fighter's first ever flight in September 1997. Video games are a befitting home futuristic technologies, and flight simulators in particular have a legacy of putting avid gamers in the pilot's seat of next-generation fighter jets.
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