| F-19 Stealth Fighter | |
|---|---|
 DOS cover art | |
| Developer(s) | MicroProse |
| Publisher(s) | MicroProse |
| Designer(s) | Sid Meier |
| Programmer(s) | Andy Hollis Sid Meier Jim Synoski |
| Artist(s) | Max D. Remington III Murray Taylor |
| Composer(s) | Ken Lagace |
| Platform(s) | DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, PC-98 |
| Release | 1988 (DOS) 1990 (Amiga, ST) 1992 (PC-98) |
| Genre(s) | Air combat simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
F-19 Stealth Fighter is a combat flight simulator developed and released in 1988 (PC DOS) and 1990 (Amiga and Atari ST) by MicroProse, featuring a fictional United States military aircraft. It is the 16-bit remake of the 8-bit game Project Stealth Fighter, which was released for the Commodore 64 in 1987. It was also ported to the NEC PC-9801 in Japan only, and the DOS version was re-released on Steam distribution platform in 2015.
F-19 Stealth Fighter was developed before the public unveiling in 1988 of the F-117 Nighthawk attack aircraft – which the video game sought to represent – and carried over the focus on the fictional F-19 from Project Stealth Fighter, based on the 1986 F-19 model kit released by Testors. Although an aircraft selection screen offering the real F-117 was added, MicroProse's rendering of the optional "real" jet was based on the deliberately vague 1988 press photo of the aircraft and had distinctly wrong, stubby and wide proportions.
Critically acclaimed, the game was followed in 1991 by Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0, which finally removed the old, fictitious aircraft design and instead offered only a new, much more accurate model of the real F-117.