DID is back with an update to the classic F-22: Air Dominance Fighter published by MicroProse

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First released in December 1997, Digital Image Design’s F-22: Air Dominance Fighter is a classic combat flight sim that was nominated “PC Simulation Game of the Year” and “Simulation Game of the Year” losing out narrowly to Jane’s Longbow. F-22 is back with a surprising announcement that MicroProse is publishing the classic title, re-released on Steam, with some updated features to keep it running in the modern era. Let’s have a look!

Flying the F-22

F-22: Air Dominance Fighter is a classic 1990s mix of reasonably deep simulation of sensors and systems (for the time) combined with easy controls and realistic scenarios. The sim has 80 missions set in the Red Sea region putting you both in the seat of the F-22 as well as giving you the ability to command the air war as AWACS commander.

This re-release is comes with some updates that include 6-degrees of freedom head tracking, achievements, mod support, and the ability to choose between original 320×200 resolution or up to 4K resolution with modern anti-aliasing. Widescreen is also supported! The total number of updates is listed as 100 by the developer.

DID also reports that they are using this release to test the waters and see if other classics might be worth updating as well. DID was responsible for a number of well regarded titles back in the day including TFX (1993), EF2000 (2001), and F-22: Total Air War (1998).

The re-release is planned to come out on Steam on February 17. No pricing is available yet.

10 responses to “DID is back with an update to the classic F-22: Air Dominance Fighter published by MicroProse”

  1. sdsc0rch Avatar
    sdsc0rch

    EF2k was my “first” : )

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  2. CanadaOne Avatar
    CanadaOne

    Wasn’t my favourite, but I did enjoy it. Curious to see what they’ll charge. Will this be $10 or $15 or will it be a $30 or $40 game? If I was to get it, it would have to be almost at a disposable price. Hopefully there will be a demo.

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  3. crucislancer Avatar
    crucislancer

    This is awesome news! Hopefully the price is right. I would love it if they did the same to EF2000, that was a favorite at the time.

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  4. Peter Avatar
    Peter

    My first real combat flight sim on PC, I played back in 1999. I were very young and didn’t understood english or air war a lot. But I still had fun with all the possibilities in the game.
    Would like to give it a try again. I tried since years tu run my copy on modern Computers. Even in a virtual machine I have sound problems and crashes. 😦

    Now they make it playable again. I’m happy..
    Maybe EF2000 also soon. 🙂

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  5. Bfr Avatar
    Bfr

    I’m surprised they didn’t just go straight to TAW, which was basically like version 2 of F22 ADF. If this is priced right I might have a look for old times sake.

    I’ve actually still got the original box, manual and media for TAW!

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    1. bfr Avatar
      bfr

      Oh and an editorial note. The original DOS era (with a sort-of under Windows re-release) of ‘EF2000’ was mid 90s and not 2001. The DID Eurofighter themed title in 2001 (which was ‘Eurofighter Typhoon’ I think) was a whole new game about the same plane and was also pretty disappointing from memory. The mid 90s original is an all-time classic and was pretty ground-breaking at the time. Hopefully if they do a port to modern hardware its the earlier one and not the 2001 one.

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      1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
        ShamrockOneFive

        You’re correct! When I read the summary I must have conflated the two. I’ll have to fix that.

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  6. Forlorn Avatar
    Forlorn

    I have very fond memories of DID’s EF2000. Cruising through Norway’s fords was a great experience.

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  7. Aapje Avatar
    Aapje

    Something ‘new’ for those who can’t afford new hardware.

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  8. Petrel76 Avatar
    Petrel76

    I remember DID’s F-22, but it was Novalogic’s F-22 I liked more, mostly because much better terrain. Of course, DID’s game had better cockpit and better modeled avionics, but everyone kept detecting and tracking your plane like it wasn’t stealth at all.

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