I remember as a teenager saving money for this game for months and when I finally bought it I practically lived upstairs behind my PC even though it played like a slideshow on 486 DX2 66mhz. I thought the graphics looked photorealistic back then. Now I'm playing FS2020 in VR which is lightyears ahead of this. Who knows what I'm playing 20 years from now if I'm still alive?
I played on Pentium 133 MHz (16 Mb RAM) and S3Virge 2MB. It was slightly better. The new flight sim is amazing but F22 Lighting II was absolutely mind-blowing.
Still remember this game. And later on in the campaign there's the renegade F-117s to deal with (still scratching my head to this day how the hell did the bad guys get their hands on F-117s).
Lightning II had some of the best music of Nova's flight sims (2nd generation was just lacking besides Raptor, wtf), and 3 only some tracks were nice. Also the skirmish generator I wish they had kept for later ones. The mission choice range was also real nice, still haven't been able to beat the last mission to this day lol. Even then, a lot of details were very nice and surprising (if you even dare to just lock on Air Force One, the escorts will attack you).
Did ever get throttle control when you played it? I'm trying to get a Sidewinder 3D Pro I just purchased for this game to work but all axis are working except for the throttle. Edit: Nevermind, I just discovered the throttle slider only works within 60%-Afterburner range so I guess it works.
@@IconOfSin24148 Unfortunately, getting gameport to USB to work over Windows and DOSBox is too much of a hassle, so I run the joystick to the gameport on my audio card with a bare metal Windows 98 machine.
@@EJ205T Is this some incoherent, misused slang word now with new-age kids that don't know arcade is a noun? I'm so confused by it's use as an adjective! WTF is going on with these new kids??? In 1996, I played this CD-ROM Flight Simulator on my moms PC dude, and I never saw it inside any arcade, or any place with arcade game machines for that matter. This was indeed a great sim from a golden era!
@@Mr-pm3jp Sorry, I'm not an english speaker. And I'm 38. This game was not a sim at all. It had no avionics, flight model was simplest, damage model was just a "health bar", when 1% is OK, but 0% is crash. If we talk about level of sim in 1996, you can check A-10:cuba! Or even older Jane's sims, that are simple, easy, but have much more complexity in systems, weapons and damage simulation. F-22 Lightning II feels like 1990-1991 game with better graphics. I was dissapointed back then.
@@EJ205T Awesome comment! I see what you mean, I agree 100%. Sorry for being an a**hole! I haven't really played SIM's since this game, this was the last game that I used a joystick for lol. Played a little Ace Combat, mastered the Dodo in GTA3, did most my flying in Vice City and San Andreas LMAO! I remember 90's Janes though! I'll catch up with MSFS one day. Perfect English BTW! Cheers!
@@EJ205T Well, still this was called unofficialy sim (simulator), just not 100% realistic. We all called these games simulators, while arcade was something much much more faster (for example stargunner ... but that was 2D game). I know, what you want to tell , btw. For anyone expecting very realistic simulator, this was really dissapointament. But for masses, that don't want to mess with boring stuff, it was just "ok" ... far from arcade and action games, and casual player had really feeling, it is simlator. They tried to hit this balance, because it sold better then, than 100% realistic simulators. This genre was also called flight simulator by review magazines. At least in our country. Some were realistic, some were less realistic, but they all were miles ahead of pure action games, like... lets say terminal velocity, descent etc...
this game and its graphics blew my mind as a kid
This game and it's graphics blew my mind as an adult
I remember seeing screenshots of this sim in a PC magazine, back in the day. I thought it looked so lifelike and realistic. Like looking at a photo.
I remember as a teenager saving money for this game for months and when I finally bought it I practically lived upstairs behind my PC even though it played like a slideshow on 486 DX2 66mhz. I thought the graphics looked photorealistic back then. Now I'm playing FS2020 in VR which is lightyears ahead of this. Who knows what I'm playing 20 years from now if I'm still alive?
Do you recommend fs2020
I played on Pentium 133 MHz (16 Mb RAM) and S3Virge 2MB. It was slightly better. The new flight sim is amazing but F22 Lighting II was absolutely mind-blowing.
Still remember this game. And later on in the campaign there's the renegade F-117s to deal with (still scratching my head to this day how the hell did the bad guys get their hands on F-117s).
Still remember music of the second misson... I was here, Gandalf... 30 years ago...
I love this music. I had a demo of this game and I played the hell out of it. One of my first sims for sure. Now a proud DCS Pilot flying the F-14
Thaaaankx ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢
So nostalgic
novalogic or nostalgic?
Man I remember this game very well
Lightning II had some of the best music of Nova's flight sims (2nd generation was just lacking besides Raptor, wtf), and 3 only some tracks were nice. Also the skirmish generator I wish they had kept for later ones. The mission choice range was also real nice, still haven't been able to beat the last mission to this day lol. Even then, a lot of details were very nice and surprising (if you even dare to just lock on Air Force One, the escorts will attack you).
how do you play it today ?
@@EduLuckmann Dosbox plays it perfectly fine
Did ever get throttle control when you played it? I'm trying to get a Sidewinder 3D Pro I just purchased for this game to work but all axis are working except for the throttle. Edit: Nevermind, I just discovered the throttle slider only works within 60%-Afterburner range so I guess it works.
@@stravisly236 I didn't, sorry. I used keyboard mostly, then and now. Also good you were able to get it working, using a serial to USB adapter?
@@IconOfSin24148 Unfortunately, getting gameport to USB to work over Windows and DOSBox is too much of a hassle, so I run the joystick to the gameport on my audio card with a bare metal Windows 98 machine.
Another great sim from gold era.
It was arcade
@@EJ205T Is this some incoherent, misused slang word now with new-age kids that don't know arcade is a noun? I'm so confused by it's use as an adjective! WTF is going on with these new kids??? In 1996, I played this CD-ROM Flight Simulator on my moms PC dude, and I never saw it inside any arcade, or any place with arcade game machines for that matter. This was indeed a great sim from a golden era!
@@Mr-pm3jp Sorry, I'm not an english speaker. And I'm 38.
This game was not a sim at all. It had no avionics, flight model was simplest, damage model was just a "health bar", when 1% is OK, but 0% is crash.
If we talk about level of sim in 1996, you can check A-10:cuba!
Or even older Jane's sims, that are simple, easy, but have much more complexity in systems, weapons and damage simulation.
F-22 Lightning II feels like 1990-1991 game with better graphics. I was dissapointed back then.
@@EJ205T Awesome comment! I see what you mean, I agree 100%. Sorry for being an a**hole! I haven't really played SIM's since this game, this was the last game that I used a joystick for lol. Played a little Ace Combat, mastered the Dodo in GTA3, did most my flying in Vice City and San Andreas LMAO! I remember 90's Janes though! I'll catch up with MSFS one day. Perfect English BTW! Cheers!
@@EJ205T Well, still this was called unofficialy sim (simulator), just not 100% realistic. We all called these games simulators, while arcade was something much much more faster (for example stargunner ... but that was 2D game).
I know, what you want to tell , btw. For anyone expecting very realistic simulator, this was really dissapointament. But for masses, that don't want to mess with boring stuff, it was just "ok" ... far from arcade and action games, and casual player had really feeling, it is simlator. They tried to hit this balance, because it sold better then, than 100% realistic simulators.
This genre was also called flight simulator by review magazines. At least in our country. Some were realistic, some were less realistic, but they all were miles ahead of pure action games, like... lets say terminal velocity, descent etc...
Is there a mission editor for this sim like F-16 MRF also from novalogic?
IIRC mission editor was introduced with F-22 Raptor (2nd game in the series).
Anyone know where I could find the manual for the game?
archive.org/details/f-22-lightning-ii-manual
Is there a way to play F-22 Raptor (1997) on Virtual Box?
it works on Windows 10 with dgVoodoo2.
Where to get dgvoodoo2?
@@diegodiaz1834 dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/
Is it avaliable for Android?
I don't think so.
Exactly as I remembered while playing 20 years ago: "Vento calmo. Livre decolagem. Contate controle de saída em 301.7"(Portuguese version) 🥲😁