nice review - one of the great flight sims from Microprose, i think they really improved on their AI with this one too, as i felt like the AI in some of hte older sims like F117A didnt really do too much to avoid being shot down - and perhaps that wasnt really the main emphasis of that game, but fligth defender, wow - i was just playing this with a thrilling 1 on 1 dogfight with a Mig 29 and it was on a knife edge with trying to get a better turn on it - it took a while but finally i did and success, but not without some damage.

That is true. We still lack those disk images.

I had the idea F29 Retaliator was a bit more arcadey than other simulators that came from Microprose or Spectrum Holobyte.
It seems to have been a really popular title for the Amiga, a machine i never had contact with, despite me being European and all, my first machine was a Timex 2048 computer (Portuguese made ZX Spectrum clone with several enhancements).
It's really easy to find a boxed copy of F29 Retaliator for the Amiga but not for the IBM PC and Compatibles / DOS.

It was my very first PC flightsim, and back then (i think year 1994 or 1995) i was very much impressed with it Its chief advantage is high responsiveness, unprecedented for a flightsim.

Never played it! However i'm looking for a boxed copy so i do have all intentions to try it out!

Very nice and detailed one. By the way, what do you think of F29 Retaliator?

Feel free to share anything about Fleet Defender (1994) here!