Hello my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of Retro Dogfight! I first have to make an apology. There was a heat wave going on in Los Angeles as we recorded this, so I had a fan going directly on me. I tried my best to hide it, but you can hear it a little bit whenever I talk, so, apologies on that.

For the actual episode itself, welcome to the first episode in which we talk about only one sim! The legendary:

• F/A-18 Interceptor

Which came out in 1988 for the Amiga. Now, I never owned an Amiga, but both Chase and Denny were deep, deep, deep into the Amiga ecosphere, so not only are they very familiar with this sim, they take us on something of a deep dive into the history of the Amiga itself.

Now, never having owned an Amiga myself, I was fascinated to hear all this history about the meteoric rise and similarly quick fall of this legendary series of computers. I hope you find it as enlightening as I did. 

Oh, and don’t worry, we also discuss the sim. 

Next time on the show, we’re gonna kind of stay in-theme. F/A-18 Interceptor was conceived by a bloke called Robert Dinnerman, who went on to create and produce most of the entries in the long-running Jetfighter series. 

So, in what will surely be a feat for us, we’ll be discussing the entirety of the Jetfighter series in the next episode. It’ll be a fascinating discussion, as it’s something of a time capsule covering late 80s and 90s flight sim gaming. 

So, thank you so much for listening. We hope you enjoy the show, and we’ll see you next time!

PS. We’re going to record a Q&A! You can use the contact form or the Discord or the comment form to ask us questions! 

*You can find the Amiga books we discussed here.

*Cover provided by MobyGames