''Jetfighter'' is a series of 3D combat flight simulation computer games that was developed by Velocity Development starting in 1988. The player would fly a combat jet aircraft in the skies against enemy forces. The game boasted 3D graphics that were cutting-edge at the time of the game's release, and used real-world terrain. The games seldom sold well because they occupied an uncomfortable middle ground of game design - too much

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for action game fans, as they realistically emulated actual combat aircraft, but too simplistic for the hardcore sim fans, who always preferred games more along the lines of the

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series. The series ended after the commercial failure of ''Jetfighter 2015.'' The later games had support for

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Voodoo cards to run natively in DOS. Jetfighter II was produced before the winner of the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition was announced; the programmers chose to emulate the

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"Black Widow II" as the winning aircraft rather than the eventual winner, the YF-22 (which "entered service" in 2004 as the F-22 Raptor).

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In the United States, ''Jetfighter IV''s jewel case version sold 270,000 copies and earned $2.6 million by August 2006, after its release in January 2002. It was the country's 75th best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006. Combined sales of all ''Jetfighter'' computer games released between January 2000 and August 2006 had reached 450,000 units in the United States by the latter date. In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave ''Jetfighter: The Adventur'' two-plus stars out of five ("still an entertaining product"). ''Jetfighter II'' received three stars ("contemporary graphics and play value").

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* {{moby game, id=-group/jetfighter-series, name=The ''Jetfighter'' series 1988 video games DOS games DOS-only games 2K Games franchises Take-Two Interactive franchises Combat flight simulators Video game franchises introduced in 1988 Video games developed in the United States Windows games Windows-only games

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