Play Flight of the Intruder Online

So Flight of the Intruder on NES is one of those old-school military flight sims based on the book—you're either piloting an F-4 Phantom or an A-6 Intruder across 12 missions. The cool (and kinda stressful) part? Each mission mixes up the gameplay. One minute you're wrestling with throttle controls trying to take off from a carrier in side view, the next you're in a chaotic dogfight against MIG-21s where missiles feel way too slow to reload. Then suddenly it switches to bombing runs where you're staring down at pixelated ships and praying your bombs actually hit. And landing? Forget about it—lining up with the carrier while managing speed and that finicky arrestor hook is brutal. It's janky by modern standards, but there's something weirdly satisfying about how much it makes you sweat the small details.