The player would fly a combat jet aircraft in the skies against enemy forces.

The later games had support for 3dfx 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 YF-23 "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).

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.

[14] In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave Jetfighter: The Adventure two-plus stars out of five ("still an entertaining product").