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Aero Fighters (1992)

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AERO FIGHTERS - RETRO Games For Family Fun (1-2 Player Co-Op)

ARCADE CLASSICS
Let me just start with Arcade Classic, this game is one of the best Retro Games out there. Aero Fighters which is also known as Sonic Wings in Japan, is the best in the genre of vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game which was originally released by Video System in 1992 and it was then ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. This Game was the first in the Aero Fighters series, and a successor to the 1991 Turbo Force.

This game uses the basic of shooter mechanics. Pressing button 1 lets your aircraft fire it's normal weapons; all weapons can be upgraded by collecting P or the rare F items, though the maximum power level has a hidden ammo count, after which you will return to the previous power level. Pressing button 2 allows you to use a powerful special attack; uses are limited to how many B items you've collected (every life starts with two). Some ground enemies will drop score items when destroyed; they appear as the currency of the selected character's nation. By default, you start with three lives, and can acquire one more at 200,000 points.

This game was very famous for it's large cast of characters, unheard of in 1992. Each pair of characters represents one of four nations. The two player sides may only select the four characters given (one for each nation). In a two player game, only a single nation can be chosen.

Country Player 1 Player 2
USA Blaster K. "F/A-18 Hornet" K. Bishop "F- 14 Tomcat"
Japan Hien. "FSX" Mao. "F-15 Eagle"
Sweden Kohful Viking "AJ-37" Tee-Bee10 "JAS 39 Gripen
U.K. Villiam P. "AV-8 Harrier II" River White "Tornado IDS"

The game has seven stages divided into two parts. The first three stages are selected randomly from a group of four, with one for each character's nation; however, a character will never go to its nation's stage. The second four stages are fixed. After beating all seven stages, you see the character's ending, then play much harder versions of those stages, after which the game truly ends.

An emulated version of the game was released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2

Aero Fighters arcade flyer

Developer(s) Video System

Publisher(s)
JP: Tecmo (arcade)
JP: Video System (SNES)
EU: Phoenix (PlayStation)
JP: Hamster Corporation (PS2)
NA: Mc O'River (Arcade, SNES)

Designer Shin Nakamura

Composer Naoki Itamura

Platform(s) Arcade, Super NES, PlayStation 2
Release
1992

Genre Shooter game


Mode(s) Single player, 2 player co-op

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