Aero Fighters, the Video Game by Video System

Type of the machine : Video Game
Aero Fighters © 1992 Video System.

A superb vertically scrolling shoot-em-up in which the player chooses an ace fighter pilot from a selection of 4 countries (USA, Japan, Sweden and Britain) and takes to the skies to destroy enemy jets, boats, helicopters, gun emplacements and huge end-of-level bosses. Features colorful, detailed 2-D graphics and a good level of challenge.

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 1024

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 (FIRE, SPECIAL WEAPON)

This game is known in Japan as "Sonic Wings".

Red Rabbit from "Rabio Lepus" (also known as "Rabbit Punch") makes a cameo appearance in this game. Just check out Mao Mao's ending and you'll see it.

In Kowful's and T.B.'s joint ending, you can see plenty of "Turbo Force" arcade machines.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to Japanese characters.

Kelly Flewin holds the official record for this game with 224,500 points on August 12, 2006

Soundtrack album releases :
Sonic Wings (PCCB-00118) (21/04/93) [Pony Canyon/Scitron]

There's 6 different endings, depending on how you play.

1. Aero Fighters (1992)
2. Aero Fighters 2 (1994)
3. Aero Fighters 3 (1995)
4. Sonic Wings Limited (1996)
5. Aero Fighters Assault (1997, Nintendo 64)

Staff : Shin Nakamura, Ogawa Hyone, Armored Cruiser, Wataru Yamazaki, Alice Itoh, Tako Bekku, Neko ikeda, Hikihara, Manbow, H. Motono, K. Yamamotoya, H. Hino, You-Chan, M. Tsukada, Kazzo, Y. Fukuda, Y. Nakanishi, Naoki Itamura, Masato Arikawa, Soushi Hosoi, M. Sakakibara, Hironobu Urata

Consoles :

Nintendo Super Famicom (1993)

Game's rom.
Machine's picture.