Aero Fighters

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Aero Fighters

Developer(s)	Video System
Publisher(s)	Video System
Platform(s)	Arcade Game, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo
Release date	1992 (Arcade) 1993 (Super Famicom) 1994 (Super Nintendo)
Genre(s)	Shooter game
Mode(s)	Single player, 2 player co-op
Input methods	8-way Joystick, 2 Buttons
Arcade system	Main CPU : 68000, Sound CPU : Z80, Sound Chips : YM2610
Display	Vertical, Raster, 224 x 320 pixels, 1024 colors

Aero Fighters (known as Sonic Wings in Japan) is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up ("shmup") arcade game released in 1992 by Video System, ported to the Super Famicom in 1993 and the Super Nintendo in 1994, and spawned two sequels for the Neo-Geo, one for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn (both only in Japan) and a 3-D sequel on the Nintendo 64. The first sequel was notorious for multiple instances of Engrish, such as "I never thought I'd be frying over a jungle."

The player chooses one of four nationalities (USA, Japan, England, or Sweden), and proceeds to fly through seven enemy-laden stages, dodging massive amounts of enemy fire in order to reach the colossal end boss of each stage.

Player 1 can only play as the Player 1 Side fighters (F/A-18, FS-X, AV-8B, and AJ-37), and if a second player joins, player 2 must play as the second fighter for player 1's nation (F-14, F-15, JAS 39 Gripen, or Tornado IDS). The nationality restriction is removed in Aero Fighters 2.

Most of the creative team that worked on Aero Fighters created Strikers 1945 and other shmups for Psikyo.

Aero Fighters was ported over to the Super NES by Video System's U.S. affiliate; McO'River. This version was released on November 30th, 1994; in limited quantities, and is one of the rarest cartridges for the Super NES.^{[citation needed]}

1 Characters
2 Trivia
3 Series
4 External links

[edit] Characters

Blaster Keaton (F/A-18 Hornet)
Keith Bishop (F-14 Tomcat)
Hien (FSX)
Mao Mao (F-15 Eagle)
Kohful The Viking (AJ-37)
Tee-Bee 10 (JAS 39 Gripen)
Lord River N. White (Tornado IDS)
Villiam Syd Pride (AV-8 Harrier II)

[edit] Trivia

Red Rabbit from "Rabio Lepus" (also known as "Rabbit Punch") makes a cameo appearance in this game, at Mao Mao's ending and as a hidden playable character.
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.
Didier Sénéchal holds the official world record for this game with a maximum 524,400 points. [1]

[edit] Series

1. Aero Fighters (1992, Arcade; 1994, SNES)
2. Aero Fighters 2 (1994, Neo-Geo/Arcade)
3. Aero Fighters 3 (1995, Neo-Geo/Arcade)
4. Sonic Wings Limited (1996, Arcade) *Japan Only
5. Sonic Wings Special (1996, Sega Saturn*, Sony PlayStation#) *Japan Only # Europe/PAL and Japan
6. AeroFighters Assault (1997, Nintendo 64)