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Aero Fighters (Arcade/Video System/1992 Tornado IDS) [720p]

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Channel: Martinoz · 2013 · Gaming

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Aero Fighters, known as Sonic Wings (ソニックウィングス Sonikku~uingusu?) in Japan, is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game originally released in 1992 by Video System and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. It was the first in the series of Aero Fighters video games.

There are eight stages in this game. The beginning stages consists of randomly chosen areas from nations of unselected fighters (assuming those fighters have nations). If Rabio or Lepus is chosen, all four rival nation stages become playable. After completing all rival nation stages, there are four more stages. Player and team-specific endings occur after completing the first loop. After completing the 2nd loop, the ending consists of all pilot pairs giving a speech, with the second pilot in the last pair giving a cheat code.

The SNES version adds hidden boss attack and time attack modes, and two hidden playable fighters, Rabio and Lepus (from Rabio Lepus, known outside of Japan as Rabbit Punch). The Japanese version does not use kanji in text as in the arcade version. In the SNES version, there are two stage loops, and the order of rival nations is fixed. In the second loop, the game's difficulty increased, except in the very hard difficulty, where the second loop is easier.

Lord's White Thornado IDS is a different aircraft from the others. Same as AV-8B it's a slow airplane, that drops short-range bombs which are deadly against air enemies, especially great against flying bosses like in Japan or Russia stage. Bomb's burning time is quite long (2-3 seconds) and is a nice addition to clear area from pesky hostiles. On the drawbacks, it's bomb attack isn't strong, it only covers not so big area around Tornado IDS.
Note: There is no simple way to play as secondary planes, thus you must start a 2P game and play as a 2nd player.

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