Aero Fighters 1992

Is it still worth playing?

A 1992 vertically scrolling arcade shooter, known as Sonic Wings in Japan and ported to the Super Nintendo in 1993. Its cast is large, with pairs of characters from four nations. The main weapon fires on button 1 and is upgraded by P items and the rarer F items. On button 2 goes a powerful special attack, limited to the B items collected, with two at the start of each life. Some ground enemies drop score items shaped like the currency of your character's nation. Each player starts with three lives and gains one at 200,000 points. The route changes too. Of the seven stages in two parts, the first three are picked at random from four, and a character never goes to their own nation's stage. A route that changes with every run and every pilot still makes it worth starting another today.