Wings of Fury 1987

Is it still worth playing?

Broderbund's 1987 scrolling shooter, made by Steve Waldo for the Apple II, in which you fly an American F6F Hellcat from the USS Wasp over the Pacific during World War II. Missions scroll horizontally. In them you protect your aircraft carrier from Japanese planes and attack bunkers, guns, barracks and soldiers on islands, and some ask you to sink destroyers, battleships and carriers. Everything you carry runs out: machine guns are backed by a limited stock of bombs, rockets and torpedoes, and fuel and ammunition are finite, so you return to the carrier to refill them. Accumulated damage or a crash into terrain destroys the plane. Supplies that run out still turn each mission into a trip planned between the carrier and the target today.