Sonic Wings Limited (Japan)

Arcade Video game published 29 years ago:

Sonic Wings Limited (c) 1996 Video System.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : SPU (@ 16.9344 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SPU (@ 16.9344 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Sonic Wings Limited was released in July 1996 in Japan. It is a remix of the three earlier Sonic Wings games.

This game is known in Taiwan as "Aero Fighters Special" and it's completely in English.

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

There are five random last bosses in the game, two for the "Fight in Orbit" stage, two more for the "Another Dimension" stage and one for the "Mars" stage. In the "Fight in Orbit" level, the most common one is Gurabura, a large UFO. The rarer one is Pandora, a skull inside a rocket. In the "Another Dimension" level, the most common one is Lar, a black sphere with an eye. And the rarer one is Do-ni Revision, a tiny tank. In the "Mars" level, the last boss will always be Osaru, the giant monkey.

There is a total of 59 endings in the game. Each of the 12 individual characters and 6 possible teams have three different endings depending on what last level you chose as your destination, for a total of fifty-four endings. There are also five bad endings if you let the last bosses escape.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Select your next stage:
Finish Stage 4 with less or more than 500,000 points to go to "Aegean Sea" or "New York".
Finish Stage 5 with less or more than 550,000 points to go to "Red Square" or "Panama Canal".
Finish any Stage 6 with less than 600,000 points to go to "Fight in Orbit".
Finish Stage 6 "Red Square" with more than 600,000 points to go to "Another Dimension".
Finish Stage 6 "Panama Canal" with more than 600,000 points to go to "Mars".

- SERIES -

1. Sonic Wings (1992, ARC)
2. Sonic Wings 2 [Model NGM-075] (1994, ARC)
3. Sonic Wings 3 [Model NGM-097] (1995, ARC)
4. Sonic Wings Limited (1996, ARC)
5. Sonic Wings Assault [Model NUS-NSAJ] (1997, N64)

- STAFF -

Staff : H. Furukawa, M. Arano, Armored Cruiser, K. Yamamotoya, Hiroshi, Kazuo.A, Manbow Yokoyama, Oh! Kawara, Daapo, Kawauso, Sugibo, Basara, Hoso-Q, Oba, Paff

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Sega Saturn (1996, "Sonic Wings Special [Model T-26402G]")
Sony PlayStation (1996, "Sonic Wings Special")

- CONTRIBUTE -

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