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Wings of Fury is a scrolling shooter, with some combat flight simulator elements, written for the Apple II by Steve Waldo and released in 1987 by Broderbund. The player assumes the role of a pilot of an American F6F Hellcat plane aboard the USS Wasp in the Pacific during World War II. It was released in 1989 for the X68000 and in 1990 for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Amiga, and DOS. A Game Boy Color version was published in 1999.

Wings of Fury
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Developer(s)	Steve Waldo[1]
Publisher(s)	Broderbund[1]
Platform(s)	Apple II, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy Color, NEC PC-9801, X68000
Release	1987[1]
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

The game is a horizontally scrolling shooter set over a number of World War II missions. In each mission, the player must protect an aircraft carrier from attacks by Japanese planes. The goal is to defeat the Japanese by destroying enemy bunkers, turrets and barracks on a series of islands and killing enemy soldiers either with bombs or by machine gun. The weapons to complete these objectives, besides machine guns, are a limited number of bombs, rockets and torpedoes. On some missions, the player must also sink Japanese vessels, such as destroyers, battleships, and aircraft carriers. The player has a finite amount of fuel and munitions, which can be replenished by returning to the carrier. The player's aircraft can be destroyed by accumulated damage from enemy fire or by crashing into the terrain.

The combatants are reversed for the Japanese Sharp X86000 home computer version released by Brøderbund Japan Inc. The player's airplane is Japanese and the enemies are Americans.[2]

Reception

Computer Gaming World stated that the game had "some of the best action graphics pulled out of the Apple in recent memory", and concluded that Wings of Fury was "an exciting, memorable game for anyone remotely interested in action games".[3] The game received 4 out of 5 stars in Dragon.[4]

Reviews

• Zero (Oct, 1990)[5]
• Raze (Dec, 1990)[6]
• Amiga Format (Nov, 1990)[7]
• Commodore User (Feb, 1990)[8]
• Tilt (Mar, 1990)[9]
• Zzap! (Nov, 1990)[10]
• Commodore Format (Nov, 1990)[11]
• Power Play (Nov, 1990)[12]
• Computer and Video Games (May, 2000)[13]
• Amiga Power (May, 1991)[14]
• Amiga World (Nov, 1990)[15]
• Amiga Computing (Dec, 1990)[16]

References

External links

• Manual at apple2.org
• Wings of Fury can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
• Wings of Fury at MobyGames

На других языках

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[de] Wings of Fury

Wings of Fury ist ein horizontal scrollendes Shoot-’em-up-Computerspiel.

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- [en] Wings of Fury

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[ru] Wings of Fury

Wings of Fury (рус. Крылья ярости) — компьютерная игра в жанрах action и аркада. Впервые выпущена для Apple II в 1987 году; адаптирована под DOS в 1989 году; в 1990 году вышли версии для Amiga, Amstrad CPC и Commodore 64; в 1999 году вышла версия для Game Boy Color (в ней сильно упрощена посадка и взлёт самолёта с авианосца).

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