Game Review - Aero Fighters (SNES)

Aero Fighters is an awesome shoot-em-up game from the company Video System. Released by Tecmo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in '92, the game was well-received and deemed awesome by virtually everyone who picked it up.

Aero Fighters is simply a classic. At this point, it's one of the best games that has seen the light of day, and it's honestly nothing special in terms of groundbreaking development; they simply didn't mess this one up with overcomplicated features! Aero Fighters is actually an on-rails-type shooter game; that is to say, the game scrolls downward while you "fly" upward, shooting enemies as you go. The player controls a selected plane and kills as many enemies as he or she can while avoiding being killed him or her self.

Aero Fighters has some cool graphics. Explosion animations are that classic punctuated lacking-in-proper-transitions graphic, with no flaws to speak of; they're simply nostalgic awesomeness. Enemies are all unique and not simple repaletes of existing baddies, and your ship tends to look pretty sweet; it's nice and detailed, down to the cockpit. The game itself has a cartoonish nature, but in a more-serious sense; it's not bad at all.

Aero Fighters has that classic shoot-em-up audio scheme. Most of the audio is some mash-up between rock and techno, very repetitive but pumping and mood-setting at the same time. It's like being in one giant boss battle-except it never gets old! The developers did a great job with the audio in this game.

Last but not least, I had a lot of trouble beating Aero Fighters, but that's part of the fun! The game never gets put down as a result-the replay value is simply amazing to me.

In closing, I'd give Aero Fighters one of the best reviews I've given any game-ever. After receiving the success it did on the SNES, it was ported to even the PS2-it was that great. This game has survived twenty-plus years as a title, and is still played by fans to this day. I wouldn't be surprised if there were flash versions available on the Internet by now! As with all of the underrated greats, this game gets a perfect five out of five in my book!