Wings of Fury
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Description

Wings of Fury is an action game with some minor simulation aspects, in which you are the pilot of an American F6F Hellcat plane. The setting of the game is the Pacific during World War II.

It is your job to defeat the Japanese by destroying enemy bunkers, machine gun nests and barracks on a series of islands. Barracks and gun nests can be bombarded with regular bombs, while you'll have to use rockets to take out the concrete bunkers. After a successful bombing run, return to mow down the Japanese soldiers with your machine guns. You also have to sink Japanese battleships with torpedoes and engage in dogfights with enemy fighter planes.

You start each mission by taking off from an aircraft carrier, which you'll have to protect from assaults by Japanese torpedo planes. Whenever you run out of fuel, bombs, rockets or machine gun ammo you can replenish those by returning to your carrier. Your carrier is also the place to repair damage to your plane.

The Gameboy Color version of Wings of Fury has a toned down violence level. You no longer mow down Japanese soldiers with your machine guns, instead you bombard jeeps & trucks. Also missing in this version are the Japanese torpedo planes and the small 1st-person view window. New are some extra manoeuvres for your plane like a barrel roll and a review of your ammo consumption after each mission. Using less ammo than allocated gives you bonus points.

Trivia

In October 2008 a Windows remake of the game by fans and in full 3D was released under the title Wings of Fury 2.

The disk copy protection for the Apple II version was implemented by Roland Gustafsson. It is an "18 sector" protection. There are 6 large sectors on each track that contain the equivalent of 3 sectors worth of data from a normal Apple II Dos 3.3 disk (6*3=18).

On February 29, 1992, Wings of Fury, except the GBC version, was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

There is a japanese version from Brøderbund Japan for the X68000 computer. You fly with a Zero against US troops. The same game principle.



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