Sonic Wings Limited (ソニックウイングスリミテッド) is a vertically scrolling shooter released in 1997 for arcades, running on the PlayStation-based ZN1 arcade board. It was released internationally in English as Aero Fighters Special.
Overview[]
Sonic Wings Limited is a streamlined, arcade-only version of Sonic Wings Special. Limited lacks Special's unlockable characters Kotomi and "The Man" (Captain Waffle/Gore), and Keaton appears only as Mecha-Keaton and not in his human form. Each character also only has one aircraft instead of a second unlockable one as in Special.
Pilots and Aircraft[]
Stages and Bosses[]
While Sonic Wings Limited's character endings are the same as in Sonic Wings Special, the stage selection process is more complicated. Rather than allowing the player to choose their route, their score at certain points in the game determines which stages and final bosses appear.
The first boss Gozan does not appear in any other Sonic Wings game. Most of the other bosses are present in Special. Finally, the background for the Kyoto, Japan, level is completely different than in Special.
| Stage | Location | Boss |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyoto, Japan | Gozan |
| A | Paris, France | Black Star |
| B | The Alps, Switzerland | Maxim Gorky |
| C | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Super XX |
| 4 | Ural Mountains, Russia | Vazeel |
| 5A | Aegean Sea (finish Stage 4 with less than 500,000 points) |
Novgorod |
| 5B | New York, USA (finish Stage 4 with more than 500,000 points) |
New Jersey, The |
| 6A | Red Square, Russia (finish Stage 5 with less than 550,000 points) |
MiG 31 |
| 6B | Panama Canal, Panama (finish Stage 5 with more than 550,000 points) |
U9999 Sturm Waffe G |
| 7A | Fight in Orbit (finish Stage 6 with less than 600,000 points) |
Gurabura Pandora |
| 7B | Another Dimension (finish Stage 6A with more than 600,000 points) |
Lar Do-ni Kai |
| 7C | Mars (finish Stage 6B with more than 600,000 points without losing a life) |
Osaru |
Releases[]
Arcade[]
Sonic Wings Limited was released in arcades in Japan, and internationally as Aero Fighters Special.
Soundtracks[]
| Games | |
|---|---|
| Sonic Wings Series | Sonic Wings · Sonic Wings 2 · Sonic Wings 3 · Sonic Wings Special · Sonic Wings Special for Android · Sonic Wings Limited · Sonic Wings Assault · Sonic Wings Reunion |
| Sonic Wings Related | Gapporin · Karate Blazers · Lethal Crash Race · The Mahjong Touhaiden · Ojanko High School · Power Spikes II · Rabio Lepus · Rabio Lepus Special · Spinal Breakers · SukuSuku Inufuku · SukuSuku Inufuku 2 · Tao Taido · Turbo Force |
| Other Video System Games | 3 On 3 Dunk Madness · F-1 Grand Prix · F-1 Grand Prix Part II · F-1 Grand Prix Part III · Hyper V-Ball · Pipe Dream · Power Spikes · Super Volleyball · Tail to Nose: Great Championship |
| Unreleased Games | Droppers · Metal Rabbit |