Aero Fighters 3

The game's fighter pilots come from different countries. Each one has a different storyline that unfolds during the gameplay. Also, depending on what country they serve, they get respective currency (or point) bonuses. Each pilot can expand their weapons and collect power-ups for extra large onslaughts.

The object of the game is to fly from country to country and destroy all opposition around the world before flying into outer space to combat the phantom menace responsible for the terrorism. One enemy shot destroys the player's plane and releases a special power-up that the plane may have been carrying. If the player's final ship is destroyed, all power-ups and extra bombs are released and can be collected if the player continues or a second player is still active and vice-versa. However, on the final mission in outer space, the player is forced to start again at the beginning of the space mission unless two players are active.

Aero Fighters 2 and Aero Fighters 3 (Sonic Wings 2 and Sonic Wings 3) were sold exclusively as NEO*GEO Cartridges. The first Aero Fighters (Sonic Wings) was sold as a JAMMA conversion kit.

Ths game uses a Neo-Geo marquee instruction card and an optional monitor bezel instruction card. The game may also be found with a seperate marquee for any single game Neo-Geo upright cabinet.

This game is known as Sonic Wings 3 in Japan.

The game's hardware is SNK's cartridge-based NEO*GEO system. The main board uses a Motorola 68000 processor clocked at 12 Mhz, a Zilog-80 processor clocked at 4 Mhz to handle the Yamaha 2610 Music Synthesizer and ADPCM sound ICs.