Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers

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Name: Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers
Developer: Capcom

Year: 1986
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Capcom Classic

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [Fire|Bomb/Jump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers Description

The game is a vertical/horizontal scrolling shoot-em-up where you fly a winged soldier over a Greek mythos style landscape. Shoot and bomb the attacking enemies. The game play switches between horizontal platform and flying levels.

Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers was produced by Capcom in 1986.

Capcom released 228 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers was produced include Legendary Wings, Rush & Crash, Side Arms - Hyper Dyne, Speed Rumbler, The, Tatakai No Banka, 1942 (PlayChoice), Commando, Exed Exes, Ghosts 'n Goblins, and Gun Smoke.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

You start out flying vertically and must avoid or shoot and bomb enemies. You will come to a giant face and will enter its mouth unless you stay to the extreme right or left edges of the screen. Once you have entered the mouth the game switches to a horizontally scrolling level where you must shoot on-coming enemies. During these levels you can both shoot and jump as you make your way towards the exit.

Miscellaneous

This game is the Japanese version of Legendary Wings.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Scarce - There are approximately 5 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 3 of these machines are owned by our active Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers collectors. And of these, 3 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

CPU: Z80
SOUND: YM-2203

Trivia

The title translates to "Wings Of Ares." Presumably, the wings were given to the soldiers by Ares, the Greek god of war.

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