Wing Force (ウイング.フォース) - 1993 A.I./ATLUS

Xyga · Joined: 05 Nov 2013 Posts: 7181 Location: block

Credit to Imhotep for mentioning that game some days ago, posting this link: http://postback.geedorah.com/extra/wing_force.htm and informing us that a pcb (maybe the only existing?) has surfaced from the arcade underworld and just sold on YAJ, hopefully it'll end up emulated one of those days.

It looks like your typical early 90's toaplan/raiden clone. Could be boring, could also be a little gem.

Below a collection of the very little info I could gather about Wing Force ウイング.フォース;

From the geedorah link;

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Little is known about this unreleased arcade game which was once announced and publicly tested by Atlus in Japan in 1993.
It is usually mentioned as a released piece in Japanese publications though there hasn't been evidence so far of it being ever marketed.
These publications also mention A. I. as the developer, which makes sense since they are the people behind Atlus' own Blazeon, released the year before.

From the YAJ auction

A tweet by Famitakun https://twitter.com/famitakun/status/670902593711771648

From http://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index ... Wing_Force

Skykid · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 17538 Location: Planet Dust Asia

Wonderful!

Done some fine research there, thanks for sharing the assets. It's always amazing to see something once lost and forgotten suddenly unearthed. Fingers crossed for a MAME dump.

Xyga · Joined: 05 Nov 2013 Posts: 7181 Location: block

Oh by the way before it disappears, this is the text left by the seller on YAJ;

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アトラスが販売予定だった、A.I開発の没ゲーの "ウイングフォース"です。
1993年頃に作られた、普通ーな感じの2人同時プレイも可能な縦画面ボムシューです。

一度、ゲーメストに掲載されたっきりで、正式なリリースは無かったかと思います。

基本操作は1レバー2ボタンです。

JAMMAハーネスがあれば動作致しますが、元々開発中のボードらしく、配線図の類はありません。
※基板自体の写真を観て頂ければ判るかと思いますが、製品版ではあり得ないROMの配置になっています。
故に、若干取扱い辛かったりもします。

インストは恐らくロケテストで使われたと思わしき、カラーコピーの物が1枚付属致します。

注意：
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出品前にKIC`s-91＋RGBモニタにて動作確認を行いました。
※大昔にクリアまではプレイ致しましたが、バグも残ってる可能性に関しては何とも言えない所です

基本的にノークレーム・ノーリターンにてお願い致します。

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If our japanophile friends have a little time to kill maybe there are some more bits of info in it (?)

EDIT: one more bit found at neogaf http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=190497740 (from Electronic Gaming Monthly #45 April 1993)

Shou · **Posted:** Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:01 am

I will preserve it

rancor · Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 2798 Location: Tokyo

Will there be a "public" demonstration any time soon? :mrgreen:

Xyga · Joined: 05 Nov 2013 Posts: 7181 Location: block

Shou wrote:

I will preserve it

I was thinking "of course, who else?" :lol:

Congratulations for another great catch *pokemon theme playing in the background*

rancor wrote:

Will there be a "public" demonstration any time soon? :mrgreen:

Oh yes please, a recorded demonstration run with him as the player, I don't understand Japanese but he sounds really fun. ^^

monouchi · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 799 Location: Sweden

Congratz Shou.
I was also looking at this YJ auction and it didnt end cheap.
Game looks interesting.

Skykid · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 17538 Location: Planet Dust Asia

Shou wrote:

I will preserve it

I shoulda known.

PooshhMao · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 252

Looking forward to give this one a spin, even though 'done by the same guys who did BlazeOn' isn't all that awe-inspiring.

I love it when obscure arcade shmups surface like this; I'll even settle for Korean ones.

Definitely looks Toaplan-ish, Truxton in particular.

Anybody got any details what it plays like? Weapon systems? Gimmicks?

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3663

Blazeon is a pretty good game. Shame that too many people only know the crappy SNES version.

PooshhMao · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 252

Despatche wrote:

Blazeon is a pretty good game. Shame that too many people only know the crappy SNES version.

I wouldn't exactly call the arcade version 'good', apart from the intro sequence.

Dave_K. · Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 4550 Location: SF Bay Area

Shou wrote:

I will preserve it

Thank you! I'm glad I didn't try bidding on it.

Shou · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2016 7:54 am