War of Aero

Jac2Mac · Post by **Jac2Mac** » Mon May 29, 2006 4:38 pm

Hey guys!

Has anyone ever heard of the game War of Aero? I played it several times in MAME and found it to be the hardest shooter ever created. In other words, it's very unfair to the point of absurdity and is very mean.

Thanks guys!

Eps · Post by **Eps** » Mon May 29, 2006 4:56 pm

You really need to stop posting individual threads for every shooting game you happen to come across, that don't say anything other than "Hi! I played this game!"

Edit: Never mind, after having read your reply on the Parodius topic I am fairly sure you are just a wind-up merchant.

1up · Post by **1up** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:37 pm

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:38 pm

Yeah, please stop it. There`s nothing to say against interesting, new, and insightful topics, but please try to say something in your posts that others can add something to.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:43 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:Hey dudes!

i palyd this wierd game called spece invayduz. is teh shite! anyone nows this one `? you shott upwards as teh enemys shott bakc crazy shoting aktion

bye bye people!

Are you talking about the original 1978 Taito arcade cabinet version of Space Invaders? That is retro shmupping at it's finest... ^_~

Although, a gaming session of Atari Games' Xevious arcade upright is more right up my alley. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:48 pm

I edited my original post but PCEnginefan already quoted it. Well, that wasn`t meant serious. I hope nobody thinks I write like this

benj · Post by **benj** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:03 pm

Hooray for the forum police!

Eps · Post by **Eps** » Mon May 29, 2006 8:49 pm

My patience only goes so far.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue May 30, 2006 1:50 am

benj wrote:Hooray for the forum police!

yes we need more low content posts and threads thank you for your insight

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Tue May 30, 2006 1:56 pm

Guys! Stop the hate.

"You´ve got to pray just to make it today!" -MC Hammer

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:40 pm

HATE FTW

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:00 am

Landshaaaaaaaaaaaark! WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!?

Skyknight · Post by **Skyknight** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:24 am

Eps: "Wind-up merchant"? I don't understand the term...

Curious thing about War of Aero, in any case--it seems to be the only game that its company ever published. I have to wonder what that signifies...

Post by **nZero** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:46 am

Skyknight wrote:Eps: "Wind-up merchant"? I don't understand the term...

He's trolling, in other words.

Eps · Post by **Eps** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:28 pm

nZero wrote:
Skyknight wrote:Eps: "Wind-up merchant"? I don't understand the term...
He's trolling, in other words.

Yep, sorry about that - 'WUM', as it's sometimes abbreviated on the Net, is mainly only used in British forums, as it's a bit of slang from this side of the pond.

D · Post by D » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:17 am

Jac2Mac wrote:Hey guys!

Has anyone ever heard of the game War of Aero? I played it several times in MAME and found it to be the hardest shooter ever created. In other words, it's very unfair to the point of absurdity and is very mean.

Thanks guys!

Just include links and pictures next time, that'll calm their nerves (and mine

)

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:11 am

Anybody here notice the similarities between the game and Image Fight?

Skyknight · Post by **Skyknight** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:13 pm

All I know is, this is the ONLY thing that Yang Chen ever produced. I can't even find non-game products produced by them! It does, admittedly, make me suspect as to what happened, and what they were...

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:18 pm

PooshhMao wrote:Anybody here notice the similarities between the game and Image Fight?

Yes, almost exactly like Image Fight. Wonder if it's just a massive hack, like what Comad was known to do.

Skyknight · Post by **Skyknight** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:29 am

I haven't played either one, but I did notice that the games' vessels look suspiciously similar...

Maybe if someone charted DIFFERENCES between the two, besides the obvious enemy pattern/appearance shifts, we could figure this one out.

However, combine this with...lack of productivity...and perhaps the lack of playtesting (how DOES War of Aero manage to be difficult, exactly?), and it really does look like Yang Cheng Electronic was just a fly-by-night operation.

maco · Post by **maco** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:49 pm

Skyknight wrote:(how DOES War of Aero manage to be difficult, exactly?)

The only thing I found hard was trying to kill enemies that take multiple hits using a Saturn USB pad, so I used auto-fire instead.
If I used an arcade stick I could tap the buttons faster, but I’ve not modded my stick for PC use yet.

Ko.oS · Post by **Ko.oS** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:43 pm

http://nmt.cside.com/woa/aero.htm

not quite sure wtf it says, but oh well

takohiko · Post by **takohiko** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:38 pm

One thing I got from that link is it was actually developed by Allumer, a Japanese company responsible for (among other things) quite blatant R-type knockoff "Rezon". So, that's at least two Irem games they've cloned. Even the company name is somewhat similar in Japanese, "airemu" vs "arume". Hell, maybe it was even a bunch of ex-Irem staff working under pseudonyms.

Skyknight · Post by **Skyknight** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:52 am

I've only been able to find two other Allumer games. The first is Blandia, a fighting game that seems to draw quite a bit from Gladiator (well, Taito WAS involved with Rezon...). The other is Mad Shark, which looks like a cross between Sky Shark and Raiden. What do the rest of you know about these two titles?

maco · Post by **maco** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:14 pm

Ko.oS wrote:http://nmt.cside.com/woa/aero.htm

I didn’t know about the secret at the beginning of stage 2 mentioned on that site, I had found the one further along in the same level though.

If anyone wants to see the first loop cleared, I made an inp for MAME available here.
It should work on any of the newest versions of MAME, if not I mention which version I used on the link above.
It’s not perfect and I had no interest in playing the second loop.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:58 pm

Whoa a no miss clear of the 1st loop is pretty damn good!

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