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Legendary Wings
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Item Condition
Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact cartridge. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Few NES shooters feel as mythic as Legendary Wings. You play a young soldier granted wings by Ares, the god of war, and sent to destroy Dark, an alien supercomputer that guided humanity for ages before turning on it. Capcom brought its 1986 arcade game home in 1988, and the NES version is widely considered the better of the two, with a brighter palette, a distinct color scheme for every stage, fairer enemy waves and a wider spread of bosses.
Most of the action is vertical-scrolling shooting with two attacks working at once, a forward shot for airborne enemies and bombs for targets on the ground. Collecting P tokens powers your gun up through several forms, including a twin laser and a trio of fireballs, and at full strength your warrior transforms into a flaming bird that can absorb a few hits. Take damage and you drop a power level rather than losing a life outright, which turns every stage into a tug of war between climbing back to full strength and protecting what you have.
Then the game changes shape. Fly into the mouth of the giant stone face midway through a stage and you are pulled into a side-scrolling Danger zone; destroy the twin statues at the end and you enter a palace section with a boss of its own. Hidden holes beneath ground turrets lead to Lucky areas stocked with points, power-ups and hearts that restore continues. The bosses are pure 8-bit Capcom strangeness, from a fire-breathing dragon that swoops in figure eights to a grotesque brain battleship that launches eyeballs, and they return angrier as the five stages wear on.
A second player can take wing alongside you (the heroes are Michelle Heart and Kevin Walker), and co-op turns the vertical stages into a proper aerial assault. For NES fans who already know Gradius and 1943, Legendary Wings is the Capcom shooter that rewards curiosity with secret rooms and sudden genre shifts, a blend of shoot-'em-up and side-scrolling exploration that few games of its era attempted.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Capcom
- Genre
- Shooter, Platformer, Arcade
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
The NES port of Legendary Wings (Aresu no Tsubasa, "The Wings of Ares"), a fantasy-themed shoot-'em-up game released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in 1986. The player takes control of a young soldier equipped with magical wings who must save the world from a malfunctioning supercomputer. Legendary Wings is set in a distant future where an alien supercomputer named "Dark", which has been helping human civilization achieve a new state of enlightenment since ancient times, has suddenly rebelled against mankind. Two young warriors are given the Wings of Love and Courage by the God of War Ares in order to destroy Dark and ensure mankind's survival.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayLegendary Wings on NES
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Legendary Wings
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