Ludography
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1995 · NMK · Arcade · Shooter

P-47 Aces

A one or two player shooter game developed by NMK and published by Jaleco Ltd. in 1995. As in the original, you control an airplane scrolling from left to right shooting at lots of enemy airplanes. This game has excellent explosions.

Released
1 March 1995
Platforms
Arcade
Genres
ArcadeShooterWorld War II
Developers
NMK
Publishers
Jaleco
Series
P-47
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Action

About

P-47 Aces is a 1995 horizontally scrolling shooter arcade video game developed by NMK and published by Jaleco. It is the sequel to P-47: The Phantom Fighter, which was released earlier in 1988 on multiple platforms. Taking place after the events of the first P-47, players assume the role from one of the four fighter pilots conforming an elite squadron sent by the United World Armies taking control of airplanes to make a dent against the enemy on battle. Its gameplay involves destroying waves of enemies, picking up power-ups and new weapons, and destroying bosses.

It ran on the Mega System 32 hardware. An upgraded version titled P-47 Aces Mark II was released on exA-Arcadia in arcades on September 29, 2022.

Media

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

P-47 Aces is a horizontal-scrolling shooter game similar to its predecessor, P-47: The Phantom Fighter, where players assume the role of one of the four pilots from an elite squadron sent by the United World Armies taking control of their respective airplanes with their own unique abilities through eight increasingly difficult levels that take place across multiple countries around the world, each with a boss at the end that must be defeated to progress, in an effort to make a dent against the enemy.

Certain enemies carry icon-based power-up items that can be picked to increase the aircraft's firepower such as bombs and missiles. Getting hit by enemy fire or colliding against solid stage obstacles will result in losing a live, as well as a penalty of decreasing the aircraft's firepower and once all lives are lost, the game is over unless players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing. A new addition to the sequel is the hyper system, which increases the plane's overall power to its maximum status after continuing. In addition to the single-player mode, the game also features a two-player cooperative multiplayer mode.

Development

P-47 Aces' soundtrack was scored by then-NMK members Akira Hirokami, Kazunori "HIDE-KAZ" Hideya, Manabu Namiki and Sizlla Okamura. In a 2011 interview, Namiki stated Hideya was the game's main composer and that he wrote three songs in MIDI but did not perform a data conversion. Namiki also stated he liked the track for the night desert stage and planned to release the original version in the future. The title was released in Japanese arcades by Jaleco in March 1995 for the Mega System 32 board.

The game was also showcased in North America by Jaleco during the 1995 ACME show. On April 27, 2011, an album containing music from the title and its predecessor titled JALECO Retro Game Music Collection was co-published in Japan by Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Team Entertainment. Another album titled SUPER Rom Cassette Disc In JALECO was also released by City Connection under their Clarice Disk label on September 25, 2013, featuring music from the game and its prequel.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed P-47 Aces on their May 15, 1995 issue as being the sixth most popular arcade game at the time.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Arcade1 March 1995Japan · Worldwide 31 December 1995

Editions and related releases

Included in
Polymega Collection Vol. 9: Strikers 1945
Derivative works
P-47 Aces Mk.II

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