Re: WINGS OF FURY - what was the best version ?

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <5p384356kuvuu5cep2arht69edr1tgi066@4ax.com>,
 Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote:

>     What is interesting is Broderbund had a 16-bit Apple IIGS
> version being worked on by Matt Crysdale and Robin Kar 
> (programmer/artist dual behind PBI's Alien Mind) but it was 
> never released. Would've loved to have seen this.

Oh, I would've loved to have seen that also.  Anyone we can coerce, 
threaten or bribe to get what they did finish for this?

>     Definitely one of my all time favorite games, I'll still pull 
> it out from time to time and play it on a real Apple II. :) Still 
> remember the cheat I discovered 20 years ago in the 
> Apple II version that allows you infinite lives. I think my 
> walk-thru is still floating around.

I don't remember an unlimited lives cheat, but I do remember an option 
that gave you nine lives.  You had to, in one of the scenarios, crash 
you plane onto a sinking Japanese ship and you'd get nine lives.  Wasn't 
always easy to time.

Greg B.

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