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Aero Fighters, known as Sonic Wings in Japan, is a vertically scrolling shooter originally released in arcades in 1992 by Video System.

This game uses basic shooter mechanics of the SHMUP genre of video games. Pressing button 1 fires normal weapons; this can be upgraded by collecting P or the rare F items, though the maximum power level has a hidden ammo count, after which the player will return to the previous power level. Pressing button 2 launches a powerful special attack; uses are limited to how many B items the player has collected (every life starts with two). Some ground enemies will drop score items when destroyed; they appear as the currency of the selected character’s nation. By default, players start with three lives, and can acquire one more at 200,000 points.

Aero Fighters is famous for its large cast of characters, unheard of in 1992. Each pair of characters represents one of four nations. The two-player sides may only select the four characters given (one for each nation). In a two-player game, only a single nation can be chosen.

Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, known in Japan as Kaiketsu Yanchamaru (The Wonderful Yanchamaru), is an arcade game developed and published by Irem in 1986, and was later published outside Japan by Data East in 1987.

One day in Feudal Japan, Kid Niki, the most radical of ninjas, is training at his Ninja School. Suddenly, a passing bird is struck down by an arrow and lands at Niki’s feet. Attached is a note explaining that Niki’s girlfriend, Princess Margo, has been kidnapped by the evil Stone Wizard. With the cry of “Will help you!” Niki bursts through the wall of his school and sets off on his quest to save Margo.

Double Dragon is a 1987 beat ’em up video game by Taito.

Double Dragon was one of the first successful beat ’em up games, becoming Japan’s third highest-grossing table arcade game of 1987 before becoming America’s highest-grossing dedicated arcade game for two years in a row, in 1988 and 1989.

This machine is currently next door in Pizza & Donair Hub Cornwall on coin play.

This is an interesting early 80s pinball machine and the first solid-state game with a three-level playfield. Earn “Elektra Units” to play in the lower playfield.

Legends of Valhalla, designed by Riot Pinball, is the 4th American Pinball title. Legends of Valhalla is an immersive pinball machine which brings the player into the world of the Norse gods and other Viking mythology. The game is a standard body design, utilizing three flippers offering a variety of fast and unique shots, including 3 metal ramps. The game rules have a variety of objectives that the player must either start or complete as they work their way through the game attempting to not only reach the wizard mode Valhalla, the majestic hall of dead Vikings, but also advance to the final epic battle known as Ragnarok, the super wizard mode.

Snow Bros. is a single-screen platformer similar to Bubble Bobble, where the players must eliminate all enemies on the screen in order to proceed to the next screen. Players can shoot snow at enemies to stun them and turning them into large snowballs, which the player can roll around or kick away to defeat other enemies.

This machine is currently next door in Pizza & Donair Hub Cornwall on coin play.

Battlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat game released for arcades in November 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a tank which is attacked by other tanks and missiles, using a small radar scanner to locate enemies around them in the barren landscape. Its innovative use of 3D graphics made it a huge hit.

With its use of three-dimensional vector graphics, the game is considered to be the first true 3D arcade game with a first-person perspective, the “first big 3D success” in the video game industry, and the first successful first-person shooter video game in particular, making it a milestone for first-person shooter games.