Aero Fighters is an Arcade, Vertical-scroll, Shoot ‘em up, Single-player and Two-player video game created by Video System and published by Tecmo. The game serves as the first installment in the series of Aero Fighters, and it is the spiritual successor to Turbo Force, released in 1991. The game relies on basic shooting mechanics and must use the simple controls to command his ship while shooting against enemies to destroy them while gathering P and F items to maximum his power level. The player explores the world from a top-down perspective, where the background moves from upward to downward, and the player may face a wave of enemies while earning points to unlock further content. There are seven stages split into two parts. The first three stages are chosen randomly from a team of four characters, with one for the nation of each character. However, the character will never go to the stage of its country. The last four stages are fixed, and the game will end when the player conquered all seven stages. The player moves to the harder version once completed all the levels.