Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling · 1990
Wings of Death
Published by Thalion · Developed by Eclipse
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Information
- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling
- Language
- Machine Language
- Controls
- Joystick
- Players
- 1
- Resolution
- Low
- Programmer(s)
- Rosocha, Marc, Moss, Tim
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Malmqvist, Niclas, Grohe, Michael, Simon, Erik, Schmitz, Günter
- Game design
- Rosocha, Marc
- Musician(s)
- Hippel, Jochen
- Sound FX
- Hippel, Jochen
- Year
- 1990
- Publisher
- Thalion
- Developer
- Eclipse
- Licensed from
- -
- Box/Instructions
- English, French
- License
- Commercial
- ST Type
- ST, STe Enhanced, 0.5MB
- Number of Disks
- 2, Double Sided
Votes / Statistics
Rating: 7.9/10 · Votes: 197 · Downloads: 468 · Hits: 4,622
Screenshots (10)
Cover Art (4)
Article (2)
Niclas Malmqvist interview
Tips (1)
Trivia (3)
Hardware
Supports STe DMA sound
Supports 1, 2 or 4Mb of RAM
Supports audio cartridge
Graphics
Features up to 144 colours on-screen simultaneously (options or static screen)
Features up to 26 colours on-screen simultaneously (in-game)
Sound
Features digitized title soundtrack at 12.1KHz on ST
Features partially digitized in-game soundtrack at 6.25KHz on STe
Features partially digitized in-game soundtrack at 6.1KHz on ST
Features digitized sound fx at 6.25KHz on STe
Features digitized sound fx at 6.1KHz on ST
Book / Magazine Reviews (2)
ST Format · November, 1990 · Rating: 81%
Joystick (France) · Decembre, 1990 · Rating: 81%
Comments (5)
PeyloW — 30 Jul 2025
Brilliant graphics and sound, and game play to match! This game is a major reason why I did not finish coding demos in my teens, I ended up playing this for high score ;).
Megalomaniac — 1 Oct 2022
Phenomenal. Not only superb gameplay with varied enemy waves and an interesting power up system (having 'bad' tokens to avoid in the heat of gameplay is an unusual twist), but also a technical marvel - pushes the ST close to its limits while also exploring the STe's potential before most people did. Proof that, for vertically scrolling shooters at least, the ST could match that other computer.
Sut — 12 Dec 2016
Console quality shooter. Graphics, sound and gameplay all awesome. You'd be happy to show this shooter to your Mega Drive and SNES owning friends.
Simon Sunnyboy / Paradize — 1 Nov 2009
Gameplay wise the best shooter on the ST - technically Lethal Xcess is better. WoD is still a marvellous blast - go grab it if you can!
Zweckform — 20 Mar 2009
This game was outstanding. Smooth scrolling, Digisound lots of sprites, no slowdowns. Great presentation and graphics. Was developed in Germany btw.