Product Description

Soar into the wild blue yonder with this stunning flight sim/action game from Nintendo! Choose one of six aviators and tackle increasingly difficult assignments to win your wings: Beginner's Class, Class A, Class B and, finally, Pilot Class. Winning your Pilot Class wings will require you to successfully navigate 24 tests. Basic vehicles include the Hang Glider, Rocket Belt and Gyrocopter. Score well on your way to a license and you can open up four bonus games. Parachute in Sky Diving, sprout wings and fly like a bird in Birdman, and bounce high in Jumble Hopper. You can even try to hit a distant bull's eye as a human Cannonball! To earn your wings, you'll have to master takeoffs, landings and staying aloft. While in the air, keep close track of your fuel and altitude as well as wind conditions. For advanced licenses, you'll have to follow tricky routes and bring home photographic proof. For example, the Pilot Class license for the Rocket Belt requires you to fly through a twisting cavern and guide a bouncing Rocket Ball down a steep mountainside. On the way to winning your wings, you'll have to battle updrafts, clouds and blizzards. Action fans can squeeze off a few rounds off rockets against Meca Hawk, a robot rampaging through Little States Island. The action ranges from torrid jungles of Crescent Island to the ice floes bobbing off Ever-Frost Island. Little States Island is packed with famous U.S. landmarks, including Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon. The N64's powerful processors fill the lush backgrounds with plenty of moving objects, including hot-air balloons, spouting whales, smoke rising from an oil refinery and a soaring space shuttle. Excellent transparency effects make you feel that you're flying right through clouds.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9669 in Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• ESRB Rating: Kids to Adults
• Platform: Nintendo 64

Customer Reviews

A classic from the 90s
I remember this game quite well... It was 1 of 2 launch games for the Nintendo 64. I was only in 6th grade when the 64 launched, and I was spoiled back then so of course I got the system on day 1. However - I was unable to get Super Mario 64 (it was the harder game to find of the 2 at launch, and seeing how there were only 2 games... it was almost impossible to find either stocked at a store). So I ended up getting Pilot Wings at launch instead.. I was a little bummed due to the fact that Mario was what I was looking forward to (who wasn't?) but as i popped in pilotwings I realized this was another gorgeous looking game that was a lot of fun to play! Blowing things up with rockets sticks out as a memory for me. I remember spending hours just cruising around the maps in the different vehicles just to explore and see everything. There was a neat feature to make the maps snowy (rainy?), foggy, dusk, day or night. The soundtracks was also very memorable and i kinda wish i had the soundtrack on CD now a days to spark those memories of when i was a kid. A week or two later, i finally got mario 64 - but pilotwings didnt disappear.. i remember playing it for almost a year after launch. Classic game for a classic system