You start of with a plane, which has infinite bullets and dodge enemy fire while shooting them down.

You have your normal weapons which you can upgrade by grabbing power ups. The variety of power ups are the same; missles, turrets, extra guns and even guns which fire behind you. Nothing too fancy but adequate enough. There are two problems with this, one you can not power up the “extra's” like the rockets, you can only change them by grabbing a different power up and two, to change your power up type you have collect a different one on screen. This is annoying when you just know you need a backward firing gun power up but can't get it because there aren't any “power-up” ships around.

The levels all are of decent length and are reasonably challenging, consisting of a nice mix of small and weak foes, larger and more deadly ships and pods that release power-ups. While some of the bosses are very easy, a couple of them provided a fun challenge.

Aero Blasters is also known as Aeroblasters.

Aero Blasters has all the standard elements that you have come to expect. Starting you off over a pleasant looking cityscape (with some nice parallax scrolling), you are out to blast everything in sight. Your ship is equipped with a standard front-firing weapon, but destroying a power-up craft gives you a whole range of add-ons that fly out of the wreckage at you. None of these are particularly impressive to look at, and some even seem like more of a curse than a blessing – so choose wisely.Also to help you is a power up meter at the top of the screen. When you hold down the charge button, this powers up the ship until you are able to release a quick flash of energy, destroying bullets and most of the smaller enemies in one shot.

One of my local pubs had an Aero Blasters arcade cabinet back in the early 90's and I pumped plenty of pocket money into it whilst my parents drank the night away. Imagine my joy at discovering that this fine blaster had been ported to Sega's 16-bit box of tricks. I think the guys were pretty harsh on this game (although that is forgivable when you consider the volume of MD shooters being released at the time). It's a fine example of the genre, with nice colourful visuals, toe-tapping music and some original level ideas. The 'tunnel rush' sections are exciting and really get the heart pumping! Some of the boss designs are really first-class, and overall it's a very attractive piece of software. Granted, there are better shooters on the machine, but if you’ve sampled them all and want to add another blaster to your collection, I recommend you give Aero Blasters a chance.

Like Hellfire, Aeroblasters wasn't an arcade hit due to its rather unoriginal gameplay and uninspiring looks. But it has translated to the Megadrive well, and provides plenty of double player death and destruction. My only gripe is that it's easy to complete on the standard level because of the heap of continues, and to get a decent challenge you have to set the difficulty level to maximum. Still, if you're prepared to do that, Aeroblasters is a thoroughly enjoyable and good looking (some of the parallax-backgrounds are superb) blaster which is well worth adding to your collection – as long as you haven't already got several games of this type already.

Aero Blasters is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Kaneko in 1990, licensed to Namco. You control a fighter jet and shoot enemies, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance levels.

It was released for the NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 as Aero Blasters. The following year it was released on the Sega Genesis in the United States as Air Buster. As a console game this title had the distinction of being two player simultaneous. This was rare among side scrolling shooters on home consoles. All games in the Thunder Force, Gradius, and R-Type series were only 1 player on the home consoles.

Aero Blasters game does a few things to separate it from the pack. The most noticeable is that in stages four and five, you'll be in zero gravity. If you move to the right, you'll keep moving until you push the control pad/joystick in a different direction.

For the most part, the level design is pretty standard stuff, but there are a few exceptions. One of the best parts in the game is having to navigate through some very fast moving tunnels – especially if you missed the barrier power-up.