What platforms is Aero Fighters 3 on?

Aero Fighters 3 was released on Arcade, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo MVS, Neo Geo CD.

When did Aero Fighters 3 release?

Aero Fighters 3 was first released on October 1, 1995.

Aero Fighters 3

Oct 1, 1995ShooterArcadeNeo Geo AESNeo Geo MVSNeo Geo CD

Aero Fighters 3 — frequently asked questions

What platforms is Aero Fighters 3 on?: Aero Fighters 3 was released on Arcade, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo MVS, Neo Geo CD.
When did Aero Fighters 3 release?: Aero Fighters 3 was first released on October 1, 1995.

About Aero Fighters 3

When enemy forces wipe out the jets of the Aero Fighters, they must scramble using heavily-modified World War II warplanes in the third installment of the comical Aero Fighters series.

Summary via IGDB.

Aero Fighters 3 on Wikipedia

Aero Fighters 3, released in Japan as Sonic Wings 3, is a 1995 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Video System and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Arcade, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo MVS, Neo Geo CD
Developer: Video System
Publisher: Video System
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Themes: Action, Science fiction, Comedy

Details via IGDB.

Reception

IGDB rating

70/100

from 12 ratings

Every version compared

Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release

Platform	Year	Loose	Complete	Sealed	Fake risk
Neo Geo AES	1995	$672	$1,900	—	Medium

Release timeline

ArcadeOct 1995
Neo Geo AESNov 17, 1995
Neo Geo CDDec 8, 1995
Nintendo SwitchMar 15, 2018
Xbox OneMar 15, 2018
PlayStation 4Mar 15, 2018
PC (Microsoft Windows)Nov 30, 2018

First release on each platform, from IGDB’s records of this game’s ports and editions. Remakes are separate games with their own pages, so they are not listed here.

We haven’t priced or authenticated the versions without a section on this page yet.

Collector value & authenticity

Neo Geo AES · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-21

Loose

$672

few sales

Complete

$1,900

Sealed

—

How often it sells

Loose: about once a year
Complete: about 2 times a year
Sealed: rarely — fewer than one recorded sale a year

Prices marked “few sales” rest on about one recorded sale a year, so treat them as a rough guide: the next copy could sell well above or below. Expect to wait for one to come up.

Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-21.

Price over time

Loose
Complete

A loose copy sold for about $727 in Jan 2022, and $672 as of Oct 2026.

Show as table

Month	Loose	Complete
Jan 2022	$727	$1,600
Jan 2023	$449	$1,000
Jan 2024	$417	$910
Jan 2025	$180	$1,000
Jan 2026	$672	$1,129
Oct 2026	$672	$1,900

Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.

Release record

Territory	Date	NGH number
Japan	17 November 1995	NGH-097

Japan: SNK's identification number for the game, printed on its ROM chips and inserts; confirmed by both the NeoGeo Dev Wiki and MAME's software list.

Source: NGH numbers: the NeoGeo Dev Wiki's game pages, each cross-checked against MAME's Neo Geo software list (ROM chip numbers and printed serials); published only where both agree

Region: JP+NA
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Med

On ACA NeoGeo (Hamster’s digital re-release of the arcade version) since Mar 15, 2018 — the cartridge is now a collectibleMedium counterfeit risk

Neo Geo AES prices, all games & how to spot a fake

A competent two-player shooter from Video System that period reviewers found intense but short on fresh ideas, and a mid-priced cart by the library's standards.

Aero Fighters 3 is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Video System and published by SNK, set partly in London and Tokyo and playable by one or two players. The Japanese AES cart followed the arcade release by about five weeks, in November 1995, and a Neo Geo CD version came a month after that.

GamePro's review of the AES cart praised the intense action and the audio but found the gameplay short on fresh ideas and not as fun as Aero Fighters 2. That is a fair summary: it is a solid shooter in a library that has several better ones, so the reason to own the cartridge is the format and the co-op, not a gap in the genre.

Before you buy

The Japanese and US carts are separate releases. A complete copy in the hard case with its manual sells for several times what a loose cart does, and complete copies turn up only occasionally. At that price an arcade board in an AES shell is the risk worth checking: ask for photos of the board and look for the NEO-AEG marking and gold edge fingers rather than NEO-MVS. The arcade version is cheaply playable on modern consoles through ACA NeoGeo, which makes this cart a collector's purchase.