Play Air Duel Online

Game Overview

Air Duel is one of those old-school arcade shooters that somehow makes dodging bullets while upside-down feel totally natural. You’re in a fighter jet—or sometimes a helicopter, weirdly—blasting through waves of enemy planes that just keep coming. The controls are simple (shoot, dodge, try not to crash), but the screen fills up with so much chaos so fast that you’ll be leaning sideways in your chair like it’ll help you avoid missiles.

What I love about it is how unapologetically brutal it is—no regenerating health here, just a few hits and you’re done. The power-ups are lifesavers (literally), but good luck grabbing them when half the screen is explosions. If you’ve got a soft spot for ’90s arcade games where the difficulty curve is more of a cliff, this one’s a blast.