In Wings, the player controls a World War I fighter pilot, including flying, firing the machine gun, and dropping bombs.

The game is played from a first-person perspective, and the cockpit view shows the plane's instruments and the surrounding landscape.

Computer Gaming World called it "a whopping good arcade experience ... exciting, novel, and addicting.

Its hard to believe that the game was made in 1990 as the 3D sections looked absolutely incredible and far in advance of anything that had appeared on consoles, PC or even the arcades at the time," and adding its story "told of the main characters eerily realistic wartime experiences, provoking an emotional response in the player that is all too rare in retro and modern gaming alike.

The main difference is that the player can now opt to fly missions as a German pilot, experiencing the war from the opposite perspective.

A campaign to create a Wings remake was put on Kickstarter at August 10, 2012 by Cinemaware with an intent to recreate the game in HD for mobile and desktop platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X).