WingNuts: Temporal Navigator is a shooter game

Shooter game

Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common...

 by Freeverse Software

Freeverse Software

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. Players navigate an airplane around a two-dimensional map while avoiding hazards and picking up "goodies" or bonuses. The map is initially filled with enemy planes and the object of each level is to shoot down every plane.

The player character is a modern-day pilot fighting robotic planes which the antagonist, Baron Von Schtopwatch, transported from other eras.

WingNuts: Temporal Navigator was followed by WingNuts 2

WingNuts 2

WingNuts 2 is an award-winning shooter game from Freeverse. It allows the player to take control of several real world and fictitious aircraft as they travel through time to stop Baron Von Schtopwatch....

: Raina's Revenge and is no longer distributed by Freeverse. Freeverse began offering WingNuts: Temporal Navigator for free from its website on November 17, 2006. A Mac

Mac OS X

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 version is still available , while the Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 version has been discontinued.

A trailer to the game is still offeredon Apple.com. The sequel, WingNuts 2

WingNuts 2

WingNuts 2 is an award-winning shooter game from Freeverse. It allows the player to take control of several real world and fictitious aircraft as they travel through time to stop Baron Von Schtopwatch....

, was made exclusively for the Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

operating system.