Hi There! Here's one for you! If anyone can help, I'd love to play this again! I've been thinking about it for weeks (and appeasing my sorrow with the games "Stars!" and "Castle of the Winds").
This was a shareware game - OK, so the game really gets your attention with the intro: It's very anime style, and you're watching a man running through the woods, I think a bubble pops up from his head to show he's thinking about his wife and child. At the end he sees that his city is on fire (I'm reaching here) and goes psycho.
At that point, you get to play!!! The game is you (the man) flying around in a little jet (think Raptor: Call of the Shadows) only you can go all over a map and not just straight into the onslaught like many shoot-em-ups. You fly from island to island (all bird's eye view), dog fighting, dropping cluster bombs (my favorite!), etc. There were several different bomb types, enemies and playable ships too (I think). I believe that certain islands had bases you could land on to reload and repair.
The maps took a long time from what I can remember, and were fun and challenging. One last thing that rings a bell - one of the enemy ships was called a "Sharky" and looks like a hammer head. I think I remember getting to fly it, and it's turning sucked soooo bad!
Ring any bells? Surely someone else has played this amazing game!!!
This is all based on the shareware version, so who knows if it even had the same name as the full version? For example, I remember "Halloween Harry" and "Alien Carnage" were pretty much synonymous games with different names.