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Help with Game ID
smalltownguy:
Was it Ghouls & Ghosts? It was released in 1988...
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7939
AzureKnight:
As I stated in the first post, the game is a top down perspective using one of those 3/4 view. It was very much like the DataEast Ghostbusters game in terms of play style.
As far as characters, I only played it a few times a long time ago so my memory is spotty. I want to say I recall a character in a long cloak with a broad brimmed hat and perhaps a witch. It was either a 3 or 4 player cabinet. The Ghouls and Ghosts theme is right, but like I said it wasn't a side scroller unless my memory is completely faulty. I don't recall any steeds.
Severedhed,
Thanks for the link, I will go through that list and see if I can find it.
The more I think about it the more compulsive it becomes to figure it out!
jholman76:
It wasnt Gauntlet was it?
Hurray Banana:
The only games I can see that would match with the brief description are either
Devil World http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/devilw
Garyo Retsuden Japanese game http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/garyoret
Extermination - http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/extrmatnu
Although there are other games that would fit.
AzureKnight:
It wasn't Gauntlet :) I've actually been in and out of retro gaming a fair amount over the years (lived in arcades as a kid). I finally found this community because for the first time in my life I have the opportunity (space and money) to create my own cabinet. The cabinet I am planning has a good chance of ending up with a Gauntlet theme to it! So good guess on that one.
I checked through that list on mameworld and "Dark Adventure/Devil World" is the only one that even might be right. It still doesn't seem to fit what I recall so to be honest I don't think that was it either...I'll keep hunting a bit more over there and of course appreciate all other guesses. If all else fails I'll just say it was Dark Adventure and convince myself my memory is just filtered by time...