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--- Quote from: Malenko on February 03, 2011, 01:38:37 pm ---I was gonna say silk worm till opt2not beat me to it. game was great. you could get sparkly things to protect your heli/jeep. I remember the sticks having a button on top to angle the chopper. Jeep players had it rough if the heli pilot sucked. --- End quote --- This was the first PCB I bought. I always played as the Jeep. It uses 3 buttons, fire, jump and turret flip (so you shoot to the left when held down). It has (like all Tecmo games) lot's of hidden stuff, like shooting the gray part of the bonus helicopter before it has time to assemble itself gives you 2 bonuses for each player instead of one). My unknown great game is Darwin 4078 by Data East. The title refers to the power ups as you ship "evolves" to another shape on pickup. Maybe the "E"s stand for Evolution? Very clever if that's the case. If you let a certain power up time out, your ship will turn onto a different "DNA path" and turn into a powerful space bird. |
| boardjunkie:
Mission 660, Space Odyssey, Repulse/Son Of Phoenix, Thief, Wiping/Rug Rats, Armed Formation, Blast Off, Domino Man, Krull, Kram, Mad Planets, Mega Tack, Nova 2001, Tube Panic, Arc Area, Pepper II, Quantum, Reactor, Return of the Invaders, Satan's Hollow, Solar Fox, Space Fury, Space Zap, Pac and Pal, Zoo Keeper....etc |
| mgb:
A couple of games that I like that I don't ever remember being popular: Nibbler - I never knew about this game until I played it on Mame. Ladybug, Phoenix - This game is probably not obscure, but I used to play it at a local pizza place and none of my friends seemed to be into it. Eyes - I used to play this at a lundromat. |
| boardjunkie:
Phoenix was a huge arcade hit....definitely not obscure. Eyes was programmed for a pacman board. The production boards were quite similar to pac boards as well. Nibbler is kind of a fun game. I have a couple of nibbler boards I need to dig out and finish repairing..... I like Ladybug.....I think its a fun (and potentially addicting) game. The player control is a little annoying tho. I used to play it at a laundromat locally. Funny thing is, years later I ended up with that very same machine. I had to scrap it tho....it had been stored poorly and the bottom of the cabinet was so rotten it was crumbling. So I kept the boardset and monitor and took a mallet to the cab..... |
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