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Can You Identify this Game?
« on: April 19, 2011, 11:37:41 pm »
Okay, this is going to be the most lame description of an arcade game EVER!  So, if any can identify this game, you win a gold star. :)

1. Game is from the 1980's
2. Top down style reminds me of "Commando" or "Ikari Warriors"  (pretty sure it isn't either of these).
3. Instead of a top down scroller, the world scrolled left and right also.  I never got any good at the game so the following gameplay would have happend pretty early in the game: After advancing forward (top of screen), you have to scroll to the right, then forward again, then back to the left.  This is usually where I died.  Also, I think this part of the game was on cobblestone street.

My memory is WEAK on this one, but it seems like it was a shoot em up.

Wow!  That was even more lame than I thought! :)  Ring any bells?
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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 12:17:11 am »

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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 12:20:01 am »
the part where u go left right  ?

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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 06:50:00 am »
At first I thought Gunsmoke (although I don't recall being able to scroll left or right):



But there is another overhead game of the era that I can't quite remember ... will have to see if some coffee jogs it lose.
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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 08:34:01 am »
Maybe RAMBO
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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2011, 09:10:36 am »
I don't remember a cobblestone street, but how about Heavy Barrel?

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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2011, 09:12:38 am »
MERCS?


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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2011, 12:14:15 pm »
Wow!  Thanks for the responses.  :applaud:  I'm going to have to take a look at some of these and see if they are what I remember.

Guerrilla War and Heavy Barrel seem familiar, but I'll have to load them up and see.

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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2011, 09:01:34 pm »
What about Search and Rescue from SNK? It used rotary joysticks but you could move about like you mentioned. I am actually restoring a SAR cab right now, although it's becoming a MAME.

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Re: Can You Identify this Game?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2011, 09:07:44 pm »
Cabal?