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A Galaga/Phoenix type game with eight way movement?
harri:
I played a Galaga/Phoenix style arcade game few times in late 80s (or very early 90s) that I would like to add to my eventually-to-be arcade cabinet. Only problem is that in my memory you could move in the whole screen on that game so even if Phoenix, especially birds in phase 3 and 4, seems familiar I have doubts that it's that. Because I haven't found any such space shooters that have free movement I'm willing to believe that the game actually was Phoenix (or one of the clones) and it mixes on my memory to some C64 game that had the whole screen movement.
So are there any Galaga/Phoenix style games where you can move on whole screen instead of just the bottom?
javeryh:
Gaplus
harri:
Sorry, forgot to mention, Gaplus was mentioned elsewhere in the forum but its graphics don't look familiar. That's why I'm pretty sure it was Phoenix that my memory mixes with some other game.
Haze:
Gatsbee was a well known hack that added 8 way movement to Galaga
There were plenty of others though, games like Enigma 2 added a thruster button for example.
leapinlew:
Gorf?
Gorf is so different from Phoenix though.... As much as I liked Phoenix as a kid now, I can't stand it. Enemy movements are weird, game sounds are annoying, and the fire rate changes on different boards.