(Yet Another) an you help me find this game?

[Teebor]

I went cruising through a large portion of the games in mame the other day (about 3 hours or more) trying to find yet another game that I had played as a kid.  I think I must have missed it somehow.

The game was two player one after the other

The game was a scrolling shoot em up, vertical.

You would fly over base like structures below whilst blasting stuff (hows that for a vague description )

I distinctly remember when you picked up some power ups that you could get bolt on that appeared on the side of your ship.

Player two had to play downwards on the screen whereas player one played upwards.

The big think I remember is that at the end of one level there was a head like boss who you had to shoot in the mouth with a projectile bomb launcher when he opened it.

The reason I think I am having trouble locating this one in particular is because I played it when I was in spain (and almost twenty years ago) so even if I could remember then name it probably wasnt in english


Hope someone can help me find this one, especially as you did fantastically at finding that other game for me last time.  You guys must have some encyclopedic knowledge

[SirPoonga]

Wow, that sound slike almost every vertical shooter out there?

What orientation was the monitor?

[Teebor]

Yeah I know sorry. 

being about 10 at the time I cant remember all that much about it.

I know the big head that opens its mouth and you have to shoot it with a weapon that specifically flies in to the air and back down again (like a bomb) is the key to finding it again.

It was definetely a vertical shooter so best guess would be that the monitor was rotated.

The machine was an upright.

Oh yeah it was top down not side on.

[SirPoonga]

One thing you could do it grab catver.ini and start going through the shooters.

[kelemvor]

The game was two player one after the other

Player two had to play downwards on the screen whereas player one played upwards.

I don't know the game but that line would seem to be important.  I've never seen a game like that before.

[SirPoonga]

I'm trying to understand that statement?  Is it a cocktail cabinet and players are across form each other?  or an upright and player 2 is on the top of hte screen???

[Flinkly]

and how does it scroll if the second player is at the top?  and i thought it was one player after another, not two at once...

[Excretious]

Maybe hes confused about the whole 'vertical shooter' thing. 

It sounds alot like Gradius or one of the sequels?

[Teebor]

Nope I know my vertical shooters,  This one was very unusual in is working.  If I were to hazard a guess it might have been an upright conversion from a cocktail cabinet HOWEVER it accepted inputs from only one set of controls.

The machine was an UPRIGHT.

It had a two player option BUT it was NOT simulataneous and only one set of control.

It was a VERTICAL shooter with player one playing from the bottom of the screen and the game scrolling upwards and player two starting from the TOP of the screen and scrolling downwards.

I remember this because I was challenged to a game and I got to go first, so when the other guy who thought he was brillaint at the game (and he was older) played he got wiped.

The only other thing I can remember about it was that the graphics were very angular but smooth.

Because KLOV has been down I have been trying to thumb through other websites like schmups and arcade history, but they are not a patch on klov

[Tiger-Heli]

Ajax???

Don't get hung up on the Player 2 had to come down thing - That sounds like the operator just had the dipswitch for coctail mode set incorrectly.

OTOH, that does tell you that it HAD a cocktail mode so that might help narrow the search.

[Teebor]

nope I just had a look at Ajax but its not that.

I remember that the base on the ground was futuristic looking but every was straight lines, I dont remember any roundedness (but of course I can't remember that much)

I am also sure that it had a distinct difference between shooting the flying targets and ground based targets.  Two different weapons one for each fired independantly by different buttons.

This is good its helping me remember stuff, now if I could only remember the name.

[Fat_Trucker]

Sounds like Terra Force.

[Teebor]

oohh so almost played that the other day


I cant find any decent screenshots but the description says it a half split with a side scroller (every other level)  and I am sure that this game wasnt that

[Tiger-Heli]

Go to MAWS, http://www.mameworld.net/maws/, look up Terra Force, and it will give you a bunch of links to similar games, might be helpful.

[Teebor]

VALTRIC!!!!!

Awesome thanks dudes.  I was only out by a couple of years, shows that my memory is still sketchy, its not a true scrolly but it is player forced scrolly

Thanks Tiger-Heli for that website its now solidly bunged in my favourites list as I hadn't come across it before.

Oh and I was wrong about the 2nd button for firing at ground targets and the other for aerial targets .

AWESOME!!!!!   

[Tiger-Heli]

Glad you figured it out.

[Flinkly]

heh, a cocktail game in an upright cabinet.  talk about challenging.  but wouldn't the joystick be installed upside down for the second player?  and wouldn't you have to wire the second player controls to the first?  oh, i guess you could just rewire the second player controls correctly if that was the case.