Author Topic: I'm looking for a game from the 80's. (Read 2162 times)

dcsgguy · « **on:** April 26, 2007, 02:42:25 pm »

I have been trying to figure out what the name of this game is I used to play in the mid 80's. it was a side-scrolling shooter and in it you were a guy with a jet pack (I think). You started on planet mercury and the idea was to work your way to Planet X or Pluto or something. each level took place on a planet. I could only make it to Venus and I always died.

Does anyone know this game?

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #1 on:** April 26, 2007, 02:51:49 pm »

Solar Warrior? http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9613

I cheated and searched for "Solar" in the KLOV description.

Other possibilities:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9615

dcsgguy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 26, 2007, 02:59:02 pm »

That looks familiar, I was 9 at the time so my memory is hazy at best.

Chris G · « **Reply #3 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:00:29 pm »

Just in case your memory is REALLY fuzzy, check out Gyruss too.

dcsgguy · « **Reply #4 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:05:25 pm »

Definitely not Gyruss.

NickG · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:07:27 pm »

Solar Jetman? (you travel to each planet searching for pieces of the ship and if you damage your pod you have to make it back to your base with your jetpack)

dcsgguy · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:10:41 pm »

That is not it either. All I remember is that you started on Mercury and you went from left to right. I think there was an end monster on each level to.

shardian · « **Reply #7 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:15:27 pm »

Forgotten Worlds

dcsgguy · « **Reply #8 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:16:54 pm »

negative on Forgotten Worlds. I played that before.

dynamite · « **Reply #9 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:21:44 pm »

not sure if this was ever an arcade version but I used to play a game something like that called Rad Gravity on the nes.

grantspain · « **Reply #10 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:23:42 pm »

its not one of my faves xain'd sleena is it http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=X&game_id=10500

shardian · « **Reply #11 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:24:14 pm »

Side Arms

dcsgguy · « **Reply #12 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:27:30 pm »

That is it I think (It is also known as Solar Warrior)

One of those pictures reminded me of the Venus stage I couldn't get by.

Thanks all.

grantspain · « **Reply #13 on:** April 26, 2007, 03:35:05 pm »

you forget how good those games really were back in the mid 80's,def my favorite era of video games-what absolute classics

Chris G · « **Reply #14 on:** April 26, 2007, 04:22:45 pm »

We should do this every day. With a different game, of course.

grantspain · « **Reply #15 on:** April 26, 2007, 04:49:34 pm »

Quote from: Chris G on April 26, 2007, 04:22:45 pm

We should do this every day. With a different game, of course.

not a bad idea,i think trojan was the one for me

Marky_1979 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 26, 2007, 08:20:54 pm »

Yes Trojan I loved that one was too hard for me back then though never got past the second level. Should give it another blast now im older and wiser.

vidmouse · « **Reply #17 on:** April 27, 2007, 01:58:21 am »

For me it was Crater Raider. I forgot the name of it too until I came across some screenshots...

Dexter · « **Reply #18 on:** April 27, 2007, 08:23:54 am »

Mine was lock'n'chase. Had a lump in my throat when the rom loaded (no 'Stiffy' jokes please Danny!). Been a mame monkey ever since....

Crowquill · « **Reply #19 on:** April 27, 2007, 10:20:51 am »

One thing that still amazes me is finding out who created these games. So many were licensed out. While Atari had many hits of their own, most of the games I really got into were the Namco ones.

This game is one of many I've stumbled onto by Technos. Isn't it enough they pretty much invented the fighting game (Karate Champ), the beat-em-up (Vigilante, Double Dragon), and the wrestling game (tag-team wresling, Mat Mania)? Super Dodgeball and River City Ransom on the NES will always be classics too.

I have to admit that the first jet-pack game I thought of was Section Z. Capcom considers Section Z, Side Arms, and Forgotten Worlds to be the "Jet-pack Hero Trilogy".

dcsgguy · « **Reply #20 on:** April 27, 2007, 12:20:31 pm »

Section Z....

ugh if I remember that correctly, it was nearly impossible to complete.


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