Trying to find the name of a game...

[Matth9]

Description:
A game that looked like a big screen TV where you had a 50 caliber gun and had to shoot at movie looking Japanese Zero WWII airplanes - it had regular movie footage for a background.  It was pretty cool, but they charged like a dollar for it.


A friend of mine was asking about this, and I have no idea.  Sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks!

Matt

[fjl]

Sounds pretty hardware intensive. If so, then it might not be on MAME yet. Or at least not yet working. What year did this game come out?

[SonicSlammaster]

This sounds like a 96 or 97 year game. you could check maws and pick the shooter genre and see if ya can find a pic of it there

www.mameworld.net/maws/

this is a really useful link for finding old games but youl have a bit of searchin to do. If you come across a game with no screenshot or the screenshot looks dodgy just scroll down untill you find the cabinet or flyer picture. 5this is your best bet on finding it on the net.

hope this helps

[shardian]

Beach Head???

[northerngames]

medal of honor rising sun?

is it even a arcade game or a console based game I play xbox on a 60" lol

[shardian]

Did you physically handle a gun assembly, or just use arcade controls to manipulate an on-screen gun?

[Matth9]

It had a physical gun assembly.... The vintage must be around 1973 to 75 or so. (we were talking about games of our youth)

[telengard]

Sounds kinda old for charging a whole $1.  Must be some game.   

Most games in the late 70s/early 80s were 25 cents around here.  The first game I saw that cost 50 cents was Dragon's Lair.

~telengard

[modessitt]

It's probably 1978's Battle Shark.

The game used 16mm film on a loop as a backdrop and a mirror for depth illusion.  You used the gun to either shoot planes or targets....

[RayB]

(we were talking about games of our youth)

...and you just dated yourself. 

[Matth9]

It's not Battle Shark, but thanks for the lead.  I found Battle Station, which he said looks a lot like it, but he remembered the footage being real (what's on the screen in the flyer doesn't look real).

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=arcadedb&id=2&image=1

And this was HIS childhood.  My childhood was Super Mario and Karate Champ.  So you see, I'm...well, yeah, I'm old, but not THAT old.