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billpa:

--- Quote from: Zobeid on March 20, 2008, 11:44:35 am ---My mystery game was in a local convenience store at about the same time as Missile Command. . .  so figure about 1981 most likely, maybe 1982 at a stretch.

The game featured a background setting of orange-brown dirt and boulders.  Large numbers of tarantula-like spiders crawled down the screen toward the player, who had to fight them off in some manner that I don't really remember.

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Sounds like Digger to me.

Might also be Gold Bug.

They are pretty much the same.

Neverending Project:

--- Quote from: ex_directory on March 20, 2008, 12:05:22 pm ---Hey, stop hijacking my thread, at least until someone puts me out of my misery for my golf game  ;D

I have been looking this afternoon on Klov, there are 3 possibilities with no screenshots - does anyone have screenshots of these or remember what they were like?

Leaderboard Golf
Golfing Greats
Capcom Golf

They all came out about the right time.


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Check out MAWS. Here are screenshots from the first two, but I am not sure about Capcom Golf.
Zobeid:

--- Quote from: billpa on March 20, 2008, 12:56:17 pm ---
Sounds like Digger to me.

Might also be Gold Bug.

They are pretty much the same.

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No. . .   It was not a digging/tunneling type of game, it was nothing like those.  As best I can remember it involved large numbers of spiders crawling and zig-zagging across a desert landscape as they approached the player (at the bottom of the screen).  It was basically an invasion-from-above type game, although graphically it looked very different from most of them.
Neverending Project:

--- Quote from: Zobeid on March 20, 2008, 01:27:19 pm ---No. . .   It was not a digging/tunneling type of game, it was nothing like those.  As best I can remember it involved large numbers of spiders crawling and zig-zagging across a desert landscape as they approached the player (at the bottom of the screen).  It was basically an invasion-from-above type game, although graphically it looked very different from most of them.

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Hole Land?
Zobeid:

--- Quote from: Neverending Project on March 20, 2008, 01:37:15 pm ---Hole Land?

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Ooooooh!

No, that's not it.  And MAME says Hole Land didn't appear until 1984, which is a couple of years too late.

Still, we're getting warmer now.  I can see some resemblance.  I'd never heard of Hole Land before, it looks pretty neat.   :laugh:   Thanks for pointing it out!
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