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Which game is this...
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!