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Title: What game is this?
Post by: alphasqorner on January 08, 2004, 03:13:15 am

Not sure if this game is already emulated by mame and I don't know about it but here goes....

It is like a very cheap Commando/Ikari Warrios type game made for the Atari, but it was an arcade game.  The controls, I believe are a spinner and joystick.  I know there is a spinner control because the soldier character holds out his gun(with a stance kind of like an "egyptian" stance) and the spinner rotates the gun, very awkwardly, in a full 360 degree motion in the soldier's hand. It was pretty funny looking.  There may have been like at most 4 or 8 colors.  I think the soldier had a blue colored body and  maybe red helmet or something.  The controls were definitly not a rotary joystick, it was at least a spinner and an 8-way (maybe 4-way) joystick.  Any ideas?

Title: Re:What game is this?
Post by: paigeoliver on January 08, 2004, 05:31:22 am

Gun Fight and Boot Hill come to mind. Both are monochrome games.

Title: Re:What game is this?
Post by: b3atmania on January 08, 2004, 06:59:13 am

Quote from: paigeoliver on January 08, 2004, 05:31:22 am

Gun Fight and Boot Hill come to mind. Both are monochrome games.

I think you describe Bandido:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7008 (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7008)

Title: Re:What game is this?
Post by: OSCAR on January 08, 2004, 07:45:04 am

Front Line?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7859

Title: Re:What game is this?
Post by: RetroBorg on January 08, 2004, 11:56:26 am

Are you sure the game had a spinner and not an 8-way pushbutton dial like this:

(http://www.arcadecontrols.com/files/Uploads/8-way_pushbutton_dial.jpg)

Title: Re:What game is this?
Post by: steve_pss on January 08, 2004, 02:11:49 pm

thats definatly(sp) Frontline. One of my faves. In face some time ago one of the generous members of this board GAVE me a controller so I could put in my CP and play it.

Title: Re:What game is this?
Post by: alphasqorner on January 08, 2004, 05:42:17 pm

:oHoly Crap!!! :o  It is FRONTLINE!!!  You just made two people the happiest men of the hour!!  It was so frustrating trying to figure out what this game was.  And I stand corrected, it wasn't a spinner, it was an 8 Position switch rotary control!  You guys are !@#$in awesome!  Thanks a whole lot!!!!!  ;D;D;D;D;D Another game bugged me but I found out that it was Galaxy Ranger (only on Daphne) and now my arcade childhood experience has been preserved completely!!!  Much love to all of you!!!!