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Title: Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: teef two on October 31, 2002, 09:27:36 am

Guys,

I'm hoping someone can help here. I'm trying to remember the name of an arcade game from the mid to late 80's. I can't recall all the gameplay (well, the machine was in a pub - what do you expect!) but here goes.

It was a scrolling shoot em up. I'm sure that it was left to right but some of it may have also been vertical. There were certianly power ups. The one bit I remember clearly is at one stage a series of "dots" (fireballs, bombs or something) converged on your ship and then expanded again. As I recall this was a real bugger to try and get out of.

Does it trigger any brain cells anywhere?

Title: Re:Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: Richy on October 31, 2002, 09:53:29 am

It sounds like hundreds of games from that period,
Try the 1940 series (1941 etc.) from capcom

Title: Re:Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: teef two on October 31, 2002, 10:06:45 am

No, it definately wasn't the 194x type of game. It was more a sci-fi/spaceship kind of setting. I'm sure you flew over landscapes dotted with bunkers and such like. End of level bosses that sort of thing.

I realise this is a real stab in the dark but it may be familiar to someone.

Title: Re:Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: Psyklops on October 31, 2002, 11:18:07 am

Legendary Wings?


You're not a spaceship, but it did have both vertical and horizontal side-scrolling levels.

Title: Re:Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: anoon on October 31, 2002, 02:30:14 pm

Were the bosses big mechanical fish? Was probably one of the Darius games if so.

Title: Re:Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: SNAAAKE on November 01, 2002, 12:21:35 am

r-type
or gradius.

Title: Re:Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: Richy on November 01, 2002, 11:03:06 am

Actually it sounds like ordyne. The dots bit anyway, and flying from left to right, but i don't know about the bunkers

Title: Re:Trying to remember a game- help!
Post by: WFH on November 01, 2002, 01:11:40 pm

Quote from: teef two on October 31, 2002, 09:27:36 am

Guys,

I'm hoping someone can help here. I'm trying to remember the name of an arcade game from the mid to late 80's. I can't recall all the gameplay (well, the machine was in a pub - what do you expect!) but here goes.

It was a scrolling shoot em up. I'm sure that it was left to right but some of it may have also been vertical. There were certianly power ups. The one bit I remember clearly is at one stage a series of "dots" (fireballs, bombs or something) converged on your ship and then expanded again. As I recall this was a real bugger to try and get out of.

Does it trigger any brain cells anywhere?

Forgotten Worlds?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=F&game_id=1120