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Title: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dcsgguy on April 26, 2007, 02:42:25 pm

I have been trying to figure out what the name of this game is I used to play in the mid 80's.  it was a side-scrolling shooter and in it you were a guy with a jet pack (I think).  You started on planet mercury and the idea was to work your way to Planet X or Pluto or something.  each level took place on a planet.  I could only make it to Venus and I always died.

Does anyone know this game?

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: Tiger-Heli on April 26, 2007, 02:51:49 pm

Solar Warrior? http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9613

I cheated and searched for "Solar" in the KLOV description.

Other possibilities:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9615

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dcsgguy on April 26, 2007, 02:59:02 pm

That looks familiar, I was 9 at the time so my memory is hazy at best.

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: Chris G on April 26, 2007, 03:00:29 pm

Just in case your memory is REALLY fuzzy, check out Gyruss too.  ;D

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dcsgguy on April 26, 2007, 03:05:25 pm

Definitely not Gyruss.

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: NickG on April 26, 2007, 03:07:27 pm

Solar Jetman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Jetman:_Hunt_for_the_Golden_Warpship)? (you travel to each planet searching for pieces of the ship and if you damage your pod you have to make it back to your base with your jetpack)

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dcsgguy on April 26, 2007, 03:10:41 pm

That is not it either.  All I remember is that you started on Mercury and you went from left to right.  I think there was an end monster on each level to. 

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: shardian on April 26, 2007, 03:15:27 pm

Forgotten Worlds (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7842)

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dcsgguy on April 26, 2007, 03:16:54 pm

negative on Forgotten Worlds.  I played that before. 

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dynamite on April 26, 2007, 03:21:44 pm

not sure if this was ever an arcade version but I used to play a game something like that called Rad Gravity (http://www.mobygames.com/game/adventures-of-rad-gravity/screenshots) on the nes.

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: grantspain on April 26, 2007, 03:23:42 pm

its not one of my faves xain'd sleena is it http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=X&game_id=10500

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: shardian on April 26, 2007, 03:24:14 pm

Side Arms (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9537)

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dcsgguy on April 26, 2007, 03:27:30 pm

That is it I think (It is also known as Solar Warrior)

One of those pictures reminded me of the Venus stage I couldn't get by.


Thanks all.

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: grantspain on April 26, 2007, 03:35:05 pm

you forget how good those games really were back in the mid 80's,def my favorite era of video games-what absolute classics :applaud:

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: Chris G on April 26, 2007, 04:22:45 pm

We should do this every day.  With a different game, of course.  ;D

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: grantspain on April 26, 2007, 04:49:34 pm

Quote from: Chris G on April 26, 2007, 04:22:45 pm

We should do this every day.  With a different game, of course.  ;D

not a bad idea,i think trojan was the one for me :)

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: Marky_1979 on April 26, 2007, 08:20:54 pm

Yes Trojan I loved that one was too hard for me back then though never got past the second level. Should give it another blast now im older and wiser.

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: vidmouse on April 27, 2007, 01:58:21 am

For me it was Crater Raider.  I forgot the name of it too until I came across some screenshots...

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: Dexter on April 27, 2007, 08:23:54 am

Mine was lock'n'chase. Had a lump in my throat when the rom loaded (no 'Stiffy' jokes please Danny!). Been a mame monkey ever since....

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: Crowquill on April 27, 2007, 10:20:51 am

One thing that still amazes me is finding out who created these games. So many were licensed out. While Atari had many hits of their own, most of the games I really got into were the Namco ones.

This game is one of many I've stumbled onto by Technos. Isn't it enough they pretty much invented the fighting game (Karate Champ), the beat-em-up (Vigilante, Double Dragon), and the wrestling game (tag-team wresling, Mat Mania)? Super Dodgeball and River City Ransom on the NES will always be classics too.

I have to admit that the first jet-pack game I thought of was Section Z. Capcom considers Section Z, Side Arms, and Forgotten Worlds to be the "Jet-pack Hero Trilogy".

Title: Re: I'm looking for a game from the 80's.
Post by: dcsgguy on April 27, 2007, 12:20:31 pm

Section Z....

ugh if I remember that correctly, it was nearly impossible to complete.