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Help me identifity this game...
leapinlew:
Heres a sad story for you -
When I was a kid, not even 12, I remember watching for hours as some older kids was playing a video game at the arcade as my mom bowled. I remember really wanting to play this game, but so many people were playing it. I had 1 quarter left towards the end of the night, but people were still playing it. I put my quarter on the bezel in line behind a few other quarters. I watched till my quarter was next in line. Finally, the guy in front of me finished so I stepped up to the machine and grabbed my quarter and.... well, lets just say this is the first time I ran into a bully. He said it was his quarter, I said it was mine, but he was bigger and you know how that goes when your a kid... In the end, I left the arcade and he had my quarter. Mom didn't know. Sucks eh? The year had to be around 1985 or 86.
One of the things I love about Mame is nostalgia, but another thing I love is putting "free" quarters in. Beating games I never had the money to complete as a kid. One of the first things I did when I found Mame was run Gauntlet and inserting about 100 credits. I would've loved to do that when that game hit the arcades.
Anyhow, on to the game, the game I'm remembering has these characteristics. It was a platform style game, running from screen to screen from left to right on a horizontal display. You were a wizard (wearing blue robe?). You had to rescue a princess from a dragon(I think it was a dragon, it couldn't been a giant bird). I remember something about a golden egg. And I also remember jumping in a window and appearing in a different setting after going through the window.
Yeah, it's pretty vague. But, if anyone can tell me what this game was I would surely appreciate it and I'll play it tonight.
Thanks,
Lewis
spriggy:
Could be 'Cadash' ??....http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7254
But that's '89. There was a 'Mage' you could choose, hence the 'Wizard' reference and you had to rescue a princess from a 'demon'...
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: spriggy on February 14, 2006, 06:16:14 am ---Could be 'Cadash' ??....http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7254
But that's '89. There was a 'Mage' you could choose, hence the 'Wizard' reference and you had to rescue a princess from a 'demon'...
--- End quote ---
I'm going to go home and give it a shot.
heres the thing. If it was 89, that made me 16. I remember crying when that kid took my quarter. If I was 16 when that happened, I may just start crying again. lol. Thanks for the suggestion - either way it looks like a cool game. I'll give it a shot, but I think I'm thinking of something different.
clok:
Well Im nt sure on the rescue Princess theme, but jumping throuhg a window to get tothe next level sounds a bit like Solomons Key?
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9617
Clok
ErikRuud:
A quick search through KLOV gives me these possibilities:
I am not familiar with any of these games, but they all involve wizards and would
have been around in 1985.
Dragon Buster
Cavelon
Wiz
Lizard Wizard
The Fairyland Story
These games involve a Princess
Arabian
Ghosts & Goblins
Legend of Kage
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