Its a little unsophisticated and a bit easy in places but it's cute and fun - look:
Jet Pack Guy teams up with Robot Space Bird and Robot Space Dog to fight the enemy. All three characters can combine into a spaceship too. You pack some serious firepower once fully powered and you'll need it, enemies will be attacking from behind a lot in this game.
Came across this one in MAME but I hear it's on the Taito Legends disk too. Worth checking out IMO, I'm up to stage four at the moment. I still working on a strategy to get me past the springy wobbly things.
This game is awesome I just tryed it on Taito legends I love the sheer amount of firepower you use and the extra challenge of trying to dodge with such a tall sprite. I,m also stuck on the springs,the oldies are the best in my opinion.
Like everyone else, I'm stuck on level four. Granted, I only played it a few times... Anyway, the game to me is a bit repetitive. Patterns aren't anything interesting and it's just redundant.
That game has given me headaches to no end, just when you think you've got the game down pat, you die. Great game though, I'll occasionally fire it up on Taito Legends.
This was the biggest surprise for me on Taito Legends as most shmups that made it to US arcades in the eighties I got to play in an arcade somewhere at some point. Awesome game.
I just wish the criminally underrated Out Zone was on there.
This is a fun fun game, but I just cannot figure out the boss at the end of the city level. I'm guessing this is the last boss. He fires a big thing that fills the screen and I can't dodge it. Well maybe I will beat this game after spring break.
I was thinking, if Space Ghost had a game it ought to be something like this. Jet-pack dude shoots the bejeezus out of everything with his hand-held ray gun. Get the right powerups and his super robo-bird and robo-dog appear to shoot even more lasers, and they can also be sent off to attack and come back to you like good pets. He can also morph into a space fighter shaped like a jet plane (!!) and his pets can turn into extra fins on the plane. The enemies all look like cartoon monsters, they might as well have come out of Space Ghost. In the middle of each level there is some new obstacle you have to dodge. At the end of the level his space surfboard jets up and he flies off and teleports away, kinda like the Silver Surfer. Great game. This game is actually much better than the old Space Ghost cartoon, which was/is about as lame as Scooby Doo. Space Ghost should be this rad.
I clearly remember a magazine reviewing it back in the day. It came out about the same time R-Type hit the arcades. In that magazine, the reviews of Exzisus and R-Type were next to each other. R-Type got a full page and Exzisus got a half one. I think the reviewer said something along the lines of "it's all very nice, but I can't play it when the R-Type cab is standing right next to it".
doctorx0079 wrote: I'm guessing this is the last boss. He fires a big thing that fills the screen and I can't dodge it.
He pauses before he fires that thing, the key is to get up above his head or something. The attack "spreads" to fill the screen so if you're at the back then you're pretty screwed. The game gives you plenty of time to get out of the way though, I just wish I could get there consistently.
Exzisus is pretty good, but the one part with the expanding/contracting things that you must go over is a bit aggravating in a Super Cobra way. You have to get through at just the right time, while not being tricked or missing your chance totally. Some of the enemies put out a good amount of firepower for a 1987 game, and the A powerup becomes quite useful (the space ship is vertically smaller than the jet-pack guy).
One special parallax effect in this one adds some depth to the visuals, with the rearmost background layer going up or down as you travel vertically.
word, I was just talking about this game on sjewketheloon's sabadical thread. yeah the enemies are pretty generic but the firepower and the bosses is what does it for me. And of course the transformers thing.
Am I missing something or is the special attack, where you comand your pets to attack, pretty much useless? I can't aim it for shit and the bullets that they turn into are so small...
undamned wrote:Just came across a screenshot of this game. Is it me or does the ship form look strikingly like the Silver Hawk (although a year after Darius I)?
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They are both made by Taito, so I guess the same artist worked on both.
