There was this game I used to play at the arcade in the late 80's maybe very early 90's
I am pretty sure it was both vertical and horizontal scrolling (horizontal on the first stage) I remember green was sort of the main colour of the ships and stuff
There was some sort of power up system but I can't remember to much ...I remember they had choplifter , double dragon and jackal at the same place so that might give a time frame
Does anybody know which game I am talking about
I know its a pretty big ask...
thanks!
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It could be Lifeforce. The ships themselves aren't green. But there is a lot of green in the high score screen and the ships intro screen, which is what you see before you feed it a quarter.
It wasn't a real popular one as far as I can tell like your rtype,gradius,image fight etc
I know those weren't vertical/horizontal anyway but its not a shooter that I have seen since those days
I do remember the levels having a underwater feel to them
I got a folder of almost all the mame games images...I flicked thru them to see if i could find it (I could barely see after lol!) didn't have much luck there ....I wonder if it was that rare
It looks sort of underwaterish... LOOK A FISH! And there's green stuff... (here's one with even more green stuff). 1986! A power up system!
Although I bet you would have mentioned the extra wide screen.... maybe though? Also, there no vertical stages... but it's all I could find Oh I bet it's Cho Aniki
This is the Darius ship, the Silver Hawk -- please note that it's the shields that make the ship green and you need a power-up for the shields.
There are some versions of Darius that will autoscroll up & down. It's not a true vertical level, your ship will just start moving up or down though the level. Off hand, I remember Darius Twin for the SNES and G Darius doing the vertical autoscrolling. Darius Twin is probably the right age, but it's not on the Nintendo Super System arcade game list (link). G Darius didn't hit until the late 90's, so I don't see how it could be one.
It looks sort of underwaterish... LOOK A FISH! And there's green stuff... (here's one with even more green stuff). 1986! A power up system!
Although I bet you would have mentioned the extra wide screen.... maybe though? Also, there no vertical stages... but it's all I could find
Oh I bet it's Cho Aniki
not that one either
Time doesn't help much I guess either when back in the day I thought how amazing a game looked and then you see it now days and everthing looks like blocks!!!
I might check through the mame images again.....my poor eyes
Blade wrote:If it's something that's messing with your eyeballs then it might be Metal Black. *is shot down*
wow the screenshots of that do look pretty rough
Hey I see you have a robotech/macross avatar....I am a big fan
Any mecha games you recomend? I have been collecting macross games for awhile now .....I really liked battlecry although i know some people didn't like it
the japanese macross game for ps2 was alright but way to short
Time doesn't help much I guess either when back in the day I thought how amazing a game looked and then you see it now days and everthing looks like blocks!!!
I might check through the mame images again.....my poor eyes
Any luck finding it? Anyway, I had a brainstorm when I was reviewing some old 2600 games. Could it be Vanguard? Here's 2 screenshots of level 1 and one screenshot of level 2.
This is one of the first shmups ever made, and it scrolls both horizontally and vertically. And you can fire in 4 directions - up, down, left, and right. And if you get the energy powerup (shown in the first screenshot), you'll become indestructible for a few seconds and then you can ram the enemy ships. Oh... it does have an underwater look and the ship does have some green in it.
