So, way back in the day, there was a game I played. I only just thought of it now for the first time in probably two decades after trying to hunt down something else. I only played this exactly once and very very briefly so my memory is super vague and spotty. I think it was an older shmup but I could be totally wrong and blending this with a memory of something else.
Here's what little I can tell you:
- I really don't remember when this happened but I feel like it was probably somewhere in the 90's. At the very least, it was during or after Rampage came out.
- I'm pretty sure it was a standup arcade game because I have a memory of being annoyed at wasting my last quarter.
- Whatever the hardware was, this definitely happened in the US.
- I'm pretty sure it was a top-scrolling game, but don't remember the CRT orientation.
- I'm near certain it was airplane-based and either WWI or WWII themed, but it's almost certainly NOT from the Capcom 1942 or Strikers 1945 franchises because I just looked at all those.
- Looking back, I feel like the graphics were on the older/simpler side, maybe.
- The big thing I remember is that one of the missions the main goal was you had to bomb a large something. I'm pretty sure it was a factory but it might've been a battleship. Whatever it was I remember there being like three large round things (I think they were cooling towers or smokestacks, but they might've been turrets). I was confused because I was expecting it to scroll into view like normal but the game put it way off-screen to the side. I failed the first time because I just went straight up and never saw it. On my second try I just flew around randomly and eventually found it but by the time I did I was too high and couldn't hit it, failing again. (This is where my memory of the last quarter comes in).
- The situation with the factory/battleship was fairly early in the game; I didn't get vary far.
edit: Although the game I'm thinking of was a standup arcade, my memory of the mechanics and feel of the game is that it was closer to the SNES games "Air Strike Patrol" and "Desert Strike" than a traditional shmup like say Capcom's 194X series.