Anyone played this Konami shmup?...

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:32 pm

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=thumbs&id=5276

I couldn't find a listing for it on KLOV, nor anything through Google. I had no idea that Konami ever made a shmup with an A-10!

Frogacuda · Post by **Frogacuda** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:41 pm

It was never released. It was demonstrated at AOU '89, and protos might exist, but none of them have made into the hands of any ROM dumpers, so odds of getting to play it are slim. Incidentally it's the first game Hiroshi Iuchi ever worked on.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:50 am

What's up with the huge HUD? It seems empty in all the screenshots, and there's no indication of an A-Jax style 3D scene.

Edit: Would love to get the flyer for this game.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:45 am

Frogacuda wrote:It was never released. It was demonstrated at AOU '89, and protos might exist, but none of them have made into the hands of any ROM dumpers, so odds of getting to play it are slim. Incidentally it's the first game Hiroshi Iuchi ever worked on.

Interesting, no wonder KLOV didn't have anything on it. You can always print out the arcade flyers; it's the next best thing!

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:47 am

How odd, makes me wonder why it got canceled.
Very neat Iuchi factoid.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:23 am

I think we should write up Konami and get them to release this game. Who's with me? Gonna send them a letter.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:40 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:I think we should write up Konami and get them to release this game. Who's with me? Gonna send them a letter.

Konami Big Wig: "What's this? Great. More bitter, raving lunatics demanding the release of a game we cancelled. Burn this letter with a flaming roll of $20's from that giant pile over there."

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:26 am

yeah because demand totally had nothing to do with a certain PSP title's recent announcement

They could stick it on a shmup compilation. It'd be a lot of work but somebody needs to raise awareness about it.

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:26 pm

Konami hates us though.