What was this game? (DOS era)

tyam · Post by **tyam** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:02 pm

I remember back in the DOS era I used to play a horizontal shmup where you could obtain a powerup and use it as a weapon. The thing was though, the powerup added a piece to your ship. You could fire this piece of your ship off at enemies.

I remember there was a jungle level (2nd or 3rd stage, because you were "going down to the planet" or something, I don't remember the story very well), but aside from that and the part where you fire off parts of your ship as weapons (but then, how many games have had this?), I don't remember much.

Any ideas? :[

ktownhero · Post by **ktownhero** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:03 pm

I played a lot of DOS games, but I have no clue. I'm curious though.

EDIT: Wait, you aren't talking about something like R-Type are you?

tyam · Post by **tyam** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:07 pm

It wasn't R-Type. I'm 99% sure. It was on some disc I had of like 150 DOS games (or whatever, it was packed with a bunch of other games) and I no longer have the disc. I'm sure my parents discarded of this disc back in the day.

It was just some no-name game that I can't seem to locate ANY information about, but I did find someone on an IRC channel once that said it sounded familiar.

astrix · Post by **astrix** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:40 pm

Do you remember if the graphics were cga or vga? I've played acouple games that sound similar. I'll look through my old games and see if I can find anything similar.

tyam · Post by **tyam** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:57 pm

I'd say it was probably VGA, just because I think it was newer, and I don't remember it looking graphically bad. But this was probably 10+ years ago, so who knows. But I'd say VGA.

Also I'm not sure if it was limited to a demo or not, but I think it only had 3 or 4 actual stages.

Now, I might have made this part up in my mind, but I'm pretty sure the level progression went something like: space, land (in a forest area), and then I am not sure. Like I said, 10+ years ago.