help me find this shoot em up

nomis7188 · Post by **nomis7188** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:20 pm

can anyone help me find a old shoot em up cant remember what its called .its an arcade machine from early 90's i can remember you were a space ship and collected power ups one which turned you into a robot another changed you back to spaceship vertical and horizontal scrolling really cool graphics on last boss you get a whole screen full of power ups

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:04 pm

Isn't one topic enough?

What system?

There's one game for Sega CD in which power ups turn you into a robot, Bari Arm (horizontal levels only). And I remember one for PC Engine in which you transform called Heavy Unit.

overkill55 · Post by **overkill55** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:22 pm

It would help to tell us what system its on (or arcade)

splitblkribbon · Post by **splitblkribbon** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:53 pm

Could it be Hyper Duel?

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ ... erduel.htm

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:55 pm

Rob already suggested it, but it doesn't sound like it. In Hyper Duel you can trasnform at will.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:12 pm

sounds like heavy unit.. its available for a bunch of systems aswell.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:35 pm

exzisus?

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:13 am

Could it be a Macross game?

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:00 am

Transbot?

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:38 pm

nomis7188 wrote:can anyone help me find a old shoot em up cant remember what its called .its an arcade machine from early 90's i can remember you were a space ship and collected power ups one which turned you into a robot another changed you back to spaceship vertical and horizontal scrolling really cool graphics on last boss you get a whole screen full of power ups

An arcade coin-op upright with said mystery shmup title -- very vague description given...could you elaborate a little bit more? ^_~

Sounds like it could be the first "Super Fortress Macross" arcade shmup title from Banpresto circa 1992. It had cool anime cut scenes shown between stages. It was distributed in the USA back during that timeframe. By grabbing certain power-up icons, your Variable Fighter (jet mode with variable swept wings functionality) could turn into Gerwalk mode (half jet/robot mode) and upon further icon collecting, could transform into Battloid mode (full humanoid slave unit mode).

By getting the cool flashing "A" icon, your Battloid could transform into an "Armored Valkyire" Battloid with GBP functionality. But SDF-Macross PCB was only released as a vertical side-scrolling shmup and never did have any horizontal side-scrolling stages at all...

This particular Macross PCB seems to have been based on the Macross 1984 anime film titled: Super Dimensional Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love ^_~

Could this be the one that you played back in the early 1990's?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Afterbirth · Post by **Afterbirth** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:54 am

What about Side Arms?
That was kinda omni-directional rather then Vert and Hori though.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:36 pm

I wouldn't even bother replying anymore, as it seems the guy isn't even checking his own thread.

Wait until he says "yes you are right" or "No, you are all wrong, those aren't the game I am looking for" to keep on guessing.

NAVVARR · Post by **NAVVARR** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:19 pm

He probably dreampt it.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:18 pm

Let's just assume everything is Battletoads.

nomis7188 · Post by **nomis7188** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:22 pm

no its none of those ones mentioned i think sorry peeps cant remember much about it beside when you were robot there were two fire buttons one fired purple stuff out of the middle of the bot and one red or blue the main thing i can remember is that just before the final boss you get a whole screen full of power ups

incognoscente · Post by **incognoscente** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:29 pm

Dogyuun ?

Shinichi Chiba · Post by **Shinichi Chiba** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:40 pm

incognoscente wrote:Dogyuun ?

Could be ? The only thing I remember about dogyuun is that it had a robot power up where you become a huge robot and all you could do is punch , could be wrong on that though !

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:49 pm

I wonder if we'll ever see that guy again

splitblkribbon · Post by **splitblkribbon** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:32 pm

szycag wrote:I wonder if we'll ever see that guy again

I doubt it.

roker · Post by **roker** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:32 pm

street fighter II?

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:55 am

roker wrote:street fighter II?

a winna is u!

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help me find this shoot em up

help me find this shoot em up

Re: help me find this shoot em up

oh yeah i did dream it !!!cock