Once again, name that shmup

escadrille · Post by **escadrille** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:03 pm

Another early 90's Raiden-esque vert shmup. The gimmick with this one was that your stock of secondary weapons/bombs trailed behind your ship as a tail of icons, and these were fired in order by pressing the bomb button. Grabbing a bomb powerup added it to your "tail" of bombs. There were several different types of bombs as well. You could store quite a few and the "tail" got pretty long as I recall.

Thoughts?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:11 pm

Gemini Wing?

escadrille · Post by **escadrille** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:20 pm

Rob wrote:Gemini Wing?

Bingo, that's it.

It''s funny, in my memory the graphics always look about one generation better than they actually are. Gemini Wing is definately the game, but I imagined the graphics being closer to Raiden Fighters. Time can be harsh.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:30 pm

escadrille wrote:It''s funny, in my memory the graphics always look about one generation better than they actually are. Gemini Wing is definately the game, but I imagined the graphics being closer to Raiden Fighters. Time can be harsh.

Haha indeed! Either everything looks great when you're a kid, or the technological advancements made over time make older stuff look archaic. I'm not sure which.

Dragon1952 · Post by **Dragon1952** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:23 am

Yeah, and the board used to make Gemini Wing was driven by an 8bit CPU! Not even a 16 bit 68000! How could it look that good! The mind remembers things in a funny way sometimes....