Need help IDing a shmup

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:26 pm

OK, I'll do the best I can remembering the details.

I played this game about 14 years ago in Colorado, so memories are a little fuzzy. I think it was a Neo Geo cab. I kinda recall being able to select different games from the start.

Hori with a kind-of-cute nature/forest theme.

It's probably something I should know and most everyone will identify in 2 seconds and make me feel noobish.

It's Sunday.

lewisit · Post by **lewisit** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:06 pm

sounds a bit like Three Wonders or Mystic Riders?

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:37 pm

Yeah, sounds like Chariot from Three Wonders.
Midnight Wanderers is pretty sweet too IMO.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:49 pm

It's not Blazing Star then? That would be too easy, right?

Emph

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:18 pm

Capcom's Three Wonders PCB is a CPS1 based one and features three different games to choose from: Midnight Wanderers (an action genre based one), Chariot (a shmup based one) and Don't Pull (a puzzler genre based one).

High scores would be lost upon powering down for the night as there was no "back-up" battery to save such scores anyways. Upon being booted up the next day, the standard default high scores would appear as usual on a typical Three Wonders PCB. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:31 pm

What I don't get about Three Wonders is why they put two 8-way games with a puzzle game that clearly would be more fun with a 4-way joystick. So I never play the puzzle game when I put my PCB in the cab.

Emph

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:33 pm

Chariot is it. Thanks guys!

The memories are going to flow like wine.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:23 pm

Old thread is old.

Finally got around to playing it...no dice. Very similar, though. I remember a very green/foresty background, but that's about it.

lawnspic · Post by **lawnspic** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:45 am

First thing that came to mind was Top Hunter. I dont know if it was a shmup you were looking for

Edit: sorry realized you were lookng for a shmup

Wait is it Captain Tomaday?

Shelcoof · Post by **Shelcoof** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:31 am

Blues Journey!!!!

jk jk

I think your talking about Blazing Star okay maybe not Blazing Star

Thats the only one I can think of at the moment for the Neo

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:41 pm

Are there very green forest backgrounds in Cotton games?
Maybe it's one of the Cotton series...?

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

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:08 pm

I think I'd remember a name like Cotton. I wouldn't expect a 7-11 to have Cotton, either. But some of those screens look familiar...

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:23 pm

It couldn't possibly be Fantasy Zone or Ordyne, could it?

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:28 pm

They're both a bit too cartoonish. And I'd say this title was early-mid 90s.

Chariot looks incredibly similar to the image I have in my head, though.

lawnspic · Post by **lawnspic** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:09 pm

It sounds like Captain Tomaday

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:15 pm

lawnspic wrote:It sounds like Captain Tomaday

Nah, it was horizontal.

It's gotta be out there somewhere.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:23 pm

Square King wrote:Chariot looks incredibly similar to the image I have in my head, though.

What about Mystic Riders?

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:49 pm

It may also be Eco Fighters

but if I had to take a bet I would say Cotton, level 2 of Cotton is pretty much exactly like youre describing.

I guess it could also be Insector X

and finally in the pretty damn obscure category theres Black Heart:

Shelcoof · Post by **Shelcoof** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:03 am

320x240 wrote:
Square King wrote:Chariot looks incredibly similar to the image I have in my head, though.
What about Mystic Riders?

this game looks cute gotta try this one out

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:33 am

Sounds like Three Wonders. Did you happen to be playing the Midnight Wanderers game, by any chance?

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:58 am

It's already been said that it isn't Three Wonders.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:33 am

But there really isn't much that fits that description. It may very well have been the platformer he was playing, and not Chariot. It's worth a look to see.

Ixmucane · Post by **Ixmucane** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:29 pm

lgb wrote:But there really isn't much that fits that description. It may very well have been the platformer he was playing, and not Chariot. It's worth a look to see.

That's what I thought too; memory can play tricks.
Multiplay arcade games are few; those from the right period that include a forest-themed shmup not at all unlike Chariot can be counted on the fingers of one finger, unless there was some rarity that nobody around here knows about.
Or unless it wasn't a multiplay game after all.

Afterbirth · Post by **Afterbirth** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:39 pm

Prehistoric Isle in 1930 or Prehistoric Isle 2. The first was arcade but the second was NG.

Zed blade was another but thats not Cutesy.

Boogie Wings is another rarity. I don't think any of those were multiplay unless they were on the NG system

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:54 pm

Thanks guys. I'll delve more into these options after final exams. It probably was the platformer.

gamingjustin · Post by **gamingjustin** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:42 pm

EDIT: Already suggested, I see. Sorry 'bout that.

Random guess here, but could it be The Great Ragtime Show/Boogie Wings (Data East, 1992)? I really can't think of much else...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRxq-_- ... re=related