Can anyone name this game? :Take this!!!!! Adios Pal

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Can anyone name this game? :Take this!!!!! Adios Pal

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Hey guys

I'm trying to track down what game this is but haven't a clue as to what the name is.

Game is very old it's a run and gun shooter sort of like shock troopers and Mercs over the top sorta thing.

You start off by selecting your characters, I believe you can select up to 3 or 4 characters, each with different weapons you can change during the game.

First weapon is a shotgun that spreads but is very close range, 2nd weapon I remember is a machine gun which fires a straight line across the screen.

You also have one nuke button and when you press it guy shouts out "Take this!!!!! Adios Pal". That phrase there is one of the most memorable things I can remember about the game.

First stage is set in a desert I believe and you battle your way up and across it. You go around killing people and at the same time you can pick up new weapons like a shot gun or machine gun.

That's all I can remember hope some one here can help
Thanks
Jimmy

Edit: Thanks to the help of each member here and especially to emphatic for figuring it out to be Thunder Zone :)

Much appreciation guys :)
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the description totally fits Metal Slug 2 except for the "nuke button" part. I guess you probably already know Metal Slug 2 anyway :p
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PROMETHEUS wrote:the description totally fits Metal Slug 2 except for the "nuke button" part. I guess you probably already know Metal Slug 2 anyway :p
lol now that I think about it, it does

but Metal Slug is a platform where as this game is more like Mercs, Shock Troopers.

I remembered when I was a kid I use to play Mercs and this game and do well with just one credit.
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it sounds very familiar to me as well...i will have a look through mame when i get home tonight

im interested in what it is as well...i love shock troopers :D

oh you mean adios, pal....makes more sense.....i was like huh? audios pal? :oops:
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Gundhara/Shock Troopers/Mercs and the like are nice games. You've got me curious as to what kind of top down game this is. I hope someone can help you out, friend.
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devastators?
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jonny5 wrote:it sounds very familiar to me as well...i will have a look through mame when i get home tonight

im interested in what it is as well...i love shock troopers :D

oh you mean adios, pal....makes more sense.....i was like huh? audios pal? :oops:
Yhaa "Adios, Pal" is it.... sorry for the spelling... Not sure how to spell out the spanish words.

the biggest give away that I can think of to recognizing this game is the phrase TAKE THIS!!!! Adios Pal" when you nuke the guys on screen.
sven666 wrote:devastators?
Nah it's not Devastators but good try though.. it looks like a good game, I never heard of it either.

This game looks a lot nicer than the game I'm thinking about though.

Thanks guys for all the replies really appreciate it :)

Edit: Looking up Gunhard right now but having a hard time.
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slightly OT but where abouts are you in canada?

im in toronto :D
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jonny5 wrote:slightly OT but where abouts are you in canada?

im in toronto :D
Hey Jonny yhaa I'm in Ottawa not too far from TO :)
nice to see a fellow Canadian here
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if you are ever in toronto shoot me a pm and you can come by and play some games :D
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Shelcoof wrote:
Edit: Looking up Gunhard right now but having a hard time.
I think he meant Gundhara.
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Sweet I believe it's Thunder Zone!!! Muhahaha

Man I loved that game in the arcades. Thanks a bunch guys for helping.

So now that I figured out which game it is... have you guys played it? If so what are your thoughts on the game?

:)

Edit: Looked it up again and I thought I saw the game as Desert Assault? Which was the name I originally thought it was to be but instead of Desert Assault I thought it was Desert Strike.
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Islamic terrorists riding stealable snowmobiles... in the desert.

Character portraits that change as you take damage, with images like your character rubbing his neck with a word balloon saying "GOD!!!!"

Minigames where you crawl through an obstacle course while being electrocuted.

It could play better, and the double-tap run is annoying, but how may top-downs can compete in style? ADIOS, PAL.

Anyway, it looks like Thunder Zone was called Desert Assault in the U.S. There's a helicopter game called Desert Strike, which might have caused the name confusion.
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/me knows what he is playing at work tomorrow :wink:
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The game sure sucks, but sure has a lot of awesome stuff in it!
"I'm burning!!"
The spotlight level is pretty cool, so is searching the building on the hostage level.
But the most awesome part is wher, if on two player, that brief moment before one dies, where the other can cary them around and the can shoot in other directions :D
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