Any coin op experts out there?

Paleomorphic · Post by **Paleomorphic** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:10 pm

Hi guys, I posted this in the wrong forum, I am a bit of a noob here so please forgive ^^ :-

Hi one and all, I'm looking for a game I used to play on coin ops when I was younger.
I have forgotten the name but it was pretty cool and I can't seem to get the tune out of my head.
It was a vertical scrolling shmup with power ups that turned the ship into a phoenix at max level.
I believe it was around between 1983 and 1990, although it may have been made before.
Does anyone know what it was called?
Cheers for helping, ~Paleomorphic.

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:18 pm

go ahead, open 5 more threads.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:18 pm

It's probably R-Type. But just to make sure, could you whistle the tune, record it as an audio file and upload it?

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:37 pm

Terra Cresta?

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:45 pm

Ceph wrote:R-Type

FAIL MEME

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:45 pm

Zweihander wrote:Terra Cresta?

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:27 am

Jockel wrote:go ahead, open 5 more threads.

Ceph wrote:It's probably R-Type. But just to make sure, could you whistle the tune, record it as an audio file and upload it?

What's up with the attitude, did this guy do anything uncool to be welcomed like that ? :/

bkk · Post by **bkk** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:16 am

PROMETHEUS wrote:What's up with the attitude, did this guy do anything uncool to be welcomed like that ? :/

He apologised for his mistake and was generally polite, is this what you want the forum to be like?

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:15 am

PROMETHEUS wrote:
Jockel wrote:go ahead, open 5 more threads.

Ceph wrote:It's probably R-Type. But just to make sure, could you whistle the tune, record it as an audio file and upload it?
What's up with the attitude, did this guy do anything uncool to be welcomed like that ? :/

Ceph always comes out with this stupid shit when a new guy posts

One of our worst members...

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:45 am

R-Type is a funny meme, but goddamn, it's ruined when you're an asshole with it to newcomers.

I think the elitism faggotry on the forums has raised since I first visited back in '04, since if it was as bad then as it is now, I would have looked elsewhere for a shmupping community.

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:08 am

SFKhoa wrote:
Zweihander wrote:Terra Cresta?

Oh and... welcome Paleomorphic!

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:51 am

welcome new guy!

Honestly- I don't condone ragging on the new guys- but I am seriously surprised Ceph's answer didn't involve pimping out his 2d forum website.

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:46 am

PROMETHEUS wrote:What's up with the attitude, did this guy do anything uncool to be welcomed like that ? :/

I think it's highly uncool to open the same thread twice.
Remember the other guy who made 3 threads on roughly the same topic?
If the very first thing you do in a forum is stupid, you are bound to get a little bit of bashing.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:18 pm

proboably darwin 408 (numbers might not be 100% there), talked about it with a couple of friends yesterday actually.

your ship turns into a pheonix after the correct powerups and such.

there is also a vert scrolling shmup called pheonix from roughly the same timeperiod...

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:04 pm

sven666 wrote:proboably darwin 408 (numbers might not be 100% there)

Yes, you forgot a 7.

Darwin 4078. I like the game, it gets pretty manic on later stages, problem is the bullets get so fast, you won't know what hit you...

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:35 pm

ZOM wrote:
sven666 wrote:proboably darwin 408 (numbers might not be 100% there)
Yes, you forgot a 7.

Darwin 4078. I like the game, it gets pretty manic on later stages, problem is the bullets get so fast, you won't know what hit you...

The bullet speed isn't that bad, it's the background graphics that keeps you from seeing the bullets. I thought of Darwin 4078 as well, but the bird is black in that and not a Phoenix as in Terra Cresta.

Glad you think of me as a friend sven666, even though you keep calling me "bitch".

Emph

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:49 pm

hahaha " I calls em like I sees em, whale biologist"

gabe · Post by **gabe** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:08 pm

Jockel wrote:I think it's highly uncool to open the same thread twice.
Remember the other guy who made 3 threads on roughly the same topic?
If the very first thing you do in a forum is stupid, you are bound to get a little bit of bashing.

I tend to agree...

Even at it's worst, this site seems to be much more welcoming/forgiving than any other site I post on. This community is even nice to spammers!

pcb_revival · Post by **pcb_revival** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:36 pm

Paleomorphic wrote:Hi guys, I posted this in the wrong forum, I am a bit of a noob here so please forgive ^^ :-

Hi one and all, I'm looking for a game I used to play on coin ops when I was younger.
I have forgotten the name but it was pretty cool and I can't seem to get the tune out of my head.
It was a vertical scrolling shmup with power ups that turned the ship into a phoenix at max level.
I believe it was around between 1983 and 1990, although it may have been made before.
Does anyone know what it was called?
Cheers for helping, ~Paleomorphic.

I do remember playing a game like this either that or I am confused with something else.

Like you you say it was a good while back.

Or maybe it could be the Dragon Laser weapon from Konami Lightning Fighters?

You sure it was a arcade coin operated game.

Not played the below games but -

Final Blaster on PC Engine as a Phoenix shot/ship.

PCE Burning Angels as a supposedly Phoenix ship.

EDIT.

Yes looking at images of Terra Cresta thats the game I played.

Never played it since all those years ago - pre JAMMA edge.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:07 pm

Zweihander wrote:
Terra Cresta?

Of course its Terra Cresta. We had it in our local arcade last year (in a multigame cab that is).

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:13 pm

gabe wrote:
Jockel wrote:I think it's highly uncool to open the same thread twice.
Remember the other guy who made 3 threads on roughly the same topic?
If the very first thing you do in a forum is stupid, you are bound to get a little bit of bashing.
I tend to agree...

Even at it's worst, this site seems to be much more welcoming/forgiving than any other site I post on. This community is even nice to spammers!

When I first came here I didn't know you could edit or delete a post on a forum... Maybe this guy didn't either. He even apologized... It's not like a he was being a cocky retard like the Under Defeat WR guy...

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:54 pm

well yeah but at the time of writing, he has 2 posts, and 1 is a dupe.
that renders 50% of his posts as annoyance

ps: IC AN CLEAR DODONPACHI WITHOUT SHOOTIGN!!!!!11111212121onetwoonetwo

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:04 pm

freddiebamboo wrote:Ceph always comes out with this stupid shit when a new guy posts

Naturally. It's no fun doing it with the old sourpusses.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:39 am

If you are bothered by unfriendliness on an internet forum then you are probably mentally ill.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:00 am

captpain wrote::roll:

If you are bothered by unfriendliness on an internet forum then you are probably mentally ill.

Thank you for supporting me in promoting the most basic good manners.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:15 pm

PROMETHEUS wrote:
captpain wrote:

If you are bothered by unfriendliness on an internet forum then you are probably mentally ill.
Thank you for supporting me in promoting the most basic good manners.

Haha, fair enough... still, it's just some harmless ribbing of a guy who probably ought to be a little more deliberate with his posting.

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:16 am

When I first started posting here almost a year ago I posted a thread in the "Shmups Chat" forum about trying to get people from Southeast Michigan to meet up to play Shmups. I didn't get bashed. hahahaha.

power UP · Post by **power UP** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:15 pm

Ceph wrote:It's probably R-Type. But just to make sure, could you whistle the tune, record it as an audio file and upload it?

I thought you were serious. lol

Paleomorphic · Post by **Paleomorphic** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:36 pm

Cheers guys, Terra Cresta rings a bell, I'll check it out and thank you for all your help

Paleomorphic · Post by **Paleomorphic** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:44 pm

Yep, definately Terra Cresta. The nes version isn't as good as the coin op as I remember it, still owned my butt though...
Heres a link to the nintendo site:
http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/ ... a/game.php
If anyone can find a free to play version of this that is more like the coin op, drop me a line please?

shmups.system11.org

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