Help naming a certain shmup.

Zeek · Post by **Zeek** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:10 pm

Hi I am new here, but I love shmups and I forgot the name of a shmup I played when I was young, but I have plenty of details to help pinpoint what it could be.

This is an arcade shmup that I believe took place on earth. The roster had around 8 different planes. Each having their scenario as well as their own unique bomb. One plane had three people in it and their bomb transformed their plane into a giant red robot that I think had a drill and revolved its head like a lighthouse. Another plane I believe was black and its bomb turned it into a firebird/phoenix that burned whatever it touched and shot fireballs. Another plane was your basic plane that did a backflip and did a bomb like raiden's as a bomb. When you beat the game depending on whatever plane you chose, you had a different ending, I remember one being a wedding. Unfortunately I cannot describe any of the bosses or enemies to you, but the bosses were huge and later had different phases.

I hope I gave you enough details. Finding this game has been eating me away. Either way thank you.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:13 pm

Sonic Wings 3?: http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/sonicwi3

Emph

Zeek · Post by **Zeek** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:33 pm

Wow, it's been so long since I played it that I forgot what graphics looked like. Doesn't matter because it is awesome. Thank You.

oli_lar · Post by **oli_lar** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:53 pm

seeing as that ones solved, can i take a turn? REALLY sketchy details, but may as well try. It was probably released mid ninties from the graphics - the only other thing I remember is fighting a big monkey (seem to remember it being a hovering monkey too..) - probably a mid/end of level boss. I remember it being a hori...but it might be a vert. I guess there aren't many shmups with monkeys in them!

I played it at an arcade at a campsite in Devon (UK) while on holiday about 8 years ago. Can't remember anything else about the setting/ship etc, sorry...

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:05 pm

oli_lar wrote:seeing as that ones solved, can i take a turn? REALLY sketchy details, but may as well try. It was probably released mid ninties from the graphics - the only other thing I remember is fighting a big monkey (seem to remember it being a hovering monkey too..) - probably a mid/end of level boss. I remember it being a hori...but it might be a vert. I guess there aren't many shmups with monkeys in them!

I played it at an arcade at a campsite in Devon (UK) while on holiday about 8 years ago. Can't remember anything else about the setting/ship etc, sorry...

An arcade shmup PCB with a monkey as an end-stage boss? Hmmm, that is definitely an odd-ball arcade PCB if there was one. Sounds like it's the one and only Toki PCB, right? I recall that Toki got a very limited arcade PCB print run courtesy of Fabtek for the USA arcade market. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:04 pm

Hori + monkey = Donkey Kong 3, with Stanley?

Or how about Seta's "Caliber 50" ? Not a "shmup," it's a top-down run 'n' gun. Has all the monkey you can handle, though.

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:An arcade shmup PCB with a monkey as an end-stage boss?

Picking at nits here, but I thought the first stage boss is just some weird dude. You play as a caveman-turned-into-a-ninja-monkey, and there's definitely a vehicle being piloted by monkeys as a sort of midboss in the first stage. That thing hovers though. Lots of floaty jumping monkeys in that game.

oli_lar · Post by **oli_lar** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:05 pm

It wasn't a run n gun or platformer game, definetly a hori shmup. Trying to rack my brains for anything else, but thats it

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:25 pm

I know that one of the end bosses in Sonic Wings Special was a monkey (and was perhaps taken from an earlier Sonic Wings? Not sure), but that was a vert. Harmful Park also had you blast a gorilla, but that was never an arcade release. Offhand it sounds like something that Boogie Wings would have had in it, but I've never played it, so that's a total guess...I don't think any of the Parodius games ever had monkey bosses, right?

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:09 am

Sonic Wings 2 has a Monkey as the very last boss I think.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L526wyM ... playnext=1

What are the odds? First SW3 and now SW2.
Emph

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:10 am

Could be Cotton Boomerang

the first boss looks like an ape.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:50 am

Hmm, didn't think of that, oddly enough...Cotton 2 obviously shares that same first boss.

John845 · Post by **John845** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:36 am

oli_lar wrote:seeing as that ones solved, can i take a turn? REALLY sketchy details, but may as well try. It was probably released mid ninties from the graphics - the only other thing I remember is fighting a big monkey (seem to remember it being a hovering monkey too..) - probably a mid/end of level boss. I remember it being a hori...but it might be a vert. I guess there aren't many shmups with monkeys in them!

I played it at an arcade at a campsite in Devon (UK) while on holiday about 8 years ago. Can't remember anything else about the setting/ship etc, sorry...

Aero Fighters 2/Sonic Wings 2?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuebFobb ... re=related

Go to 4:40 and you see the monkey that you speak of. The game is a vert btw.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:19 am

Harmful Park?

CFO · Post by **CFO** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:55 am

Dale wrote:Harmful Park?

That's not arcade and it doesn't have more then one ship.

This game sounds like strikers 1945 II or III to me

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:49 am

Aerofighters has a monkey at the end sometimes I believe- he reapears in 2 and I think also three

nash87 · Post by **nash87** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:54 am

oli_lar wrote:seeing as that ones solved, can i take a turn? REALLY sketchy details, but may as well try. It was probably released mid ninties from the graphics - the only other thing I remember is fighting a big monkey (seem to remember it being a hovering monkey too..) - probably a mid/end of level boss. I remember it being a hori...but it might be a vert. I guess there aren't many shmups with monkeys in them!

I played it at an arcade at a campsite in Devon (UK) while on holiday about 8 years ago. Can't remember anything else about the setting/ship etc, sorry...

was there a character roster with around 5-8 characters? I remember playing as a dolphin in some weird vert that had a monkey boss. Unfortunately, i can't remember the name of it and the arcade i played it at is gone

it seemed like a psikyo shmup

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:15 am

nash87 wrote:
oli_lar wrote:seeing as that ones solved, can i take a turn? REALLY sketchy details, but may as well try. It was probably released mid ninties from the graphics - the only other thing I remember is fighting a big monkey (seem to remember it being a hovering monkey too..) - probably a mid/end of level boss. I remember it being a hori...but it might be a vert. I guess there aren't many shmups with monkeys in them!

I played it at an arcade at a campsite in Devon (UK) while on holiday about 8 years ago. Can't remember anything else about the setting/ship etc, sorry...
was there a character roster with around 5-8 characters? I remember playing as a dolphin in some weird vert that had a monkey boss. Unfortunately, i can't remember the name of it and the arcade i played it at is gone it seemed like a psikyo shmup

That's as good a definition of the Aero Fighters series as I've ever heard.

I don't know if Aero Fighters is what Lar's looking for, though, unless he's wrong about the game being a hori.

oli_lar · Post by **oli_lar** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:38 am

John845 wrote:
oli_lar wrote:seeing as that ones solved, can i take a turn? REALLY sketchy details, but may as well try. It was probably released mid ninties from the graphics - the only other thing I remember is fighting a big monkey (seem to remember it being a hovering monkey too..) - probably a mid/end of level boss. I remember it being a hori...but it might be a vert. I guess there aren't many shmups with monkeys in them!

I played it at an arcade at a campsite in Devon (UK) while on holiday about 8 years ago. Can't remember anything else about the setting/ship etc, sorry...
Aero Fighters 2/Sonic Wings 2?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuebFobb ... re=related

Go to 4:40 and you see the monkey that you speak of. The game is a vert btw.

Thats the one I think, at least thats how I remember the monkey (on a hovering platform thing)...though for some reason it was stuck in my head as a hori.

Strange, is that the last boss then? I've always attempted to 1CC shmups whenever I found them in arcades, even before I properly got into them a few years ago, and that would have been my first time playing that game. I remember I didn't get past that boss, but I would have done well to get up to there on 1 credit!

I must be getting rusty in my old age

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:01 pm

oli_lar wrote:though for some reason it was stuck in my head as a hori.

Well, technically, it is a hori. But the gameplay is vertical.

Emph

nash87 · Post by **nash87** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:18 pm

If it helps jog your memory at all, granted we're thinking of the same game, i just remembered that one of the characters had the ability to stop time, and the dolphin (as i remember) had head gear.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:46 pm

Sonic Wings

And the dolphin is in Sonic Wings 3

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