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[Ed Oscuro]

A question from VorTex at the Retrogaming Roundtable

Infos:

-guy thinks he played it c.1992 at a milkbar
-name not pronouncable in the king's english
-feels the ship had four engines

-Probably vertical (edit: may be "what some retards call 'vertizontal,'" as Rob says)
-Weapon powerups increase the ship's size
-you can have bullets, "lasres," missiles, and homing missiles all going at once

Courtesy of Mysterious Player from 17 years ago, the most important feature, probably the one to crack the case:
-At game start, go left (I dunno where exactly, or if it matters), and sit there for 10 seconds and don't give the game any input. You'll run into a super secret powerup that'll give you full everything.

GAMES HE HAS ALREADY TRIED:

1941 - Counter attack
1941 counter attack 2
1942
1943 - Battle of midway
1943- Midway kaisen
1943 - KAI
1944 - loop master
1945
1945 - war against
3 wonders
4d wariors
after burner
after burner 2
acrtobat mission
aero fighters
Aerofighter 2
aero fighters 3
action fighter
air gallet
air buster
aiur duel
ajax
alpha mission
arbalester
argus
arlarjoa
armed formation
ashura blaster
astro blaster
asuka
aurail
armed police batrider
batsugen
battle road
battle chopper
bermuda triangle
bgaregen
bgaregga
bgaregnz
blastoff
blaze on
blazer
blazing star
black heart
blasteroids
bells n whistels
black hawk
brain
blade
carrier
carrier air wing 2 , 3
US navy
Chimera beast
Chula taisen
City bomber
Cobra command
cammando
Senjou no okami
cosmic hear
cosmic gang
crate raider
cybattle
daioh
dangar
darius
darius 2, 3
darius gaiden
Darius gaiden - silver hawk
Darwin 4078
do don pachi
demon world
Demon world - Hooro
desert war
dangun feverson
diamhoo
dogfight
donpachjp
Dyter
eco fighters
EDF
eighter force [I believe this is Eight Forces, which doesn't seem to be it]
Eguittier
Espial
ESP
Exed exes
exerion
fever sos
fighting hawk
finaliser
finest hour
fire battl;e
fire shark
flying shark
funkiy bee
future spy
glaga 88
galaxian
gallop
galmedes
gardian
gatsbee
genkirdian
gemini wing
giga wing - 1 , 2 , 3
ghost polot
gradious 3
grid seeker
gulf storm
gulf war
gun bird
gunforce 2
gun frontier
gun lock
gun nail
gun smoke
guwange
gyrodine
gyruss
halzi
haleys comet
hellfire
horizion
hotdog storm
hyperduel
image fgighter
in the hunt
juno first
last day
lethal thuinder
lost world
last resort
legendary wings
misson 660
super space fortress
madshark
magmax
mahou disukusen
mayday
mazinger 2
mercs
metafox
metal black
mirai niija
madplanet
mr hell - Diaboutchen [Mr. Heli]
mx5000
mystic warriors
nebulus ray
nemisis
night wrticker
ninja emaki
novar 2001
omega fighters
outzone
p47 aces
phelous
plus alpha
progear
raider
raipd hero
rayforce
r0-shark
r-type 1,2,3, leo
rydin
samesame
savage bees
section z
side arms
sky alert
skyfox
skyshark
skywold
spy hunter
twin cobra
thunder buster
thunder blaster
twin eagle
vasara
vasara 2
war of aero
xexexe x [Xexex I bet]
x mutiply
zero wings
zing zing [Zip]
There were some others mentioned by other posters:

RayCrisis [yeah sure]
RayStorm
19XX
Xevious
Vulgus
XX Mission
Dogyuun

Terra Cresta
Terra Force
Bio-Ship Paladin
Super Real Darwin
Dangerous Seed.
Gardia
Nostradamus
Tokio / Scramble Formation
Scramble Spirits
Thunder Cross I & II

[emphatic]

Slap Fight.

But for the secret power up, start game and don't touch the controls until the ship is killed.

[Ed Oscuro]

It's not slap fight. Forgot to include the list of played games in the initial post, but some of the really obvious choices like Slap Fight are out.

Edit: Although Slap Fight is obviously the only choice that makes sense. He said the thing came in some kind of sit-down cocktail with a "full screen," unlike a "3/4 vertical screen," so I'm wondering if this wasn't the Mega Drive Slap Fight somehow hooked up to a coin machine.

Could just be Alcon and his memory has made it look prettier than it actually was.

[emphatic]

It's not slap fight. Forgot to include the list of played games in the initial post, but some of the really obvious choices like Slap Fight are out.

That's crap. Triggering this secret gives you full wings (increase chosen weapon power) + homing missiles. This just is to unique to be some other game. Your "friend" is remembering incorrectly.

Has he seen screen shots of it, or does he just "know" that it's not Slap Fight. Perhaps he's only played ALCON.

[Rob]

-At game start, go left (I dunno where exactly, or if it matters), and sit there for 10 seconds and don't give the game any input. You'll run into a super secret powerup that'll give you full everything.

Maybe he tated Gaiares.

This seems impossible. What games hasn't he tried?

[Ed Oscuro]

Probably anything not listed in the first post.

Lol, people are asking him to play games like NAM 1975, and he played Desert War. 1992 kind of puts a crimp on things; I think we all know the games from that period and before well enough to say what it ain't.

As I wrote a while ago, I also strongly suspect "time enhanced" memories.

I myself hadn't played Slap Fight using this powerup trick; it seems like a good way to play the game (less hassle than powering up manually and I also like them little garage door opener panels that open in the ground for points).

If he can be convinced that's the right game, I'll probably ask this thread to be deleted 'cuz I was hoping to find out about some cool new game. Probably wasn't meant to happen today.

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