Name that game

[monkeyman]

Hi

Just wondering if anyone can remember the name of an arcade game I remember playing way back then.

Can't give much to go off because it was years ago and I only got to play it a few times before the arcade machine broke down.

Was a fantasy hack and slash style game but played top down (as opposed to side scrolling like golden axe). Also the screen only scrolled upwards (so it wasn't gauntlet) in fact, think a fantasy version of commando and your not far off.

Oh and it must've been late 80s / v early 90s era. (SF2 was one of the other games at the arcade).

Any ideas?

[JoshF]

Vandyke

[monkeyman]

You're a genius!

[Specineff]

Okay, my turn.

I know this one was released for Famicom, and I think only for Japan:

The game is a platformer, featuring a crawling baby dressed in blue. He carries a rattle which he uses to inflate enemies (usually piggies or seals) and push them off the screen. He also has a stage or two in which he digs through a big cake by eating his way into the core. The backgrounds are usually food or toys.

Probably made by Taito, Hudson or Asmik.

[Ghegs]

That's Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, and it's by Konami.

[Specineff]

Thanks!

[BulletMagnet]

You might've already been aware, but Upa and Rupa appear as playable characters in Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius.

^_~

[Ed Oscuro]

Does anybody remember this game where you went down a tunnel on a rope and...I think you hit vultures coming out of the walls with a big Wisconsin cheese hat? It sounds weird, but...I think it was on NES.

[Ghegs]

Does anybody remember this game where you went down a tunnel on a rope and...I think you hit vultures coming out of the walls with a big Wisconsin cheese hat? It sounds weird, but...I think it was on NES.

That sort of sounds like the stage 2 of Battletoads?

[saucykobold]

I think that was a stab at levity.

[monkeyman]

Since everyone round here seems to know every game in the world I thought I'd see if you could put a name to another faded memory of mine.

Top down tank shooting game where I think you drive around floating islands (or maybe asteroids) in space. Had a special control setup where you had two sticks (like an actual tank?), push both forward to move foward, both back to reverse, alternate forward and back to turn and both left or right to roll over and over (not like a real tank).

Odd how I remember the control setup but can't remember the name of the game. Hell i even remember it had Chase HQ next to it at the local laser quest. Prob late 80s given my age at the time.

thanks in advance

[Specineff]

Assault by Namco!

[PC Engine Fan X mode]

This board used two Motorola 68k chips as CPU or CPU + Coprocessor configuration, in addition to a dedicated, modular graphics board that could be upgraded or exchanged depending on the game. The gamut of games on this board ran from the simple Legend of Valkyrie to the sprite-cruncher Steel Gunner and Steel Gunner 2. This probably was done as a response to Sega's multi-CPU boards used in Super Hang-On and Space Harrier. It boasts truly impressive rotation and scaling effects, several years before the SNES made them mainstream. [/PCE FX mode]

[monkeyman]

Assault by Namco!

[PC Engine Fan X mode]

This board used two Motorola 68k chips as CPU or CPU + Coprocessor configuration, in addition to a dedicated, modular graphics board that could be upgraded or exchanged depending on the game. The gamut of games on this board ran from the simple Legend of Valkyrie to the sprite-cruncher Steel Gunner and Steel Gunner 2. This probably was done as a response to Sega's multi-CPU boards used in Super Hang-On and Space Harrier. It boasts truly impressive rotation and scaling effects, several years before the SNES made them mainstream. [/PCE FX mode]

Now that's just showing off!

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Assault upright cab was distributed in the USA by Atari Games and licensed from Namco back in the day. Even Konami's A-Jax/Typhoon arcade shmup PCB has impressive sprite scaling and rotation capabilities when it made it's grand debut at arcades worldwide back in 1987.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[popawell]

I remember something that was like Virtual on (spelled right?). Except it was with tanks, your time was measured in square blocks, ammo was limited, and the defeated player got to see his pilot all scorched after his tank went boom.

Damn long time ago I saw it (the arcade is long gone) and no other local arcade ever had it.

[JoshF]

T-Mek probably.

[popawell]

T-Mek probably.

Nope. The one I remember was 3D.

[Specineff]

Cyber Sled by Namco.

[popawell]

Cyber Sled by Namco.

Bingo.

[Shocky]

This one is a shmup. From early 90'es I think. It's a hori, quite simplistic, you fly a jet plane (might have been black) and destroy war machinery. The backgrounds were mostly just sky. One button launched a laser attack, a big pink or flashing red rough-edged beam that could be used to swipe the screen when the button is down. Much like the Break Laser in Border Down. The best clue is that in the cabinet, and maybe the game itself, it read "Backfire". Since I cannot find anything by this name, I suspect it's better known by some other name, but what?

[system11]

Sound like someone left a Backfire marquee in the cab - a driving game (joystick).

[Ex-Cyber]

This one is a shmup. From early 90'es I think. It's a hori, quite simplistic, you fly a jet plane (might have been black) and destroy war machinery. The backgrounds were mostly just sky. One button launched a laser attack, a big pink or flashing red rough-edged beam that could be used to swipe the screen when the button is down. Much like the Break Laser in Border Down. The best clue is that in the cabinet, and maybe the game itself, it read "Backfire". Since I cannot find anything by this name, I suspect it's better known by some other name, but what?

Back Fire (Tecmo, bootleg)

[lilmanjs]

T-Mek probably.

I was gonna ask if anyone could identify a game, and then I searched for videos of this game and it turned out to be the one I remember playing with my dad as a kid for ages. loved sitting down and playing that game. fond memories of our arcade that no longer is around.

[Ed Oscuro]

The best clue is that in the cabinet, and maybe the game itself, it read "Backfire". Since I cannot find anything by this name, I suspect it's better known by some other name, but what?

Silk Worm.

I'm not sure bloodf and Ex-Cyber are talking about. Backfire is either an unreleased prototype, very rare, or a bootleg, depending on what websights you believe (MAME seems to indicate it was a bootleg mainly and possibly also a limited release under that name).

Check this out: http://unmamed.mameworld.info/non_other80.html
and this: http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/backfirt

Does anybody remember this game where you went down a tunnel on a rope and...I think you hit vultures coming out of the walls with a big Wisconsin cheese hat? It sounds weird, but...I think it was on NES.

That sort of sounds like the stage 2 of Battletoads?

[system11]

The best clue is that in the cabinet, and maybe the game itself, it read "Backfire". Since I cannot find anything by this name, I suspect it's better known by some other name, but what?

Silk Worm.

Is nothing like how he described. I didn't know about the Tecmo bootleg existing, but Data East did an isometric joystick controlled racing game called Backfire, I was wondering if the cab just hadan old marquee left in it.

[Ed Oscuro]

You're right, it's probably the Data East Backfire marquee left in a cabinet. That game still sounds like Silk Worm (or Cobra-Command even) except for the black jet and the laser...which sounds like a pretty major gameplay aspect. I have a feeling I'll know this one when it's found.

[Shocky]

This one is a shmup. From early 90'es I think. It's a hori, quite simplistic, you fly a jet plane (might have been black) and destroy war machinery. The backgrounds were mostly just sky. One button launched a laser attack, a big pink or flashing red rough-edged beam that could be used to swipe the screen when the button is down. Much like the Break Laser in Border Down. The best clue is that in the cabinet, and maybe the game itself, it read "Backfire". Since I cannot find anything by this name, I suspect it's better known by some other name, but what?

Back Fire (Tecmo, bootleg)

Thanks, even though I seem to have remembered some things wrong (the color of the plane..), this is definitely it!
I'll try it as soon as I get MAME OS X to actually run games instead of having an "Updating game list" text on the screen ad infinitum... (?)

The best clue is that in the cabinet, and maybe the game itself, it read "Backfire". Since I cannot find anything by this name, I suspect it's better known by some other name, but what?

Silk Worm.

I'm not sure bloodf and Ex-Cyber are talking about. Backfire is either an unreleased prototype, very rare, or a bootleg, depending on what websights you believe (MAME seems to indicate it was a bootleg mainly and possibly also a limited release under that name).

Check this out: http://unmamed.mameworld.info/non_other80.html
and this: http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/romset/backfirt

Thanks for the info! Whoah, a skeletal dinosaur? Never reached that one in the coin-op.

The best clue is that in the cabinet, and maybe the game itself, it read "Backfire". Since I cannot find anything by this name, I suspect it's better known by some other name, but what?

Silk Worm.

Is nothing like how he described. I didn't know about the Tecmo bootleg existing, but Data East did an isometric joystick controlled racing game called Backfire, I was wondering if the cab just hadan old marquee left in it.

Yeah, I used to play Silk Worm a lot during that time and never thought these two had anything in common. In the above links it says that it only used some background graphics from Silk Worm. Anyway, I obviously remembered the name from the marquee wrong and it was "Back Fire" instead of "Backfire" (in the actual game title it says "BackFire"). Good theory though!

[=SNC=]

Hello I'm searching for an arcade game that was in my neighbourhood arcade, I don't remember much though, let's see if I can give some infos:

1) The year was around 1990-1992 I remember that near that game there was shadow dancer so probably it's no something older than 1992 but not 100% sure
2) It's not a shmup
3) I remeber that at the beginning you had to select between 6 different stages
4) You were this megaman like guy your main attack was a punch that became bigger like a balloon if powerupped
5) To make points you had to kill enemies in rows, here I explain: enemies came down from the upper screen in a random way than they would line up for a moment <--- time to punch the first guy on the line and send him against the others like it's bowling^^.

That's all I can remember.

Thank you in advance!

[BulletMagnet]

It sounds rather like Funky Jet.

[=SNC=]

It sounds rather like Funky Jet.

AND IT IS!

Thank you so much bullet magnet! I've been searching this game for ages! ^_^ Thank you Thank you Thank you!