Looking for an old arcade shoot-'em-up:

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:41 pm

I remember playing this game back in the mid-90s (I THINK... my memory is hazy). It was a vertical scroller with old-style airplanes similar to ProGear and Ghost Pilots (the sprites were big). I remember one of the bosses being a huge plane with arching wings that would retract back and forth... I think it even had little soldiers mounted as tailgunners that you had to shoot off. I haven't seen that game since the one time I played it. There's gotta be someone here who knows what the hell I'm talking about.

Any help would be appreciated

Sumez · Post by **Sumez** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:30 am

Wow, could be a lot of stuff.

Maybe check out this thread:
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 86&start=0

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:08 am

Thanks for responding. I read the thread and there were some that looked similar in style, but no cigar. It definitely has to have a big WWI-styled aeroplane boss with retracting wings. Another boss was a long, big centipede-lookin' craft (I think it was red). I guess it's not an easy title to find, period

That boss resembled this:

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:24 am

sengoku ace?

Despatche · Post by **Despatche** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:16 am

what the hell

Drum · Post by **Drum** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:25 am

Boogie Wings is horizontal and it plays fine.

TransatlanticFoe · Post by **TransatlanticFoe** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:51 pm

xbl0x180 wrote: Another boss was a long, big centipede-lookin' craft (I think it was red).

Long centipede thingy made me think of of Sky Soldiers - lots of old-style aircraft going on:

http://www.shmups.com/reviews/skysoldiers/index.html

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:12 pm

The black & white photo reminds me of one of the bosses from Giga Wing.

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:07 pm

Battle bakraid, battle garegga? Can't place centipede. Sengoku aces again?

Obiwanshinobi · Post by **Obiwanshinobi** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:12 pm

ADK's Sky Adventure?
By the way, that plane is the lovely Etrich-Taube.

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:05 am

TransatlanticFoe wrote:
xbl0x180 wrote: Another boss was a long, big centipede-lookin' craft (I think it was red).
Long centipede thingy made me think of of Sky Soldiers - lots of old-style aircraft going on:

http://www.shmups.com/reviews/skysoldiers/index.html

THAT'S IT! That's definitely one of the games I was thinking of! Holy carp, I didn't know the game was that old (1988?!). By the looks of it, not an easy game either (no wonder I only remember the first boss).

Thank you all for your help

RNGmaster · Post by **RNGmaster** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:18 pm

Holy crap, a bullet-hell from 1988? MAME'ing this shit.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:08 pm

As soon as I saw that pic I knew it was Sky Adventure or Sky Soldiers.

There is no high score thread for Sky Soldiers but I still have my high score written down
Sky Soldiers - DEL - 3,741,150 - ALL 1LC

I have 'Sky Adventure ALL' written down too, but no score recorded.....I seem to remember the scoring was very low on that game...?

Drum · Post by **Drum** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:10 am

RNGmaster wrote:Holy crap, a bullet-hell from 1988? MAME'ing this shit.

When the rot began.

BPzeBanshee · Post by **BPzeBanshee** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:03 pm

xbl0x180 wrote:
TransatlanticFoe wrote:
xbl0x180 wrote: Another boss was a long, big centipede-lookin' craft (I think it was red).
Long centipede thingy made me think of of Sky Soldiers - lots of old-style aircraft going on:

http://www.shmups.com/reviews/skysoldiers/index.html
THAT'S IT! That's definitely one of the games I was thinking of! Holy carp, I didn't know the game was that old (1988?!). By the looks of it, not an easy game either (no wonder I only remember the first boss).

Thank you all for your help

Oh, so THAT's where Alluro got "Teramanta" from.

RNGmaster · Post by **RNGmaster** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:26 pm

Drum wrote: When the rot began.

The rot was always there. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

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