Name that game!

[Aphrodesizach]

Played it at KU a year ago, great arcade game.

It was a vertically-scrolling shmup, and had about 6 different ships to choose from. It was fairly modern, and had great graphics.

I seem to remember it having a title like "1942," but nothing a searched for like that had graphics like the ones I saw.

It was future-y.

Go!

[Rob]

strikers 1945 iii/1999?

[Aphrodesizach]

Nope, looked that up, too.

It wasn't really World War II-y, it was more like "this is an alien invasion" kind of thing.

One of the ships was literally described in the game as "the flying pancake," and was a large flying blue disk. Another was the mosquito, a little green type of dude.

[bsidwell]

If it's not Strikers 1945 II or Strikers 1945 Plus I'm honestly at a loss as to what else it could be.

[Aphrodesizach]

Apparently I lied, I did not look at 1945 Strikers +, and that was totally it. Thank you very much.

[Macaw]

Its Strikers 1945 2.

Edit: Ok then. plus.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Apparently I lied, I did not look at 1945 Strikers +, and that was totally it. Thank you very much.

Yes, that Strikers 1945 Plus (from defunct shmup developer, Psikyo) runs on the Neo-Geo MVS hardware and is an MVS cartridge to boot...

It's a vertical scrolling shmup using the horizontal screen orientation setup or "Yoko" orientation (i.e. -- CPS-2 Mars Matrix, GigaWing, Taito G-Card Night Raid, etc.) so that arcade operator's don't have to rotate their arcade monitors to "Tate" orientation...

It's playable on Mame32 (with MVS Bios file, of course -- without it, no can play it anyways) and on a PSP with firmware 1.50 & running MVSPSP ver. 1.66 emulator..... ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~