ponygirl46
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Been trying to identify a couple of games for the last several years...
Boy it's hard to find something on a game, when you can remember "things" about it, but have no idea what the name was. I'm really hoping someone maybe has the vast and worldly knowledge to help me out.
I'm seeking a couple of game from the 80's. I can remember tidbits, but that's all. Trying to figure these out has been bugging me for years now. I appologise if "can someone tell me what game this was?" is the sort of post that crops up all too often.
The first game is from the early half of the 80's. I encountered as a cocktail cabinet version that used to be at a local Country Kitchen in Ohio in, I believe, 1983 or 1984.
It was platformy.. All I can really remember of the details are that the enemies (at least those displayed in the on-screen or markee instructions) consisted of a fireball critter, a little green dragon with red wings, and I think another little green dragon that either had green wings or no wings at all.. At least it didn't have the red ones. Yes, I realise "green dragon with red wings" describes Fygar from Dig Dug, but this game was not Dig Dug... A different little dragon with red wings.
The second game I'm trying to identify was more recent, but I think it was still from the 80's. At the very latest, it was possibly 1990 or 91... Encountered in a mall arcade, also in Ohio.
In the game, you controlled a grayish flying car that fired oval-shaped energy shots. The view is from behind the car, and the car is controled airplane style by a stick controller. You enter tunnels between stages and there is always a choice of branching tunnel, thus that the stages would always lead to 2 possible next stages. The boss of the first or second stage was a helicopter. The car would be damaged by colliding with the buildings/walls to the sides of the street or with the "ceiling", but if you held the car against the ground, the hover engines transformed into wheels until you released the stick and the car left the ground again. This feature wasn't exactly obvious in the game demos... I remember the tires produced a smoke effect when the car was in wheeled mode. I think you were supposed to be a sort of cop or something.
The version I encountered had a fairly unique cabinet that you sat down in, with a handle on the front of the seat, between your legs, that you had to pull to relase the seat and the back half of the cabinet so that you could slide the seat forward/closed or back/open.
Thank you for your time and brainpower, and again.. I appologise if there are just way too many of this kind of post that crop up every year..
Boy it's hard to find something on a game, when you can remember "things" about it, but have no idea what the name was. I'm really hoping someone maybe has the vast and worldly knowledge to help me out.
I'm seeking a couple of game from the 80's. I can remember tidbits, but that's all. Trying to figure these out has been bugging me for years now. I appologise if "can someone tell me what game this was?" is the sort of post that crops up all too often.
The first game is from the early half of the 80's. I encountered as a cocktail cabinet version that used to be at a local Country Kitchen in Ohio in, I believe, 1983 or 1984.
It was platformy.. All I can really remember of the details are that the enemies (at least those displayed in the on-screen or markee instructions) consisted of a fireball critter, a little green dragon with red wings, and I think another little green dragon that either had green wings or no wings at all.. At least it didn't have the red ones. Yes, I realise "green dragon with red wings" describes Fygar from Dig Dug, but this game was not Dig Dug... A different little dragon with red wings.
The second game I'm trying to identify was more recent, but I think it was still from the 80's. At the very latest, it was possibly 1990 or 91... Encountered in a mall arcade, also in Ohio.
In the game, you controlled a grayish flying car that fired oval-shaped energy shots. The view is from behind the car, and the car is controled airplane style by a stick controller. You enter tunnels between stages and there is always a choice of branching tunnel, thus that the stages would always lead to 2 possible next stages. The boss of the first or second stage was a helicopter. The car would be damaged by colliding with the buildings/walls to the sides of the street or with the "ceiling", but if you held the car against the ground, the hover engines transformed into wheels until you released the stick and the car left the ground again. This feature wasn't exactly obvious in the game demos... I remember the tires produced a smoke effect when the car was in wheeled mode. I think you were supposed to be a sort of cop or something.
The version I encountered had a fairly unique cabinet that you sat down in, with a handle on the front of the seat, between your legs, that you had to pull to relase the seat and the back half of the cabinet so that you could slide the seat forward/closed or back/open.
Thank you for your time and brainpower, and again.. I appologise if there are just way too many of this kind of post that crop up every year..

