Been trying to identify a couple of games for the last several years...

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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..
 
2nd one sounds like a cross between S.T.U.N. Runner and Hard Drivin' Airborne...
 
Hmm, not so sure about the second one, but I am almost 100% positive that the first game you are describing is called "Lizard Wizard."

Here is a screenshot:



And the KLOV entry:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8435


Great game, by the way! I am gonna have to try it out on MAME again.

Thank you, but definately not Lizard Wizard. Game play was more like old-school Donkey Kong.. Platforms and ladders, and more or less trying to get through the stage like an obsticle course. The enemies had sort of cutsie short names.. I wish I could remember them.. It's an earlier game than Lizard Wizard, as well. Coming out in 1985 wouldn't have allowed Lizard Wizard to be found where I lived when I encountered the game.
 
In KAOS, you are trying to navigate through a set of platforms to reach the top and then back down again.

I think the coins that fall through to the bottom turn into little dragons that eat you and then say 'URP'...

K (whose initials spell KAOS..)
 
The first game sounds sort of like Pop Flamer:

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9085

Survey Says?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Dang.. Nope, sorry.. :(

Neither KAOS nor Pop Flamer..

It definately wasn't a semetrical looking sort of screen. I think the monitor had a horizontal alignment, though I'm not certain.. I also can't remember if it scrolled to the right or changed screens..
 

Naw, that game I know. (Wow.. especialy the 2600 version.)

The names of the critters.. One of the dragons was something like.. Popo? Something repetative.. The fireball was named Fri-something.. FryFry? or.. Fri-some-vowel-sound... Ugh.. I wish the bits and pieces weren't so fuzzy now.

I did a lot of just watching the demo screens out of bordom, not allowed quarters to play the game since food was coming..
 
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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.

Two dragons onscreen at the same time...Bubble Bobble?
 
Naw, that game I know. (Wow.. especialy the 2600 version.)

The names of the critters.. One of the dragons was something like.. Popo? Something repetative.. The fireball was named Fri-something.. FryFry? or.. Fri-some-vowel-sound... Ugh.. I wish the bits and pieces weren't so fuzzy now.

I did a lot of just watching the demo screens out of bordom, not allowed quarters to play the game since food was coming..


Where they named Bub and Bob?

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Two dragons onscreen at the same time...Bubble Bobble?

No, the dragons weren't Bub and Bob. :) The dragons were a couple of the baddies that you had to avoid.


(Heehee.. Now Bubble Bobble's theme is going to hang around in my head for a while.) :)
 
The second one almost sounds like Mario Bros. But I doubt anyone would forget the name of that...

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You mean the first one? :) Mario Bros definately didn't have a flying car. lol. :) The second definately turned out to be Night Strikers.

The first one was more like a DK, DKJ, Mario Bros sort of asthetic, yes.. The fireball critter (I'm virtually positive his name started with Fri or Fry..) was more like a DK Fireball than either of the Mario Bros Fireballs.
 
There are green dinosaurs in Roc n' Rope, but no fireballs that I remember...

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