That HAS to be it! Mod to the rescue again.
Been trying to identify a couple of games for the last several years...
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That HAS to be it! Mod to the rescue again.
ponygirl46
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How about?
Yes! Yes yes yes!
That's it!
I had the color of the wingless dragon backwards.. He's red, not green..
Now that I know the name I was able to find scans and be sure!
The wingless dragons (red with green hair in the game, but green with red hair in the art) are Don Don, and the winged dragons (green with red wings in the game but red with green wings in the art) are Pata Pata!! Yes, those were definately the names! The fireballs are just called Fires.. I think I must have read it as Frier at some point.. The white birds (pink the art) at the top are Crows. .. They're in the game flyer, but not in the How To Play.
Yes!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
ponygirl46
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I think we have a match!
How about it ponygirl?
lol. You found the same flyer I did in the meantime while I was playing and then looking. Oops.
LyonsArcade
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This is crazzzzzy.
ponygirl46
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smello
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Finaly, after all these years.
Is that the instruction card?
LyonsArcade
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Not that it's proper to ask, but how old were you when you were staring at this instruction card the last time?
Daviea
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Wait a second. Did we figure it out?
Dave
Dave
ponygirl46
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ponygirl46
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No, it's me putting the sprites as they appear in the game next to the art for the critters.. As perhapse explaination as to why I mixed up the colors on one dragon. <sweatdrop>
Because I noticed that in the screen shot on the flyer, many things had different colors than in the actual game program. Don Don and Pata Pata DID match their art colors in beta apparently, and the Crow was dark blue instead of white.
And yes, Pata Pata's screen colors makes me sure that it's not a case of mixed up MAME colors. The little green dragon with the red wings.
ponygirl46
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Yes.
It's Springer. It's fun.. I'm up to level 18 now, and it hasn't returned to a previous layout yet.
The placement and types of the cloud platforms starts getting trickier. You never get to touch the Crow or vice-verce, though.. It's just a dispenser for things that DO hurt you... I wish for a chance at revenge.. And that little tranq dart, or whatever it is...
(Yes I'm using an unlimited lives cheat.. I want to be able to keep playing instead of going back to level 1..)
Daviea
Permanently Banned - See: Ram Controls Forum Secti
Springer!!
LOL, I never would have guessed that game.
Well, I'm glad it was figured out.
Have fun!!!
Dave
LOL, I never would have guessed that game.
Well, I'm glad it was figured out.
Have fun!!!
Dave
Yes.
It's fun.. I'm up to level 18 now, and it hasn't returned to a previous layout yet.
You never get to touch the Crow or vice-verce, though.. It's just a dispenser for things that DO hurt you... I wish for a chance at revenge.. And that little tranq dart, or whatever it is...
(Yes I'm using an unlimited lives cheat.. I want to be able to keep playing instead of going back to level 1..)
modessitt
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Well, after the searching went to crap (none of the game listings mention dragons or fireballs), I went back and read all she said about it. She was pretty adamant about it being prior to 1985, and they were still making B&W games in 1979, so I just went to KLOV and started checking every game starting with the list for 1980. I could skip the obvious space-related games, but eventually I found Springer in 1982.
The trick to finding answers to tough questions is tenacity, patience, and logic. And when that doesn't work, a little luck never hurts...
modessitt
Volunteer: Encyclopedia Submission Moderator
Yes! Yes yes yes!
That's it!
Yes!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You're very welcome...
