Help me pls: I want 2 relive my youth

kidpatel

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Hi,

thanks for reading this. I want to know the NAME of an arcade game that I used to play at my local chip shop on a coin operated machine 25 years ago in th UK. I was the best of all my friends but I can't remember the name. C'mon people help me. I have searched the arcade sites for the name but can't find it. I want to play this again with my son. These are the details of the arcade game that I remember :
1) I used to play this game around 25 years ago so we are talking it was out by 1984.
2) It is a Space (ship) game : I think the term is vertical shooter. I have found a game a bit close called Galaga.
3) There used to be a joy stick (left hand) and 2 right side buttons. one for normal fire and the other was fast fire. (NB killing items would increase the fast fire total)
4) The game starts with a load of X shaped items coming down the screen. I would shoot these. My score and fast fire total would go up. The X items would then come from left and right sides in a chain formation, faster and faster dropping tiny bombs. If they crash into me I would die.
5) Next items are what I would call meteors would run around the screen dropping tiny bombs. These were tricky.
6) Next items are big BIRDs that would come down dropping bombs.. You would have to hit these about 5 times before they would die. This is where the fast fire comes in handy.
7) After killing lots of birds I think there is a Bonus Round staying in the bottom right corner with fast fire on will kill everything.

This is all I can remember if you know the name pls let me know. The game next to it was kung fu master but that coin machine game came a year later. I want to RELIVE my youth and hopefully beat my son for once.

IF you know the NAME pls let me know and where I can access it.

thx kidpatel.
 
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Phoenix uses only buttons, and there is no "fast fire" - only fire and shields.

Yes. The game he is thinking of is definitely Exerion. Try it in MAME and you'll see that it is exactly what he is talking about, inlcuding the X-shaped enemies, meteors, large birds that take several shots to kill, and two buttons, fast fire and slow fire.
 
Yep - does look like it. Looks like that was a conversion kit only.

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I use to play Exerion alot bitd. I though it was a great game. The floaty controls were different though. I though it was neat having a regular fire and a rapid fire weapon.
 
shit. phoenix was the first thing that came to mind for me too
 
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