(Hi everyone; long-time lurker, first-time registered poster...)
I'm hoping someone can point me to an arcade game produced sometime between the mid-80's and 1993. I played it a few times but have long since forgotten the title, and every attempt at finding it through various databases has failed.
Unfortunately I don't remember a whole lot about it, but I can tell you that it was a platformer with a sidescrolling view (although the camera was fixed; it didn't move automatically like in, say, Super Mario Bros). It was rather cartoony: You played a short hero who fought fantasy monsters, picked up powerups (I think one of them was a couple of cherries; and it's possible that one of your weapons was a sword), and at one point you literally entered a huge tree to fight whatever was inside.
Although it was very similar, in style and gameplay, to the more fantasy-themed entries in the Alex Kidd series, it definitely wasn't one of those games. It came in the familar upright style of cabinet, although I can't recall if the monitor was perfectly vertical or slanted.
Any help would be appreciated! (And apologies if this is the wrong forum; I couldn't find anywhere more suitable.)
I'm hoping someone can point me to an arcade game produced sometime between the mid-80's and 1993. I played it a few times but have long since forgotten the title, and every attempt at finding it through various databases has failed.
Unfortunately I don't remember a whole lot about it, but I can tell you that it was a platformer with a sidescrolling view (although the camera was fixed; it didn't move automatically like in, say, Super Mario Bros). It was rather cartoony: You played a short hero who fought fantasy monsters, picked up powerups (I think one of them was a couple of cherries; and it's possible that one of your weapons was a sword), and at one point you literally entered a huge tree to fight whatever was inside.
Although it was very similar, in style and gameplay, to the more fantasy-themed entries in the Alex Kidd series, it definitely wasn't one of those games. It came in the familar upright style of cabinet, although I can't recall if the monitor was perfectly vertical or slanted.
Any help would be appreciated! (And apologies if this is the wrong forum; I couldn't find anywhere more suitable.)
I should've been much clearer on the part about entering a tree - which I didn't realize was a part of Wonder Boy - since it places the player inside a full-screen "tree" environment, complete with powerups, platform levels and monsters, that's almost reminiscent of the kind of design you see in Snow Bros 2: Fairly detailed interactables and backgrounds, plus clearly delineated exits (which I think sometimes had a blue-sky background, just to emphasize that they were the way out.
