syspig
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Howdy, all - trying to track down a favorite arcade game from my youth, and have searched far and wide with no luck.
I think it was called Mutants and Humans, but can't find a hit on that name anywhere to save my life. I would have been playing it in the late 70's/early 80's.
Game description: Simple joystick with fire buttons. Aliens/monsters would come at you from the sides, and you had to shoot them in matching pairs. First shot on a monster would "freeze" him, if your next shot hit another identical monster you killed them both off.
However, if you froze monster A, but your next shot hit monster B - it would create two mutants. One with monster A head/B body, the other with monster B head/A body. If you shot the two mutants in sequence again, they would revert to "normal" monsters, then could be killed off in pairs again.
Simple, addicting game...and I only saw it in one arcade, of many around the SF Bay Area.
Any chance the above rings a bell with anyone here? Perhaps I've just got the name wrong?
I think it was called Mutants and Humans, but can't find a hit on that name anywhere to save my life. I would have been playing it in the late 70's/early 80's.
Game description: Simple joystick with fire buttons. Aliens/monsters would come at you from the sides, and you had to shoot them in matching pairs. First shot on a monster would "freeze" him, if your next shot hit another identical monster you killed them both off.
However, if you froze monster A, but your next shot hit monster B - it would create two mutants. One with monster A head/B body, the other with monster B head/A body. If you shot the two mutants in sequence again, they would revert to "normal" monsters, then could be killed off in pairs again.
Simple, addicting game...and I only saw it in one arcade, of many around the SF Bay Area.
Any chance the above rings a bell with anyone here? Perhaps I've just got the name wrong?
