Please help me identify an arcade game

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I remember playing a game one night at a local college when I was a kid. My dad was in line for registration and he gave me a bunch of quarters and sat me in front of a couple of games. I only played this game this one night as far as I can recall. I'll try to describe it as best I can.

This had to be late 80s, *maybe* early 90 or so. It was a type of shmup, with a top-down view like Raiden games. I think the control panel had a single button for firing. The joystick was an 8 way and you could pilot your little ship any of the 8 ways at any time. It wasn't a forward scrolling shmup. You basically flew around all over the place. I THINK the ship was purple-ish in color, maybe blue. I think the shape of the player's ship was hexagonal or octagonal.

The last thing I can remember was the backdrop. At some point you may have flown over a city, or something but I really think this stage was in space. It had grey or white 'pipes' or powerlines, (basically lines on the screen) that were crosshatched. i.e:
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But basically set up to show a series of interconnecting pipes, or powerlines, or maybe city streets. Not real sure. I know the description is pretty vague, but does this sound familiar to anyone at all?

Thanks!
 
Thanks for the replies so far!

Vanguard definitely isn't it, but Vanguard II does seem to fit my description a bit better, though it doesn't seem as fluid as I remember.

Time Pilot 84, on the other hand seems more fluid like I remember. It also seems familiar, but I remember it taking place in space, rather than on a 'planet' type background.

I know that since I was a kid, the 'space' type level was the first one and I didn't get much further than that level. So that's all I'm basing it on. For all I know 'planet' levels could have been right after that first one. I just remember dying a lot.
 
Thanks for the new suggestions but other than Bosconian, all of the others are straight line shmups. I'm looking for one where your ship can go in any of 8 directions, much like Bosconian or Time Pilot 84. The Bosconian ship is very similar to Galaga so I don't think that's it.

So far Time Pilot 84 seems to be the closest. The ship's design in TP84 seems to be the closest to what I remember. Also this youtube vid seems pretty close to what I remember, specifically at about 18 seconds in. The 'lines' arent diagonal, but maybe that's just me remembering incorrectly and they weren't back then.
 
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