Arcade players...a challenge...
 

Well, kinda...I just want some assistance in finding the titles of a few arcade games I played a while back...

1: Some late 80's, early 90's beat-em-up...all I know is that it was one of those 2-player generic kindve ones, looked a little like final fight. One thing specifically I remember that in the cutscenes between stages, at least a couple of times, they went from one level to another on jet-skis. You didn't control these scenes, they'd just show the player/s leaving and arriving on them.

2: One game, maybe mid 80's...the storyline was that there was a prison breakout, many convicts escape. You're a cop, and you're out on the streets. You start out with a pistol but can upgrade to machine gun or bazooka if you rescued women and children running around. Their was early voice technology on this one (A lot like the type in the old starwars arcade games), at the beggining of each level youd get a message telling you what to do...and the women would run around saying "help, help", and "oh no" if you accidentaly shot them. Graphically pretty basic.

3: I think tere was a beat-em-up sequel to "gang wars", with 4-players...er, one looked kinda like Hulk Hogan? All I remember is some guy on the back of a truck attacking you with a buzz-saw.

4: A game from maybe the mid to late 80's...The characters were something like "g-men", guys in trenchcoats and hats...it was a LITTLE like "cabal" and "blood brothers", but you could move your character around a lot more, like the more traditional scrolling games...eg - into the background or foreground of the scene. You had a gun, a machine gun at points, and you could throw grenades when you had them. I remember you could dive and roll as well with a third button. The first boss stage was inside a cinema. I think the name MAY have had "gang" in it...but really not sure.

There ya go, see if you can figure any of those out.


Another one I just thought of - what the fuck was that cool-ass starwars arcade game that came out just a few years ago? There was FPS stages, air-combat stages, and lightsaber stages....had a large stick and some buttons to control it? I remember the FPS lightsaber stuff was really cool.
No, I'm not talking about the jedi knight series, this one was on arcade, and you got to fight vader in the later stages?

~Voodoo Bump~:rolleyes:

*vodou

ahaha I'm so hilarious.


wish I could help you out, but I have nothing relevant to say. :(

Arcade games that matter:

Pacman
Galaxia
1941
Double Dragon
Narc
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Samurai Showdown
Virtua Fighter

Posts that don't ^^

adventures of bayou billy?

space invaders !!! :o

Wow I thought for sure I'd be able to help ya out since I spent the better part of the first 15 years of my life hanging out in arcades, but not even one of those rings a bell. Is it possible that they never came out in America? Or a better question I guess would be... Does America have all the same arcade games as Europe or Australia? Or could I go to Oz & find a whole arcade of games I've never played before? If so, consider my ticket booked!

hahahahahahahaha

That game is SO stupid...I prefer Jungle hunt...graphically less, gameplay more.

Maybe just not in arcades near you, or yknow...machines you passed by at some point...I mean, most arcade games here (of that era) are still comps like Bandai, capcom, neogeo, usgold, namco and all that...As fas as I know, there aren't a whole lot of videogame companies here, just divisions of others. I read something somewhere that we've got like 5 arcade games to our name...none of which I even recognised, and I think they stopped trying in the 80's.
But yeah, all the standard jap/singapore/china/US games come out here.

^^Anyone got any ideas at all on THAT one? I figured someone'd know. It came out AFTER pod racer, but was based on the "classic" trilogy. There was a scene on endor taking on stormtroopers, there was some x-wing type levels, and lightsaber stuff that you actually controlled properly with what looked like a flight-sim style joystick?