Who can identify an old arcade side-scroller with jump jets where you select planets to play on?

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I'm trying to identify an old arcade game, it was a side-scrolling shooter, you controlled a guy in a orange/red armored suit and your 'jump' was actually jump-jets, which allowed you to double jump.

The most distinguishing feature of the game was that at that start of it you had to select a planet, on which you would then land. There were several available choices, a jungle planet and a volcanic planet, amongst others. I seem to recall that one planet had a similar appearance to a bee-hive.

EDIT : I played it around the early nineties, although that might not be an accurate indication of age, since those coin-ops tended to hang around a bit.

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I tried to google it again and this time I lucked out, the game I was looking for was Xian'd Sleena.

I found a thread where someone was looking for the same game here : http://www.coinopspace.com/forum/topics/can-anyone-help-name-this-game?id=2467396

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How to play KBounce?

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I read this Wikipedia article about it, but what I want to know is how to play it in the first place.

How do I draw walls? How do I stop them? How do I control them?

thanks!

Asked by Lazer

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1. Use the mouse to create walls (click where you want them placed, right click to swap between horizontal wall building and vertical wall building).
   • If an unfinished wall is hit by a ball, you lose a life and the wall section stops growing.
     This is the only way to "stop" walls.
2. Use walls to section the board in "rooms".
3. If a room is closed and does not contain a ball, it counts as "filled". Walls also count as filled.
4. Fill enough of the board to move to the next level (with more balls).

Here, have a commented screenshot of the original game.

If you really have too much time on your hands, this how-to explains how to exploit the game "physics" to complete levels of any difficulty.

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Identify old (90s?) Western arcade game

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This question got me thinking about the only time I have personally seen an arcade game let people play for free. I think it was sometime in the early to mid 1990s.

This game, at least the first level, was a Old West 2D shooter where the hero (or heroes, up to four players I think) walked down main street from left to right taking out bad guys as they went. Sometimes bad guys would pop out of buildings that looked like they were part of the background.

The boss at the end of the first level appeared in a barn. You would walk in and find no one there, then the screen would shake and the boss would jump in through the roof (or down from a loft, or something). Besides shooting at you, his secondary attack was the run-and-slide, so you had to pay attention and jump over him when necessary.

The second level had you controlling a hot air balloon fighting other balloons. I don't have much detail on this because it seems the people I was watching were not too good at the first level. I never saw someone reach level three.

Oh, and in the first level, you could shoot special birds flying overhead to get an extra life.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

(And after a week or two the pizza shop employees finally realized what was happening and shut the machine down. It made me irrationally angry for a good few minutes or so.)

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Edit for an important fact which I forgot to mention: The graphics were pretty cartoonish even for the 90s. When you died, there was no blood; instead you just turned into something which I thought at the time resembled a cookie but which was probably a tombstone or something.

Asked by mmyers

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I think you're talking about Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa

And here's the first boss vid

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Does Karate Champ ever end?

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I'm in a nostalgic mood today, when I found an old arcade machine of Karate Champ:

After beating everyone to the 8th level and losing, I was thinking: Does this game ever end? Or this is a game like River Raid that never ends?

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Based on the fact that people are still setting high scores on this game (exceeding a million points!), I don't believe it ever ends. You'll just keep facing the master over and over again until you fail.

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Need help identifying game where you play as a monkey/ape

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I need some help finding a game that was one of my favourites growing up in the 80's. The main (your) character is turned into sort of a monkey in the prologue and your girlfriend is stolen. You can shoot little round balls out of your mouth and I think there were upgrades to that skill.

It was 2D platform I think and played on an arcade machine at the local shop.

I think the name had some X's or V's in it, but can't seem to find it on the Wikipedia's list of games.

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I beleive the game you're talking about is Toki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_(video_game)

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Need help identifying game please - You play a monkey/ape ? (NOT monkey Island)

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I need some help finding a game that was one of my favourites growing up in the 80's. The main (your) character is turned into sort of a monkey in the prologue and your girlfriend is stolen. You can shoot little round balls out of your mouth and I think there were upgrades to that skill ?

It was platform i think.. 2d.. and played on an arcade machine at the local shop.

Sorry to be so vague. I think the name had some X's or V's in it, but cant seem to find it on the wiki list of games!

Please Help!

Thanks in advance!

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I beleive the game you're talking about is Toki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_(video_game)

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In Tyrian full game mode, is there any benefit to buying the SuperCarrot ship?

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I'm playing Tyrian single player full game and am somewhere in Episode 2. I have two ship upgrades possible: MicroCorp Stalker-B for 25000 or SuperCarrot for 65000. The SuperCarrot has less armor than the Stalker-B, though... is there any benefit to getting the SuperCarrot other than it being awesome to fly around in a big carrot?

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Yep! They each have different super weapons.

In this case, the MicroCorp Stalker-B comes equipped with:

• Repulsors
• Mine Spray

The SuperCarrot comes with:

• Ice Blast
• HotDog Blast.

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What was this old arcade game called, where you eat dots?

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You're a small circle (well, with a small angle cut out from it), and you wonder around in a maze eating dots. There are monsters or "ghosts" chasing you, all coming from the center of the map.

There are some goodies you can eat, that give you "super powers", and enable you to eat the monsters instead.

The map has teleporters - if you go out from the left side, you come back on the right side, and vice versa.

What is this game called?

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Are you seriously claiming you don't know Pac-Man?

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Name of old arcade game… Klaxxon?

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I'm looking for the real name of an arcade game from the 80's. I think it was Klaxxon, but I can't seem to find it from any sellers.

The purpose of the game was to stack colored blocks and get stacks of 4 to eliminate them from the storage area. The blocks were tumbling end over end towards you, and you controlled a platform to catch the blocks and then move them left or right to stack them up in one of 4-5 holding areas.

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Is it Klax?

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Identify a top-down police arcade game from the late 1980s or early 1990s

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I remember being on vacation with my family sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s; on that vacation, we stopped at a hotel that had a small arcade area. I remember watching my brothers play a certain coin-op arcade game that I'm trying to identify. The (admittedly limited) salient characteristics that I remember were:

• The visual orientation of the game was top-down, at least for some parts. During the top-down sequence, it showed a city that you could travel around (I don't remember if it was by foot or by car).

• Your character was a police officer, who I'm assuming was tasked with fighting crime in some capacity.

• One of the locations around the city that you could travel to was a doughnut shop; this rather obvious inside joke is one of the distinct things that I remember about the game.

I admit that this is a pretty thin list of clues; unfortunately, my memory back to that time period isn't that great.

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You've got to be talking about A.P.B (All Points Bulletin), the arcade version. Lost A LOT of quarters to that game.

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Identify an arcade 2D shoot 'em up with a metallic dragon or snake

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I am trying to remember the name of an old arcade shoot 'em up. I believe it is from the late 1980s and you controlled a snake or dragon or snake-dragon, the creature was possibly metallic. The unique thing about this was that you could use your tail as a shield, i.e. curl up in a ball to protect your head from incoming bullets. I think it was only single-player although there was an option for turn-based two-player.

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Could be Saint Dragon

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Trying to identify a 90s shooter arcade game

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A friend of mine has been looking for an arcade game for ages. He saw it when he was a child, so at least 12-13 years ago, and he could recall it being located right next to what I could make out to be one of the King of Fighters games, one in which you could actually select a team of three to fight through the game (I believe they started in 1997 with the tag team option?).

I am going to report everything he has said to me in order to clarify it as much as possible!

Basic game concept: 1 vs. 1, they could have been spies, or US soldiers vs. nazis, armed with guns.

Graphics were cartoonish, but movement seemed smooth - and as far as scenarios were concerned, he recalls a slowly sinking submarine with water slowly covering the battlefield, or a gigantic airplane (filled with rooms) that was about to crash, and so every situation was a kind of "timer" to end the stage.

From what he recalls, in the submarine level, you could actually see most rooms, in 2d, and both players were visible and trying to kill one another - when they moved farther apart, the screen would zoom out, and zoom in as they got closer.

The good thing is that you could see the other player, but were too busy planting traps and avoiding his to look at what he was doing. Another thing he recalled about the airplane level was that the plane itself had a tendency to "lean" forwards, so you could have different uses for the rooms, or actually get opponents (or yourself) stuck in them.

Does this sound familiar at all? Sounds almost like a cooler version of spy vs. spy.

EDIT: He spoke of rather good graphics, so I guess the 8-bit stuff is out! He also just added that characters were drawn and cartoonish, but looked more "human" than Metal Slug-stye characters!

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Perhaps it could be The Outfoxies?

Wikipedia Entry

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Which games have “Minus/Glitch Worlds”?

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I've heard that several old NES, SNES, and arcade games have minus/glitch worlds, which can only be accessed by exploiting a bug or glitch in the game's code. I have also heard them referred to as "kill screen", which more specifically refers to when you reach a level that is so high that the original programmers didn't code for it. This, naturally, causes the game to crash in a way that may or may not let you continue to play.

Which games have a glitch world, and how can they be reached?

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The Angry Video Game Nerd looked into video game glitches, he talks about some of these "minus worlds" and other interesting glitches

NOTE: Viewer discretion is advised, vulgar language present in link

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Name of old mech arcade game

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I remember going to the arcade/GameWorks in the early 90s for birthday parties. I know in Indianapolis they had this mech game where 10-20 people could play at once. Each person would get into their own pod, and the screen inside would wrap around you close to 180 degrees. You would pilot a mech and do a team battle against the other 5-10 people. At the end of the round, everyone would exit and view the leaderboard outside. We got a stats sheet at the end of our day. Kind of similar to how laser tag works these days.

I've been searching for BattleTech, MetalTech, but all I can find is console/PC releases.

The game may have taken place on Mars, I dunno why that stands out in my head. But definitely a desert landscape.

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I used to play at the one in Chicago before it closed. They offered two games: BattleTech and Red Planet.

BattleTech was typically either free-for-all or team-play (up to 8 players total), and offered a variety of environmental options such as fog, nighttime (there was a infrared mode you could activate, iirc), maps (there was at least one city map for close-combat focus). You also selected which mech you wanted to pilot from a variety of basic models and variants within each model. Some of the different weapons were lasers (in a variety of sizes and strengths), gauss rifles, and missles (LRM and SRM). The cockpit controls were fully customizable, and included multiple screens, some of which were dedicated to system status checks and weapon configurations.

Heat buildup was a major factor in the game, causing a temporary shut-down if heat levels became too high.

Damage could destroy limbs, reducing mobility or removing weapons mounted on the limb.

Before the game, new players could watch a training video featuring Cheech Marin.

The Red Planet racing game took place on a fictional futuristic Mars, dominated by mining facilities. Players raced modified hovering mining vehicles, and had weapons ranging from lasers (I think...) to mining rivet guns, to the ever-popular demolition charge (you'd hear a beeping as you got close to an active charge, and triggering one while at full speed would frequently catapult you out of the racing course for an instant kill. There were multiple classes of vehicles (light, medium, and heavy varieties), each with sub-variants, and different weapon and boost layouts.

Boosts allowed short bursts of speed, and, in some vehicle configurations could be stacked two or even three times.

Scoring was based primarily upon completing circuits of the race course, with multipliers being added for consecutive circuits completed without dying. Faster speeds also got you faster scores. You also got points for damaging or destroying opponents.

The graphics and speed of gameplay were very impressive for the time, particularly Red Planet in the upgraded "Tesla" pods, and the game play was very addictive.

If you couldn't tell, I had a LOT of fond memories of playing those games!

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Who can identify an old arcade side-scroller with jump jets where you select planets to play on?

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I'm trying to identify an old arcade game, it was a side-scrolling shooter, you controlled a guy in a orange/red armored suit and your 'jump' was actually jump-jets, which allowed you to double jump.

The most distinguishing feature of the game was that at that start of it you had to select a planet, on which you would then land. There were several available choices, a jungle planet and a volcanic planet, amongst others. I seem to recall that one planet had a similar appearance to a bee-hive.

EDIT : I played it around the early nineties, although that might not be an accurate indication of age, since those coin-ops tended to hang around a bit.

Answer

I tried to google it again and this time I lucked out, the game I was looking for was Xian'd Sleena.

I found a thread where someone was looking for the same game here : http://www.coinopspace.com/forum/topics/can-anyone-help-name-this-game?id=2467396

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(Super) Street Fighter IV “Option Select” and “Hit Confirm”

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What do the two terms "option select" and "hit confirm" mean in the context of Street Fighter IV? Do they carry on to other fighting games?

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Option Select refers to combinations of buttons that will result in a different action depending on what the other player is doing. One example is crouching and pressing light kick and light punch, which would perform a throw if you were standing. If the other player tries to throw you while doing this then you will tech the throw but otherwise you will perform a crouching light kick. I don't really know of any other examples or if it is used outside of SF4 but I think it could be.

Hit Confirm is a pretty common fighting game term and relates to combo's where you have time to confirm that you have hit someone with the first attack before continuing with the combo or stopping if it is blocked/misses. This is kind of the opposite to moves which can be cancelled where you will pretty much have to instantaneously perform the next move in the combo for it to work.

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What is the name of an arcade Godzilla-like game where you destroy buildings?

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I played a game a few years ago on someone else's computer (I'm guessing that it was running MAME) but have forgotten the name.

In the game you had a choice of monsters, I remember 2 of them:

1. A Godzilla-like creature - I think it was yellow or cyan

2. A robot monkey whose arm extended to punch - I think it was red

The gameplay involved going around with your monster and destroying buildings. Some buildings could be picked up and thrown by your monster. I believe the enemies were a combination of the army and other monsters, but I cannot be sure. The style of gameplay was arcade.

The graphics were isometric pixel art. Because of this, I'm guessing it was made in the '90s.

It is not in the Rampage series.

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Sounds like you could be talking about King of Monsters II.

It's a Neo-Geo game, and is a beat-em-up where you go around fighting aliens while roaming in a destructible city.

It has a Godzilla-like creature:

And a robotic monkey:

I can't recall if he has an extendable punch attack, but as can be seen in this video he has an extendable head attack (and in the video the monkey is actually red). In this specific part of the video you should also be able to see that the monkey has a "rocket punch" sort of attack, which could also fit the bill.

As you can see the game is also isometric, though I personally think the graphics are a little too detailed to be considered "pixel art".

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What is this game: old game where lines(asteroids) are going down the city

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I've played this old PC game where there is only one screen of a city then falling stars/asteroids shown as lines go down on varying speeds. You have to click them for them to not hit the city. Once it hits the city, game over. It's in 2D and it's old. What is the name of this game?

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Sounds like Missile Command or one of its many, many clones, and if that's the case, those aren't asteroids. They are nuclear warheads.

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What is the name of this old 50 level arcade game where you jump an aircraft from platform to platform?

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i am searching for an old game. You jump an aircraft across a level filled with I think colored platforms. You have to jump from one platform to another to reach the end of the level. I think it was Windows 95 or DOS, and it is driving me crazy.

I remember the starting screen, where all levels where divided in sets of five. There were like 50 levels or so.

Sorry for before, you are not flying but jumping from platform to platform.

Also, i think the skybox was space.

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Do you mean SkyRoads?

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What's the arcade game Kate and Dade play in Hackers?

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Near the beginning of the movie Hackers, Kate and Date play an arcade game involving ships flying down a trench, avoiding moving walls and shooting at enemy turrets. The game was controlled with dual joysticks.

Does this game exist as an arcade machine or other platform game around that time (1995)? If it's purely for show, is it inspired by any popular arcade titles from the same era?

Here's a screenshot for nostalgia:

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So I always thought that the game was made up just for the movie, but it turns out it was an early version of Wipeout which was released later that year (Sept '95).

Who knew?

Also: citations, cite, cite, cite, cite

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