<Arcade> The Unregarded.

[rymdimperiet]

Magic Sword?

Ok, I got another one.
Must have been around 1988-1989 maybe, kinda like Ghosts n Goblins but not as fast. I remember a forest level with tall trees. It also had a shop. Maybe an elf character, thin-ish. It's all very blurry in my mind.

It wasn't Willow was it? As in the arcade game of the movie? Or Astyanax?

No, and none of the above mentioned so far..

[grue]

Magic Sword?

No, although it's a great one too!

[Deckard]

Total coin guzzler in the arcade but great on Mame

[F-ZeroOne]

You've very likely heard of "Time Pilot", but did you know of its sequel, "Time Pilot '84"? I'm not sure I ever played this in the field, but the gameplay does look familiar:

[bloid]

You've very likely heard of "Time Pilot", but did you know of its sequel, "Time Pilot '84"? I'm not sure I ever played this in the field, but the gameplay does look familiar:

There was one of these in the Montem sports centre in Slough... Must have been 1986 or 87

[Whiteball]

Never saw a Time Pilot '84 back in the day in any arcade that I can remeber of.
It does look good though and I have heard about these before through various videos and forum chats elsewhere.

Always meant to fire them up and give them a go someday and never got around to it somehow.
Going to put that right very shortly!

[F-ZeroOne]

Just as an aside, I mentioned "Time Pilot '84" after seeing it in one of "Kim Justice"s YouTube videos, a recent one where they cover every Konami arcade game released in the 80s. In it they mention "Scooter Shooter" (which appears a bit earlier in this thread) and wonder, because theres so little information available on the title, if it ever actually got out into the wild. Well, it definitely did, because it was my very vague memories of seeing one (gawd knows where now, I think it was a bar in a holiday camp we stayed at once) that in part inspired this! It was one of those titles I'd wonder about every so often, manage to find out what it was, then instantly forget what it was called and start the whole process over in another few years...

[F-ZeroOne]

These days, Japanese - and other Asian - pop culture is everywhere. But back in the day... well, things "leaked" from these mysterious lands. Thinking about it, I wonder how many owners of a NES knew Nintendo was actually a Japanese company to start with (before it exploded in popularity, at any rate)? Here are a few of the "Unregarded" that somehow wound up in British holiday camps, seaside arcades and Royal British Legions:

"UFO Robo Dangar". If you're thinking, wait, that looks like "Terra Cresta", well...



"MagMax". I could have sworn this was a re-skinned based-on-an-anime title, but maybe it was either the other way round or I'm thinking of something else. Didn't this have a home computer port by Imagine?



All together now: "Oboete imasu ka me to me ga atta toki wo; Oboete imasu ka te to te ga fureatta toki; Sore wa hajimete no ai no tabidachi deshita; I LOVE YOU SO". The song that saved the universe, the movie, the game, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. Unlike the other two, this one I actually encountered. Was... it... PRO-TO-CUL-TURE?

[F-ZeroOne]

Not often one runs across an Atari arcade that I've never seen covered before - "Assault", seems to a be a cross between a 2D "Battlezone" and "Smash TV":

[pyroxian]

I think we had Assault in my Student Union - I remember sticking quite a bit of cash into it. It was good fun.

[bloid]

I think we had Assault in my Student Union - I remember sticking quite a bit of cash into it. It was good fun.

Wasn't Manchester Met was it? I seem to remember the same

[Deckard]

Just been playing Midway treasures on gamecube thru dolphin emulation and never ever seen this game before - arcade or console -

[F-ZeroOne]

One of the things about this thread that keeps surprising is the games we know - and don't. I can't recall if I saw "Vindicators" in the field ("Xybots", yes) but I do remember the adverts for the home versions in the magazines of the time.

[Whiteball]

Vindicators was on the Amiga. Wasn't very good from what I remember.

[F-ZeroOne]

From what little I've seen of "Vindicators" it doesn't seem like it'd be a particularly tricky one to convert (in terms of gameplay) to almost any format, including the Speccy, but I imagine the control scheme would be a stumbling block.