<Arcade> The Unregarded.

[grue]

Still some unknown surprises (at least to me!) waiting - "The Real Ghostbusters", apparently a re-skinned Japanese Data East work. Based on the animated series based on the movie(s?), some of which was written by some hack called JM
Straczynski. Wonder whatever happened to him?

I had this on the Spectrum, didn't know there was an arcade.

[F-ZeroOne]

Didn't know there was a home version, either - really learning something with this! Looking at videos of the Spectrum version, the graphics certainly seem to be... erm... ambitious...

[grue]

Didn't know there was a home version, either - really learning something with this! Looking at videos of the Spectrum version, the graphics certainly seem to be... erm... ambitious...

That was the Speccy, you learned to like the ugly. Given enough time, you loved it. Ah, those were the days!

[F-ZeroOne]

You don't have to tell me, I had one! It was kind of amazing the way people worked around the limitations, especially towards the end of its life.

[F-ZeroOne]

Okay, just a bit of a weird one that doesn't really fit anywhere else - "Wardner", one of the games that inspired this thread to start with, will be available in an upcoming Toaplan release of "Flying Shark" for home consoles. My understanding is that it will be paid DLC for virtual editions and included on "physical" releases.

[Deckard]

I hate to brag but I could finish that game on one credit even though the end boss is a real pisser plus I worked out you could "mine" the enemies to get power ups and lives on the level with the buzz saws....Actually this and Rygar might be worth trying for a few world record scores in the future.

[F-ZeroOne]

I used to watch someone do the same - I can't recall if it was one credit but I did see them complete the game. You didn't see that happen with many arcade games.

[Deckard]

It was the final fireball spitting dragon boss - so out of keeping with the rest of the game and just one spot in each deluge to hide.

I will add Snap jack here as didn't see it often and loved it but I was utterly shit at it -




In the first 60 I recognised 3 - I , Robot (obv), Roc n Rope and Circus Charlie !

[Whiteball]

...I will add Snap jack here as didn't see it often and loved it but I was utterly shit at it -

C64 Wheelin' Wallie. Interesting back in the day just because it was quite different from most other things.
This is obviously what Interceptor Micros copied - most of their games where copies, but hey we got to play (near for the time) arcade games at home!

In the first 60 I recognised 3 - I , Robot (obv), Roc n Rope and Circus Charlie !

Yeah, I wouldn't say some of them were obscure at all.
I paticularly liked Marvin's Maze. Was good for the time with some nice little touches over the normal sort of maze game of the time.
Mr TNT was also on the C64 by HesWare if I remeber correctly.

[F-ZeroOne]

Data East made a follow-up to their smash hit "Robocop" arcade, titled... no, not "I'll BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!". Apparently only released in Japan and in limited numbers in the US, so probably why I've never heard of it until now:

[F-ZeroOne]

Not a lost "Pac-Man" game, but perhaps a lost "Pac-Man" games distant cousin; "Kick" by Midway:

[Misfit]

Data East made a follow-up to their smash hit "Robocop" arcade, titled... no, not "I'll BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!". Apparently only released in Japan and in limited numbers in the US, so probably why I've never heard of it until now:

Missed this.

I didn't know it existed, which I guess is a surprise as it'a probably next to Robocop in the MAME ROMs list.

Looks good, will give it a go.

The original has a fond place in my heart. It was in our Uni JCR for a long time and it's something I'll go to when trying a new handheld/emulator. But only the first level is really any good on it.

[Whiteball]

Not a lost "Pac-Man" game, but perhaps a lost "Pac-Man" games distant cousin; "Kick" by Midway:

Just the other day I watched 8-Bit Show And Tell talk about this game on the C64 and he also mentions the arcade and Bally as he always goes into the details of where these things come from, a great watch as always.