Subj : Re: Arcade Game...
To   : Jagossel
From : Nelgin
Date : Sat Aug 17 2019 10:07:35

Jagossel wrote:
J> -=> Nelgin, to RetroNet.RTN_GENERAL <=- 
J> 
 Ne>> I remember playing an arcade game way back when, I accidentally came
 Ne>> across a really bad conversion for the BBC Micro...wish I remembered
 Ne>> where it was since it may have helped identify the proper name. Maybe
 Ne>> someone can help.
J> 
 Ne>> It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could
 Ne>> go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen.
 Ne>> There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire
 Ne>> forward at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an
 Ne>> angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel
 Ne>> tanks on the mountain like terrain.
J> 
 Ne>> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
J> 
J> Sounds kind of like Zaxxon. I remember playing a TRS-80 Color Computer port 
J> of it and I did, later, learn it was developed by Sega (perhaps my early 
J> indoctrinstion to Sega?) and that the TRS-80 Color Computer port was from 
J> the arcade original. The TRS-80 Color Computer port was, actually, a decent 
J> one.
J> 
J> Was that it: Zaxxon by Sega?

Nope, definitely not. Zaxxon had that 3D look. This is definitely a 2D
scroller that I'm after.

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