i think taito is the manufacturer, but after searching extensively on google image with various
querys, no results..

Game is 1 or 2-player coop, where you start out with a weak submachinegun. game is future-tech styled and
is nicely done. you can also "drive" platforms and vehicles with both players, and it seems like every
vehicle you can drive has a gun of some sort you can shoot. Here are some weapon upgrades i remember:

-rapid-fire machine gun
-weird laser/plasma gun
-a cool grenade launcher(i can't remember if the shots home to target or not)

I also think at the beginning of the game you parachute in but i'm not sure about this. the last detail of the game
i can remember is the splash screen is two dudes in futuristic mecha-like armor, with some sort of night vision
specs on.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!
= )

Sounds like a lot like the Metal Slug-series to me.

nope. should have clariyied is prior to metal slug series, although is quite similar....
= (

Contra?



Just throwing out ideas here..

no, lol. the player guys are dressed up in mecha armor kinda like robotech cyclone armor if you've ever seen it: