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Looking for the title name of a very old arcade videogame

Postby mariomac on Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:19 pm

Hi guys,

I remember an arcade game that I used to play when I was a child (the 80s), but I can't remember the title. The game was a horizontal-scrolling platform game. In this game, the main character was a robot who had to fight whith everything on screen. There were two special weapons: a red punch (middle weapon) and a green punch (really strong weapon).

I can remember two final bosses: a rhinoceros and a big monkey (but I'm not 100% sure about this last).

If somebody could help me, I'd believe on miracles.
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Re: Looking for the title name of a very old arcade videogame

Postby leo on Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:45 am

Sounds a lot like Robo Army, I remember one of the bosses here is a robot gorilla:



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If this isn't the game, can you tell us more? Is it a fighting-type game like the one above or is it more of a shooter/auto-scrolling game? :)
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Re: Looking for the title name of a very old arcade videogame

Postby mariomac on Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:16 pm

Thank you for the info, but it is a very very old arcade, much more than Robo army (the 80s).

It was a fighting game, not in the style of Final Fight or Double Dragon, but in the style of Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja (only a dimension to walk, forward and backward, plus the jump).

Unfortunately, I only have a few memories from my childhood, so I cannot provide you more data. I think the best solution will be to look ALL the screenshots from Mobygames :D
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Re: Looking for the title name of a very old arcade videogame

Postby mariomac on Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:59 pm

I found it!!

The game is named "Get Star" from Taito. There are some screenshots:

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Re: Looking for the title name of a very old arcade videogame

Postby Dekar on Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:35 pm

mariomac wrote:I found it!!

The game is named "Get Star" from Taito. There are some screenshots:

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Haha, never even heard of that one. :) It's cool when you find games that you haven't played in ages! .. Being a retro-geek kind of kills the nostalgia after a while, as nothing is nostalgic anymore (you've eventually played all the games you played as a kid). ;)
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