Hey guys, this is my first post here, how are y'all doin'?

As this subforum seems to be devoted to "name that game" threads, here's one more:

I'm looking for an arcade game from the mid-80s, a horizontal scrolling shoot-em up. You've got some kind of flying craft and you're destroying various evil robots and such, a pretty generic game. But... there are several gateways, or portals throughout the levels that you can choose to enter, which hurtle your ship down suddenly into a new screen, and the scrolling continues. It was cool to have that choice to enter the portal or continue on the level you're currently on, and I can't think of any other scrolling shoot-em up that had that element to it. Well, there was one, called 4-D Warriors, but you only switch back and forth between two levels, and the gameplay was pretty lacking. The game I'm thinking of was much more fun and interesting.

Any thoughts?

-Jack

Alright, perhaps I could give a little more information so someone will take a stab at it. I was quite young when I played this game, so my memory is a bit vague. I know this game had to have been released around the early or mid-80s, in the USA.

So, you were in a spaceship of some kind, and went through horizontally scrolling levels, through underground caves, if I remember correctly. The graphics of the background were bright, unlike many spaceship games where it's mostly black. Like many of these games, a single hit from anything destroyed your ship. It was a pretty hard game, as I recall.

The most distinguishing feature of this arcade game was these gateways that were found in each level, that were somewhat hexagonal in shape, and metallic looking. If you entered it, a ladder-like glowing extention would pop out and send you down quickly into a lower screen, and the fast-paced game would continue you scrolling into the next screen.

I never got very far in this game, as I was inexperienced. I was just hoping someone would know what game this was, so I could see about finding it again.

Thanks, y'all

Seriously, I have no idea. Sorry.