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Old 12 September 2003, 12:24 PM
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Can anyone remember any classic, top down, scrolling, arcade shoot-em-ups ?

Games like 1942, but with spaceships preferred. The really hard ones, with uber power-ups

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Old 12 September 2003, 12:27 PM
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You talking along the lines of Galxian?

What was the other all time classis, phoneix?

(Spelling is cr@p, I know!)
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Old 12 September 2003, 12:31 PM
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Kind-of. Thinking more 1993 onwards. The ones where you collect power-ups of the same colour to increase your weapons, spring to mind. Can't think of the titles
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Old 12 September 2003, 12:36 PM
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axley on the snes (mixture of top down and side scrolling levels)
pop n twinbee snes (cutesy top down shootin, VERY GOOD)

um i av loads of snes ones at home cant remember names!
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Old 12 September 2003, 12:41 PM
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R-Type, Xenon (2), Swiv?
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Old 12 September 2003, 12:44 PM
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Aaah, Swiv was a good one Top to bottom scrollers I preferred to side scrollers.

Just want to sort out a nice collection
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I had R-Type on my Spectrum. Class
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The daddy of them all ..... The Raiden Project.... absolute class
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I've got shed loads for the MAME arcade emulator....let me know if there are any in particular you might want to try
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Old 12 September 2003, 03:43 PM
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DJ we are two sad individuals i was playing hellfire (mame) double dragon (mame) 1942 (mame) and sensi soccer (amiga)

All last night

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Ps and prolly do it all over again tonight
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Old 12 September 2003, 03:47 PM
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LOL Can't beat the old classics. I can't help but think that a lot of the new games around have lost the original playability and creativity that the old games had.

We like to recreate that old 'Mini-Arcade in the back of the Kebab Shop' on occasion
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Old 12 September 2003, 03:51 PM
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i remember back in the ol days your right though lots of games now just eye candy

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HAHA guess im sad too then i was playin mario kart all night
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Old 12 September 2003, 04:13 PM
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lol sensi soccer, I remember those goals from the half way line with wicked curve on them

Time to dust the old Amiga for a game of sensi soccer thats if I have any joysticks left, used to get through 1 a week with game rage cos I couldn't stand losing to a poxy computer
 
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Bravo my 1200's still plugged in

anyone else fancying a bit of 1943 retro

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Old 12 September 2003, 04:41 PM
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Nice! I wish I had the space, but my front room is already taken up with a huge desk with 4 pc's and a ps2 and can't fit anything else on it
 
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why do u have 4 pc's?
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Xenon 2: Megablast on the Amiga. Awesome.
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Xenon 2 was the first game I brought on my Amiga. Absolutely awesome!
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Hobo cos they all do different things, ones for gaming, ones the internet gateway and firewall, ones the file and print/scanner server and the other one is just hard drive storage.
 
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what about slap fight?
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Now that is an oldie

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Old 12 September 2003, 06:22 PM
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Also there was afterburner, I know its not top down but at the time was quite good, well I thought so anyway
 
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Old 12 September 2003, 06:23 PM
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Bravo it's too damn hard on mame or i'm too damn crap
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Old 12 September 2003, 06:27 PM
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I havent played any games on Mame for ages. Gonna have to download it again and get stuck back into track and field Played it at work at my last place and all you could here was the smashing of keyboards coming from the IT department as well all did the 100 metres to see who could get the fastest time
 
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Old 12 September 2003, 07:14 PM
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LOL i used to play that at the aracades at southsea, always went and picked up a nice size pebble to rub over the running buttons
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one of the best top down scrollers for the PC I've ever played is a game called raptor, its shareware as well so pretty cheap.

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Raiden is my favourite.
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Hehe what memories,for the definitive guide on arcade machines take a look at this site

http://www.klov.com/

Sorry cant be bothered to do the clicky thing

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Hi Steve

Sweet site, would be even sweeter if it had the roms

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