I remember playing an arcade game way back when, I accidentally came across
a really bad conversion for the BBC Micro...wish I remembered where it was since it may have helped identify the proper name. Maybe someone can help.

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen. There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire forward at, and you
could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel tanks on the mountain like
terrain.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Nelgin, to RetroNet.RTN_GENERAL <=-

I remember playing an arcade game way back when, I accidentally came across a really bad conversion for the BBC Micro...wish I remembered
where it was since it may have helped identify the proper name. Maybe someone can help.

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could
go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen. There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire
forward at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an
angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel
tanks on the mountain like terrain.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Sounds kind of like Zaxxon. I remember playing a TRS-80 Color Computer port
of it and I did, later, learn it was developed by Sega (perhaps my early indoctrinstion to Sega?) and that the TRS-80 Color Computer port was from
the arcade original. The TRS-80 Color Computer port was, actually, a decent one.

Was that it: Zaxxon by Sega?

... Let's sit back and watch how wrong I am!
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Re: Arcade Game...
By: Nelgin to RetroNet.RTN_GENERAL on Wed Aug 14 2019 01:52 am

I remember playing an arcade game way back when, I accidentally came across a really bad conversion for the BBC Micro...wish I remembered where it was since it may have helped identify the proper name. Maybe someone can help.

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen. There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire forward at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel tanks on the mountain like terrain.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Sounds like Zaxxon by Sega to me. I played the TRS-80 Color Computer port back in the early 90's, and it was a decent port. I remmber it being it on a cassette tape then. I, later, learned that there was the arcade original.

Could that be it: Zaxxon by Sega?
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Jagossel wrote:

Nelgin, to RetroNet.RTN_GENERAL <=-

I remember playing an arcade game way back when, I accidentally came
across a really bad conversion for the BBC Micro...wish I remembered
where it was since it may have helped identify the proper name. Maybe
someone can help.

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could
go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen.
There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire
forward at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an
angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel
tanks on the mountain like terrain.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Sounds kind of like Zaxxon. I remember playing a TRS-80 Color Computer port of it and I did, later, learn it was developed by Sega (perhaps my early indoctrinstion to Sega?) and that the TRS-80 Color Computer port was from the arcade original. The TRS-80 Color Computer port was, actually, a decent one.

Was that it: Zaxxon by Sega?

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

Re: Re: Arcade Game...
By: Nelgin to Jagossel on Sat Aug 17 2019 10:07 am

I remember playing an arcade game way back when, I accidentally came
across a really bad conversion for the BBC Micro...wish I remembered
where it was since it may have helped identify the proper name. Maybe
someone can help.

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could
go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen.
There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire
forward at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an
angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel
tanks on the mountain like terrain.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Was that it: Zaxxon by Sega?

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

Aww... oh well... Zaxxon was the only thing that I could think of that even came close to matching the description. I would be terrible trying to pick the perp out in a line up. :(

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On 14 Aug 2019, Nelgin said the following...

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could
go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen. There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire forward at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel tanks on the mountain like terrain.

Sounds like Scramble to me. I remember the latter part of the loop being more city-like and having very little room to maneuver.

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Static wrote:

On 14 Aug 2019, Nelgin said the following...

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could
go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen.
There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire forward
at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an angle. Your
fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel tanks on the
mountain like terrain.

Sounds like Scramble to me. I remember the latter part of the loop being more
city-like and having very little room to maneuver.

I found a video on YT and yes, Scramble is exactly it! Thank you. My mind
was going crazy! I'll have to see if there's a MAME rom.

On 14 Aug 2019, Nelgin said the following...

I remember playing an arcade game way back when, I accidentally came across a really bad conversion for the BBC Micro...wish I remembered
where it was since it may have helped identify the proper name. Maybe someone can help.

It was a sideways left to right scroller and you had a ship that could
go up down and foward and back as far as the left side of the screen. There were rockets that would be launched up that you could fire forward at, and you could drop bombs, that would sort of drop at an angle. Your fuel would be refreshed by hitting one of the oval fuel tanks on the mountain like terrain.

Sounds like Scramble to me.


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Definitely Scramble - there were several games like this but the "oval fuel tanks" bit is definitely Scramble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-PDf1Su6gA

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All I could think of was Zaxxon as well, but once I got thinking about it I remembered that there was another game. I had completely forgotten about it. I've gotta check out the video now. It's amazing how something like that can be gone from your memory until someone else mentions it.



On Saturday October 05, 2019, The Dust Council said to blakespot...

Definitely Scramble - there were several games like this but the "oval fuel tanks" bit is definitely Scramble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-PDf1Su6gA

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