Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Nick Slaven Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: The Name of A Game Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 00:47:46 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 44 Message-ID: <354D0220.F25A8ECE@compuserve.com> References: <6ifrrb$edu3@scea> <6iiodf$jpr17@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ld21-080.lon.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:600 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:784 I used to play nemisis a hell of a lot, and this game sounds totally different, For a start nemisis was side on view scrolling right to left. Nick Chain wrote: > Nemisis? > > Steve Tolin wrote in message <6ifrrb$edu3@scea>... > >I used to play an arcade game that was most fun and I would like to try and > >find it or info about it. > > > >Maybe some of you have played it or might remember somthing, anyways... > > > >The game: > > > >Very similar to Xevious: Top view, scrolling upwards; space ship flying > >over land ( grass, and rock) > > > >Now here's the main distinguishing feature of the game. > > > >Like Gradius it had power ups. There were stars you collected. After so > >many stars then you could purchase new weapoons or items for your ship. I > >remember the best config was to get homing missle, speed upgrades, but > >there were also wing upgrades that would widen your ship (to a length of > 3). > >If you got shot in the wing you'd loose them. > > > >Simple as that. > > > >If you remember this game I would very much appretiate some info on it. > > > > > >Thanx in advance. > >Steve Tolin > >titan@vianet.on.ca > > > > > > > >