Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philip Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Space Invaders '91 hunt Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:14:47 +0100 Organization: philg@easynet.co.uk Lines: 40 Message-ID: <358AC6B5.E9DBF156@easynet.co.uk> References: <35894FA3.44D7@writeme.com> Reply-To: philg@easynet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: philg.easynet.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC) James Rutherford wrote: > Hey all, > > Muchos credit to anyone who can help me with this... > > I'm searching for an arcade game I played in a travel lodge once. > It was like Space Invaders with super graphical/gameplay twiddles. > > Basically, these guys marched down the screen and you shot at 'em. The > crunch came when you left yourself with four or five of the same type at > the end of the level - They all swarmed together and became the > mothership from hell. > > I particularly remember these little green aliens (red hearts?) which > razed you with a lethal laser if you didn't hit them dead centre. Nasty > little blighters... > > I'm positive this wasn't Super Space Invaders (the one with the cows) > and it certainly wasn't any of the black/white/coloured plastic efforts. > I'm fairly sure it was called something like "Space Invaders 'xx". > > Virtual-twinkie to the arcade-head who can verify that it existed. > Virtual-subservience to anyone who can tell me that it's emulated > somewhere. > The Space Invaders '91 I remember definitely had the cows. I'm certain about this because they've got it at the Odeon in Muswell Hill (London)! We also used to have it in our common room at college Phil PS: Anyone remember a side-scroller shoot-em-up called 'Air Buster'? Kind of like a Scramble/R-Types kind of game, great graphics and music. Never saw it anywhere else apart from the college common room and once in an arcade in Leicester Square about 5 years ago.