Help us remember the name of a game!!!! Or perish!!

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Zeerust: May 1, 2008; They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return.

I've got 2 games I've been curious about for years.

1. was for the Genesis/SNES, a sci-fi sidescrolling shooter. I remember going through a level (possibly the first) and under some kind of condition, your player character gets equipped with a suit of power armour or something that looks kind of like an astronaut suit. Then you go through the level again, but the colour scheme is different and you're more powerful. It's kind of muddled, I'm afraid...

2. Was an arcade game I played years ago. Sidescrolling action game again, and the player characters look like ripoffs of Ryu/Ken from Street Fighter/ characters from DragonBall. It also had a dominant sci-fi theme with lots of really weird organic aliens as enemies.

I think the first boss was two big green things and you had 3 platforms you had to jump down or up to to avoid getting hit by them. Also I rememer levels which are like horizontal space shooters where your guys are flying through space.

Thanks.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2008 19:55

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 19:29

Zeerust: May 1, 2008; They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return.

Sakurazuka posted:

Could be ESWAT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESWAT:_City_Under_Siege, first thing that popped into my head.

I dob't think that's it. I just played throught the first couple of levels and it doesn't ring any bells.

I remember one of the early bosses was in some kind of factory/facility and the boss was some kind of mech that was a part of the background.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2008 20:43

Zeerust: May 1, 2008; They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return.

I remember playing this game in an arcade in Portugal in the mid-90s. It was a sidescrolling action game, player 1 was a black-haired guy in a red gi and the player 2 character was a blonde-haired guy in a blue gi.

It had a really Gigeresque level and enemy design, with the level I remember being this facility with monster monster bodies embedded in the walls, and the enemies I remember were women in techno-organic armour. The first boss was some kind of turtle-man in a multi-layered arena where you had to get to his front to deal damage.

I also remember there was a horizontal shmup-style level where you were flying through space Dragonball-style and blowing up monsters.

This has haunted me for about 20 years. :stare:

# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 15:55

Zeerust: May 1, 2008; They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return.

Pablo Gigante posted:

Was it side-scrolling like a 2D platformer or like a Final Fight-type beat em up?

It was side-scrolling, like a 2D platformer..

Keru posted:

There was a turtle-esque boss in Contra 3, that might be it?

Nah, it was like a humanoid thing. It's definitely not anything like Contra, I remember the sprites being bigger and there's no guns or anything.

ponzicar posted:

Possibly Ninja Combat or Mutation Nation?

Doesn't look like either of these

: I'm 90% sure there it wasn't a 2.5d brawler setup, it there was only a single plane.

the plot involves some kind of alien invasion, or at least an opening scene with a craft approaching Earth? I remember the attract trailer having this cutscene of the protagonist as a kid having beaten the player 2 character in a lab with some scientist booking it, then flashing forward to the present day.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2017 09:54

Zeerust: May 1, 2008; They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return.

Pablo Gigante posted:

Yo, for some reason I really wanted to try to figure out what game this is, and I finally did. It's called Thunder Hoop 2 or TH Strikes Back.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/th-strikes-back

It apparently doesn't emulate very well but I found a full playthrough video on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSfqhtAM9a0

It has everything you described - the flashback intro in a lab with the scientist escaping, the red and blue main characters, the techno-organic armor women, the turtle man first boss, the weird Gigeresque poo poo, and the shmup levels.

EDIT: It was developed by a Spanish company called Gaelco which would explain why you had it in Portugal

Holy moley, you National Treasured that poo poo! I've been asking in these threads for almost as long as I've been an SA member. No wonder I couldn't find it, what the F kind of name is Thunder Hoop? Thank you so much!

Turns out my memory was even more accurate than I thought - I was a pretty sensitive kid so I'd assumed the thing where all the enemies popped like gore-balloons was a distortion :stare:

# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 11:33

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