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Vietnam War Arcade game??? HELP

junglerjungler Registered User new member
edited August 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
Does anyone know this game? : Basically I remember playing it when I was 7 years old in China in 1987 but none of my search queries come up with anything remotely similar. It is third person army shooter game and the perspective is from behind a character that faces forward (when it is two players there is one player on each side -left and right). The avatars hide behind walls to defend from attacks that are coming at you from the top of the screen basically. The entire environment is static -- it doesn't move. But yes it is an army game -- possibly vietnam war type theme. I believe the arcade version actually had a trak-ball controller but I'm not sure. Does anybody know this game????

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  • MongoBigHeadMongoBigHead Registered User regular
    Could it be Cabal?

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    Operation Wolf? That had guns that you shot with though.

  • MushroomStickMushroomStick Registered User regular
    Were they light guns (on a cord, like House of the Dead) or directional guns (basically a gun shaped twisting joystick pointed at the screen, like T2 the arcade game)?

  • junglerjungler Registered User new member
    Wow! It looked a LOT like CABAL (sorry I should have specified it was not at all a shooter game with an actual gun controller). I wonder if there was a similar game that came out at the same time -- or maybe my memory of it is distorted. it might be CABAL. it looks pretty similar.

  • Atlus ParkerAtlus Parker Registered User regular
    Ikari Warriors?

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    Atlus Parker wrote:
    Ikari Warriors?

    Yeah, this could be it. You could twist the joysticks to rotate your torso shoot in different directions. Classic!

  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    'Nam 1975?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G7s1FPBUPo

  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited August 2011
    The only trakball arcade game which the guy is referring to is cabal

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQnHAr0yLvY

    they need to bring cabal back for kinect. That could be fun.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited August 2011
    I forgot about Cabal! You could shoot down the houses and barriers, right?

    EDIT: I guess I could bother to watch the video.

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  • junglerjungler Registered User new member
    Hmm, I just spoke with my sister and she says it looks a bit different too. It is VERY similar to CABAL but I think the avatars were bigger on the screen and the color was more realistic. but it is really similar (even the way the buildings collapse is the same). i think the avatars were more clearly soldiers too. any more ideas? thanks for all the help!

  • SpudgeSpudge Witty comments go next to this blue dot thingyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2011
    edit: nvm

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  • L Ron HowardL Ron Howard The duck MinnesotaRegistered User regular
    Total crapshoot here, but Metal Slug?

  • MrVyngaardMrVyngaard Live From New Etoile Straight Outta SosariaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2011
    http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7573

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGL1FmJb2cM

    Devastators?

    Because it's somewhat like Cabal but slightly more realistic although it does have the aspect of running forward. (The youtube footage is messed up, as the screen aspect on the arcade machine was different.) You say the environment doesn't move though... And there's no trackball. So, perhaps not, but figured I'd field it as a possibility. *shrug*

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