Name that arcade game

edited November 2014 in Chit chat
I remember, once and once only playing a side on motobike game where you had to jump over stuff, not much but like I say I only played once.

It was a tabletop version as well.
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  • edited November 2014
    Excitebike on a PlayChoice arcade, perhaps?
  • edited November 2014
    Sorry, no idea, but for a game that sounds similar, you should try Wheelie on the Spectrum. Not my kind of game, but it was very popular with my mates, so it might be very enjoyable still.
  • edited November 2014
    My first thought (apart from Wheelie) was BMX Flyer by Grandstand... but that was a handheld game, no idea if it was based on an existing arcade game.
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  • edited November 2014
    damn was gonna check on mi mame but it wont work lol
    first time ive tried it on this puter, other one mustve been 64bit, this is 32 bit so it wont work :(

    phew
    after messing with unsatisfactory GUIs ive just found my original download files and theres still a 32bit version, just tried that and it works :) still remembered my favourites too and so prolly my psone pad controls :)
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  • edited November 2014
    It's definitely NOT Stonkers
  • edited November 2014
    With a bit of imagination it could be atic atac
  • edited November 2014
    It had largish sprites so there was only one level, not 3 like in stunt cycle. You also had to speed up and down to make the jumps. I've looked on MAME but don't recognise it. Damn.
  • edited November 2014
    Superbike?

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    Only had a quick go, but it seems to fit the description :-)
  • fogfog
    edited November 2014
    Superbike?

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    Only had a quick go, but it seems to fit the description :-)

    that I recall playing in my local chippy.. gotta check 100% though. I bought wheelie thinking it was a simular game, but the bike game I played the buses looked different IRC. I don't recall the track thing on screen also.

    I have an arcade machine I couldn't remember the name of all.

    you basically lasso'd cows etc and it was a cowboy game, again in the same chippy. I remember it being a green grass background.
  • edited November 2014
    fog wrote: »
    that I recall playing in my local chippy.. gotta check 100% though. I bought wheelie thinking it was a simular game, but the bike game I played the buses looked different IRC. I don't recall the track thing on screen also.

    I have an arcade machine I couldn't remember the name of all.

    you basically lasso'd cows etc and it was a cowboy game, again in the same chippy. I remember it being a green grass background.

    Lasso. ???
    http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8384

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  • MrDMrD
    edited November 2014
    I have another name the MAME query....

    I only ever remember playing this once (mid-80's),and it was a beat-em-up of sorts where your character had to fight off enemies with a stick/sword/cane (I kind of remember it looking like one of those comedy 'hooks' where someone gets dragged off stage). You could move between floors using an elevator - it's definitely NOT Elevator Action before anyone suggests that ;) Graphics were cartoonish.
  • edited November 2014
    Kung Fu master?

    sorry I don't think it is now I re-read you description, kind of feel like the guy on a quiz show who jumps the buzzer before hearing the whole question :)
  • edited November 2014
    MrD wrote: »
    I have another name the MAME query....

    I only ever remember playing this once (mid-80's),and it was a beat-em-up of sorts where your character had to fight off enemies with a stick/sword/cane (I kind of remember it looking like one of those comedy 'hooks' where someone gets dragged off stage). You could move between floors using an elevator - it's definitely NOT Elevator Action before anyone suggests that ;) Graphics were cartoonish.



    Grasping a bit with this one, but..

    Kicker / Shao-Lin's Road

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    In Yie-Ar Kung Fu you had to fight a variety of people with different weapons (no elevators though)

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  • edited November 2014
    Does it look anything like Eddie Kidd on the C64 (quite different from Speccy) in terms of sprite size and layout?
    http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=810

    Never mind. Just realised there's a whole other page of posts I've not read.
  • edited November 2014
    I put this to the peeps at Arcade@Home as well, as they're heavily into MAME emulation.

    Thread here:

    http://www.arcadeathome.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=78824


    Someone suggested "The Ninja Kids" (1990)

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  • MrDMrD
    edited November 2014
    Definitely not Kung Fu Master - which I used to play loads. The only time that I played this game is when the fair came to town and they didn't have KFM in the arcade.

    It's not Shao-Lin's Road or Yie-Ar Kung Fu either. Ninja Kids is too late - the game in question would have been right in the middle of the 80's as I remember - '85 or '86 I think.

    Any other suggestions? Other things I remember - I think the main player character was dressed in white and the enemies were in black...
  • edited November 2014
    Elevators made me think of Kuri Kinton....



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    ...but none of the rest of it sounds anything like it! :)
  • edited November 2014
    Can someone summarise where we are on thread ;);)
  • MrDMrD
    edited November 2014
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    Elevators made me think of Kuri Kinton....



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    ...but none of the rest of it sounds anything like it! :)

    Nope, not that either
  • edited November 2014
    Juganawt from A@H suggested this..

  • fogfog
    edited November 2014
    murtceps wrote: »

    I tried that AGES ago, but nah it's not that.. I remember vividly it had a green background for the grass. that n the wheelie / super bike game bug me to what they were called :)
  • edited November 2014
    Superbike?

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    Only had a quick go, but it seems to fit the description :-)

    Yeah this kind of thing, but the sprites we're larger and darker.
  • MrDMrD
    edited November 2014
    Grunaki wrote: »
    Juganawt from A@H suggested this..

    Nope, not Bogey Manor
  • edited November 2014
    GreenCard wrote: »
    Excitebike on a PlayChoice arcade, perhaps?

    http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7725

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  • edited November 2014
    Double dragon had an elevator

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  • edited November 2014
    fog wrote: »
    I tried that AGES ago, but nah it's not that.. I remember vividly it had a green background for the grass. that n the wheelie / super bike game bug me to what they were called :)

    Stampede, although that is for intellivision / Atari


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  • edited November 2014
    BMX Jungle Bike?
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