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Flavio "Senesino" FBG wrote:

Space shoot'em'up, there is a big "mother ship" at the center of the
screen. Dark sky. Horizontal scroll (forward AND backward), you had
to smash them all and protected the ship in the middle. The "Mother
ship" always stayed in the middle.

Hm, could it be R-Type? I never played more than one level on the C64, but I remember that in the Gameboy version there was a level with bidirectional
slow scrolling where you used to fly around a big mothership. But IIRC you
used to destroy it rather than protect it.

/Steppe


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Steppe wrote:

Hm, could it be R-Type? I never played more than one level on the C64, but
I remember that in the Gameboy version there was a level with
bidirectional slow scrolling where you used to fly around a big
mothership. But IIRC you used to destroy it rather than protect it.

A friend of mine always tried to bomb/destroy the good guys. No suprise he
was the one to find out you can destroy your own base in "F15 Strike
Eagle".

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Etienne von Wettingfeld <etienne@xs4none.nl> writes:

A friend of mine always tried to bomb/destroy the good guys.

That sounds almost like MAD would develop shoot'em'ups. I remember
a board game version of Monopoly where you are supposed to get rid
of your cash as soon as possible.

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Anders Carlsson wrote:

Etienne von Wettingfeld <etienne@xs4none.nl> writes:

A friend of mine always tried to bomb/destroy the good guys.

That sounds almost like MAD would develop shoot'em'ups. I remember
a board game version of Monopoly where you are supposed to get rid
of your cash as soon as possible.

When I play a Command & Conquer: Generals skirmish I usaly team up with a computer player and bomb him when he starts collecting *MY* recources.
Bastard.

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Hm, could it be R-Type? I never played more than one level on the C64, but

I

remember that in the Gameboy version there was a level with bidirectional slow scrolling where you used to fly around a big mothership. But IIRC you used to destroy it rather than protect it.

Nope, it was very simplistic, with smooth and very very simple graphics.

Must have been a "cheap-series" game.

Flavio


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http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2766

Nope :(

I remember the title had two nouns (as in "XXXX YYYYY").

Flavio


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Cosmic Convoy?

No :((

Flavio


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"Flavio \"Senesino\" FBG" <flavioREMOVE@ffbg.net> writes:

there is a big "mother ship" at the center of the screen.

Maybe CounterForce: http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=3220

I haven't played it, so I can't tell if it scrolls in the right
direction (Lemon64 says "miscellaneous" rather than "horizontal").

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"Flavio \"Senesino\" FBG" <flavioREMOVE@ffbg.net> writes:

Alas, it's not that one :(

You wrote about a "big" mothership to protect - roughly how big?
Half the size of the playfield, or just two sprites big?

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You wrote about a "big" mothership to protect - roughly how big?
Half the size of the playfield, or just two sprites big?

I cannot be very precise (I was only 6!) but I remember
it was quite big. At any given time the big ship would turn
"crazy" and begin to tremble... and the whole thing would
explode (the whole battlefield).

The background sky was plain black (maybe a few stars
here and there).


Flavio


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