I'm necro-posting here because it's a short, dead thread, and I too have a certain game that has been driving me crazy, lurking in the musty corners of long-term memory from childhood.
The game's vintage is almost certainly of early 80s for IBM PCs and compatibles. To give some examples of this type of CGA/EGA, PC-speaker era game I give you
Alley Cat,
, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pu3f2eTV0E]Tapper,
Moon Bugs,
, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbkZrU5OaI]Zaxxon, and many others I remember playing as part of collections on 5.25" diskettes on my family's aging IBM PC/XT 8088 from childhood.
But there's this one game I can't figure out the name of, despite all my creative googling and scouring the archives of MobyGames. You control a fighter plane in this game and your basic job is to destroy all enemy motorcycles and trucks on each successive stage. You start on a "world map" with you moving your plane around, each time you moved into one of the moving enemy motorcycles, planes, or trucks you'd leave the world map on this "combat map" with two displays: The top is a side-scrolling display and the bottom a top-down display, and you needed to adjust your plane's attitude and altitude to shoot and kill enemies. Once all were dead you'd return to the "World Map" moving around looking for a another gang of motorcycles or a truck to destroy. Once you got 'em all you'd move to the next stage with more enemies. It was a vaguely gauntlet-like in progression of more and more opposition. On the very first stage, there might be only 1 motorcycle. The next there are 2 motorcycles and 1 plane. Then there are 3 motorcycles and 4 planes. Then there might be 1 truck and 10 planes. The number of levels seemed endless, like a very long
KROZ game.
On the "world map" there was also a moving blimp that could refill your ammo if you ran out during the course of s stage. Groups of enemy planes like to camp out on this blimp and force you to fight 'em if you want to refuel (which you'd otherwise avoid because you didn't need to hose 'em to advance to the next stage, just the motorcycles and trucks). Despite the game's simplistic design from a crude era it was going for a Mad Max-esque feel, and gave the impression of a post-apocalyptic setting; i.e. each stage had a name like "Desert Wind," "Ash Road," "Rubber Hell" or something.
Anyone have a clue? If anyone
would know, I know it'd be a
GOG-er.
