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Anonymous Fri Jul 12 02:24:12 2019 No.5730929 [Reply] [Original]

When I was a kid, I remember playing an arcade game that I can't find anymore. It was a space shooter, but also an FPS. The graphics were polygonal based, or maybe vector? It was a long time ago. I don't remember the name, but it started with a "P", I think.

I only played the game about once or twice, and I was like 7 years old, so the name is just kinda lost on me. The cabinet was blue, the start screen had a weird, trance-like tune that played, and the gameplay was fast paced.

You start in a tunnel, then get launched out as the ridges of the tunnel strobe and glow. Your enemies are shapes, I think, and they also strobe when you shoot them. I can't remember too much beyond that, and I can't find this damn game anywhere.

If anyone knows anything about the game I described, then please let me know. I want to get a MAME file of it, or at least a video of the game so my brother doesn't think I'm remembering incorrectly.

Long story, but him and I have been arguing over the existence of this game, and he's been telling me that he never saw a game like that at the arcade we went to. Although, he's older than me, and he remembers where we used to live. We lived in Tacoma, Washington. So if anyone lives or used to live there and has seen this game, let me know. Also, the arcade is probably closed, but I don't know. Can't even remember if it was a real arcade or a mall, and neither does my brother.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 02:29:24 2019 No.5730934 File: 373 KB, 850x1188, HYPERENTERTAINMENT.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Starblade? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vTjEebrnQ

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 02:32:51 2019 No.5730939 >>5730934 Nope. The vibe is kinda like the game, and the tunnel was more rounded with octagonal or hexagonal ridges. It was more fast paced, and the enemies were more like shapes than spaceships.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 02:39:42 2019 No.5730954 you could play torus trooper and pretend it was that game

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 02:49:47 2019 No.5730971 >>5730929 >I don't remember the name, but it started with a "P", I think. Polybius

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 03:07:56 2019 No.5731004 Tempest? I swear to god if this is a Polybius shitpost...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 03:13:40 2019 No.5731012 >>5731004 >summer >4chan >redditor >not a polybius shitpost Good luck with that sport

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 04:27:54 2019 No.5731090 >>5731004 Back to see if the thread is still alive. I've only heard of Polybius a few times, but I doubt that even exists. Just trying to figure out what the game is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 06:49:31 2019 No.5731228 >>5730929 Tempest 2000

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 06:59:20 2019 No.5731235 File: 2.91 MB, 718x754, Tunnel Hunt.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Could be Tunnel Hunt. I don't think it was a true vector game, as the list of them is fairly small and none of them match your description.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 07:04:50 2019 No.5731241 >>5730929 I remember that game It's called "op is a faggot"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 07:47:05 2019 No.5731317 >>5730929 This wasn't one with a flightstick and a throttle, was it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 09:43:36 2019 No.5731469 >>5731317 Just a joystick with a button on it and another separate button on the dashboard, I think.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 09:44:44 2019 No.5731471 >>5731235 That looks similar to it, but It's not the game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 19:09:47 2019 No.5732412 >>5731241 >Look mommy, I posted it again! >>5730929 The game you are thinking of also was one of the first to have a moving cabinet back in '83-'84

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 22:29:41 2019 No.5732782 S.T.U.N. Runner? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgpj6fZQ4U

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 13 00:04:08 2019 No.5732949 File: 310 KB, 650x978, stunrunner1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5732782 Not OP, but STUN Runner is third person and also >>5731469

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 13 02:56:43 2019 No.5733181 >>5730929 >I only played the game about once or twice, and I was like 7 years old It would help if we knew approximately what year this was.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 13 04:21:41 2019 No.5733313 >>5732412 >look mommy. I reddited on the fourth channel again!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 13 10:55:50 2019 No.5733776 The description doesn't match perfectly, but maybe it was Solar Assault?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 01:21:50 2019 No.5735573 >>5733313 Stay mad zoomer.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 05:57:46 2019 No.5735990 >>5735573 >seething zoomer redditard projects

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 06:08:50 2019 No.5736004 Blaster maybe?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 00:42:20 2019 No.5738154 >>5735990 How do you even post on Reddit?

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Anonymous Mon Jul 15 03:39:47 2019 No.5738406
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Sounds like Cube Quest to me. it was a trippy laserdisc game. It used a trackball, but otherwise matches your description.
I have it on my mame cab, it is a CHD game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 03:44:52 2019 No.5738417 Here's a video about Cube Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifxykc2Zvms

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 04:15:20 2019 No.5738440 >>5730929 Atari's Space Lords?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 19:23:53 2019 No.5739936 File: 422 KB, 1240x1240, tempest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ITT this is a troll thread and everyone is being trolled by OP making you think its not tempest when it really is