Need help identifying an arcade game.

[bergbros]

I played an arcade game in the mid to late 80's that I really liked but I cannot remember the name. It was a flying game with a first person perspective and I believe a star wars type controller. It was not made by Atari. It had a a firing crosshair and if you locked on to a target with the cross hair you would fire a missle taking the target out for more points. I remember that when you locked on, a smaller picture of the target in a two color shadow effect appeared at the top of the screen with the point value. I remembered the enemies both ground and air targets to be varied and the backgrounds to be varied, flying over cities and airfields and targeting futuristic buildings. The graphics were somewhat pixellated but colorful. I believe you could not effect the speed or altitutde. It was basically a shooter without the vector graphics a la star wars but with more varied and wide open scenes. I just loved this game but I forgot the game with the passage of time. If I can have link to a screen shot I could identify it. I might be able to get mor specific if asked the right question.

[NE146]

Are you sure it had Vector Graphics? If so.. there's only a handful of possibilities...

[bergbros]

No. Definitely not vector graphics. I remembered the graphics to be somewhat pixellated but colorful. Damn, I wish I could remember the name.

[bergbros]

To narrow it, it is not Afterburner, Space Harrier or Buck Rodgers though if you remove the person in Space Harrier (A game I like BTW) it approaches the game I am thinking of.

[t.skid]

Did you take a look at http://www.klov.com/ ? Lot of infos about Arcades there

[eldunko]

do you remember if it was early/mid/late 80's when you played it?

[bergbros]

Towards the late eighties, estimated 1987. I remembered seeing it in the arcade with 720. I will look at klov to get the answer.

[bergbros]

Damn KLOV. I wish they had a search engine that you can find a game by the type of game it is. Flying, sports, etc. or by the year. It would make searching for a game much easier. I'm sorry,but it isn't coming to me.

[bergbros]

I think I got the name of the game: Lock On. The problem is I can't find a screen shot to confirm if was the game. It was made by Data East and it came out in 1987. It can't even be found on MAME as it is unemulated. Any help here?

[Nukey Shay]

Sadly...no picture at the Unemulated database...

http://unmamed.mame.net/non_dataeast.html#LockOn

( anyone try typing unemulated.com? WTF??)

 

Klov just barely has the screen in a cab shot...not much use...

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...=L&game_id=1715

[Starscream]

Yup, It is Lock On that you are talking about. If I remember, it was the first almost real Flight Sim type game - or at least that looked/played well. If you have SNES, here ya go:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=27231

 

 

Ask the dude for a screen shot if you aren't sure.