OT: Name that game!

[emphatic]

A friend of mine is trying to find out the name of one of his old arcade favorites.

He's created this mockup image of the general look of that game:

As he remembers it, when you shoot an enemy, it shows the score like in the image.

The background is mostly black, but sometimes you get some kind of hyperspace mode or something and the screen flashes in red. The palette is very limited, like 8 colors or so.

Apparantly, in addition to your ship moving left and right you can also manouver it up and down. And the sprites are as ugly as in the mockup. The yellow enemy ship is almost identical to the game.

Games ruled out so far:

Halley's Comet (graphics to good)

Juno First

Astro Blaster

Astro Fighter/Astro Fire

Cosmos

Star Trek

Red Clash

Space Raider

Excerion

Sky Base

Sky Chuter

Megatack

Moon Cresta

Moon Quasar

Gorf

Space Encounters

Cosmos

Challenger

Lazarian

Space Tactics

Space Fortress

Enigma

Dark Warrior

Super Astro Fighter (DECO)

Bosconian

Emph

[hansolo77]

Does he remember what system it was on? That might help narrow it down a little.

[emphatic]

It's an arcade game. He was around 9 years old when he played it so...

Emph

[jthompson]

It's an arcade game. He was around 9 years old when he played it so...

Emph

Megamania?

I don't think the ship moves up and down in that one though, and the ship looks more like the Enterprise.

Jay T

[hansolo77]

Zorphon for Commodore64?

[lingpanda]

Blaster? 1983 Williams.

[emphatic]

Apparantly, that mockup image that he's done is very accurate to the game he's after. He played it in Italy, so it might be some sort of italian bootleg, but it's definately an arcade game and not for home systems.

Emph