Help me with this arcade game name

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I remember playing a video game in the early 80’s that came in two versions:

It was a left-to-right forced scrolling (you had to move or get blown up) game where you flew either a helicopter gunship or spaceship through underground caverns whilst blowing away gun turrets, opposing choppers/ships, bombing fuel depots (you needed these to continue), etc. As you got deeper in the cavern-maze, the manuevering got very tight.

Any guesses?

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It reminds me of defender or chopper command, but that’s probably not it.

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Just a guess.
Although, I wasn’t sure from your message, did you mean there was two versions one that had a helicopter and one a space ship? If that is the case, it wasn’t Zaxxon.

Here is a website with Zaxxon screenshots.
http://www.kinetic-arts.demon.co.uk/jamma/zaxxon/zaxxon.htm

pat

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Cobra Command. Cool Game.

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Was it Vanguard?

Here’s some info on the game (and a screenshot, albeit an awful one).

http://www.mame.dk/gameinfo/vangrdce/

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Vanguard sounds close.

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Geez, I’ve played this one. It was on the old Vectrex machine. Can’t come up with the name though.

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Hmmm, ok, the game I’m thinking of from the Vectrex is called Scramble. I’ve seen a similar, perhaps identical game at the arcade, but I have a feeling it was called something different.

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Scramble! Yes, that was it! Wasn’t it? I dunno, I didn’t ask the OP, but that’s definitely the name I remember.

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Was this a console game, computer game or stand-up arcade game?

There were only two early-80s games I can remember that involved helicopters: Chopper Command (an Activision game on my Atari 2600) and Choplifter (TRS-80, C-64, stand-up arcade).

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From the description it is Scramble .

There were variations which I can’t remember the name of. One you were in a sub. and the other a helicopter.

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Scramble was the one with the spaceship.

The version with the helicopter was called (see above) Cobra Command. As I’ve told you. grin

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Vanguard looks like it might the one. The chopper version was almost exactly the same except you flew a chopper as opposed to a spaceship and shot at war-related stuff as opposed to space-stuff.

Thanks to all.