Can someone help me find the name of this old video game?

Question

I used to go to Celebration Station and play this arcade game but I forgot the name. It was a side scrolling game and the closest thing to it I could come up with was Gradius . It was a game where you could shoot all your enemies and collect "options". When you collect the options they would attatch to your "tail" similar to a scorpion and then if long enough it would become part of your defense. When you fly up and down it would kind of whip above and below you like a horse's tail and kill enemies behind you. I thought it had the word thunder in its title but maybe not and it's at least 15 years old. It looked like a person or plane or something but very unusual.

no, that name doesnt ring any bells at all but thanks for tryin to help....maybe I should have asked for a list of all games even remotely resembling Gradius made before 1995 that have been in an actual arcade.....I'm still lost

Answer 1

Other Konami shooters had the 'options' upgrades, such as Life Force or Salamander.. Gradius is one of the more famous ones, but you already said that's not it. Konami DID make a shooter called Thunder Cross which also has options, so maybe that's the game you are thinking of.

The only Konami game I know where the option would kill other enemies itself is a little known game called Xexex. The option in that game you can launch and it grows it's own tail and whips enemies and such. Very intense game. I'll place Lnks to the games below in hopes one of them is the one you talked of. I have to use a few mame rom pages because it's harder than I thought to find pages of screenshots, and not the NES versions. There's always the Konami parody shooter Parodius, which has some 'unusual' ships to fly as well. (Like a bunny girl on a rocket, or a penguin)

Life Force
http://www.mobygames.com/game/life-force/

Thunder Cross
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/thunderx

Xexex
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/xexex

Parodius
http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/parodius/parodius.htm

Answer 2

the 1st sport is maximum actually large Mario sixty 4. i do no longer understand approximately the different sport. There are video games made for the Wii that do have Mario as their significant character, yet they have not remade large Mario sixty 4 as I keep in mind. There are comparable video games however, consisting of large Mario Sunshine (Gamecube) and large Mario Galaxy (Wii). i could additionally pick to characteristic that my first guess could have been Diddy Kong Racing! wish this helped. i do no longer very own a Wii, so i'm no longer thoroughly as much as this element with it.

Answer 3

Maybe this game is too old but R-Type sounds right.

Answer 4

Try looking around this sight http://www.klov.com/index.php its somewhere on it.