Cooperative multiplayer video game

[wwwmwww]

I remember playing a cooperative multiplayer space shotter in a Dave & Busters in Houston TX in the late 90's. The hardware the game was played with looked exactly like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWX2NnYgxDQ

Yet I can't recall the name of the game and I'm not having any luck finding it with google.

Up to 6 or 7 people could play. Each player controlled a turret on the same space ship and the ship was flying through space on more or less a fixed course that wasn’t controlled by the players. The players simply had to shoot all the bad guys that were shooting at the player’s ship before their ship was destroyed.

Could someone please point me in the right direction? I think this may have been the first game that utilized this type of hardware that took up most of a room.

Thanks,

Carl

Edited April 11, 2008 by wwwmwww

[wolfx]

I remember playing a cooperative multiplayer space shotter in a Dave & Busters in Houston TX in the late 90's. The hardware the game was played with looked exactly like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWX2NnYgxDQ

Yet I can't recall the name of the game and I'm not having any luck finding it with google.

Up to 6 or 7 people could play. Each player controlled a turret on the same space ship and the ship was flying through space on more or less a fixed course that wasn’t controlled by the players. The players simply had to shoot all the bad guys that were shooting at the player’s ship before their ship was destroyed.

Could someone please point me in the right direction? I think this may have been the first game that utilized this type of hardware that took up most of a room.

Thanks,

Carl

Hehe...you're in luck. I had bitter/sweet memories of this game when I was a kid. It was absurdly hard and probably designed to suck the quarters from you. It also had awesome graphics for its time and felt very cinematic.

Its called Galaxian 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxian_3

Youtube doesn't have arcade version though....

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...mp;search_type=

[JB0]

Hehe...you're in luck. I had bitter/sweet memories of this game when I was a kid. It was absurdly hard and probably designed to suck the quarters from you. It also had awesome graphics for its time and felt very cinematic.

Its called Galaxian 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxian_3

Youtube doesn't have arcade version though....

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...mp;search_type=

Wikipedia is wrong. You did not play Galaxian 3.

http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=83...p;gid=2688#2688

You played a sequel.

Most likely Galaxian 3: Project Dragoon, though possibly G3: Attack of the Zolgear.

Despite Wikipedia's insistence that all three games are the same thing, they pretty clearly aren't. Project Dragoon could be a REMAKE of Galaxian 3, but it's certainly not the same thing given the original was a full circle with 28 guns and PD was a flat screen with 6 guns.

Not that it isn't sexy as hell anyways.

Edited April 12, 2008 by JB0

[wolfx]

Well it still had the "Galaxian 3" in the title and that's what i remembered as a kid.

[wwwmwww]

Thanks for the info!!!

Carl

[ssfsx17]

I remember that you had to feed whole dollar bills into the thing. And it was impossible to beat if you didn't play it with as many people as possible.