I could never get into any Atari 2600 era golf game. Have you ever played the 2600 Mini Golf game? It looks like they tried to make a golf game out of Adventure graphics. The first golf game I ever really played much was the first NES Golf game. I got that for my dad back then. It's one of the few NES games he played, along with Rad Racer.
*sigh* ..Sylphy... :)
I don't really remember playing much of Forgotten Worlds in arcades, but Capcom sure likes to make reference to them in other games. As you said, Sylphy the hot shopkeeper appears in the Project X Zone games, as well as the Japan only Namco X Capcom. The two dudes from Forgotten Worlds are also playable in that game as well. Sylphy is also a shopkeeper in a really awesome Neo Geo Pocket Color game called SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash. They even play her shop music from Forgotten Worlds in it!
Forgotten Worlds is also one of the first games to use Capcom's main means of currency, called Zenny. Other games and anime use that term, too, as it's just Japanese slang for pocket change, but I see Capcom using it the most. They even use it in games like Mega Man Legends and Zack & Wiki!
But the real question is who is the better arcade shopkeeper? Sylphy or Miyuki-chan from Ordyne? :)
I don't remember which collection it was. It was just a more complicated Battlezone with different weapons and readouts that probably looked more like a real tank's.
I don't think I'd want to fly or ride in one. Sounds rough. But I still like to look at them!
I loved this game as a kid. But then, I've always had an interest in biplanes for some reason.
I unplugged my PS3 to make room for my PS4 back in early 2017 and haven't played my PS3 since.
I haven't played my 360 since 2015! But I played it a lot for nearly ten years, so it had a good run.
Not only did Activision Anthology feature a TON of games, it also had a soundtrack with a bunch of popular 80's songs, videos of old commercials and corporate material, and you could earn virtual high score patches. Back in the day, if you earned a high score on certain games from Activision, you could take a picture of the screen and send it in for a real patch. And you could earn them the same way in the anthology! That collection rivaled the PSOne Namco Museums in terms of presentation.
I never got into Battlezone, but on one of the Atari collections they did actually include the version of Battlezone they used to train the military, and I thought that was neat. Atari made a vector based game similar to Battlezone that I liked a lot better called Red Baron.
Did you know the creator of Gyruss went on to make Street Fighter?
