*Please* help me remember a game from my youth

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Digger
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*Please* help me remember a game from my youth

Post by Digger » Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:22 am

HI Gang,

New guy here, though I have loved ataris since I had a 2600, then 400, then 800xl, with dual floppies, tape drive, colour (tape) printer, and so forth.
I used it last in college, then reluctantly sold it for a PC.
Oh well right?

In any case, I used to play a game on it, from a small game company I seem to recall (but my memory is hazy, I was in college in 1985) that took place inside a cave. It was a side scroller, you were a classically shaped UFO (again, IIRC) and it was mostly in B/W (or very minimal colours) and you shot at other ufo/enemy ships in the caves. You scrolled left to right, and I think (again, IIRC) there were 30 caves you went through, entering from the left, exiting to the right. The last cave was a dead end with the "boss" enemy. Once completed, the game was over. One of the unique things I recalled is you could tunnel through the rock, all while taking damage (but you could do it if you needed to make a fast escape)

I've been through your database of games with the name "cave" in it, and nothing seemed to be it (it's not Vanguard, or Caverns of Mars)

Any ideas?
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Re: *Please* help me remember a game from my youth

Post by Atari Frog » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:21 pm

How about Eggnapper?

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Re: *Please* help me remember a game from my youth

Post by Digger » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:29 pm

Wow, that's really close, but that's not the one (although I never knew this existed)
Anything else like that out there?
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Re: *Please* help me remember a game from my youth

Post by Kr0tki » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:12 am

Gauntlet / Gauntletak, maybe?
Check out A8CAS, a tool to archive Atari tapes
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Re: *Please* help me remember a game from my youth

Post by Digger » Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:02 pm

Ding Ding Ding Ding!
We have a winner!

And you have a great memory!
Speaking of memory, it's amazing to me how my mind morphed the game into better graphics than it really had.
Nonetheless, thanks for helping me sleep now!

CHeers!
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