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Crimewave (on Saturn)?

Grim Fandango?

2 hours ago, mbd39 said:

Ha! Found it! https://odyssey2.info/db/game/balatildeo-travesso-194

 

You got it! Loony Balloon aka Balão Travesso is one of my favorite Odyssey² games. For the system it's well-animated, and offers a nifty challenge.

Sounds like it might be time for another screenshot, then!

Another hint: you play this game with a joystick, but you don't use a joystick to input your name when you get a high score.

7 hours ago, mbd39 said:

My guess is some early 80s computer game, but I'm going to need another clue.

Here's an expanded shot, and a hint: this game did not come out in the United States.

OK, here's my opening gambit:

Snacks'n Jaxson! What an utterly bizarre game:

Never would have gotten this without the clue that it was an arcade game.

2 hours ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

I don't think I've played it long enough to get any of those icons at the bottom although I probably never paid attention since it clearly show what round you are on.

They start rolling out the icons at Round 4, which I think I've reached -- but not much further than that, since this game is like a chicken bone with a tiny bit of meat on it.

I'm not sure that any human has gotten the ambulances without savestates! It takes a minimum of 123 rounds completed to get the first of the ambulances, and 138 rounds to get the "CHAMPION" text at Round 139 aka D9.

11 hours ago, AverageOliver98 said:

Urban Champion

That's it!

The ambulances are the last thing you get before the text "CHAMPION" is displayed -- the closest thing this game has to a clear win condition. Of course you have to win an obscene number of rounds to get there.

See the end of this video for evidence:

A little more?

Hint: almost everyone on this site will have at least heard of this game. Many have played it.

It's a tiny bit early timewise, but here's image #3, which may give it away (or might not!):

Not an Atari 2600 game, I'll cop to that. And I'd note that in fairness I'm using a screenshot from a YouTube video, so any subpixel cleverness is just a product of being unable (...or too lazy, though I have a good reason...) to get a clean pixel-accurate capture.

A bit more, then?

Not an "Ambulance"-titled game of any sort, sadly! Any resemblance is purely coincidental...

Assuming I'm correct (@mbd39 can you confirm?) then here's my next one:

All right, I waited the requisite 24 hours: it's El Viento for Genesis. I really like that one (despite the last level) and the gangsters in cars popped out instantly as a familiar element. The game is completely and utterly bonkers, of course.

6 hours ago, mbd39 said:

Ha, pleased to say I recognized this one immediately. I'll hold off a bit to see if anyone else gets it. 

38 minutes ago, AverageOliver98 said:

@mbd39

Please and thank you

-ed for Ted Knight, the Teddiest Ted Knight who ever knighted a knight.

8 hours ago, mbd39 said:

It's Hover Strike for Jaguar!

I knew it looked familiar.

You've got it!

The enemy I initially screenshotted is one of the biggest bastards in the game, by the way. "That little Lilo-and-Stitch-looking MF!", I said to myself more than once.

A tad more?

A fun guess but, no, not Ghoul Panic!

Nope, but in a very general way, you're fishing in the right ocean.

Need a bit more?