SHOOTER fans, do you remember THIS GAME?

As an avid SHOOTER fan most of my life I have played and forgot more games than, well... than I can remember at times. But the one thing I remember about 1980s KONAMI is that they thrived on "Politicially Incorrect" games using the then Cold War as a perfect excuse for mayhem, in such games as Devastators Green Beret and this ONE!



The game was only released in "limited" quantities I assume since most people I talk to say they never saw/played the game back in the day. I didn't even play the game until the summer of 1990 in Del Rio Texas at Laughlin AFB and have never seen it since. It's not a great shooter by today's standards at all, but I would love to find the actual PCB board of it and play it again if not the entire Upright, so if anyone knows where to find either let me know. The thing I most remember about the game was that it starts with the White House being bombed to shit by a squadron of Russian BEAR Bombers, then from out of a secret launch pad (from the bottom the water area in front of the Washington Monument) your F-15 Strike Eagle takes to the skies as you battle against MIG-15s, MIG 27s, MIG-25s, and anything else SOVIET at the time. *Those little pink balls you see in the second picture are actually Ground-to-Air FLAK that can hit you, and then you started half a stage back!

...So does anyone else but me remember this game at an Arcade or Dairy Queen somewhere?

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Guess I really am the ONLY ONE to either have played the game or recollect it. Oh well.



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Dont think so, I do remember playing a Konami shooter that has the similar theme to it and it was called "A-Jax". A NES version was planned for A-Jax but was canned. It even had a ad with Jackal along with it, I saw it in ancient issue of "Boys Life" magazine.

Youkai said:

Dont think so, I do remember playing a Konami shooter that has the similar theme to it and it was called "A-Jax". A NES version was planned for A-Jax but was canned. It even had a ad with Jackal along with it, I saw it in ancient issue of "Boys Life" magazine.

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Well at least you remember that one, A-JAX is one of my all time favorite SHOOTERS of the "Cold War" era too. I played MX-5000 in July of 1990 and played A-JAX for the first time in August of 1990 in Farmington New Mexico on my way up to Denver Colorado. Both games were not really distributed very well and is probably the reason most don't know what I'm talking about. I was just curious to see who DID know anything about MX-5000... but gettin' a holla' back on AJAX made my night. *I didn't know however, that it was slated to be released on the Famicom/NES system... interesting indeed.

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Never seen it MD, never heard of it even, will check it out....

Howver, i am a big fan of the afore mentioned AJAX, i had originally played it on the X68k emu, which is a near perfect port of the arcade game in hindsight

After putting it on a few times i thought really MEH....but after beating the top down of level one i was BLOWN AWAY by the mode 7 esque second part where you zoom down from the sky to take out the aircraft carrier, fucking the awsome

I love any game that's anti-PC!

Heh. The old MX-5000 from Konami...I do remember it and it wasn't all that great of a game when it comes to scroll-shooters. I recall the game had a very small p.c.b. but it wasn't a smooth playing game.

AJax...another Konami shooter...now that was a cool little game. Easy to play yet had its challenges. Not a bad little scroller, the place I played it used a sit-in cabinet and that rocked