Name the Game - Part 3

[child of Thor]

sorry GhengisFarb, i thought you were questioning the actual clue

so no the answer isnt metallica, but the game somehow has a connection to the band........

Clue 4: in maybe an even more strained way it also has a connection to the film 'Alien 2' or actualy 'Aliens'(oops), if my memmory serves me well.........

[Buck Birdseed]

Right, I know nothing about Metallica other than what people say on Poly and what little I'm forced to hear on the radio (eeech!), so I'll name random song titles I think are theirs (I know, like, three) and we'll see if they're also games.

#1: Master of Puppets

[child of Thor]

Er No - its a shoot em up(clue 5ish)

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Master of Puppets with Guns.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Full Metal Planet?

[Buck Birdseed]

#2: Seek and Destroy

(#3: Enter Sandman, #4: Until it Sleeps and #5: St. Anger are probably pointless to guess, so I won't. )

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Ahhhh. I think Seek and Destroy was a good guess.

[child of Thor]

Bucks got it - but would you care to narrow it down(or someone else can if their quick), as a random guess doesnt seem right?

[child of Thor]

Ok i see Ghengis has pre-empted my thought so i'll ahve to give youguys the tie-breaker question

first one on the buzzer -

How is the film 'Aliens' associated with this game?
[tell me if neither of you have played the game - you'll need a different question ]

[Buck Birdseed]

Er. Is it a phrase uttered during the film in some way? (I have played the game btw.- I only remembered it once I posted the guess though... Helicopter game, top-down, right?)

[child of Thor]

On the money Buck!

Yep the phrase when you die is a straight rip off from the film 'Aliens' - "Game over man!Game Over!" i think it was 'Hicks' from the movie that spoke these words when it was going horribly wrong.
After that you had a sampled sound of your base trying to get hold of you which finished with the eternaly sad words, "I think we've lost him sir"

It was a cool game - 360 scrolling and lots of action

link for info on game

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Way to go Buck!

Just goes to show you that even if no one gives us a game we can start randomly guessing things and eventually get the answer!

[Buck Birdseed]

Right, new game:

Originally an arcade game, late 80s, converted to at least C64, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad and Speccy.

Its unique gameplay made it one of the top co-op multiplayer games on the c64 (which is the platform I played it on).

[Spaced Cowboy]

Gauntlet?

[Buck Birdseed]

The uniqueness was in part due to the difference in roles between the two players.