The Great Ragtime Show/Boogie Wings

Boogie what?

This game is probably one of the least-seen from Data East (aside from Edward Randy). It's actually kinda pricey, but it's fun.

This horizontal shooter is set in 193X. You have to kill of the bad guys and save world. (Yeah, we've all heard that one before). What better to do it than with your trusty airplane. Typical? Not exactly.

A lot of the gameplay is shooting, but to spice things up, your airplane has a hook attached to its tail so you can pick up, flags, debris, bombs and even enemy soldiers! You can even use some things as a shield (by swinging captured items around). Like Gunforce, you can ride some vehicles such as tanks, "rocket" cars, robots, elephnts, even a pogo stick! If your airplane is destroyed, you run on foot. Take a hit, "Noooooooooooooooo!"

The stages are very colorful and usually busy. Sometimes there is so much going on that you might get periods of slowdown and still lose track of what going on. While this game is very 'period', you have your share of oddities. One stage is called "Konyi Island" where you fly through an amusement park and have to chase a runaway Ferris wheel and fight a Frankenstein robot as a boss. Another stge is the "transporter" where you're inside of a giant airship. In that stage, you have to run on foot for most of the stage, but can ride in vehicles/animals during the "freefall" portion. There's also a Christmas-themed level where you fight a giant parade Santa Claus robot constantly saying, "Merry Christmas!" as enemy soldiers come out of his bag of toys.

The music is catch and seems to fit the game (I think most DECO games from the early 90s had cool music in some way or another. I think I heard something that sounds like Louis Armstrong's When the Saints go marching in - in game music. The voice in this game is sometimes funny, too. There's a boss with his corny evil-villian banter like "Prepare to meet your maker!" Not bad.

Overall, it's a cool game. Not exactly one of those game you can beat with one credit. (you die a LOT of cheap deaths), After all, chasing enemies on giraffe and taking out airplanes with flower pots is sooooooo much fun!:)

Keen-o. Always fun to learn something new.

Oh?

Thanks.

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Originally posted by Click_Stick
Keen-o. Always fun to learn something new.

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How much did you pay for this one? I want one too :)

Is this the same DECO system that runs burgertime? I thought this was an early 80's system?

looks great. I'd really like to see that carnival level =\

In the tradition of Psycho Santa...

no one answered my question :(

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Originally posted by 680x0
How much did you pay for this one? I want one too :)

Is this the same DECO system that runs burgertime? I thought this was an early 80's system?

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This is not on the cassette system from the early 80s. This one is from 1992.

They run about $550 on average (for the Japanese version, anyway.)

spendy, does it use carts then? It's weird that it would use the DECO name when the C stood for Casette. I hope to god it will be mamed someday, because unless my dealer at Mak has a brain hemorrhage and fucks up my monthly price list, I won't be getting this any time soon.

Thanks for the info.

You buy from Mak? You should have told me! They've had the same one for a while now. Who exactly do you contact there?

DECO stands for Data East Company. Remember, this was way beyond the cassette era. No, it does not use carts.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=13718

Got it :D I'll post impressions when it arrives.

PaCrappa: My sincerest app-o-loagies for that shameful display of snipery

Shameful indeed and I say "tsk tsk", you cad. :curse:

I've been after that for two years and no fucking way am I paying $550. I should've bid more because I'd have paid it in a heartbeat. Oh well, there's always next time :)

Pa

Hey man, when I get tired of it I'll email you first (if you haven't found another)

But you gotta understand, when I saw that board, I was shaking and gibbering for hours until I won it. So I think from a videogame crackhead standpoint it's doing me the most good.

Oh no hard feelings man. As a fellow addict I understand the jones quite well. Glad you're all fixed up and no hard feelings. And yes sir, if I haven't found one and you're tired of that one, please slide it my way. There has certainly been more than one on epay in the last two years, it's just that I can't ever get it together to keep track of dates and times so I always miss 'em. Boo hoo.....

Have fun!

Pa