Played Zero Gunner 1 (arcade ) this weekend

The Mom & Pop movie rental store round the corner from my house has a circulating collection of 3 arcade cabinets, and I had a serious double-take over the weekend.

The cabinet was for Virtua Fighter 3...with a Mortal Kombat 5 (or something) joystick/button setup....yet there were choppers on the screen wasting each other. I watched, surprised as the familiar Psikyo logo came up, and then...ZERO GUNNER.

In went the quarters.

It's a shame that the game was never released for the home, as far as I know. It's pretty cool, with an appealing grittiness that reminded me instantly of Strikers (no surprise there). You choose from a Cobra, Apache, or Gunship (aka Hokum?) and off you go to locales round the world, killing terrorists.

It wasn't nearly as sleek as ZG2 in terms of visuals or hectic gameplay, but was still very satisfying. Hopefully the bizarre cab will stay around for a while...I want a chance to credit feed.

Hmmm...wonder how much they'll sell me the machine? :)

ZG1 seemed like a shoe-in for a home conversion too, a real shame.

I love this game. You can see many similarities between this one and Cannon Spike in terms of the lock-on meter and bullet patterns.

They have this one in a dedicated cabinet at the Jersey shore at seaside (take heed, NJ TNLers). I think that I may be the only person who plays it.

*sigh*

See if they'll sell it to you. Give that shmup a home!

Nice one! I went by a local liquor store that I remembered having some old unplugged cabinets just standing around recently- sadly they were nowhere to be found. Try and get it while you can. (if you even want it, that is)
Psikyo has a slew of arcade shooters that never made it home that I look forward to owning someday.