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[Tedesco!]

I am trying to find out the name of a game I once played in the early 90's

In it, you were a young man in a village being terrorized by the military. You were given your grandfather's (father's?) gun in order to protect yourself.

I remember that there were robots involved, and one level involved a train. I think it was a lasderdisc-type game in the vein of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, though it wasn't a Bluth game. I think it leaned more towards Japanese animation.

I know I am extremely vauge in describing this, but it's all I can remember. Does anyone have a clue as to what game I'm talking about, or am I just crazy?

 

[Photon]

Would you say the gun was capable of shooting the lips off a cockroach?

 

[Tedesco!]

That sounds familiar....

 

[Fowler]

These guys might be able to help:

http://www.whatwasthatgame.com/

 

[shantyman]

What system was this for? Or was it arcade?

 

[Tedesco!]

It was a coin-op machine. I think I played it at an old arcade. It was only around for a week or so, because when I came back it was gone. It's been bugging me for years.....

 

[Photon]

Wasn't there a part where you were riding in a taxi around a baseball field, possibly with robot baseball players?

Could the name have had some numbers in it, like 444 or 555?

 

[ToastyFrog]

I believe it was called Freedom Fighter? In any case, if I'm thinking of the same game you're describing, it used footage from Leiji Matsumoto's Galaxy Express 999 anime. So there you go.

Edit: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=F&game_id=7850

Yep.

 

[Photon]

According to http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/pages/ffr.asp it was released by a division of Malibu Grand Prix.. makes sense since Malibu is the only place I ever saw it.

 

[Tedesco!]

Yes! That's exactly it! Thanks alot for the help....(sniff) now I can get on with my life(sniff)

 

[Spazbiohaz]

I played that game at E3 in the Retro hall last year. I was like damn I don't remeber this game at all.