trying to find the name of a certain Mame game

OK, this is going to sound ridiculous but I am trying to find the name of a coin-op arcade game I have played and liked. I don't have a lot of information on it other than I know it was made before 1984 and it has multi colored boxes/icons or shapes going all around the edge of the screen. That's it, can't remember anything else whatsoever except that I loved it !! Lol

If any game names come to mind from this pathetic description please post them here and I will definitely check them out. I have been scanning artwork and snaps for a longtime trying to spot it.. TIA

I think you've got to provide some more detail than that. That's very little to go on. Do you remember the game play at least

Not a clue, it was about 34 years ago I played it and the reason I can't remember the name is it was very hard to read it at the top of the machine with the colors they used. I know it's not a lot to go on but I really can't think of many games that have squares/icons going all around the edgenof the screen. Somebody might recognize it by that hopefully..

You can do like I had to once when looking for an arcade game in MAME, but could remember the name - sort games by year and work through the approximate timeframe one at a time... time consuming, yes, but I did find it.

could it have been robotron 2084, maybe?

http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/...8124215733.png

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Originally Posted by Dashingw

Not a clue, it was about 34 years ago I played it and the reason I can't remember the name is it was very hard to read it at the top of the machine with the colors they used. I know it's not a lot to go on but I really can't think of many games that have squares/icons going all around the edgenof the screen. Somebody might recognize it by that hopefully..

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Was it during the game play or the start up sequence that the icons/squares were running around?

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Originally Posted by Vato

could it have been robotron 2084, maybe?

http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/...8124215733.png

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That was my first thought as well!

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Originally Posted by Dashingw

it has multi colored boxes/icons or shapes going all around the edge of the screen

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If it's not Robotron 2084 it's almost certainly one of the other Vid Kidz games...which, according to Wikipedia, are only Stargate/Defender II and Blaster. Blaster has almost no arcade presence, and Defender II was not a common machine, either. Probably Robotron.

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Originally Posted by xAD

If it's not Robotron 2084 it's almost certainly one of the other Vid Kidz games...which, according to Wikipedia, are only Stargate/Defender II and Blaster. Blaster has almost no arcade presence, and Defender II was not a common machine, either. Probably Robotron.

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Thanks for the responses but none of the above... The multicloured shapes were all around the edge during gameplay. I do think there was shooting involved. I found a site that you could click on a year and see all the arcade games made that year and who made them. I went from 1989 and all the way back reading every game name hoping something would jump out at me and it didn't. I even looked though a whole crap load of Google images and Mame art/snaps and still nothing.

Must have been a very rare machine, I know I have the time frame right because I was still in highschool and running down to the local Becker's to play a different machine every month. Funny thing is I can list every game that Beckers had except that one !!! Lol

Astroblaster?
http://www.arcade-history.com/images/game/129_1.png

cosmic guerrilla?
http://www.emuparadise.me/MAME/snap/cosmicg.png

Was it a space shooter?

Nope, and I think it was some kind of a shooter, just not space or western, was does that leave ?? Araknoid type sort of maybe but not exactly that...