80's Video game trivia...

[RigaMortus2]

I can't for the life of me find out what the name of this game is. So I'll do my best to try and describe it, and hopefully someone out there may be able to identify it for me.

This was a video game found in the arcades in the 80's. It was in the same vein as "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace". Meaning, it was a "cartoon" video game. I believe it came out after those two games, but I am not certain. The only thing I remember about it was, you played a sort of Inspector Gadget-type person. I remember this one part of the game where you are walking outside some castle towers, and your legs are elongated (hence the Inspector Gadet reference) and you are walking from tower roof top, to tower roof top. I thought the name of the game was "Cliff Hanger" or something like that.

Anyone remember this game, or did I just dream it up?

 

[RigaMortus2]

Yeah, I didn't think anyone would know what game I was talking about

 

[Alzrius]

Both Dragon's Lair and Space Ace were made by Cinematronics, so maybe it's another game they made?

 

[RigaMortus2]

Yeah, I thought of that, but I can't seem to find any other game made by them that resembles the one I am thinking of.

 

[bodhi]

Any of these screen shots look familiar?

 

[RigaMortus2]

Any of these screen shots look familiar?

I am 99% certain that this is the game I was talking about. I don't see the screen shot of him walking on the outside of the towers, but I think this is it. Thanks for digging it up. Your Google skills are vastly superior to mine /bow

 

[RigaMortus2]

Yup, that is it! I found the part where he is leaping from tower to tower. For some reason, I pictured him with inspector-gadget legs, but I guess I made that up. At least I got the name right Thanks again!

 

[Henry]

Yeah, I remember this one too (for a short while -- the arcade it was at near my home pulled after only a few months!) and for the longest time, I thought there was a Lupin laserdisc game - I was only half right.

 

[Rackhir]

BTW the movie the game was taken from is considered one of the classics of Japanese Animation.

For a long time the overseas rights to any of the Lupin the III stuff was blocked because the character was supposed to be the grandson of a character from a french novel series about a thief Arsene Lupin. That may be one of the reasons why the game was named "Cliff Hanger" aside from the bad pun aspects. This finally changed a few years back when the copyright on the original french novels finally expired and then the Japanese Lupin the IIIrd stuff could be sold without such dodges as changing Lupin's name to "The Wolf" and other such feeble workarounds.