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don't, don't, don't you, forget about...

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 FORGOTTEN WORLDS Did you find these guys back in the day?  If you did, chances are you didn't find them in the arcade. I lived by the seaside back in the 80's and 90's with access to arcades many and varied, at least 20+ venues, and not a single one of them had a Forgotten Worlds machine.  Heck, i only ever saw a Strider machine once in the wild, and never saw a  single Ghouls n ghosts grazing on the fertile plains of mass seaside tourism. The Megadrive version title screen. If you're like me, you were probably more familiar with the home conversions of the game. Indeed i bought the Amiga version - one of only around five Amiga games i actually paid for (to be fair i owned the A500 for less than six months) b ut buy it i did, I found myself sucked in by the big box artwork and screenshots which promised action aplenty shooting Dragons and Gods in the face with lasers.  I had no idea the Amiga version was severely cut down from the arcade, i don't remember the A50