Saturday Flyers?

Click the pics to make 1986 sized!

Those darn Radium Chimps accidentally locked me in the decontaminate chamber the other day thereby causing me to miss a Friday Flyers post! Luckily my good robotic friend, Tupa01, heard my cries of protest and has set me free. So let us make up some lost time shall we?

I haven't been able to really find any information about Express Raiders but thanks to Youtube we can watch a few minutes of gameplay...hit the coyote for points!


Empire City 1931 appears to be a first person shooter using an 8-way joystick. Thanks again to Youtube we can see some of the arcade action, not to mention how sorry we feel to see whomever is playing this shoot that innocent lady.


Darwin 4078 was released into the arcades by Data East and was a vertical shooting/spaceship game much like Xevious. There is an interesting use of Darwin's law as your ship which looks like a tiny microscopic organism may transform up to 10 ten times with varying weapons and defense capabilities. Once again we go to the all powerful YouTube for some footage of the gameplay!

Batman Vs Q*Bert!

A couple of weeks ago I was able to post some DeviantArt that showed the cross-over of Batman and Donkey Kong in a false comic cover, now we have as seen above the beautiful illustrations of Christoper Tupa, showing what would happen if Batman and Q*Bert crossed paths.

For more of Christopher's artwork (Because you haven't lived until you've seen a zombie Madball version of Teddy Ruxpin!) please head over to his official site at http://www.ctupa.com/

Chris has been a loyal reader of my blog for a while and I must say that for anyone that loves the 80's and more importantly has a whimsical heart will feel right at home as they look over Chris's artwork. He has quite a bit of his work for sell and I'm going to have to wrestle anyone who tries to buy the above Batman vs Q*Bert artwork from under me.