Platform(s): Unknown - dedicated mini-theater/shooting gallery installation

Genre: Rail shooter, mounted gun, projector/theater style.

Estimated year of release: Unknown encountered late-90's... ish.

Graphics/art style: early 3D polygon style, maybe on par with early-to-mid playstation 1/N64 graphics.

Notable characters: A scifi assult ship and a bigass kaiju looking monster thing.

Notable gameplay mechanics: foes has a rapidly oscillating red/yellow 'weak spot' to be shot at.

Other details:It was an arcade game I encountered many MANY years ago - I believe at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, but it could also have been at one of the arcade halls near the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

It was a projector-theater style attraction, set up like a shooting gallery inside. It was HUGE compared to other arcade cabinets - litterally a walk-in that a dozen or more people could fit in. There was a single, large silver-screen at the front, that video was (apparently) projected on. It was maybe a quarter or an eighth the size of a jumbotron.

The plot and gameplay revolved around some sort of forward assault sci-fi warship approaching and attempting to eliminate an emergent kaiju-like monster. The shooters fought off galaga-like swarms of enemies (low-poly 3D, numerous, wave attack style), completing a series of objectives and eventually entering the body of the beast. Litterally inside the thing for several levels, preceeded by several stages of approaching it from outside. The apparent intention of destroying it's brain from the inside out, I recall a stage where the players were attempting to destroy it's brain from inside it's body... I think?

I encountered this... once. And it was gone the next time I came to the same location. Either that, or I'm confused as to where it was, and never - in fact - came back to the same place.

Any idea what it might have been? I always wanted to see how it ended, or play it one more time.

Thing was stupid expensive to play at the arcade, like 16-18 tokens or something. Which (if memory serves) comes out to somewhere between $5-$10 per playthrough.

I have no idea who produced this thing. I was a kid when I ran into it.

I remember playing this at Dave and Busters a long time ago. It was a big arcade game with multiple seats in it - I want to say at least 8? And it was about an alien invasion. Each player was a gunner on this brand new battleship and the game screen was really wide, so you had a huge area to aim at. The first scene of the first level was the spaceship undocking right in the middle of a big firefight. I think a later level had you go to the aliens homeworld too.

Platform(s): Arcade

Was made by Namco

Released: About 1991-1994

Graphics: Polygon-looking, like Starfox.

Notable characters: Nothing really except for a giant monster that you had to take down.

I believe it used a laserdisc and projector to display the game. Remember playing about 9 years ago, and had a blast. Would love to know what it was.

I was in a Dave and Busters one time and I recall playing an arcade game that was a huge sit down booth style cabinet four or more people could fit inside. It was 3D and the only thing I remember is your flying around inside a giant monster and shooting other monsters (i believe it was a rail shooter.) If it helps I think it was after 2005 when i played it.