Acejase said:
Hi everyone, Ive been looking for this game for some time, played on an old arcade machine back in the day anyway I stumbled on this thread so here goes.
It's a late 80s vertical scrolling shoot em up, you were a soldier wearing armour. There were mid level bosses and end of level bosses. I think there were approx 6 diff power ups which where letters representing parts that had to be collected through the level for jump you collect all jumps and you would have super jump or you could collect or you spread them to other parts like fire shield etc so you progressed evenly in the power ups.
Any help much appreciated, I thought it may have started with a P but it was a long time ago.
Cheers
Outzone [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuEcMq1ofqw] matches quite a few points you've listed.
There is a guy wearing an armor, there are some letters laying around on the floor you can collect. Check it out.
Probably not the game you're looking for, but on a side note, there is a comprehensive database [http://mamedb.com/category/Shooter] of arcade games emulated by MAME, most of them containing a thumbnail picture taken from the game.
If it's there, I'm sure you'll recognize it much quicker than me