I remember my family had an old game - could be amiga, or C64, I dont really recall.
It was a side scrolling 2d game, and I dont remember much of it, as I was 5 or even younger at the time. It was in colour - basic colours, but colours nontheless - and it had basic animations. They werent the best, but it was fairly good for being back then.
I dont recall having any weapons in the game at the time, but I assume they were in it. I dont recall having used any weapons anyway. I believe you had to find weapons before being able to use them.
The first maps were a bit random, I remember loving a starting zone that was a graveyard, you could walk on several heights here, so it wasnt just one floor. In this zone I remember floating ghosts, like white round blobs flying back and forth, kinda like the Evil Eyes in Zelda 2. There were also zombies or skeletons that spawned from the ground and some already walking around. I also remember that dying in this game spawned a headstone with the letters R.I.P clearly visible on them, headstones that I believe stuck around for marking where you died on your next lives. You didnt have endless continues, if you died just a few times it was game over. I am 100% sure there were these headstones with those letters on them, because I remember they being the first instance I came across that particular abbreviation/phrase.
For what I remember, this sidescrolling wasnt just going from left-to-right, in this graveyard map you actually begun on the right and moved left. The "end" of this graveyard was also signified by you reaching a large building.. I believe it was a mansion?
So;
Sidescrolling 2d
Basic animations
Colour (on the version I played atleast)
You dont start out with weapons
Round flying ghosts, mobs spawning from ground, some walking around
Oldschool 3 lives into Game Over
Death spawned a headstone with letters R.I.P clearly visible
First map - or one of first maps available for chosing, was a graveyard, with "several stories high"
Some maps were right-to-left, some left-to-right
Second map possibly a mansion
(It's quite possible that I'm on the wrong game system here. During the time I played this game, I also played on C64, my aunts Famicom - and she had some of those 100-in-1 cartridges - with other games I played being games such as Dig Dug, Popeye, Xanadu, Turrican.. while the game I'm looking for isnt necessarily of the same graphics such as Zelda 2, I believe it was better graphics than some of the earlier Ghosts and Goblins I've seen when googling - the game I'm looking for is NOT one of those. I think.)
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