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Yep, Raiden Fighters.

Thanks :)

Battle of Midway came out in 87, and i played it in 98 when the game would have been fairly new.

It's probably just some random R-Type clone on an arcade machine.

It was in an arcade machine, so i'm not too sure of the platform... but that's about as close as you could get to how it played :)

Thanks for that.

On the right track, but a lot more recent by the look of it. (graphics wise)

You were a World War 2 style metal bomber plane.

Like http://www.fohguild.org/forums/attachments/screenshots/120477d1252675052-funny-strange-random-pics-p38tom2006.jpg

It's an arcade game, the graphics are probably on par with something like Metal Slug.

I know it was an R-Type style game, but you were like... a bomber plane.

It was basically an R-type clone, you went from the bottom of the screen to the top instead of left to right, and you were...