As a kid I didn't play Elevator Action much because I wasn't very good at it, and I tended to spend what few quarters I had in the arcade on games I was good at. More bang for your buck, you know? It wasn't a bad game, just harder for Little Cary to grasp.
I did, however, really like Elevator Action Returns. It's on one of the Taito collections. If it's one the collection you've got, I hope you get to play it! It's awesome!
Have you ever heard of the latest game in the series? It's called Elevator Action: Death Parade and it's an arcade light gun game similar to Time Crisis. But you get extra buttons to open and close an elevator door, and buttons to choose floors. What's cool is that when the doors close, it's an actual physical pair of elevator doors that block the screen! It surprised me at first when it happened! You can even use the elevator doors as shields, too! I played it once at Round 1 arcade.
The name of your character in the orginal game is Secret Agent Otto. He actually appears as a helper character in Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders, along with other Taito stars like Bub & Bob and even Time Gal!
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