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First: 22500 (crapped out on the boss fight, mainly)


I want to put in a vote for Tower of Doom and New Zealand Story. Amazing idea for a thread, btw. Really breathes new enjoyment into MAME.

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Nah, you can solo TOD just fine. That is why I prefer it to SOM.

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sasuke vs. commander

first: 5720 (lost my first life at about 100 but rapidly improved)

i, robot

first: 4963 (reading the rules first would probably have helped)

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I hope nobody will feel annoyed if I run a similar thread on Google+

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Nightmare
First: 26100 :-C

(trying WAY too hard to get multiplier, I think)

Datsun
First: 1.54 ;_;

(am I... bad at games?)

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Another vote: Great Swordsman

Actually better yet, Gladiator, which hardly anyone (including me) has played

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Excellent, weird game by the guys who made the incredible Off the Wall.

First: 15240

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64310. Another horrible job.

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6410. I remain the dunce of the SBDN one-credit challenge.

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Request: more games from Bally/Sente 1984-1985. Chicken Shift, for example.

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Nearly beat round 3, but she managed a spectacular comeback (helped, I think, by her ridiculously annoying voice)

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Night Stocker

First: 25000

Thanks for picking another Sente game! Never heard of this one before.

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I requested this but I had never played it before. Big fan of Great Swordsman though.

So I got 34900, which was pretty poor. Might come back for a 'best' score later.

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Demon's World

I got 28750 because I'm bad at games.

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The End: 4980

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Let's play Red Alert, a depressingly pessimistic cold-war version of Space Invaders.

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Crush Roller: 1510. You weren't kidding about it being harder than Pac-man.

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Dyna Gear: 86310. Not too shameful this time. Got tricked by the stegasaurus boss: I thought he was dead so I ran under him, then he came back to life and crushed me.

Roger looks like blond John Romero in the intro cinematic.

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I played Wardner but my score is too poor to admit publicly.

Do you think they were trying to call it "Werdna", after the Wizardry series?

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I got exactly 80000. I was doing really well, hadn't lost a life, until that stupid water section. Then I couldn't avoid the spiders.

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Hatris: 3700

I panicked.

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Best: 16570



Challenge: burn the hair off all the heads at the bottom of the screen.

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I like Wetrix. But the best tetris clone is Rampart.

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86900. Might try again.

/edit second try was 148600. It does help a lot if you try to conserve bullets, since your weapons constantly downgrade while you're firing them.

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Suggestion: Fire Trap. Something a bit different and nonviolent.

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Only managed 22190. Didn't like the game, seemed overcluttered with ideas.

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I got 28000 for Noboranka - about 25000 from my first life, and then it was a bit of a fiasco.

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First: 36800. Never played the arcade version before, but this brings back memories! The home computer versions topped the UK charts for about a year. In Australia, we mainly got UK magazines for some reason.

The home computer versions had this minigame where you had to shoot the bad guy with a hostage.

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First: 89800



I've never managed to beat the second boss on one credit, and today was no exception.

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A lot of D&D games and books feature a 'retributive strike' which involves breaking a powerful wizard's staff - an idea that was present, IIRC, in the 1st-ed Gygax-authored D&D manuals (which probably means that it originated in some high-fantasy novel). I think the idea must have also been mentioned in the Dragonlance books, since it was featured in every Dragonlance game adaptation that I played. It's an interesting idea for use in a videogame, since it creates a climactic storytelling moment that can be initiated by the player at a time of their choice. Like Prospero, drowning his books.

I wonder how many people playing Mystara trigger the final strike before the final boss?

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29300. I guess I should have taken the time to watch a youtube playthrough!

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Only 41500. Was doing fine until that narrow bit then suddenly lost all my lives in about 5 seconds. I would have been mad if I'd put a quarter in for that.

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Don't have this one on my laptop so it's going to have to wait.

Suggestions: Motos (Namco), odd bumping game
My Hero, like one of those Korean comics (by Yang Young-Soon) brought to life
Ninja Combat, over-the-top belt scroller
The Ninja Kids, kind of weirdly racist belt scroller
The Ninja Warriors, 3 monitors, remember to set MAME to 'side by side' under video options once the game starts

p.s. most sickening parallax of all time: Mirai Ninja

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Motos: 15000
Tried too hard to jump a gap to get the powerup in round 8.
I think the powerup system is interesting, although I couldn't work out what it was doing for the first few levels.