Be Excellent To Each Other

I finished it a few times on the Speccy but I used to need a fair bit of luck on the last level - cars not getting in the way too much, no bad bounces of the criminal car into something else etc.

Got no further but got a bigger score. 6,812,098.

Well, at least I've remembered to play this week. I just wish I hadn't.
I'm still struggling to get past the first level with a score around 350k.

That'a a bit better.
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How many continues are you supposed to get? I'm not sure if I just stopped paying attention and missed a chance to continue further.

It's 3 credits I think so you should have the option to continue twice. I've got a feeling that you'd actually get a higher score if you finished it on your last credit than if you did it all first go. Not that I can prove it.

That's ok then, I'd used 2 continues on level 3. I'd probably have used my turbos to catch up if I'd known I didn't have any credits left.

I still struggle to knock the enemy out when i catch up with them and the handling on this thing is terrible :



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I was wondering who'd be the first person to start wheeling out the excuses.

:-)

Its probably just me - if see something in the distance on the side of the road i'm on then the only way i can avoid hitting it is to either switch to low gear or take my 'foot' off the gas - anyway i'll have a better time next week with the head chopping :-)

Final Score and it's all change on the league table. We have a new leader, but can he maintain that lead? History says he can't but why can't we make history our bitch? Eh? Eh? Eh?:


Final Scores (Chase HQ - CPC)

Itia - 14,123,849 - 10 points
Devilman - 6,812,098 - 8 points
Chinny - 3,500,164 - 6 points
Joans - 3,436,085 - 4 points
Zaphod - 1,854,364 - 2 points



League Table (Week 6 of 9)


1 - Devilman - 40 points
2 - Zaphod - 38 points
3 - Chinny - 30 points
4 - Itia - 27 points
5 - Joans - 24 points
6 - Malc - 17 points
7 = - Rev Owen - 1 point
7 = - Bobbyaro - 1 point

[url]Someone prod Malc, this week it's another of his choices:

Dragon Ninja on the CPC

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Er, apparently its Barbarian on the C64.

Wrong game. It's Barbarian this week

Er sorry. Anyone got a link?

10400. (Print screen didn't work)

Got it from http://www.c64.com. Tried using Vice, couldn't get the keys to map, so I tried ccs64 which worked fine.

http://www.c64.com/?type=1&id=60 - Downloady loadyn shift runstop press play thingy for Barbarian.

Nancy on the Speccy was indeed much, much hotter. It's really hard to look at the C64 Nancy and not think the words "sour-faced bitch". She looks like a prison officer from Wentworth Correction Centre.

Not an easy game to get running, although I've never used a C64 emulator before.

6,600.

I've always found Vice (http://www.viceteam.org/) the easiest C64 emulator to get up and running.

I'm disappointed that theres no special bonuses for the de-capitation , although you can do it on the early matches you get more of a score just by wearing them down



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I'll bump this in case anyone else wants to take part. Really busy this week so haven't even had a chance to have a go myself yet.

Shit, I forgot. Must play this tonight.

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The print screen key doesn't work in CCS64, so watch out for that. This game's much trickier than I remember it. I remember getting to the end and fighting the wizard dude where you have to avoid his fireballs. No chance of getting that far. It's also not as much fun as I remember, pretty monotonous, really. Just like Tekken, in fact.

I think the Wizard guy is in the 2nd one , this one just seems to get to the black guy and then sticks there , perversely it gets easier later on as the baddie is trying so hard to decapitate you , unfortunately he does sometimes get a lucky 'scratch' in :-)

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This game doesn't really play very well on a keyboard does it? I managed 1100, I didn't get a screenshot, but even if I did I'd have to work out how to post it using my phone. If I get a better score, I'll at least try and save a screenshot so I can post it at some point. Don't hold your breaths(?) though.

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I have got a screenshot, but I can't upload from my phone so I'm a bit stuck. I realise there are ways around it, but I want to go to bed, I'll see what I can do about it tomorrow.

I've actually played every game this season using the keys 67890 (other than Pang on a PS2 controller) because that was what I used in the speccy/SAM speccy emulation days. I'm finding I'm actually better at games using those keys than anything else, even a modern controller.

Never liked joysticks, so when joypads became the norm it was a good day. It was a real bugger when I got a C64 because the keyboard was so unusable that games rarely had a keyboard option. That fecking Cheetah 125 was awful, and the only slightly less shit Competition Pro 5000 plus. The worst of all was when I got my first Atari.

There are only two words you need to know for 8 bit joysticks....

"Cheetah Bug".


I'm really snowed under this week so have been unable to play. I'll compile the scores later thos evening when I get a mo but feel free to start playing Dragon Ninja whenever.

The atari had a *great* keyboard for typing , however it had one massive flaw which was that you couldnt press more than 2(?) keys at the same time :-)

Some Atari games were really only playable by keyboard (i remember Karateka being one of them and the main reason the S key on my keyboard lost the white lettering)

Final Scores for Barbarian:



Zaphod - 17300 - 10 points
Itia - 11300 - 8 points
Devilman - 6600 - 6 points
Joans - 4700 - 4 points



And in the league, Zaphod is back in the lead.

League Table (Week 7 of 9)


1 - Zaphod - 48 points
2 - Devilman - 46 points
3 - Itia - 35 points
4 - Chinny - 30 points
5 - Joans - 28 points
6 - Malc - 17 points
7 = - Rev Owen - 1 point
7 = - Bobbyaro - 1 point

This weeks game is Dragon Ninja. Yes, it really is this time!

http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=84

I'm expecting Malc to join in since he nominated it. Someone prod him.

Bugger. I can't select anything on the menu. Am I missing something?

Which menu? The loader menu? I'm having problems with that which suggests the key presses required are on the numeric keypad.

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Yup, you have to select 1 (normal somethingorother) on the numeric keypad, cheers for that. I did find an old disk image of this (probably from 1997ish) which the emulator didn't recognise, interestingly.

So Dragon Ninja, then. Slightly better than the execrable Speccy version (with which is clearly shares code as it plays much the same), but not as good as the vaccuous arcade game. Why did we choose this again?

Also, 'bad dude' has funny robo-trousers.

Malc wanted it. If he doesn't play it I'm going to drive to Devon and sit outside his house playing accordion music all day.

Arrgh! That's a threat I'd take seriously.

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Not the best game ever is it?

Bloody hell - this game is rubbish. 16,850 so far but I managed to mess up taking a screenshot. I'll improve on the score later anyway.

32,600. The more I play this game, the more I dislike it. Particularly -

- The woman who hits you by kicking away from you
- The shoddy collision detection
- The gunmen who look the same as the regular enemies but helpfully identify themselves as gunmen by shooting you in the face before you've had time to react
- The awful speech
- The whole, slow second level

There do seem to be a fair few people extremely unsure of who they are.

Come on Mr Dave, join in! Why should we suffer?

I'm considering that next time around when I draw up the shortlist I have a veto over shit games. I'm just thinking of how much fun I had playing Super Robin Hood compared to this toot!

Sadly I think I actually voted for this one. As a famous producer of Doctor Who once said "the memory cheats".

I think I may have done too, but based on my memory of the arcade version.. serves me right.

It's a shame that hardly anyone is playing EoaE's challenge as the games in there are far better than most of this stuff, even though I'm not keen on shooters.

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I'm not that impressed , although its weird that you can basically keep up with the moving truck on the 2nd level (every other version of the game you either die or you get swept off the edge of the screen)

There's been some decent stuff but a few serious clunkers. Super Robin Hood was aces, Pang was great, Chase HQ limited but fun. Fist is OK but frankly there were better fighters in the vote and Jack The Nipper 2 was an odd choice given the 1st game is the one regarded as the classic. And why Arkenoid and not the superb Batty?

I'm thinking of a different system next time around. Proper vetting is required. The vetting we did this time around only weeded out games that didn't work or were not suitable. Nothing was tested for playability. Democracy sometimes needs a helping hand, right kids?

Still Manic Miner next week. Nobody can complain about that surely?

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I can do screenshots this week (or today, anyway).

Edit - I meant to do this anyway - Joans

IMPORTANT: If you have a Christmas name please state your usual name with your score.

If you don't I might cock up the scoring even more than usual.

Thank you.

Why do I die if I pause the game?

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Ahhhh , better , I love how the arcades ninja boss of level 3 which splits into dozens of ninjas to overrun you on this one is one ninja who just stands still while you whack him with your nunchucks :-)



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Definitely a bit of luck to this in how the coke cans come out vs anything else , and when you have the nunchucks you make short work of most things

I'm warming to the game a little but still hate level 2's forced scrolling - it takes an age.