Deteacher Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) Player drives a moon buggy jumping over craters, rocks and land mines, shooting simultaneously at rocks in front and aliens above while dodging their missiles. Features very catchy background music and cute bouncing tires when the buggy is destroyed. Foreground and background terrain scroll at different rates giving the illusion of depth. Game Information: Game Name: Moon Patrol Released By: Irem, 1982 Game Mode: Default settings: 3 lives. Bonus lives at 10K, 30K and 50K. MAME ROMset: MPatrol Chosen By: MisterVCS ROM Location: http://www.romnation...oon-Patrol.html This week's contest ends on Saturday, April 6th at 11:59 p.m. EST High Score Table: 1. 102,980 homerwannabee [+15] 2. 82,930 M.A.M.E. Offender [+14] 3. 81,110 patbb [+13] 4. 67,250 bigbee99 [+12] 5. 66,450 Deteacher [+11] 6. 62,030 Fallout_002 [+10] 7. 58,130 darthkur [+9] 8. 53,950 asponge [+8] 9. 53,340 Mangia-Boy [+7] 10. 52,480 kane [+6] 11. 41,500 onmode-ky [+5] 12. 38,150 jblenkle [+4] 13. 31,330 darrin9999 [+3] 14. 24,000 MisterVCS [+2] 15. 17,710 roadrunner [+1] 16. 13,790 kloverz178 [+1] 17. 8,400 wolfman24 [+1] Points Leaderboard: 1. patbb [162] 2. kane [156] 3. M.A.M.E. Offender [139] 4. bigbee99 [130] 5. Deteacher [127] 6. Cynicaster [117] 7. Fallout_002 [81] 8. darthkur [79] 9. JohnnyBlaze [79] 10. NIKON [68] 11. hepcat [65] 12. kloverz178 [59] 13. asponge [57] 14. Mangia-Boy [53] 15. roadrunner [34] 16. Classicgamer_277330 [34] 17. onmode-ky [33] 18. Jblenkle [21] 19. mr. toast [20] 20. BillyHW [18] 21. Vocelli [14] 22. darrin9999 [14] 23. racerx [13] 24. Beaver On The Wood [9] 25. Wispfollower [8] 26. MisterVCS [8] 27. Mingy Jongo [5] 28. Liduario [3] 29. homerwannabee [2] 30. Wolfman24 [2] Edited April 7, 2013 by Deteacher 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Nice choice! I think, the arcade version is not so hard than some home conversions! Recently I made desperate efforts to come through the 1st level in the Colecovision Prototype version. The tanks there are extremely difficult to destroy! Now my goal will be to reach Point Z! Happy Easter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 I will have everything updated tonight, but feel free to start posting your Moon Patrol scores. Happy gaming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 14,050 I will get a pic later of a better score. I am no where near finished! But might I make a suggestion to everyone to reset the game every time you get a game over. It will help with the bonuses. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 51,130 (no continues) Have always loved this game. One of my all time favorties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patbb Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 42,880 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patbb Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 But might I make a suggestion to everyone to reset the game every time you get a game over. It will help with the bonuses. B If you are talking about the average time, from what I've saw, the time is always the same. 80s for the first 2 check points then 100s ... I'm not sur abot the other check points. I played a few concecutive games and the average time was not recalculated. See image below. New score: 55,430 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 53,340 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 This game brings back memories big time!! Most of my play has been on the 2600 version. But I did kind of dig into it a couple of times and was getting near the end on the 2nd trip around. My entry digits: 49,040 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patbb Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 PB: 80,080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Sorry everything was set up so late, folks. I worked today, then had Easter dinner. I was also in the battle of my life in the VCS HSC tournament. Devoting my time to that cost me a position on the MAME leaderboard (which I will get back, bigbee...watch your back.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Moon Patrol - 12,900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Nice choice! I think, the arcade version is not so hard than some home conversions! Recently I made desperate efforts to come through the 1st level in the Colecovision Prototype version. The tanks there are extremely difficult to destroy! Now my goal will be to reach Point Z! Happy Easter! Hey, I didn't even know there was a ColecoVision prototype. Too bad it was never released. http://youtu.be/RspBc77VNmc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister VCS Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Default settings? 3 or 4 moon-buggies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Default should be 3 buggies. Bonus buggies at 10K, 30K and 50K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Points leaderboard updated, due to a scoring error from last week's game. Sorry about the error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister VCS Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 16,150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Hi, BillyHW ! The game I mentioned is called Matt Patrol! It must be a hack of Moon Patrol, the attacking UFOs are replaced by giant flying wonderbras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Here's my meager attempt, so far: 24,570! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 58,130 I got through the entire first course on one life and then proceeded to lose all but one to a frackin' tank on the edge of a crater. grrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 25,100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 17,710 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfman24 Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 8,400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asponge Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 51,950 I got through the entire first course on one life and then proceeded to lose all but one to a frackin' tank on the edge of a crater. grrrr. I just lost three lives trying to get through that exact part. I didn't make it. Have always loved this game. One of my all time favorties. Me too. My buddy and I used to play this at the roller rink when we were young. One of us would man the joystick and jump while the other would handle the fire button. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallout_002 Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 59,110 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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