Deteacher Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 (edited) A multi-level maze game. There are vertical tubes which connect the various levels of the maze. Eat all the dots or kill a number of Robonoids to clear a stage. Walk across sliding platforms to evaid the Robonoids. Powerups, which can be saved up, let you shoot arrows. Shoot multiple Robonoids with a single arrow for bonus points. Game Information: Game Name: Marvin's Maze Manufactured By: SNK/1983 Dipswitches: 3 starting lives. 1st bonus @ 10K. 2nd Bonus *2 (whatever that means.) ROMset: marvins.zip Chosen By: Cynicaster ROM Location: http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/56757/mame103/Marvins-Maze.html Contest ends on Saturday, February 1st, @ 11:59 p.m. High Scores: 1. 170,400 onmode-ky [+15] 2. 125,600 Fallout_002 [+14] 3. 123,300 DonPedro [+13] 4. 117,200 M.A.M.E. Offender [+12] 5. 99,500 darthkur [+11] 6. 88,900 kane [+10] 7. 83,400 Cynicaster [+9] 8. 81,100 GimmeClassics [+8] 9. 75,900 DaveD [+7] 10. 64,000 HyperBoy [+6] 11. 37,800 mangia-boy [+5] 12. 36,800 roadrunner [+4] 13. 14,000 jblenkle [+3] Points Leaderboard: 1. kane [220]2. M.A.M.E. Offender [212]3. Fallout_002 [208]4. GimmeClassics [204]5. Cynicaster [190]6. Deteacher [171]7. onmode-ky [166]8. darthkur [162]9. Darrin9999 [159]10. DonPedro [156]11. roadrunner [97]12. jblenkle [82]13. asponge [74]14. DaveD [51]15. S. BAZ [58]16. bigbee99 [43]17. andyy119 [33]18. Classicgamer_27330 [29]19. Mangia-Boy [18]20. NE146 [14]21. Wolfman24 [13]22. kojr55 [13]23. Mister VCS [9]24. Vaughan [6]25. LarcenTyler [2] Edited February 3, 2014 by Deteacher Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Sweet! One of my favorite obscure games. If you've never played it before I don't think you'll find it very difficult if your goal is to simply clear levels. You won't get many points that way though. Shooting robots is where the points are at. The more you can get with a single shot, the better. The only thing that can be a little difficult (for me anyway) is the controls in emulation. As I recall it was a 4-way stick mounted at a 45-degree angle so that can be tricky sometimes. The same reason I'm useless at Q*Bert in MAME. 2 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2914886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I'll get the ball rolling with 27,400. I hope to improve on that later in the week. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2916054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 86,700 What an awesome game. Had never heard of this one before. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2916511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 I never heard of this game, pretty cool. I'm glad we played it.36,800 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2917726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 This game just came out at the wrong time. If it had been released during the hot times in early '82 it would have been a smash hit. The controls are odd, but certainly doable. And the game concept holds some originality. This one is definitely a lot of fun. Now I wish I had not let Zaxxon go without submitting as I have now fallen out of first. The top six have really bunched up. This should be a very exciting finish to our second half of the season!! Anyways, here is my first submission: 117,200 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2917963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 So far the most Robonoids I have torched with one laser is 4. 1 is 500pts, 2 is 1500, three is 35oo and 4 is 7500. Does anyone know what you would receive for 5 birds with one stone?? Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2917968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 I am going to guess it is 15,500. Bt=((2Bp)+500). Where: Bt= bonus Bp= previous bonus Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2917973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Marvin's Maze - 14,000 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallout_002 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Quite a tough game to crack past a certain score. Tactics for grouping the robonoids are nothing like taking on the monsters in pac-man. 82,800 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmode-ky Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 (edited) 88,100 (see "Edit" below) I've only played the game twice (!), but as I may not be able to play anymore today, I'm uploading a score now. While I haven't played this game before today, though, I did know of it already; it's one of SNK's arcade games emulated by developer G1M2 in SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 0 (PSP) and in the PlayStation Store, released there as a Mini and playable on both the PSP and PS3 (unfortunately, it doesn't appear in the PSV's Store). A review of the Minis release is available at PSPMinis.com. So, if you want a "legit" copy of the game, it can be had for $3. Now I wish I had not let Zaxxon go without submitting as I have now fallen out of first. The top six have really bunched up. Hey, hey, if you're going to include the #6 position, which is 19 points behind the #5 position, I think you ought to include everyone down to #10 in the bunch up, since they're all within 15 points of the #6 position! I am going to guess it is 15,500. Bt=((2Bp)+500). Where: Bt= bonus Bp= previous bonus The score table in the attract mode confirms this, actually. onmode-ky Edit: I got a chance to play a bit more. A few low scores later, I managed to blow away my previous high: 170,400 I managed to get 6 in a row once, and I believe the point value that showed up was 23,500. Edited February 1, 2014 by onmode-ky Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 99,500 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeClassics Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I have very little spare time at the moment...so I think it will be hard to keep or improve my Leaderboard ranking Anyhow. Here's my submission: points: 81,100 initials: DEN Good luck everyone Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kane Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 A good game but I hate the controls, I'm constantly missing turns for some reason. 88,900 - Round 9 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I'm sure I've seen screenshots of this game somewhere before, didn't expect it to be that good though. 123,300 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 83400 As you can see from the screenshot of the high score table I've done better in the past, but this is all I've got time for this round. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallout_002 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Updated score: 125,600 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2918999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 75,900 You guys that only played for the first time and got 80-100+ thousand. Did you sell your soul? I've played this game since 1983. Am I really that bad? Don't answer that. :-p Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2919038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperboy Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 My starter score.. I plan on upping this # soon My initials are HYP Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2919554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Of course today I get 90,000. Oh well. Cool game and I liked the incentive to play it more. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2919750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 Putting the new game up now. Wish I was finding time to play some of these. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/221309-mamearcade-high-score-club-week-17-marvins-maze/#findComment-2920021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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