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MAME HSC - Round 3/10 - Popeye / Bank Panic


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This round's game 1 of 2:

Bank Panic

 

ROM Name: Bank Panic

ROM File: bankp

Picked by: evan04

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Lives: 3

Difficulty: Easy

Bonus Life: 70k 200k 500k

 

 

 

This round's game 2 of 2:

Popeye

 

ROM Name: Popeye (Revision D)

ROM File: popeye

Picked by: Cynicaster

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Difficulty: easy

Bonus life: 40,000

Lives: 3 

 

 

Console Side-Quest:

 

What do you think is one of the best arcade port on the Atari 2600 or the rival Intellivision?  Post a score for 2 bonus points.  

 

Rules:

 

  • Please change your DIPs to the settings listed.  If you're unsure how to do this, please ask
  • Screenshots required
  • No continues
  • No save states
  • No cheats
  • Any working version of MAME can be used, but the ROMs provided for this competition will be verified to work on MAME v0.139.  The "user interface" version of MAME v0.139 can be downloaded at: http://www.progettosnaps.net/mameui/

 

Competition ends: Sunday December 4, 11:59pm PST

 

Previous Round Results:

 

1944

Score

Points

MAME Offender

4,576,670

12

Cynicaster

1,600,350

9

evan04

1,054,350

8

Floyd Turbo

1,053,060

7

RuySan

904,380

6

Hero2millions

446,020

5

S.BAZ

 

0

jblenkle

 

0

NE146

 

0

 

Robotron

Score

Points

Cynicaster

453,350

12

MAME Offender

444,225

9

NE146

382,275

8

evan04

141,825

7

Floyd Turbo

40,925

6

Hero2millions

36,425

5

S.BAZ

 

0

jblenkle

 

0

RuySan

 

0

 

CSQ Bonus

 

Hero2millions

2

Floyd Turbo

2

Cynicaster

2

MAME Offender

 

S.BAZ

 

jblenkle

 

evan04

 

NE146

 

RuySan

 

 

Standings to Date:

 

1

Cynicaster

46

2

MAME Offender

38

3

Floyd Turbo

30

4

evan04

28

5

Hero2millions

23

6

S.BAZ

22

7

NE146

8

8

jblenkle

7

9

RuySan

6

bankp.zip popeye.zip

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I think 2600 Space Invaders is the best arcade port on those systems -- I liked it much better than the arcade version!  (still do)  It felt "scary".  It had an impending doom factor, so I want to shoot right now!  Really easy to get into and very challenging and I wanted to play again & again.  Seeing someone else play, I felt super jealous like, give me that damn controller now!  The arcade version... well, I didn't really care if I was playing or watching.  I liked it but only would play once or twice at a time.  The difficulty was a bit brutal and the fun factor wasn't exactly through the roof.  Plus it had a kind of "silly" feel to it like that game Carnival.  It lacked the intensely engaging feel of the 2600 version!!

 

Popeye:  43,500  (2nd attempt)

 

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20 minutes ago, S.BAZ said:

I think 2600 Space Invaders is the best arcade port on those systems -- I liked it much better than the arcade version!  (still do)  It felt "scary".  It had an impending doom factor, so I want to shoot right now!  Really easy to get into and very challenging and I wanted to play again & again.  Seeing someone else play, I felt super jealous like, give me that damn controller now!  The arcade version... well, I didn't really care if I was playing or watching.  I liked it but only would play once or twice at a time.  The difficulty was a bit brutal and the fun factor wasn't exactly through the roof.  Plus it had a kind of "silly" feel to it like that game Carnival.  It lacked the intensely engaging feel of the 2600 version!!

I also strongly prefer the 2600 game to the arcade - one of the very rare instances for me where I prefer a home port over the original - but there is probably a bit of bias for me toward the 2600 version since I grew up with it and never even played the original arcade version until I was in my 30s.  

 

There are many other games inspired by Space Invaders that are much more fun to play than Space Invaders itself, IMO.  It's a pioneering game but just a bit too "basic" to hold my attention for more than a few minutes at a time.   

 

  

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