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Jealous! Ours only had a couple of pool tables.



Can you describe it? I'll get it...

<182410> for me now.
Two EXTRAs in one game which was nice, but also some stupid easy deaths.

Did they do anything outside of the Nemesis/Gradius series?

This is better than it looks in the pics, I have no skill though.

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I wouldn't be too jealous, between the games on the Uni campus (no gambling) and the arcades and pubs of Lancaster (where I could gamble), plus I was travelling back to Manchester on a weekly basis for the scene down there, I basically achieved nothing other than racking up a huge amount of debt and abusing my body and mind in ways I had hitherto not imagined possible.



As crap as this sounds I can kind of see it in my head, it's like a floating mirage next to Turbo Out Run (the basic stand-up edition), but I can't actually describe it.

I definitely remember the Taxi pinball at one end of the row of machines, Turbo Out Run at the other, and three or four basic videogame cabinets inbetween, one of which was the shoot-em-up, which I seem to remember the Konami logo being part of.

If I'm entirely honest my entire tenure at Lancaster Uni was pretty flaky.

Yeah, shitloads. Axelay on the SNES is probably the next most famous one, but they made tonnes of arcade and MSX games before that. Xexex (their answer to R-Type), the Thunder Cross series and Space Manbow are their (other) crowning achievements, IMHOtep...

Edit: be sure to play the Japanese version if you check out Xexex, BTW! They took all the good weapons out of the overseas releases and added a health bar that drains really quickly on contact with anything, making it far worse than just having three lives.

Thanks, I've got a full set of MAME ROMs on the way, so I'll give them a go.

Oh, and <220270>

Egads, what does a full MAME set run to these days in gig terms? Where did you get yours from? My last update is from Jan 2006.

I should probably have another look at it I suppose, since they have added some interesting 3D stuff over the years I believe, and hopefully modern PCs would actually be able to run them.



Introducing Dr Zoidberg and YOG, your guarantee of never getting first place in any week on a MAME challenge, even on the game you thought you were really good at

If you want all the .chd files for the newest games it's 20ish DVDs (google mame burners). I didn't bother so its just 11 for the standards ROMa which is plenty to keep me busy for the next few years. I did have a .138 set but managed to lose the disks

I have an i7 pc now so it will be interesting to see how that copes, and I need to fix my cabinet too. It's a shame to have that gathering dust in the garage.

Hehe, this will probably be my worst week by far. I haven't even beat my first score yet, and don't like the game enough to play it more than once a day anyway!

Nearly got you there Zoidberg.....but four amazingly stupid deaths in a row foiled me.

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Which supplier did you use Dr Z?

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Retro-burner.co.uk

Current scores - remember you have until midnight tomorrow

hooray! not losing yet, wheeeee!

<21250> from me. Only had a brief chance to play it. From my 20 minutes or so I give it 702 Bananas. It's main problem is that it reminds me of far better games that I'd rather be playing.

Also the main character appears to be Mimi. I gave it 72 bananas extra for that.

Which games did you have in mind?

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Had a few more goes at this and can consistently score over 100K, but Zoidbergs score seems out of reach. Still, as no-one seems to like this one much I think I can assume there won't be a slew of last-minute miracle scores this time.....

I'm clearly not going to close the gap on you MrC, and yet somehow I'm still in fourth place, so I think I'll just stick on my current score this week

Flying Shark and Space Harrier are the games I'm really looking forward to on this challenge, I'm not familiar with Flicky so I'll reserve judgement on that one.

Frankly this was supposed to be my week and I'm fucked as soon as Flying Shark and Space Harrier have their turn. Not that I'm some kind of shallow high-score addict or anything (twitches)

I *should* do ok on Flying Shark, but not on Space Harrier.
I fired up Flicky earlier and had a quick go - it's a bit odd and put me in mind of Chucky Egg - but have no idea what's a good or bad score. Who suggested this one, as I'd never heard of it.

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Reminds me of Dig Dug and Pacman. Both of which I prefer. And Zolyx as well oddly. Think it's the drawing lines thing.

I was just about to post <61280> but then I saw Chinnys post and I reckon I can do better!

Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

That is possibly the most withering and hurtful comment in 5 years of BEEX.

Well.. It turns out that I can't do better so I guess I'll have to retract my previous post.. Botherations!

I can't be arsed attempting a last-minute improvement this week. I'm properly rat-arsed this time.

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Final scores for week 2 :

So for week 3 we have Sega's Flicky , a game until recently I did not realise was an arcade machine as I'd only ever seen it on the Megadrive

Klov page is here : http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detai ... me_id=7825






Main thing is to avoid the cats - get your long string of chicks following you and lead them to the door - the maps wrap around and you'll need that on later levels to get to some of the more restricted areas - when you run over an item you can hit jump to throw it at one of the chasing cats (and send them back to their box) - in between levels there is a bonus round where you catch the chicks in a net

Simple controls (just left / right and a button which jumps and shoots if you have an item) so very playable with keys

Flyer front : http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=f ... 01&image=1
Flyer back : http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=f ... 01&image=2

First on the board again - do I get bonus points?



That says <64200> - silly blue colour.

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Far better game.

Scoreboard!

http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/c ... me2013.php

If the world ends now, I'll have won!

/crosses fingers

<54030>

This is nice - never heard of Flicky before this challenge - but it does funny things to my eyes after five minutes or so.

Also, Grim..., your're clearly delusional. But oh look! They're testing the new V12 Range Rover in Perth! Cheap flights, too!

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<151400>

Sorry

I can see how there's more points to be had, but that will do for now.

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I'm really starting to love this.
Its a *proper* arcade game where it's possible to improve the more you play, unlike a lot of today's coin feeders.

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I agree....I'm rapidly going off you, though


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Once again, sorry about that.

No problem, sir, but you could have at least waited until the weekend before posting your depressingly unbeatable score

This MAME challenge lark has turned out to be even more fun than I was expecting - we should do this more often.

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<126400>

This is a nice and jolly game isn't it?

flicky is great.. did i nominate it? I'll do my best to play some this week then..

Ok, that's it for me as I'm getting frustrated now, and will end up hurling the controller.

I know I can do a sub-20 second time for most of the first ten levels which gets you a 20k bonus each time, almost always with a full compliment of chicks on a single drop for about 9k. I don't think it's possible to go any faster on level 1 than 11 seconds, though I keep trying to beat it.
I know I can collect all of the birds on the bonus round which gets you 15k (fiendishly hard though), and I can also do sub-20s on quite a few of the teens but I just can't get them all together on a single credit.

If I did, I'd be close to half a million points by level 24.

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Thank goodness for that.

I think we may have a winner, here, and that after just three games.....I graciously salute the MAME equivalent of Bayern Munich. Git!

I may only have posted three scores, but I can assure you there have been more than three credits used.

Lots more.