Donkey Kong Forum
Related Games => Donkey Kong Junior => Topic started by: TheSunshineFund on January 30, 2013, 05:35:40 am
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TY for starting this sub forum.
I'll take a quick minute to post that after including DK in the original Battle of the Arcades tournament, the second incarnation welcomes DK Jr into the fray.
If anyone on the forum has any interest in playing in this event from an individual or team perspective. LMK.
Who (thus far): RK Arcade, Kencade, Pinball Wizard
Current RK Arcade Roster (subject to change)
Steve Wagner
Richie Knucklez
George Leutz
Mark Michaels
Josh Lombay
Hank Chien
Youmee Im,
Jeff Hulit
Ed Palamar
Sam Miller
Bryan Wagner
Bill Holmes
Pat Laffaye
Grant Theineman
Current Kencade Roster (subject to change)
Ken House
John McAllister
Bill Carlton
Matt Hall
Sam McNear
Mike Kasper
Dan Corcoran
Chris Mansfield
Eric Liddell
Perry Rodgers
Lonnie Johnson
Michael House
Thad House
Chris Pavlas
Current Pinball Wizard Roster (subject to change):
Donald Hayes
Jason Cram
Shawn Cram
David Nelson
Greg Bond
David Ortiz
Rajon Rondo
Zdeno Chara
Vince Wilfork
When: March 9th (12pm - 11pm est) and March 10th (12pm - 5pm est)
Games:
Note: For games that cannot be set to tournament settings, they will have a 1 hour time limit on standard TG settings. You are responsible for timing your game.
1. Alpine Ski
2. Dig Dug
3, Millipede (5 men only)
4. Missile Command (6 cities only)
5. Diet Donkey Kong (20 calories only)
6. Galaxian
7. Phoenix
8. Pole Position 2
9. Hyper Sports
10. Jr. Pacman (Turbo)
11. Elevator Action
12. Mappy
You must be able to stream at least one camera shot of the overall arcade from your location.
The majority of the games must be original, no more than 4 of the 12 can be emulated via MAME/60-1 boards, etc.
Last year's results:
By Arcade:
1. Kencade
2. RK Arcade
3. ACAM
By Player:
1. Steve Wagner (RK Arcade)
2. Matt Hall (Kencade)
3. Ben Falls (RK Arcade)
4. Mike Sao Pedro (ACAM)
5. Bryan Wagner (RK Arcade)
t6. Jason Cram (ACAM)
t6. John McAllister (Kencade)
7. Dave Nelson (ACAM)
8. Chris Mansfield (Kencade)
9. Sam McNear (Kencade)
10. Ross Benziger (Kencade)
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With Donkey Kong and now Added Donkey Kong Junior.. Makes this event alot more interesting to me!
I would love to be on a team broadcasting from my house. But i see you need more then 1 webcam .
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With Donkey Kong and now Added Donkey Kong Junior.. Makes this event alot more interesting to me!
I would love to be on a team broadcasting from my house. But i see you need more then 1 webcam .
Donkey Kong was in the one played last year. This year DK Jr is in the tourney, not DK.
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wait i thought they where both in it
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wait i thought they where both in it
Ken House says just DK Jr.
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Kinda strange becouse he was playing DK.. Would'nt you be think he would be playing DKJR then?
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Kinda strange becouse he was playing DK.. Would'nt you be think he would be playing DKJR then?
I would think so, but Ken House works in mysterious ways.
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Kinda strange becouse he was playing DK.. Would'nt you be think he would be playing DKJR then?
I would think so, but Ken House works in mysterious ways.
Amen!
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Ah I would be interested in participating but all I have is a mame setup at my house. How does this work and what is required to participate?
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan,
If you want to participate, you have 2 choices:
1- join one of the teams above depending on your geographic location (contact the team captain) OR
2- form your own team. If you form your own team you need to have access to all the games above (could be at a local arcade for example). I believe for the purpose of the competition multicades are OK, but I'm not sure about MAME.
BTW, I don't think you can compete from your house. You have to physically show up (that's part of the point and it's more fun that way too).
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Well said Hank.
8 of the 12 games should be dedicated. The other 4 can run via Multiboards or MAME. If you have any questions post away or contact me.
Steve
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Ok cool thanks for the info. I'll see what is up. I'm in Virginia so don't think anything is terribly close to me. :)
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Ok cool thanks for the info. I'll see what is up. I'm in Virginia so don't think anything is terribly close to me. :)
Grant is heading up from NC to play with us. You could always see if you could hitch a ride on the way.
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1 month away bump.
I'll remind folks in this sub forum that Diet Donkey Kong is indeed in this tournament.
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1 month away bump.
I'll remind folks in this sub forum that Diet Donkey Kong is indeed in this tournament.
What the heck is diet Donkey Kong?
I was looking forward to playing this at the Battle of the Arcades .. I will be playing Live on Saturday during this event . Last event i was talking about having my own team of players ... With the games being so Random you have to have a arcade full of classic games to make this happen. I guess thats not the case for me .
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With the games being so Random you have to have a arcade full of classic games to make this happen.
I disagree with the games being random.
Last year we had :
Centipede
Pole Position
Donkey Kong
Galaga
Track & Field
Ms. Pac Turbo
This year we have
Millipede
Pole Position 2
Diet Donkey Kong
Galaxian
Hyper Sports
Jr. Pac Turbo
I see a pattern and I suck at patterned games....
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Brian Allen is putting a team together.
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With the games being so Random you have to have a arcade full of classic games to make this happen.
I disagree with the games being random.
Last year we had :
Centipede
Pole Position
Donkey Kong
Galaga
Track & Field
Ms. Pac Turbo
This year we have
Millipede
Pole Position 2
Diet Donkey Kong
Galaxian
Hyper Sports
Jr. Pac Turbo
I see a pattern and I suck at patterned games....
Yes i understand this but you must own this machines . I would'nt consider these games to be the most common games in the world. You would need to be a super collector to have all these and perfectly working . Or a Vender Or have a classic arcade near by with all these games.. Just does'nt happen around here .
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Yes i understand this but you must own this machines . I would'nt consider these games to be the most common games in the world. You would need to be a super collector to have all these and perfectly working . Or a Vender Or have a classic arcade near by with all these games.. Just does'nt happen around here .
Yes I understand your plight, however, the point of the event is to get everyone together socially helping each other on games and getting a bunch of different arcades all playing at the same time much how it was back in the 80's. You cannot capture this feeling by setting up 12 laptops in a room with MAME on them (plus some games like PP2 don't translate well) and if you have a group of people playing MAME in different locations it is no different than MARP. The point is the social aspect moreso than score achievement (at least in my opinion). I get to see folks once a year for this that I normally would not see and get to have some beers and hang out with all my friends playing games for 2 days. You should hook up with Kenny and get on his squadron or fly out to NJ, we'll have you. You can talk DK Jr with George until 3am. He'll be awake.
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Yes i understand this but you must own this machines . I would'nt consider these games to be the most common games in the world. You would need to be a super collector to have all these and perfectly working . Or a Vender Or have a classic arcade near by with all these games.. Just does'nt happen around here .
Yes I understand your plight, however, the point of the event is to get everyone together socially helping each other on games and getting a bunch of different arcades all playing at the same time much how it was back in the 80's. You cannot capture this feeling by setting up 12 laptops in a room with MAME on them (plus some games like PP2 don't translate well) and if you have a group of people playing MAME in different locations it is no different than MARP. The point is the social aspect moreso than score achievement (at least in my opinion). I get to see folks once a year for this that I normally would not see and get to have some beers and hang out with all my friends playing games for 2 days. You should hook up with Kenny and get on his squadron or fly out to NJ, we'll have you. You can talk DK Jr with George until 3am. He'll be awake.
now that last part is just too funny. I have 1 of these games out of the 18 in my game room... whats the odd of having at least 8 for a team .. It's not happening . I would be interested in seeing Hank play dkjr ..
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I would be interested in seeing Hank play dkjr ..
I played the game for about a week and got up to about 250K. I'm pretty sure I could killscreen it if I played it for about a month straight. Although I have a greater appreciation for some aspects of DK Jr., I also have a greater dislike for other aspects (clunky controls, repetitive nature). I'm not sure I enjoy the game enough to play it that much. Also for BOTA2, I think most scores will be either 1hr scores (Wag, Don Hayes) or low 200K and below (I could be wrong), so improving on this title won't increase my rank by much.
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Personally I am not against an all MAME team but i think it would take away from the live aspect that we all love.
You are welcome to play in mame, make a spreadsheet and add scores and results to see how you would place. Scores will be live as well as game list and settings.
-Ken
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TY Ken for the respond... I could do DKJR Live but the rest would have to be Mame since I do not own these machines.
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What is Diet Donkey Kong?
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What is Diet Donkey Kong?
I asked the same question Dustin.. Just got ignored! It's the name for DKJR I've never heard of before now.
I really don'nt understand all the dislike for the game.. Some of the best players in world play this game!
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What is Diet Donkey Kong?
It tastes just like Donkey Kong but with only 20 calories and an even larger hitbox your kids will love!
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Results of Diet Donkey Kong scores from BOTA2 for posterity's posterior:
http://www.aurcade.com/events/battlegame.aspx?id=73 (http://www.aurcade.com/events/battlegame.aspx?id=73)
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I'm thinking 600k plus
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I'm thinking 600k plus
Yeah, Marky said he's timed himself and passed 600k. That's pretty nutrageous.
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I'm so embarrassed :-[ I even tried to cheese my way up a couple of spots during the final minutes of the competition by sacrificing guys to leech the hideout, but I kept losing a man before I reached the hideout and so I failed. All my self-worth is tied up in DKJr, so please don't make fun.
Actually, after finally forcing myself during the BOTA2 to play some Jr, I learned the game is not quite as horrible as I have long believed. Don't get me wrong, I won't be taking up Jr. anytime soon (read: I will never play Jr. if I can avoid it), but I did gain some appreciation for the game's subtleties. For instance, maximizing fruit drops on the chain boards is an interesting challenge.
I still reserve the right to constantly talk trash about Jr.
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My favorite is when Jr's arm is sometimes part of the hitbox, sometimes not.
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My favorite is when Jr's arm is sometimes part of the hitbox, sometimes not.
Well maybe if you actually got better at the game the hitbox wouldn't be an issue for you. I love being one of four people on the planet that can actually get away with saying that to you. 8)
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My favorite is when Jr's arm is sometimes part of the hitbox, sometimes not.
Well maybe if you actually got better at the game the hitbox wouldn't be an issue for you. I love being one of four people on the planet that can actually get away with saying that to you. 8)
George Leutz said that he will no longer be seen in public with me if I went back to playing it past 1 hour. The free beer far outweighs reducing the hitbox.
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My favorite is when Jr's arm is sometimes part of the hitbox, sometimes not.
Well maybe if you actually got better at the game the hitbox wouldn't be an issue for you. I love being one of four people on the planet that can actually get away with saying that to you. 8)
George Leutz said that he will no longer be seen in public with me if I went back to playing it past 1 hour. The free beer far outweighs reducing the hitbox.
Well that's coming from a guy who couldn't even play the game for half an hour at the latest tournament. It's one thing to forgo the game, it's another to play it, and epically fail at it. Who knows, maybe I would hate the game as well if I sucked as bad as he does at that game. ;)
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I played the game for about a week and got up to about 250K.
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Also for BOTA2, I think most scores will be either 1hr scores (Wag, Don Hayes) or low 200K and below (I could be wrong), so improving on this title won't increase my rank by much.
This prediction was eerily accurate. I ended up putting in an extra week because Wag lied to me and said he saw someone on Ken's stream get 300K. Oh well... at least I didn't have to shamelessly jump sparks.
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I played the game for about a week and got up to about 250K.
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Also for BOTA2, I think most scores will be either 1hr scores (Wag, Don Hayes) or low 200K and below (I could be wrong), so improving on this title won't increase my rank by much.
This prediction was eerily accurate. I ended up putting in an extra week because Wag lied to me and said he saw someone on Ken's stream get 300K. Oh well... at least I didn't have to shamelessly jump sparks.
Ha ha, I think it was McNear that did...he must have taken Riley's advice above and got better.
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Plus, I assure you that learning Dig Dug was far more painful and then netted me like what 2 points :)
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Oh well... at least I didn't have to shamelessly jump sparks.
Believe me it was not shameless. I haven't been able to look in the mirror since.
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Plus, I assure you that learning Dig Dug was far more painful and then netted me like what 2 points :)
No worries! In fact I'm glad you pushed me. DK Jr while not my favorite was far from my least favorite. As Ross said, I gained an appreciation for some aspects of Jr.
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Well that's coming from a guy who couldn't even play the game for half an hour at the latest tournament. It's one thing to forgo the game, it's another to play it, and epically fail at it. Who knows, maybe I would hate the game as well if I sucked as bad as he does at that game. ;)
But I did forgo it. I really dropped the ball on practicing for the BotA between the qbert marathon and the tournament. I could have focused and had a better junior game, and wasted my time jumping sparks like a stupid monkey, but for what?
You know, George, I actually feel like Hank and Ross said, I gained an appreciation for some aspects of Junior. But even you must admit that the criticisms of the game are valid ones.
I'll tell you what really happened to me at the BotA. On the second day of the tournament, I decided to subject myself to the indignity of leeching sparks on the Mario's Hideout stage. The junior cabinet was set up in the front of the arcade, right next to the Qbert machine that I sat in front of for more than 3 days just a few weeks ago.
As I was leeching sparks and feeling like my life had hit rock bottom, Coily the Snake turned around on the Qbert sideart and looked over at me. Coily shook his head sadly and turned away. That's when I realized my time would be put to better use getting a few more thousand points on Galaxian, or trying to get 30k on 6 cities Missile Command, or anything, really.
I was going to play Junior again later in the multicab away from the front, since I didn't want coily to see me. But I never got back to it. Almost got 100k on Alpine Ski, though!