Donkey Kong Forum
Other Classic Arcade Games => Classic Arcade Game Discussion => Topic started by: Weehawk on August 23, 2014, 11:00:57 am
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For those not too wrapped up in the DKO:
Each of the letters in the alphabet below is taken from a different marquee of a golden-era arcade game.
First person to respond associating a letter with the game it belongs to gets the point for that letter. Best out of 26 is the winner. Ties broken by earlier scoring of the tying total.
(http://www.slither-gdi.net/alphabet.jpg)
For the highest scorer that does not already have one I have a t-shirt:
(http://www.slither-gdi.net/2014shirt.jpg)
If you already have one you are just playing for fun.
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Letters claimed:
A: Major Havoc (DaLar) N: Spy Hunter (DaLar)
B: Timber (SanTe) O: Time Pilot (Fliplismc)
C: Space Panic (SanTe) P: Warp Warp (Fliplismc)
D: War of the Worlds (Fliplismc) Q: Solar Quest (Fliplismc)
E: Millipede (Fliplismc) R: Armor Attack (SanTe)
F: Defender (Fliplismc) S: Gyruss (Fliplismc)
G: Pengo (Fliplismc) T: Star Wars (Fliplismc)
H: Tutankham (Fliplismc) U: Krull (VON)
I: Food Fight (marky_d) V: Stratovox (SanTe)
J: Snap Jack (DaLar) W: Black Widow (SanTe)
K: Star Trek (SanTe) X: Phoenix (Fliplismc)
L: Crazy Climber (marky_d) Y: Space Fury (SanTe)
M: Omega Race (Fliplismc) Z: Kozmik Kroozr (Fliplismc)
Final points:
Fliplismc: 13
SanTe: 7
DaLar: 3
marky_d: 2
VON: 1
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E-Milipede
F-Defender
G-Pengo
H-Tutankham
O-Time Pilot
S-Gyruss
T-Star Wars
Z-Kozmik Kroozr
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E-Milipede
F-Defender
G-Pengo
H-Tutankham
O-Time Pilot
S-Gyruss
T-Star Wars
Z-Kozmik Kroozr
All correct.
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I-Swimmer
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I-Swimmer
Not correct.
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M-Omega Race?
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M-Omega Race?
Correct.
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P-Warp Warp
X-Phoenix
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P-Warp Warp
Correct.
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D-War of the Worlds
P-Pheonix
Q-Solar Ques
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D-War of the Worlds
P-Pheonix
Q-Solar Ques
Next time I'll remember to make it clear in the original post that additional guesses should always be in a new post and not by editing previous posts.
But all 3 are correct and that mathematically clinches the win for Fliplismc. PM me your address for the shirt.
I will leave the rest for people to guess for fun.
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Congrats Fliplismc!
U is Krull, a much better movie than game in my humble opinion.
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Fun,, too bad you have to be so fast :)
3 bids:
A: Major Havoc
J: Snap Jack
N: Spy Hunter
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U is Krull, a much better movie than game in my humble opinion.
U is Krull. Not a bad game. I need to get around to watching the movie.
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Fun,, too bad you have to be so fast :)
3 bids:
A: Major Havoc
J: Snap Jack
N: Spy Hunter
All 3 correct.
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Crap. Bummed I missed this, as I love Weehawk's challenges. I was driving back from Roseburg, Oregon at the time he posted this morning.
Before I scrolled down to view any potential answers I took a crack at it and got 22 of the 26 straight away. The only ones I couldn't identify were I, J, L, and O, although 'O' looked familiar and I might have gotten it had I stared at it a little longer. 'I' and 'L' look familiar too but I can't quite place them. I never would have gotten 'J' as I don't think I've ever seen the artwork in question.
B: Timber
C: Space Panic
I: ???
K: Star Trek: SOS
L: ???
R: Armor Attack
V: Stratovox
W: Black Widow
Y: Space Fury
U is Krull, a much better movie than game in my humble opinion.
I think the movie is so terrible that it's a little fun, and that the game is much better than most give it credit for. Sucks that it's not a good game for competition, but it's definitely a great challenge in general and quite fun if you like twin 8-way stick games.
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I: Food Fight
L: Crazy Climber
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I: Food Fight
L: Crazy Climber
Well that explains why I didn't get 'L.' I owned a Crazy Climber for quite a while...
(http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Arcade/Cabinet/big/Crazy_Climber_-_1980_-_Nichibutsu.jpg)
Always liked it a lot better than Taito's version.
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B: Timber
C: Space Panic
I: ???
K: Star Trek: SOS
L: ???
R: Armor Attack
V: Stratovox
W: Black Widow
Y: Space Fury
7 correct. And the forum warns me that you posted while I was responding, so I don't need to question how you got Space Panic, but not Crazy Climber.
[Krull is] not a good game for competition
How so? I know of no scores on MAME or the arcade machine that suggest marathonability. Competition between Ian Sutton, Matt Hall, and Don Hayes seemed pretty good when I used this for GEGOTW several years ago.
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7 correct. And the forum warns me that you posted while I was responding, so I don't need to question how you got Space Panic, but not Crazy Climber.
I've never owned a Space Panic but I just recognized the lettering and color scheme. I tend to forget about Taito's Crazy Climber since I rarely see it and the Crazy Climber I owned was a standard Nichibutsu upright from Japan.
[Krull is] not a good game for competition
How so? I know of no scores on MAME or the arcade machine that suggest marathonability. Competition between Ian Sutton, Matt Hall, and Don Hayes seemed pretty good when I used this for GEGOTW several years ago.
The cave screen can be leeched indefinitely with sufficient skill since you are awarded an extra life every 30k. The tactic isn't banned. It could be, but since the level doesn't have a hard timer there is no way to judge if a player is staying on the screen to rack up some extra points or just having trouble bypassing the beast to get to the princess. It's a judgement call made by whoever is watching.
The "glaive trick," wherein the player gets one or more of his glaives stuck on the cave wall so that the beast stops firing, is a banned tactic, but simply running around the screen and surviving isn't. With no timer, and extra lives awarded every 30k, it presents a problem. You are awarded points for glaiving the beast, and those points ramp quickly if you're able to keep hitting him. At what point does it become leeching?
This is McAllister messing around on my Krull using that very tactic:
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/SanTe_bucket/220_2075_r1.jpg)
The other levels of the game have similar point pressing opportunities but those levels continue to ramp in difficulty until it becomes impossible to survive.
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The cave screen can be leeched indefinitely with sufficient skill since you are awarded an extra life every 30k. The tactic isn't banned. It could be, but since the level doesn't have a hard timer there is no way to judge if a player is staying on the screen to rack up some extra points or just having trouble bypassing the beast to get to the princess. It's a judgement call made by whoever is watching.
The "glaive trick," wherein the player gets one or more of his glaives stuck on the cave wall so that the beast stops firing, is a banned tactic, but simply running around the screen and surviving isn't. With no timer, and extra lives awarded every 30k, it presents a problem. You are awarded points for glaiving the beast, and those points ramp quickly if you're able to keep hitting him. At what point does it become leeching?
Yeah, checking the IRC log from back then, I see I was aware of some things that I had forgotten:
(http://www.slither-gdi.net/truekrull.jpg)