Golden Era Game of the Week 8/6/05: Robotron: 2084

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Golden Era Game of the Week 8/6/05: Robotron: 2084

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Golden Era Game of the Week

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The Game: Robotron: 2084

romname: robotron

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Reward: $100 (usd)

Deadline for submission: August 12, 2005 2359 hours GMT

Further Bounty: $250 (usd) for scoring 1,000,000 points or more by Oct 31, 2005. If that is not claimed, $125 for the first submission exceeding 893,000 points.

Eugene Jarvis' sequel to Defender and Stargate.

Until recently, the MAME emulation of this title was significantly more difficult than the original arcade version, but a recent change of RAM addresses in the driver seems to have corrected the problem. Let's celebrate with some serious competition on it.

I'd like to see the cool million, but failing that I'll offer a 50% consolation prize to anyone who can best the arcade machine record of 893,000 held by Abdner Ashman.

I never thought too much of this game myself until the first time I saw a real expert play it. It's much more impressive to watch at higher levels of play.

Good page on it here:
http://www.tripoint.org/robo/robotron.html

For this week's competition, as well as the further bounty, we will be using Twin Galaxies Tournament Settings; Difficulty=5 (MAME default is 3), 5 lives to start, no extras)

Unfortunately, since Don Hayes, Matt Hall, and Tommi Tiihonen unilaterally decided to require the use of Difficulty=10 for MARP submissions on this title, GEGOTW submissions for this week will not be legal for MARP regulation play. You may therefore submit recordings to me on this forum via PM attachment, or email recordings to "weehawk95" at hotmail.com, or load to your own web storage and send me the URL. At the end of Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and finally Friday, the top three submissions will be available at:
http://www.gegotw.net/robotronresults.html

Your recordings will be submittable to TG if TG adopts WolfMAME .98 for MAME submissions.

Use WolfMAME .98

"On Deck" game: Red Baron
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Re: Golden Era Game of the Week 8/6/05: Robotron: 2084

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"On Deck" game: Red Baron

Feh, I might have to try squeezing in some time when this one comes up. (A quick warning about something non-obvious in Red Baron: the controls seem to require 'calibration' at the start, so you should give your joystick a few swirls right after you boot the game up.)

Good luck on Robotron, I cannot play this one at all even with authentic controls.
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Time to play (after 3 days of my birthday ;)).

I have question to BBH first. What controller you use? (if it is not secret)
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destructor wrote:I have question to BBH first. What controller you use? (if it is not secret)
I hold a pad (PC Propad Blue) in my left hand to move, arrow keys to fire.

and Happy Birthday! Don't drink too much vodka. :P
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I think Des said that he just celebrated 3 days. He's worse than Irish! :wink:
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Only 3 days?

Pussy :lol:



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Sunday's bonus points to BBH.

The top 3 so far:

http://www.gegotw.net/robotronresults.html
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wow Don, nice run on your last life :O
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BBH wrote:wow Don, nice run on your last life :O
For those who haven't watched it, Don's 4th death was at 263k on the second Brain Wave. (And though I'm not an expert, it appeared to be a pretty serious lapse in concentration, perhaps he relaxed too soon at the end of the wave?).

He did the remaining 242k on his last man. String a few of those together and we could be looking at a World Record.

And Don could be out looking for his own Robotron machine if he doesn't already have one.
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Oh damn... i'm really weak...
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Koza wrote:Oh damn... i'm really weak...
Don't feel too bad.

Don and Matt have been playing this game a while, and are both truly world-class players.

There might be a couple others lurking out there....we'll see.
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BBH wrote:wow Don, nice run on your last life
Thanks :) Now if I could only have avoided a couple of those other stupid deaths.... I really wish I didn't suck so much at the tank waves (2 deaths on 7, and the last death on 17).

Congrats on your 522K! You did a nice 100K run on your last man, too.
Weehawk wrote:He did the remaining 242k on his last man. String a few of those together and we could be looking at a World Record.
Yup, that's the hard thing about this game. One good run of boards in a game in not uncommon, but having two or three is extremely rare (unless your initials are ABA).
And Don could be out looking for his own Robotron machine if he doesn't already have one.
Already have one :D
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Crazy, crazy, crazy ... My highest score 140k and stage 7 is mission impossible for me. Maybe when I watch your inps guys ...
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destructor wrote:Maybe when I watch your inps guys ...
Have you tried changing your initials to ABA? :)
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