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Independence Day Tournament: 1976-1985

 

This will be a 10 game tournament consisting of one title per year starting 1976 and ending 1985.

 

 

Nominate a list of 10 titles: one from each year beginning 1976 and ending 1985. List these titles in order of preference, highest to lowest. This will allow me to flesh out the tournament (if need be) in a timely manner by going through each player's nominee list in turn and selecting the highest priority title from that respective player's list.

 

Example (and please try to follow this format when listing nominees) using titles from last season's Independence Day Tournament:

 

1982: Pepper II

1980: Star Castle

1979: Astro Fighter

1981: Lady Bug

1976: Sea Wolf

1983: Pole Position II

1984: 1942

1977: Canyon Bomber

1978: Space Invaders

1985: Dig Dug II

 

In this example, if the tournament field did not fulfill the ten game requirement, my nomination of Pepper II would be selected for my turn in the selection process.

 

Games will be added to the tournament based on the total number of nominations beginning highest to lowest.

 

Nomination tiebreakers:


  1.  
  2. If a game has not been played previously in the history of the AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC, that game will be chosen.
  3. If there are multiple titles that have been played previously in the history of the AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC, then the most recently played title will be discarded.

 

If ten games have not been selected by 3AM EDT on Sunday, July 3, games will be selected from their list of nominations in the following order:


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  • HSC Season 2 Champion (roadrunner)
  • HSC Season 3 Standings as of one week from tournament start date from highest to lowest by only those that have posted nominations
  • In case of a "wrap around," the selections will return back to the top of the current season standings

 

Since this is the last tournament of the season, no games will be added to the player queue.

 

Competition begins Sunday, July 3 @ noon EDT and ends Monday, July 18 @ 3AM EDT

 


 

Games in this tournament:

1976: Night Driver (3)

1977: Guided Missile (roadrunner)

1978: Avalanche (2)

1979: Asteroids (3)

1980: Battlezone (roadrunner)

1981: Cosmic Avenger (rmaerz)

1982: BurgerTime (2)

1983: Roc N Rope (2)

1984: Kung-Fu Master (2)

1985: City Connection (patbb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tournament FINAL Standings

1. 164 Cynicaster

2. 135 patbb

3. 101 rmaerz

4. 98 roadrunner

5. 97 LarcenTyler

6. 77 M.A.M.E. Offender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Scores in green indicate new AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC World Record

 

Asteroids

Your space craft is dangerously situated among fast moving asteroids in an asteroid belt that can destroy your ship on contact. Armed with a front mounted weapon and the ability to hyperspace, you fly through the debris, destroying each rock one piece at a time. Alien saucers visit the playfield from time to time with an eye towards destroying your ship!

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Atari, 1979

MAME ROMset: asteroid

Dip Switches: Lives: 3; Bonus Ships: 10,000

Chosen By: player noms (3)

ROM Location:

AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC World Record: 37,180 rmaerz

Note: UFO hunting is allowed

 

Leaderboard

1. 24,910 rmaerz

2. 24,190 Cynicaster

3. 23,630 M.A.M.E. Offender

4. 13,110 LarcenTyler

5. 11,540 roadrunner

6. 6,580 patbb

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avalanche

Players try to catch a number of falling rocks with a set of controllable paddles.

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Atari, 1978

MAME ROMset: Avalnche

Dip Switches: Allow Extended Play: Yes; Lives/Extended play: 3/450 Points

Chosen By: player noms (2)

ROM Location:

Twin Galaxies MAME World Record: 2,497

 

Leaderboard

1. 561 Cynicaster

2. 361 M.A.M.E Offender

3. 332 patbb

4. 322 roadrunner

5. 321 rmaerz

6. 186 LarcenTyler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BattleZone

Using wire models on a vector display with a green and red overlay, a battle with opposing tanks, missiles and the occasional saucer is simulated among pyramids and cubes. The 1812 overture plays during high score.

 

Game Information

Game Name: Battle Zone [set 1]

Released By: Atari, 1980

MAME ROMset: BZone

Dip Switches: Lives: 3; Missile Appears: 10,000; Bonus Life: 15K and 100K

Chosen By: roadrunner

ROM Location:

Twin Galaxies MAME World Record: 523,000

 

Leaderboard

1. 32,000 Cynicaster

2. 24,000 roadrunner

3. 21,000 patbb

4. 9,000 rmaerz

5. 4,000 LarcenTyler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BurgerTime

Peter Pepper the chef moves around the screen walking over the parts of a hamburger. As each item is walked over it drops to the level below. Armed with pepper he can throw on his enemies, he must avoid Mr. Hotdog, Mr. Egg, and Mr. Pickle. Bonuses appear in the forms of ice cream, coffee, and french fries.

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Midway, 1982

MAME ROMset: Burgertime

Dip Switches: Lives: 3; Bonus Life: 10000; Enemies: 4; End of Level Pepper: No

Chosen By: player noms (2)

ROM Location:

AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC World Record: 39,550 darthkur

 

Leaderboard

1. 95,950 M.A.M.E Offender

2. 56,300 roadrunner

3. 33,700 Cynicaster

4. 24,400 patbb

5. 14,900 rmaerz

6. 11,450 LarcenTyler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City Connection

A little red car does wheelies and jumps between platforms and colours them in as it drives on them. Collect and shoot oil cans at the cops, taxis, ambulances etc. Watch out for the cat! Neat theme music and background pictures.

 

Game Information

Game Name: City Connection [set 1]

Released By: Jaleco, 1985

MAME ROMset: CityCon

Dip Switches: Lives: 3

Chosen By: patbb

ROM Location:

Twin Galaxies MAME World Record: 1,181,900

 

Notes:

You may freely use the Balloons to warp to a different level. An Extra Life is awarded at 100,000 Points and every 200,000 Points there after.

 

Due to a bug in the game's implementation, all scores above 900,000 MUST be monitored carefully for your correct score due to a bug which gives infinite lives. [if you pass the extra life threshhold after exceeding 900k, you may freely use that extra life from 900k and every 200k [1.1m, 1.3m, 1.5m, etc.] thereafter until you die and no longer would normally have any lives if this glitch did not occur.]

 

 

 

Leaderboard

1. 366,500 patbb

2. 212,600 M.A.M.E Offender

3. 141,800 Cynicaster

4. 92,700 LarcenTyler

5. 33,160 rmaerz

6. 32,800 roadrunner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmic Avenger

You fly over mountain tops and through caves dodging enemy space ships and missiles fired from the ground.

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Universal, 1981

MAME ROMset: CAvenger

Dip Switches:Difficulty: Medium; Lives: 3

Chosen By: rmaerz

ROM Location:

Twin Galaxies MAME World Record: 54,790

 

Leaderboard

1. 11,400 rmaerz

2. 9,240 patbb

3. 6,760 LarcenTyler

4. 5,250 Cynicaster

5. 4,390 patbb

6. 4,100 roadrunner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guided Missile

Launch missiles at targets moving horizontally across the screen.

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Midway, 1977

MAME ROMset: GMissile

Dip Switches: Time: 90; Extra Play: 500

Chosen By: roadrunner

ROM Location:

AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC World Record: 2,090 rmaerz

 

Leaderboard

1. 2,260 Cynicaster

2. 2,060 rmaerz

3. 1,180 LarcenTyler

4. 1,110 roadrunner

5. 800 patbb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kung Fu Master

This is a horizontal scrolling game with five floors that you must fight your way through to save your girlfriend "Sylvia". You must fight various enemies and the clock to the end of each floor where you will find a master of various martial arts. Defeat him and you will proceed up the stairs to the next floor. Defeat the master on the fifth floor and save Sylvia ... for a little while ...

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Nihon Bussan, 1984

MAME ROMset: KungFuM

Dip Switches: Difficulty: Easy;

Energy Loss: Slow; Slow Motion Mode [Cheat]: Off; Freeze [Cheat]: Off; Level Selection [Cheat]: Off; Invulnerability [Cheat]: Off

Chosen By: player noms (2)

ROM Location:

AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC World Record: 137,000 maximebeauvais

 

Leaderboard

1. 111,920 Cynicaster

2. 100,990 M.A.M.E. Offender

3. 66,000 patbb

4. 64,970 LarcenTyler

5. 18,800 roadrunner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Night Driver

A nighttime driving game where your headlights illuminate the posts on both sides of the road. The object is to stay on the road as long as possible without crashing. As the game progresses, however, the road becomes narrower and more winding.

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Atari, 1976

MAME ROMset: NiteDrvr

Dip Switches: Playing Time: 100; Track Set: Normal; Bonus Time: No [This turns on the 100 Bonus Seconds for reaching the threshhold required]; Difficulty: Normal

Chosen By: player noms (3)

ROM Location:

AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC World Record: 179 LarcenTyler

 

Leaderboard

1. 253 Cynicaster

2. 218 LarcenTyler

3. 198 patbb

4. 132 roadrunner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roc N Rope

You play an archeologist whose mission is to return the missing feathers to the golden Phoenix. Use your harpoon-gun to fire a rope to higher platforms and then climb up. Use your flashlight to dazzle stun the attacking dinosaurs and cavemen.

 

Game Information

Game Name:

Released By: Konami, 1983

MAME ROMset: RocNRope

Dip Switches: Lives: 3; Difficulty: Normal 1; First Bonus: 20000; Repeated Bonus: 40000; Grant Repeated Bonus: No; Unknown DSW 8: On

Chosen By: player noms (2)

ROM Location:

Twin Galaxies MAME World Record: 202,500

Note: Only 1 Extra Life is granted at 20000, due to the Grant Repeated Bonus being set to No.

 

Leaderboard

1. 52,040 patbb

2. 38,650 Cynicaster

3. 17,460 rmaerz

4. 14,240 roadrunner

5. 11,370 LarcenTyler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I joined late in the season so forgive me if some of these games have been played recently:

 

1980: Berzerk

1983: Marvin's Maze

1981: Stargate

1982: Gravitar

1985: Mat Mania

1978: Avalanche

1979: Asteroids

1977: Canyon Bomber

1976: Night Driver

1984: Kung-Fu Master

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Bump...

 

without any additional nominations, the lineup would look like this:

 

1976: Night Driver (2)

1977: Boot Hill patbb

1978: Avalanche (2)

1979: Asteroids Cynicaster

1980: Berzerk Cynicaster

1981: Cosmic Avenger rmaerz

1982: Pepper II rmaerz

1983: Roc N Rope (2)

1984: Do! Run Run patbb

1985: City Connection patbb

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The field is set...I'll flesh out the rest of the info later. For now you have the ROM sets and dip switch settings to get started.

 

Seems like player availability is starting to drop off big time this time of year...

 

I wouldn't be opposed to starting next season with the Labor Day Tournament and concluding with the Flag Day Craptacular. I added this as a proposed change in the rules for season 4 thread.

 

It's important to weigh in if you oppose this proposal. If there is no opposition then it is assumed that players are good with this.

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Battlezone 24,000

City Connection 32,800

 

City Connection, what is that thing holding the flag that i keep driving into?

Is that a cat??

 

And i got a top runner score of 1,809

I'm not sure what that means.

 

 

Yes it's a cat, You can jump over it.

The "top runner" is the distance you covered.

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Battlezone 24,000

City Connection 32,800

 

City Connection, what is that thing holding the flag that i keep driving into?

Is that a cat??

 

And i got a top runner score of 1,809

I'm not sure what that means.

 

 

Yes it's a cat, You can jump over it.

The "top runner" is the distance you covered.

 

Thanks for the info! :) :thumbsup:

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Cosmic Avenger 4,100

 

Kung Fu Master 18,800

 

2 tough games.

 

 

 

 

 

Kung Fu isn't all that tough. The first boss that waves that stick at you is a piece of cake. The trick is to go as close as you can to him as you can. He will not be able to strike you. then you duck punch him till he flies off the floor.

 

The second boss is going to be chucking boomarangs at you. If he throws high, duck. If he throws low, jump. As soon as the boomarang zips past you, go at him and punch him out.

 

The third boss is easy, don't be intimidated by his size. Approach him with a jump kick. Then duck punch him in the belly. He'll be history in no time.

 

The fourth boss is tough. He flings projectiles at you. The idea here is to get him to the far right of the screen. Kicks will not affect him, so don't waste your time. Punches only. If you survive long enough to get him to the far right, swing at him as soon as he gets ready to fling his projectile. A couple few punches and he's gone.

 

The fifth boss will have you giving him a series of high kicks, then low, then high, then low. Continue until he is dead.

 

And voila, Silvia is all yours, for a couple of seconds anyway!!

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