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[bigbee99]

This will be a 10 game tournament consisting of 1 title released in each year from 1986 - 1990. There there is also 4 Konami games from different years and one racing game.

Since this is a tournament, the new tournament scoring system will be in effect. Refer to the HSC rules regarding the new point system.

Competition begins Sunday, May 20th @ noon EST and ends Sunday, June 3rd @ noon EDT

The field has been set and the scoring has begun! Games are as follows.
(to post #133)

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Contra


Game Information
Game Name: Contra
Released By: Konami 1987
MAME ROMset: Contra
Dip Switches: Difficulty: Normal Starting Lives: 3 Bonus Life at 50,000 Points ONLY!  
ROM Location:  http://www.romnation.../Contra-US.html

Leaderboard
328,400 M.A.M.E Offender
224,400 Cynicaster
209,300 bigbee99
107,300 kane
80,300 patbb
75,800 jblenkle
75,600 andy119
73,900 LarcenTyler
73,300 roadrunner


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Ghouls'n Ghosts


Game Information
Game Name: Ghouls'n Ghosts [World]
Released By:
MAME ROMset: Ghouls
Dip Switches: Difficulty: 4 [Normal] Bonus Life: 30K, 60K and every 70K Lives: 3
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...osts-World.html

Leaderboard
102,700 Cynicaster
78,900 patbb
74,200 bigbee99
50,600 kane
43,500 M.A.M.E Offender
42,200 BillyHW
17,300 andy119
10,300 jblenkle
8,100 LarcenTyler
5,100 roadrunner

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Golden Axe


Game Information
Game Name: Golden Axe (set 6, US, 8751 317-123A)
Released By: Sega 1989
MAME ROMset: GoldnAxe
Dip Switches: Lives: 2 Energy Meter: 3
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...1-317-123A.html

Leaderboard Final Score Is You Strength
264.5 M.A.M.E Offender
110.3 Cynicaster
93.5 bigbee99
59.0 kane
55.5 andy119
45.3 roadrunner
40.3 jblenkle
38.0 LarcenTyler
35.0 Patbb

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Gyruss

Game Information
Game Name: Gyruss (Konami)
Released By: Konami 1983
MAME ROMset: Gyruss
Dip Switches: Lives: 3  Bonus Life: 30K then every 60K  Difficulty: 6
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...uss-Konami.html

Leaderboard
219,300 M.A.M.E Offender
188,350 Patbb
147,850 bigbee99
130,850 kane
120,200 Cynicaster
113,650 andyy119
96,600 LarcenTyler
73,850 roadrunner
66,450 jblenkle

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Pole Position


Game Information
Game Name: Pole Position
Released By: Namco 1982
MAME ROMset: PolePos
Dip Switches: Game Time: 120 sec. Nr. Of Laps: 4 Extended Rank: G Practice Rank: C
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...e-Position.html

Leaderboard
60,300 M.A.M.E Offender
46,970 Cynicaster
21,550 LarcenTyler
20,950 Patbb
20,310 kane
19840 andy119
19,480 roadrunner
17,930 bigbee99
12,550 jblenkle


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Raiden


Game Information
Game Name: Raiden
Released By: Seibu KaiHatsu
MAME ROMset: Raiden
Dip Switches: Lives: 3 Bonus Life: 150000 400000
ROM Location:  http://www.romnation...103/Raiden.html

Leaderboard
588,900 M.A.M.E Offender
209,230 bigbee99
203,980 kane
183,500 Cynicaster
166,450 onmode-ky
127,170 roadrunner
70,190 jblenkle
63,150 Patbb
42,630 andy119
33,650 LarcenTyler

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Rastan

Game Information
Game Name: Rastan (World)
Released By: Taito Corp.
MAME ROMset: Rastan
Dip Switches: Difficulty: Medium Bonus Life: 100000\ Lives: 3
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...stan-World.html

Leaderboard
97,800 Cynicaster
95300 andy119
89,300 LarcenTyler
88,600 kane
81,500 bigbee99
75,900 M.A.M.E Offender
62,200 Patbb
60,100 roadrunner
53,600 jblenkle


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Rush n Attack

Game Information
Game Name: Rush'n Attack
Released By: Konami 1985
MAME ROMset: rushatak (Green Beret parent <gberet>)
Dip Switches: Difficulty: Normal Bonus Life: 50k 100k 100k Lives: 3
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...reen-Beret.html

Leaderboard
187,390 Patbb
170,370 Cynicaster
122,050 bigbee99
116,370 M.A.M.E Offender
80500 andy119
80,350 kane
35,500 LarcenTyler
23,900 roadrunner
18,450 jblenkle

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Rygar

Game Information
Game Name: Rygar (US set 1)
Released By: Tacmo 1986
MAME ROMset: Rygar
Dip Switches: Lives: 3 Bonus Life: 100000
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...r-US-set-1.html

Leaderboard
567,900 kane
247,820 bigbee99
240,140 M.A.M.E Offender
177,790 LarcenTyler
94,490 Cynicaster
68,610 jblenkle
58,600 patbb
52710 andy119
38,100 roadrunner

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Time Pilot

Game Information
Game Name: Time Pilot
Released By: Konami 1982
MAME ROMset: TimePlt
Dip Switches: Lives: 3 Bonus: 10000 50000 Difficulty: 3
ROM Location: http://www.romnation...Time-Pilot.html

Leaderboard
385,100 kane
256,700 M.A.M.E Offender
175,000 bigbee99
154,300 patbb
146,600 Cynicaster
123200 andy119
105,200 jblenkle
59,300 roadrunner
32,400 LarcenTyler
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Season Standings
Calculations through round 34

1. M.A.M.E Offender 507
2. bigbee99 504
3. Cynicaster 482
4. patbb 282
5. kane 212
6. mr. toast 166
7. roadrunner 140
8. JohnnyBlaze 125
9. acelkin 117
10. LarcenTyler 94
11. richard stewart 78
12. Barra 66
13. jblenkle 46
14. kojr 39
14. keilbaca 39
16. retrorussell 27
17. mightymage 23
18. Kurt_Woloch 18
19. onmode-ky 17
20. rmaerz 16
21. homerwannabee 15
21. BillyHW 15
23. NE146 8
24. chuckwalla 6
24. Raygunn 6
26. Fres 1

Edited by bigbee99, Sun Jun 3, 2012 12:21 PM.

[bigbee99]

1986 Vs Super Mario Bros
1987 Galaga '88
1988 NARC
1989 Golden Axe
1990 Nemo

RACE Pole Position

Manufacture - KONAMI
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Time Pilot
Pooyan
Contra
Black Panther
Gyruss
Track & Field

[patbb]

1986: Bobble Bobble
1987: Super Qix
1988: Crazy Climber 2
1989: Dynamite Dux
1990: Snow Bros.

Racing: Speed Buggy

Manufacturer:  Konami
-Gyruss
-Time Pilot
-Yie Ar Kung Fu
-Rush'n Attack

[BillyHW]

For the racing game I nominate Hard Drivin' (or Race Drivin'), as long as someone can explain to me how to setup the controls for my (X-box like) gamepad in MAME.  I just can't figure it out.

For 1986-1990 I nominate Arkanoid (1 or 2)

For Konami you could add Blades of Steel, counting goal differential or something as 'points'.

[LarcenTyler]

TX-1 for Racing!

[roadrunner]

1986 Rygar
1987 Rastan
1988 Robocop
1989 Saint Dragon
1990 Raiden


Racing Game - Pole Position

[JohnnyBlaze]

I have friends coming over for Memorial Day(and there's talk, since a few of them are off for the summer of them staying until September). My question is would it be possible for TEAMS to sign up for this HSC or is it individual only. I ask because with my MAME cabinet, we hold tournaments here as well(ESPECIALLY a Street Fighter X Tekken tournament on Memorial Day). So, it'd be cool if we'd have something to base it around instead of picking a game at random. So, my thought is to have a HSC challenge for the game and the highest score gets posted.

As for your list:

a Game from 1986-1990 - Pac Mania

1 racing game - My cabinet doesn't have a wheel so I'm not sure of one that just uses a joystick

4 game manufacturer challenge - Williams/Midway

NARC
Smash TV
Mortal Kombat(it does have a scoring system)
Robotron 2084

[Cynicaster]

Question:  how stringent are we with classifying a company as a “manufacturer”?  I ask because often games are created by one company, published by another company, and distributed by yet another company in different countries.  Often, there is more than a single well-known company linked to a single game (Taito, Sega, Williams, Atari, Bally Midway, Namco, etc.).  For example, depending on who you ask, Frogger might be a “Sega” game or it might be a “Konami” game.

This makes it difficult when you try to run searches and  sort by company at different sources (KLOV.com is a great example), and you’ll see games pop up under a certain “manufacturer” but the screen shots that they have for the game show a different company name on the title screen.

My vote would be, you can attribute a game to a certain company so long as you can produce a reputable source that links that company to the game as either developer, publisher, or distributor.  KLOV and the MAME history.dat files are examples of what I would consider good sources.

What say you, oh overlord of the HSC?

[bigbee99]

Me personally, I just use MAME to tell me the Manufacturer.  I understand what you are saying though.  Either way.  I won't me to picky about it.  The reason I went with Konami as my suggestion again was simple.  I made this thread a little later than usual and did a quick copy/paste job of my suggestions from the last tourney.

[JohnnyBlaze]

bigbee99, any word on my idea?

[bigbee99]

JohnnyBlaze, on Thu May 17, 2012 9:29 PM, said:

bigbee99, any word on my idea?

I think we should stick to individual scores.  But if you would like to share the highs from there I'll track them on the side just as "bar set" type thing as not to have the Team Score interfere with an individual winning the tournment.  And of course, if someone there wants to share all of their scores, they are more than welcome to post them here.  It's not too bad to make an account here.  Just a few clicks if you use the Facebook log in as I did.

As far as the racing game, I will be playing what ever game on a keyboard.  So a stick would not be too bad.  I've played Pole Position with keys before.  It's okay I guess.

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[M.A.M.E Offender]

roadrunner, on Wed May 16, 2012 11:25 AM, said:

1990 Raiden


Racing Game - Pole Position

Now those are two games that I wouldn't have a problem with.  Raiden is such a nicely balanced shooter, as far as difficulty is concerned.  All of the 8 bosses have bullet arrangements that can be dodged with extreme precision, but with lots of practice they are beatable.  I still haven't mastered the 5 th boss, but I am close.

....and about the 8th boss, good luck.  If you roll up on big number 8 with at least 2 bombs on board, you MIGHT have a shred of a chance to do it without dying.  3 bombs is better, though.

Edited by M.A.M.E Offender, Thu May 17, 2012 10:33 PM.

[Cynicaster]

M.A.M.E Offender, on Thu May 17, 2012 10:30 PM, said:

roadrunner, on Wed May 16, 2012 11:25 AM, said:

1990 Raiden


Racing Game - Pole Position

Now those are two games that I wouldn't have a problem with.  Raiden is such a nicely balanced shooter, as far as difficulty is concerned.  All of the 8 bosses have bullet arrangements that can be dodged with extreme precision, but with lots of practice they are beatable.  I still haven't mastered the 5 th boss, but I am close.

....and about the 8th boss, good luck.  If you roll up on big number 8 with at least 2 bombs on board, you MIGHT have a shred of a chance to do it without dying.  3 bombs is better, though.

Let the record show that the only reason I wouldn't consider selecting Raiden for my 1990 pick is that I know I have no chance against my brother and I desperately need the points.

Hint hint, voters.

Edited by Cynicaster, Thu May 17, 2012 10:46 PM.

[bigbee99]

No game has 2 selections yet lol.  Drop some more votes people or you will be at the mercy of my dice

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[kane]

bigbee99, on Fri May 18, 2012 12:14 AM, said:

No game has 2 selections yet lol.  Drop some more votes people or you will be at the mercy of my dice

That's the way it should be IMO...

1986 - Rygar
1987 - Rastan Saga
1988 - Ghouls 'n Ghosts
1989 - Golden Axe
1990 - Rampart

Driver - Sega Turbo

Konami
- Amidar
- Mega Zone
- Juno First
- Time Pilot
- Time Pilot '84

[Cynicaster]

I'm cool with the dice determining our fate.

Regarding Golden Axe, that's an old standby fave for sure but I just realized I've never played it for score.  Come to think of it, does it even have score?

[bigbee99]

Cynicaster, on Fri May 18, 2012 10:26 AM, said:

I'm cool with the dice determining our fate.

Regarding Golden Axe, that's an old standby fave for sure but I just realized I've never played it for score.  Come to think of it, does it even have score?

It gives you a strength rating when you die.  I forget how it works though.  All I know it get's higher the further you get in the game.  I don't think I've broke 90.XX on one coin ever.

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[Cynicaster]

1986: Mania Challenge


1987: Fast Lane
http://www.gamesdbas.../fast-lane.aspx

1988: Kickle Cubicle

[note, video shows Japanese version]

1989: Block Hole
http://gamesdbase.co...block-hole.aspx

1990: Cyber-Lip
http://www.gamesdbas.../cyber-lip.aspx



Racing Game: Badlands




Manufacturer: TOAPLAN

Pipi and Bibi's


Snow Bros.


Outzone


Performan
http://www.gamesdbas.../performan.aspx

Truxton II

Edited by Cynicaster, Fri May 18, 2012 12:11 PM.

[BillyHW]

Mania Challenge is pretty lame compared to Mat Mania, but Mat Mania is 1985.  

[Cynicaster]

BillyHW, on Fri May 18, 2012 11:59 AM, said:

Mania Challenge is pretty lame compared to Mat Mania, but Mat Mania is 1985.  

Really, the only thing I prefer about Mat Mania (or, Exciting Hour as I knew it growing up) is the variety of opponents.

Aside from the 2-player mode, Mania Challenge added some move reversals and of course the venerable dropkick.  It also tweaked the game so it's harder to exploit the "3 hits" trick.

The thing that sucks, of course, is that in single player mode you go through the same 2-3 opponents (I forget) over and over again.

[BillyHW]

Cynicaster, on Fri May 18, 2012 12:15 PM, said:

BillyHW, on Fri May 18, 2012 11:59 AM, said:

Mania Challenge is pretty lame compared to Mat Mania, but Mat Mania is 1985.  

Really, the only thing I prefer about Mat Mania (or, Exciting Hour as I knew it growing up) is the variety of opponents.

Aside from the 2-player mode, Mania Challenge added some move reversals and of course the venerable dropkick.  It also tweaked the game so it's harder to exploit the "3 hits" trick.

The thing that sucks, of course, is that in single player mode you go through the same 2-3 opponents (I forget) over and over again.

The sound and crowd graphics took a huge step down with the sequel.  As a one player game, the original is way more fun.

[onmode-ky]

I don't know if I'll be able to participate in the tournament, but I'd like to say that if Konami is chosen as the company, I'd like to see their Xexex in the game selection.  I'm familiar with it from the Salamander Portable PSP collection, and I recall enjoying the graphics and sound, along with the somewhat R-Type-esque gameplay.  A fairly obscure title, I believe.

onmode-ky

[roadrunner]

Tough to choose a manufacture but i went with Visco


Vasara
Vasara 2
Storm Blade
Thunder & Lighting

[bigbee99]

roadrunner, on Fri May 18, 2012 8:47 PM, said:

Tough to choose a manufacture but i went with Visco


Vasara
Vasara 2
Storm Blade
Thunder & Lighting

Thunder & Lighting  is a pretty cool game.  Check it out

http://www.twingalax...00075624387&d=4

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[Cynicaster]

When do the polls close?  I got a text earlier from M.O. saying that he plans to post his votes a bit later this afternoon.