VectorGamer Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Pollux MAME ROMset: PolluxDip Switches: Lives: 3; Difficulty: Normal; Allow Continue: No Week ends 12.22.14 @ noon EST Season Standings 125 bigbee99 118 Fallout_002 116 kane 99 DonPedro 62 darthkur 59 DaveD 57 Darrin9999 53 roadrunner 48 LarcenTyler 19 Mangia-Boy 18 GimmeClassics 14 jblenkle 13 S.BAZ 11 Cynicaster 11 Mister-VCS 9 M.A.M.E Offender 8 patbb Leaderboard 2,070,100 DonPedro1,196,700 Cynicaster841,900 bigbee99833,900 M.A.M.E Offender432,800 kane418,300 roadrunner376,300 Fallout_002241,400 Darrin9999112,500 DrVenkman 80,500 jblenkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 A word of warning: it seems that for some reason you can't enter your initials (and score) in highscore table with Allow Continue dipswitch turned off. So either be quick when taking a screenshot or just leave it turned on, just don't use continues. I hope you all enjoy Pollux. It's sometimes interesting to play a no name shmup for a change, instead of usual Raidens and Gradiuses. Not many original ideas here, apart from the black hole and autofire power up, but it's pretty good imo. My initial score: 433,900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Pollux - 80,500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 1st time with this one 154,400 B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 (edited) Starting to get the hang of this one. 659,000 B Edited December 18, 2014 by bigbee99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 980,900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 418,300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Gave this one a boot yesterday evening. Seemed pretty generic-shooter-ish at first, but it's actually pretty fun. For some reason, it feels like a Sega Genesis game to me. 1,196,700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I'll have to give this one some more time. I never played it before tonight - I was already out of college before this one hit the arcades. I agree whomever said it above - it reminds me a lot of a Genesis game. 112,500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 241,400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I'll have to give this one some more time. I never played it before tonight - I was already out of college before this one hit the arcades. I agree whomever said it above - it reminds me a lot of a Genesis game. Pollux was made by infamous Korean developer Dooyong (though I like some of their games, such as Flying Tiger and Blue Hawk, with Pollux being perhaps their best work) and I don't think it was ever available outside of Korean and Japanese arcades. AFAIK none of Dooyong's games were ever ported to home systems. But yeah, they play more or less like 16-bit ports of early Toaplan games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 766,000 B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallout_002 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 376,300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Yep, its got that Truxton feel to it. 833,900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 1,203,300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) 841,900 B Edited December 22, 2014 by bigbee99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kane Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 432,800 Pollux - It sounds like the name of a horrible skin disease or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Pollux - It sounds like the name of a horrible skin disease or something... I think it was named after a star, which in turn was named after a character from mythical beginnings of ancient Rome. I actually studied history, but didn't make the connection to Castor & Pollux, had to check it on wikipedia New personal best: 2,070,100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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