Season 19 Round 2 - Legendary Wings

[asponge]

It's time to put down your boomerangs and pick up your wings of love to save the world from extinction!  The game loops after it's completed, but we're only going to allow one playthrough for the competition.

 

 

 

Game Rules:

One playthrough only.

Manual

 

Score Post Deadline: Sunday May 16 at 11:59 PM CST.

 

AtariAge High Score:

1,183,500 by bubufubu posted on 3/20/2015

 

Scores as of 5/15:

bubufubu       1,425,600
mbd39          1,029,000
Razzie.P       1,012,900
Wrathness        896,800
asponge          693,600
RuySan           111,900
fakecortex        60,700
roadrunner        38,300
jblenkle          32,500
Lauren Tyler      31,200

 

NES Arcade:

Below are 10 arcade ports we're playing alongside the regular games. You may post a score for any title, during the current regular season round.  Score improvements are always accepted as well.  Points for these games will be awarded at the end of the season.  Each game will be scored like a regular season round, e.g. first place will receive 25 points, second 20 points, etc.  All points earned here will be added to your season total.

 

Click here for the Arcade Scoreboard

 

Bad Dudes                                    Bump 'n' Jump                               BurgerTime

                 

Manual                                         Manual                                          Manual

 

Donkey Kong                                 Donkey Kong Jr.                            Gyruss

            

Manual                                         Manual                                          Manual

Game A                                        Game A

 

Palamedes                                    Popeye                                          Q*bert

                

Manual                                         Manual                                          Manual

Start at Level 1                             Game A

 

Shinobi

  

Manual

 

Season Standings:

 

General HSC Season Rules:

• To participate, just post a score to the thread. Anyone can join in at any time.
• A picture or screenshot is encouraged when posting a score but not required.
• The season is 15 rounds long.
• Games will be posted on Sundays and run two weeks through Sunday at 11:59 PM CST.
• Do not exploit game glitches, take advantage of 1-up loops or intentionally die in order to replay a level.
• If "point pressing" is not specified in the game rules you should be moving forward in an attempt to complete/loop the game and not "camping" for points.
• No emulator save states, slow-mo, rewind, etc.
• No cheats, e.g. Konami code, Game Genie, etc.
• Turbo controllers are allowed.
• Round points are awarded according to the following chart:
  

[mbd39]

This is another game that doesn't get any harder on subsequent loops so one loop is fine.

 

[Lauren Tyler]

Not one of my better games I admit.  31,200

Edited May 3, 2021 by Lauren Tyler
Fixed a typo.

[S.BAZ]

Shinobi... 134,500

I keep getting to the helicopter and then it doesn't show my score.

[Razzie.P]

Legendary Wings -- 497,300

 

I seem to remember this game being easier, me being better at it, or both.   I think I can beat it, though, or come up with some good excuses for why I can't.

 

[mbd39]

1,029,000

 

[mbd39]

And I want to thank asponge for making this one loop. That was more than enough Legendary Wings.

 

[mbd39]

Shinobi - 583,300  

 

I thought this was my last life so paused the emulator here and took a pic. I game over'd on my next life anyway. Could not beat final boss.

 

 

[mbd39]

Just a warning, guys. Shinobi does not show your score after you game over or during the second boss fight. Not a great port.

 

[fakecortex]

4 hours ago, mbd39 said:

Just a warning, guys. Shinobi does not show your score after you game over or during the second boss fight. Not a great port.

 

That’s annoying. What’s the point of points if they just go away? In situations like this, they really are a holdover from the arcade. Grew up with the master system version, which I love. That shows the score on the title screen and demo, the way nature intended. 

[mbd39]

12 hours ago, fakecortex said:

That’s annoying. What’s the point of points if they just go away?

 

NES Qbert does the same thing. Spoils an otherwise good port.

 

One of the most baffling examples of this is Columns for Sega Master System. Score disappears on game over. If there's any genre where high score matters, it's Tetris style puzzlers.

 

 

Edited May 6, 2021 by mbd39

[RuySan]

111900

 

This is interesting. Looks like a run of the mill shmup at first, but then the sidescrolling parts surprised me

[Wrathness]

896800

[fakecortex]

Hard game and a bit frustrating when you get hit, lose your power up, and find you have to dodge certain enemies bc your peashooter does squat. Also, I like that the sound when entering that giant head is the ghost sound from duck tales awoohoo. 

 

60,700 

 

Made it to what I think is the first boss...

[mbd39]

3 minutes ago, fakecortex said:

Hard game and a bit frustrating when you get hit, lose your power up, and find you have to dodge certain enemies bc your peashooter does squat. Also, I like that the sound when entering that giant head is the ghost sound from duck tales awoohoo. 

 

60,700 

 

Made it to what I think is the first boss...

 

Was it the dragon? If so then you had a ways to go before the actual first boss.

[Razzie.P]

Saw this in Legendary Wings while failing to beat the game again (so close, though) -- I'm not fluid in fictional-world hieroglyphics, so speculation time.  Whatcha think this says?

 

 

Their version of a billboard telling me to come on down to Joe's Used Auto?

 

Steve was here?

 

For a good time, call....?

 

 

 

 

[fakecortex]

2 hours ago, mbd39 said:

 

Was it the dragon? If so then you had a ways to go before the actual first boss.

Dang, might have been...

[mbd39]

9 minutes ago, fakecortex said:

Dang, might have been...

Yeah the dragon is just the mid boss. After that, there's one last horizontal shooter section before you face the final boss of the level.

 

There's only 5 levels so they're pretty long.

 

 

[Razzie.P]

Legendary Wings -- 1,012,900

 

Made it!

 

I finished the game twice (my other score was a bit lower)  I like the game a lot, but not sure how I can squeeze out any more points in a single run.   Time to have a look at the list and see what's next.  ?

 

 

[Razzie.P]

Donkey Kong Jr -- 131,900

 

Figured it was decent enough to get the ball rolling without embarrassing myself too much.

 

 

[jblenkle]

Finally, a NES game that keeps it's score more than 1 second...

Legendary Wings - 20,100

[roadrunner]

Legendary Wings   38,300

 

[fakecortex]

Think I might be over Legendary Wings, so good thing we have so many other games to play! Haha. Got a new high in Popeye, but still behind the awesome score from @mbd39. What I like about the ship level is punching that vulture for a cool 1K. What I don’t like is everything else. Getting Bluto after the spinach is hit or miss, literally, since he can jump over platform gaps and you can’t. Then there’s the letters that shoot to the bottom, where you do not want to be. But the worst is that the ladder does nothing, and you would expect to be able to climb it as you build it higher, especially considering you can climb the ladder in the first screen. Still, love the game, despite those issues. 

 

Popeye - 82,100 R7

[jblenkle]

Legendary Wings - 32,500

[jblenkle]

Bump 'n Jump - 24,900