davyK wrote:

I got the end of ball bonus before entering a bonus round - maybe I didn't get the bonus again but I thought I did..

I think that's the one on the middle screen. Pretty sure it takes you to a bonus stage after.

Scored 23,161,000. Had an extra ball plus one more ball remaining at 22m and blew it.

Definitely one of my favourite MD games.

I once managed to do all the bonus stages in one game. I seem to remember it giving a bonus of 160 million for that, but I'm not exactly sure. I've certainly scored in the 100s of millions before.

That looks decent.  Did it have the option of a slightly more top-down view? 

It's a shame Pinball FX2 isn't often on sale on the Vita.  I played it on 360 and thought it was excellent, but I'm not paying £7ish per table.

Dragon's Fury again, sorry: How do you finish bonus no.5?  I've just been asked, it's the only one she hasn't done.  I spent a few minutes bashing my head against a wall whilst using save states, but after popping the door I can't work out what to do.  The amount of times a flaming creature has blocked the ball entering the door by appearing at the last moment can't be a coincidence...can it?  Surely it's designed as a block when you hit the flipper correctly?  Poor show by me, but I got fed up with trying it.

I think that's no.1.  

I tried to check out Dragon's Revenge yesterday, but my ROM won't load on either of the emulators I use.  Probably for the best.

Bonus 5 is super difficult.

You'll notice there are blue dots all over the floor. Every time you kill one of the creatures when it's standing on a blue dot, the dot turns red. You have to turn them all red. You have to break the door in the middle at some point because more creatures come out of it, and some of the dots are only covered by those creatures.

I think it's virtually impossible with the standard single flipper arrangement. It's a bit easier to do it with the double flippers, without the ball launchers at the side, but still tough.

I can't sleep with hangovers, so I was up long before the baby this morning.  Coffee and Konami took place between 6am and 8am.  After playing half of Castlevania: Bloodlines (using Lecarde, this time), a few worlds of the criminally under-appreciated Tiny Tons: Buster's Hidden Treasure, completing Rocket Knight Adventures and starting Probotector (multiple routes, was this a first for Contra?), I thought I'd change the thread to choose-your-own Konami games for a few weeks.  It's incredible how well they adapted to the Megadrive hardware.  

Feel free to post advice on what to play, or memories of favourite titles etc.  My next game will be Mystical Ninja on SNES.

It's probably near unique the way there are completely different games for most of the franchises on MD and SNES.

SNES Contra/Probotector and Mystical Ninja are favourites. I struggled to get far with the MD Probotector, despite being impressed with what I played, because they made it a bit too tough.

Tiny Toons: Buster Busts Loose is also well worth a shot. And Axelay.

I know we've done Parodius and Super Castlevania IV here before.

Mystical Ninja is a great call. I can remember picking it up in a 2 for 1 deal in the Virgin Megastore. I got it with Namco Smash Tennis which was the game I was after (for a multi-tap alternative to Super Tennis ) but Mystical Ninja just blew me away with its unexpected brilliance.

If you are on a Konami spree - also look out for Pop N Twinbee Rainbow Bell adventures which is a very nice platformer/maze effort. Also try out Prince of Persia which has a really lovely Arabian Nights soundtrack and a pile of new levels added just for the SNES.

Just to be pedantic again about devs and pubs, as I tend to be, don't think Cybernator (NCS Masiya??) or Zombies (LucasArts???) were strictly Konami games.

Nah, I think Pop n Twinbee is them. They possibly some games under the Palcom name I think, but Wiikipedia says PnT wasn't one of them. Wikipedia also tells me that Palcom was a subsidiary established to get round some silly Nintendo rules for NES. Or something.

davyK wrote:

also look out for Pop N Twinbee Rainbow Bell adventures which is a very nice platformer/maze effort.

I remember writing this down from a decent list of underrated SNES games I found online a couple of years ago (along with Hagane, which I still haven't played). If emulation fails me, as it often does with SNES games, Rainbow Bell has recently been released on the Wii U Eshop, I believe.

I'm gonna plug away at a fair few games, but if there's a specific Konami game anyone can think of that we can score attack I'll focus on that.

hylian_elf wrote:

Nah, I think Pop n Twinbee is them. They possibly some games under the Palcom name I think, but Wiikipedia says PnT wasn't one of them. Wikipedia also tells me that Palcom was a subsidiary established to get round some silly Nintendo rules for NES. Or something.

Makes sense. Pop n Twinbee felt very Konami-ish. Would make for a decent score attack game. Contra/Probotector would too.

Just thought of a good one. The 1st Parodius game has an omake or lollipop (named depending on which version you are playing) stage. It's a special score attack level - anyone fancy having a go at that?

Ach, I remember that stage from Super Parodius!!!