Crikey, this game is tough. It's taking roughly 30 minutes to beat each opponent now, reverting to a save state at the start of the stage every time I die. I've just beaten Super Macho Man, easily the hardest character so far, but nothing else seems to have opened up. Retroking said I'm only just over two thirds through. What happens now? Do I need better times to unlock the rest or something?

Nope, not seen a walking stick yet.

davyK wrote:

Have you encountered the old guy with the walking stick yet? He's a bastard. You have to unlock the Special Circuit.

You have to go undefeated right?

On a side note here's a bit of a Punch Out spinoff from 1985:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Wrestling_(video_game)

Yeah - think you need and 4-0 record on each circuit.

Lol. Cheers moot, on it now.

It seems that the Super Circuit isn't unlockable on the ROM. Oh well, was bundles of fun while it lasted.

92%.

Annoyingly, a glitch on my Caanoo has put a halt to my progress through the Master System version of Jurassic Park, which was shaping up to be quite good.  The graphics are simplistic, but it's quite playable, moreso than the Megadrive version imo.

Plus the intro was quite snazzy:



I'll start again on a more reliable emulator tomorrow.  I have absolutely no idea why the device is struggling to access the MS files, they're in the same folder they've always been in and everything else still works.  Odd.  I was just about to kill a Triceratops boss too.

Dam this was my suggestion week but not sure if I will have time to play. I will try and find time in the weekend.

I had both the Mega Drive and Amiga versions as a kid. I loved both but never progressed far on the Amiga. The Snes version I found unplayable during the fps bits.

No apologies needed. I think I will try and tackle the MD version again unless someone can point me toward a psp friendly Amiga emu.

SNES one was top lolz compared the MD one.  MS version was topper lolz than both though, so much so that I award it the coveted:



I just finished it and it's one of the best platform shooters on the console.  Even the three weapon system works well.  I'm not 100% sure who made it, Sega I guess, although I suppose it could be one of those unofficial Brazilian type jobbies.  Credits had a mixture of Asian names and people called John.

Ha ha. Good scoring system

Will do. Will see what has been used already and post back.

Cheers.  I think Retro's gonna add a couple, then I'll probably pick five from the lists and sort it out for tomorrow.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Cheers.  I think Retro's gonna add a couple, then I'll probably pick five from the lists and sort it out for tomorrow.

I haven't got many of what davy listed, are some of those paddle control only as well @davyK?

I can't remember what we played last time and can only really vote for what I own:
Missle Command
Asteroids
Centipede
Defender
Defender II
Frogger
Skiing
Vanguard
Galaxian
Laser Blast
Summer Games
all 3 Pac Man games...

think they the best suited ones for high scores that I have. Happy to do whatever though.

Stella is piss easy to use and the ROMs are in plain view at atariage.com - I assume it being a mainstream site that there is no problem with that.

I am lucky enough to own a Harmony cartridge so I can play whatever I choose on the real hardware if the notion takes me - though NTSC games have weird colours.

I have deliberately left paddle games out as the mouse is a poor substitute if emulating. Kaboom! , Circus Atari and Super Breakout are excellent but unplayable without the real hardware. One game that plays well with the mouse is Solar Storm - a paddle controlled vertical shmup that folks might like to try out.

I also left out arcade ports mostly because people already know them but those listed by retroking are the better ones. Defender 1 is worth a look to see how bad a job it was - especially compared to the excellent effort that Defender 2 is. (Having said that  , I had Defender 1 back in the day and played the crap out of it). Would be worth adding Millipede as a companion to Centipede for comparison. There are several versions of Frogger - if you are using Stella you can play Supercharger games and that port is particularly good.

Empire Strikes Back is worth a look too - nice hori shooter - played that quite a bit.

The big thing to remember  about 2600 games is to refer to the manual at atariage - as quite often the default variation 1 isn't the best to play. I'll check that out once Moot picks the five.