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Well, I love Demon Attack, so you finally got me!

Haha, yeah, I saw that you jumped in! Thanks for coming over and participating. I hope to see some good scores this month

Spider Fighter, brings back some memories Super fast game

Never did anything like this but Im liking the concept. Im much more of a console shmupper than arcade , so this is up my alley.

Is that your patch? I didn't know about the Activision patches until just a few years ago, but it was kind of a cool idea that, unfortunately, followed with the decline of the US gaming industry in 1983.

@Gamer707b - You're welcome to jump in and join us - plenty of December left

Am afraid not ( shamelessly stolen from interweb ) Brilliant idea IMO, reward players who achieved 40K score in the game. I love stuff like this .

I do too! I actually thought about buying one of those last night, because I managed to almost hit 100K on the "expert" difficulty switch level, but those patches aren't cheap.

Nostalgia don't come cheap! great score btw, you just need another 800k to freeze the scorecard

Thanks! I managed to squeeze out a little over 141K a couple days ago. I know it's possible to score a lot higher, but I'm pretty happy with that at the moment, given how quickly I progressed.

Bump to announce the January 2019 game - Lightening Force, aka Thunder Force IV! Yes, I finally get to gush about my favorite shooter of all time, and spend an entire month focusing on it, then podcast about it later

Sign-up/discussion thread:
http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index ... ic=18881.0

I totally forgot to update this thread, but the game of the month for February is Zanac! All versions are available, and we'll even be discussing Zanac NEO, so any fans should stop over and take a look!

http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index ... ic=18934.0

I watched your stream on Zanac the other day, man that game is relentless.

Thanks for watching! Yes, it definitely has frenetic pacing for much of the game. One interesting thing is that it has a level of adaptive difficulty, to where your sub-weapon choice affects what enemies you'll encounter, to a certain degree. It can drastically change the way the game plays.

yes, I noticed that. it's almost like a strategy game where power ups can actually be your downfall .

Do you play these game on the original hardware ?

I remember the game getting super angry whenever I picked the frontal shield (which should be weapon 2).
However, Weapon 7 doesn't drastically boost the enemy agressiveness even though it can cancel bullets and it very useful overall.

Have you tried the SPECIAL mode in Zanac X Zanac, by the way? It is Zanac, but harder. if you haven't had your fill of the game after clearing its regular version, you may want to try this one!

Also, there's Zanac Neo which is a fantastic game, and definitely worth checking out. If you like the Compile style, you'll enjoy it. But what's really great is that you can have fun with it even if you don't actually like other Compile shmups.

Yes, i'm playing Zanac on my original NES, and piping that through a RetroTINK 2X, so I can get it to my capture card, and into OBS Studio for streaming. And I'm using my NES Advantage, of course



I will be exploring Zanac NEO this month as well, and probably streaming a little of that later in the month. I know that Zanac X Zanac also includes the FDS and MSX versions of the game, so I'll probably mess around with those a bit, to see if there are any drastic differences between them, so I can speak to those more directly on the resulting podcast as well. Also: Zanac but harder? Yikes.

That's pretty cool, nice set up.It's great to see these games in their original form