The semi-official 80s arcade shmups highscore competition.

[nimitz]

The player with highest score on the current game that remains champion for 2 days gets to pick the next game we will be playing.
If the "winner" doesn't pick a game 24 hours after he won, the 2nd best score gets to choose and so on.



Without further ado, the first shmup is:

Flying Shark, Toaplan, 1987


Please, pick shmups that were released between 1980 and 1989, that you consider "fun" and that are not too easy to marathon.

the submitted high score cannot be an "old" score, it should be done during the competition. the scores are done using default board settings.

b.t.w.Please post your score, even if you are not #1 and feel free to post score for a game that has been played in the past days/weeks I will keep tables of the the 10 scores.

[nimitz]

My first attempt:


NIM - Flying Shark - 249,210

[Dragoforce]

Yay, count me in!

Which reminds me that I'm supposed to fix a new high score thread for this game....

[Rob]

Flying Shark (Nimitz)

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869,720 149 saucykobold
730,340 142 Aquas
489,570  86 Rob
332,240  66 Jeneki
297,280  48 Bloodflowers
249,210  42 NIM

Super Xevious (Aquas)

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112,560 Rob
 59,440  Luke

Zaxxon (Dragoforce)

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 40,000 3 Rob
 28,950   captpain
 27,250   Aquas
 26,600   Dragoforce
 17,550 2 Thunder Force

Finalizer - Super Transformation (Rob)

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1,002,700 Dale
952,900   Rob
681,300   Dragoforce

Radical Radial (Dale)

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260,400 12 Dale
250,200    Dragoforce
222,000  9 saucykobold
221,650  8 Rob
106.600  5 lgb
 64,950     aquas

Fantasy Zone (saucykobold)

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8,716,400 2-3 saucykobold
266,980   1-8 rob
263,180   1-8 dragoforce
81,270    1-3 dale

[system11]

297280 - 48

[Aquas]

I am prepared to whip out my 2-loop play, mwahahahahahah! Gimme a bit here.

Edit: Here we go.

Aquas - 730,340 - Area 142

[Jeneki]

Flying Shark
Jeneki - 332,240



Totally scrubbed it up, bombing the crap out of the battleship.
I'll have to play more later.

[toaplan_shmupfan]

Tip: the stage 3 battleship cannot be destroyed until the center part of it leaves the bottom of the screen and starts back up the screen. Points will keep accumulating each time the center part is hit until it actually leaves the bottom of the screen, however.

Oh yeah, and what configuration is being used to play Sky Shark/Flying Shark, if one does not have access to the actual arcade machine?

[Jeneki]

Tip: the stage 3 battleship cannot be destroyed until the center part of it leaves the bottom of the screen and starts back up the screen.

Good to know, now that I've destroyed my fingers on it.

[Aquas]

You guys lose. But Flying Shark is a great game. I tried a certain game recently... that game is


Super Xevious. Let's do it!

LUKE - 59,440

[Thunder Force]

I will not allow this thread to die. I just need more than a few days since I've had a stack of new games to play.

This is a good thread idea, but it might work better if it was something like 5-7 days elapsed before changing games instead of 2 days. Folks might be busy so wouldn't even get an opportunity to run MAME until the weekend or something.

[Aquas]

Alright. Deadline is extended on Flying Shark temporarily. Where's nimitz? Heh.

[spadgy]

Awesome thread that I missed. I'm late to the party but I'm straight on the dancefloor. So are we still on flying shark?

What be the deadline?

[Jeneki]

As per the original post, you can keep submitting scores for a game even after the competition moves on to a new one.

[spadgy]

As per the original post, you can keep submitting scores for a game even after the competition moves on to a new one.

Yeah - I read that. I just wanted to be to speed with the current game...

[Rob]

Super Xevious denied. Pick new game.

[Rob]

I couldn't get sxevious to work, so let's get this back in gear and pick a new game, eh? I'll put up a score if I can play it. I'll also update the scores in post 4 until nimitz returns.

This slow speed is more like it, though. 80s arcade shooter of the month!

[Dragoforce]

Let's play Zaxxon!



Edit:
Dragoforce - 11,200 - Stage 2

[Aquas]

Sorry, I was going to suggest a game but got sidetracked. Xevious is a little lame, I guess? Zaxxon, sure, I'll give it a shot.

[Rob]

Nah, I just couldn't get it to work - it looks like it should work, but also didn't feel like downloading new/old versions of MAME if that's the issue.

28,600

I hate Zaxxon slightly less now. Thanks, dragoforce. Finally shot down 20 ships, satisfied.

[Aquas]

This game doesn't have sound? Is it that old? What a GRAAANDPA!

27250

[Thunder Force]

I spent too much time playing the Colecovision Adam port of Zaxxon back in the day, but this arcade version is faster & much more difficult. At least now I get to use an arcade stick instead of a paddle controller! My current hi-score after a 15 minute session...

Thunder Force - 17,550 - Stage 2

[captpain]

28,950!

[toaplan_shmupfan]

This game doesn't have sound? Is it that old? What a GRAAANDPA!

Zaxxon definitely has sound effects, it just doesn't have background music. This was true for the actual arcade machines (not sure if any are in actual existence anymore) and remains true for the Digital Eclipse emulated version that is an extra on the Sega Genesis Collection for the PS2.

[Aquas]

I'll try a different build of MAME, then? Mame Plus 0.133 didn't have SFX.

[emphatic]

I'll try a different build of MAME, then? Mame Plus 0.133 didn't have SFX.

You will need to download the MAME sample pack for the Zaxxon sounds. You might have to tick the "use samples" option, as these sounds aren't emulated in MAME but can be derived from samples.

[Aquas]

Thanks for the tip, emphatic. I was blown away by the unexpected epicness of those sounds.

[Rob]

Zaxxon
40,000 - 3 (yes, even)

I actually wanted to play more of this.

[BrianC]

I couldn't get sxevious to work

Super Xevious may require the Xevious ROMs to work.

[Rob]

That's correct.

A little harder, kicking Xevious' pace up to kinda slow. Don't bomb the weird shape on the ground, since it sets the score to zero. Awesome.