MAME ROW #115 - Black Tiger

Cornervizion · 12 Dec 2018, 22:25

Excellent!

Black Tiger one of my favourites and I'll be submitting a hi-score soon. :)

pjft · 13 Dec 2018, 00:01

I'll try to submit a score for Black Tiger. I remember playing this on my Spectrum but never seriously played it in the arcade so it'll be fun.

AndersHP · 13 Dec 2018, 10:02

In homage to Ready Player One (the book) I'll truly enjoy this weeks MAME ROW. Well done!

VictimRLSH · 14 Dec 2018, 18:08

I know the mods get annoyed at people resurrecting old post topics, but for MAME ROW is it cool to go through the past postings before I came along and add screenshots, etc?

mitu · 14 Dec 2018, 18:44

@VictimRLSH Feel free to do so. Necro-posts are not annoying if you add useful/pertinent info to an existing topic.

pjft · 14 Dec 2018, 21:29

@AndersHP it’s a great book indeed, I liked it better than the movie :)

Sadly, my performance here won’t be enough to even get to that level :D

I’m starting things with a paltry 18.100, early level 2.

EDIT: for the record, on the mame2003 build I’m on, I couldn’t see the high-score entry cursor, so I had to count keypresses to guess where I’d be. Maybe in a more recent version, or on lr-fbalpha it works better.

GtBFilms · 16 Dec 2018, 23:58

Had a few attempts at Black Tiger tonight. Making use of the dungeon at the far right of level 1 for extra points, I made it to level 2 and a score of 31700.

It's a nice game, I'm sure repeated play would reveal a lot more secrets.

pjft · 17 Dec 2018, 09:32

@GtBFilms Nice score! I'll give it another shot today then to see if I can get anywhere close to that, but I'm not confident that that'll happen :)

obsidianspider · 17 Dec 2018, 16:48

MAME ROW #116 is live!

pjft · 17 Dec 2018, 21:02

@GtBFilms I have mixed feelings now. Indeed, milking the dungeon to the right of the first level does allow you to increase your score quite a bit, though I kind of feel wrong about relying on it. Maybe we should do one run without milking it (i.e. just going through it straight ahead, not staying longer and killing more)?

I got 39,300, died in the middle of the second level.

In the dungeon, immediately to the left of the starting location if you destroy the wall I received an item that was worth around 10k points, I think? Unsure if it’s permanently there or random, but hope it helps.