MAME ROW #163 - Shadow Warriors

obsidianspider · 18 May 2020, 13:53

This is the MAME Random Of the Week #163

The five random numbers for this week are: 223 1649 1266 272 2127

Click here to vote! Which game do you choose for MAME ROW #163?

223
Game Name: Bull Fighter
Company: Alpha Denshi Co. (Sega license)
Year: 1984
ROM file name: bullfgtr.zip

1649
Game Name: Shadow Warriors (World set 1)
Company: Tecmo
Year: 1988
ROM file name: shadoww.zip

1266
Game Name: Pang! 3 (Euro 950511)
Company: Mitchell
Year: 1995
ROM file name: pang3.zip

272
Game Name: Cheese Chase
Company: Art & Magic
Year: 1994
ROM file name: cheesech.zip

2127
Game Name: Wizard Fire (US v1.1)
Company: Data East Corporation
Year: 1992
ROM file name: wizdfire.zip

The result of the poll is posted on Wednesday, so we have Monday and Tuesday for experimentation.

What is the MAME ROW?

MAME ROW stands for MAME Random Of the Week. We randomly select an arcade game from the 0.78 MAME Reference Set to play on the week. The idea is to play games we've never played before, interact with other forum members, post hi-scores, share game strategies, fun facts, and (the most important) HAVE FUN!

We will play the winner all next week.

Previous Rounds

IanDaemon · 19 May 2020, 12:47

That's a tough choice considering high score chasing.

p33te · 19 May 2020, 21:23

Pang 3 gets my vote, think I prefer this one to the original

Ecks · 20 May 2020, 00:27

Shadow Warriors gets my vote.

obsidianspider · 20 May 2020, 13:30

This week's winner is Shadow Warriors

IanDaemon · 21 May 2020, 13:55

Shadow Warriors is an old-school beat'em up where the difficulty really comes from cheap hits from the enemies. The player controls feel "sluggish" although it's not from poor emulation...that's just the game difficulty. This does have a high score screen if you wait long enough. In hindsight that continue screen is very violent for the time similar to the Mortal Kombat "x-ray" visuals today.

I find Cheese Chase difficult initially because I don't know where I can go and don't have the cheese locations memorized. I thought I'd like it, because it's a combination of two of my favorites...Lady Bug in its swivel wall mechanic and Spatter in its zoomed-in collection gameplay. Sadly I'm not a fan of Cheese Chase.

Pang 3 is a decent high-score chasing game. It reminds me of the Megatouch bar-top video games in...bars.

obsidianspider · 1 Jun 2020, 13:07

MAME ROW #164 is now live!