MAME ROW #2: Blue's Journey / Raguy

dankcushions

@qix77 no-one said you were an asshole.

i think it's a shame it looks like the 'vote for one of the 3 random games' option is going to be the clear winner. now as soon as anything remotely well-known appears it will be the one voted for, rather than us getting 'forced' to play these curios like blue's journey, which i would have never have fired up otherwise. boo!

and that's why democracy doesn't work :)

mediamogul

@dankcushions

I don't know, even with a selection of three, the odds are probably still in favor of the curios. I mean out of 4705 games, how many are really well known, several hundred maybe? However, I do get what you're saying and I sympathize. When I participate, I'll always be likely to vote for something I've never played before that looks interesting, as it adds to the overall experience for me.

meleu

@qix77 you started to call us to play arcade games on the weekends. You're not an asshole. We love you! <3

@dankcushions democracy, at least in this specific case, really works. Because nobody will be forced to play the chosen game, only those who wants to participate. There's no prize/money involved in this "tournament". It's just for fun and to make us interact a little more.

I think the most likely to win on a vote won't be the best known, but which meet the requirements we talked about earlier (repetitive, each stage increase the difficulty, score matters, etc.). Think on a dispute between "Captain Commando" vs "Bosconian". I would vote for Bosconian.

lilbud

I say next week we play Cloud Master, or Chuka Taisen

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cyperghost

@dankcushions You will get in deep trouble if the next selection contains the three games

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1941
1943

You made my day :)

I think it's better to choose between three games because in the case of the MAME ROW #2 I disliked the game. Moreover if there are three games to choose everybody can collect game experience ...

Show videos in youtube
read game guides
by selfplaying

That's the way I would choose a game and give my vote. I think that is fair for all. I understand your concern if there is one real good and popular game in. I think Gyruss would for example outstand every other game. But think about we are talking about 4000+ games and there are only a bunch of well knowen - and such a constallation is more or less an exception.

dankcushions

@cyperghost actually it's something like 2500 games when you take out all the clones, which is how our system works. plus you remove all the non-working and gambling/etc games, and you're left with maybe 1500 possibilities.

hey, in 29 years we will have played all the games regardless ;)

anyway, back to blue's journey... or as i like to call it 'shitty super mario bros 2' :)

cyperghost

@dankcushions
Hmm... 29 years later! Nice imagination.
Then we can play the oldies, like Splinter Cell, Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty and Halo 5....

Blue Journey ... well it was okay, but it's not my personal favour...

backstander

@dankcushions in 29 years we might be playing something like Call of Duty: Black Ops III on a Raspberry Pi 25!

Also maybe we can for the last weekend of the month, just pick a game purely at random and don't vote. Then the other 3-4 weekends a month we do this voting system.

I played Blue Journey yesterday and I got stuck on the part where you are trying to jump on the fast moving Tetris pieces while trying not to fall into boiling water. I finally got past that but it was getting very frustrating!

I also figured out you can just jump behind that Snowman boss and hit him from behind to easily kill him without getting hit.

meleu

I watched to an "Amazing World of Gumball" episode with my kid* recently, and Darwin made a song that I would like to dedicate to @qix77

*Having kids is a good excuse to keep watching cartoons... :-)

GtBFilms

Sorry guys, I had a good go at Blue's Journey but for me it's one of these ones that doesn't lend itself well to emulation - because it's just too easy to keep jabbing the insert coin button and batter through the difficult parts.

I got to the boss that throws those jelly beam things and flames at you, and then unfortunately it crashed on me. I think the score as about 55,000 or thereabouts.

Didn't get a screen shot I'm afraid and don't have the stamina to go through it all again!

Hey, but that's the thing with checking out unfamiliar games, you gotta take the rough with the smooth!

An interesting one, but not one I'll be rushing to return to!

backstander

I don't know if I can bring myself to play through it again anytime soon but here's my high score of 169310!

lilbud

@backstander I don't know how many credits are left. But this will probably represent it

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backstander

On the final boss battle in Blue's Journey just before you make your final hit that takes him out, the boss asks if you will forgive him. If you answer Yes, he'll call you a Fool and the girl will give you the "cold shoulder" but if you answer No or don't answer at all he'll call you a Worm again and the girl will give you a kiss. I did a savestate at the end so I could be sure to get a picture of my high score and I decided to experiment with this afterwords.

mediamogul

@backstander said in MAME ROW #2: Blue's Journey / Raguy:

if you will forgive him... he'll call you a Fool and the girl will give you the "cold shoulder"

No good deed, right?

meleu

The three random numbers obtained for this week voting: 842, 1904, and 945.

842
Game Name: Far East of Eden - Kabuki Klash / Tengai Makyou - Shin Den
Company: Hudson
Year: 1995
ROM file name: kabukikl.zip
BIOS: neogeo.zip

1904
Game Name: TouchDown Fever
Company: SNK
Year: 1987
ROM file name: tdfever.zip
BIOS: -

945
Game Name: Lizard Wizard
Company: Techstar
Year: 1985
ROM file name: lizwiz.zip
BIOS: -

I've never played any of these games. (it's a good thing!! :-) )

Please vote: http://www.strawpoll.me/11402243

What do you think about checking the results only on Wednesday? So we have Monday and Tuesday for experimentations.

meleu

Created a new topic for this week:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4522/mame-row-3

Cheers!