MAME ROW #19 - Thief

[lilbud]

Best score: $7210

[obsidianspider]

@lilbud We haven't even chosen a winner yet! :-P

But yeah, Thief looks Pac-Manny

[Fruitybit]

Took me a while to figure out Birdie King needs a ball (serious pun intended there) and my thumb mouse works not half bad with it. I don't have any overlays for War of the Worlds, and there's no sound so it's a bit bare but I like the style. Hmmm, decisions decisions:))

$7470 so far- loitering with intent:)

[meleu]

The random.org seems to want to pay tribute to the 80's! :-)
@obsidianspider thanks for keeping it going!

BTW: I've created a repository for the MAME ROW management tool, and I'm slowly working on it. I just want to finish a RetroPie scriptmodule for generating launching images first.

[GtBFilms]

Quite a retro selection this week!

i really like the look of vector games, they don't seem to age as badly as other game technology which was around at the same time, and still have a futuristic feel to them, despite (or perhaps because of) the wire frame graphics.

Having said that, despite having the wotw.zip sample set, I still get no sound whatsoever. The gameplay is also a bit basic, and it did seem to be pot-luck whether I managed to shoot the tripods before me, or get my shield up in time.

Thief is interesting, and a good opportunity for me to make use of my 4-way controller that I got for Pacman. I thought the game is surprisingly fast for it's time. I also really liked the use of speech, which must have been amazing in 1981. The gameplay is pretty good, and has that one-more-time appeal. By contrast, the graphics are functional at best. A good example of substance over style, this one!

I couldn't play Birdie King 3 unfortunately. It runs but I don't appear to be able to hit the ball more than a couple of metres each time - and then I run out of shots. As @Fruitybit mentions, I need a different controller. Unfortunately a roller ball controller is way down my list, due to the fact I'm not that keen on games that use this control method.

Talking of which (but entirely unrelated) I noticed this the other day - a twistable joystick controller.

https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/Happ-Rotary-Arcade-Joystick.html
https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/USB-Interface-For-HAPP-Rotary-Joystick.html

£81 ($100 USD) is a hell of a lot to play the ONE GAME I can think of that would make use of that controller - IKARI WARRIORS. It's a good game, but it's not that good!

Anyway, my vote this week goes to THIEF - better fun than it initially looks!

[obsidianspider]

This week's winner is Thief!

[obsidianspider]

Wow, I'm pretty terrible at this game. But I do love that after you complete level 1 your crime level is "loitering"

$14580

[meleu]

I'm back in the game! Woohool!!
And this is my current score: 17170

After 15k you can put your initials on the ranking.

Tips for a nice score:

1. get all the 4 cars after getting the $ sign and you'll get several points (not sure, but I think they worth 100, 500, 1000 and 5000, respectively).
2. do it on the first level! ;-)

[obsidianspider]

Great score @meleu!

I was just working on the post for next week's MAME ROW and it's going to be a really good set of choices!

Back to Thief!

[GtBFilms]

Okay, so I couldn't really work out how to put my initials in properly - I couldn't rub out! - but this is my score, honest!

19660

[GtBFilms]

@obsidianspider has kindly posted the next MAME ROW:

MAMEROW#20

[obsidianspider]

@GtBFilms said in MAME ROW #19 - Thief:

@obsidianspider has kindly posted the next MAME ROW:

MAMEROW#20

I keep forgetting to update the old posts! Thanks for this.