MAME ROW #21 - Carnival

[GtBFilms]

Tricky decision this week, but in the end I went for Carnival.

It reminds me of 'Rifle Range' by Mastertronic, one of the first games I ever bought for my ZX Spectrum home micro back in the early 1980's (and which was obviously a rip-off of Carnival, although I didn't know that at the time).

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004146

Also I can make use of my 4-way controller again.

The other two were good too, but Carnival is my choice for nostalgic reasons this week.

[obsidianspider]

This week's winner is Carnival!

[GtBFilms]

Well I took it along to our local monthly retro club last night, but we were all pretty rubbish and kept running out of bullets.

I'll post my best attempt later, but thought you might like to see some photos from our club. Highlight last night was a large LED panel made up of about 9 smaller panels) used as a low-res screen for a pi!

[backstander]

Well I took it along to our local monthly retro club last night

@GtBFilms that looks like fun. How do I join ;-)

but we were all pretty rubbish and kept running out of bullets.

That was my experience as well when I played it a little last night. I also noticed that when the yellow birds fly all the way to the bottom you loose a bunch of bullets so don't let that happen!

[GtBFilms]

@backstander

If you can get yourself to Edinburgh, Scotland once a month, then you would be welcome to attend!

:-)

Only membership requirement is a love for tinkering about with ancient old retro systems, and their emulation! (and chatting about a load of nonsense generally)

[backstander]

@GtBFilms
Great! If I'm ever in the neighborhood I'll be sure to stop by :-)

Only membership requirement is a love for tinkering about with ancient old retro systems, and their emulation! (and chatting about a load of nonsense generally)

Sounds like a few of my favorite things!

[Fruitybit]

@GtBFilms This is such an awesome idea, I hope I see more of these (by that I mean one near me:))

[obsidianspider]

No high score for me this week. I'm up at THON 2017 all weekend, but I'm jealous of the retro gaming club. Might need to look into one near me.

[lilbud]

@obsidianspider Been seeing that on Action News recently. Never think I could stand for that long.

[obsidianspider]

@lilbud I danced in 2003, now I'm just an alum that goes up to have fun and show support. This is my 16th THON.

[lilbud]

@obsidianspider You went to Penn State?

[obsidianspider]

@lilbud yeah, and as an active alum, in many ways, I never left.

[lilbud]

@obsidianspider Here's a question, do they kick you out if you sit down?

[obsidianspider]

@lilbud When it started in 1973 the last couple dancing was the winner. Now it's not a competitor and there is an enormous support network built to help each "dancer" complete the 46 hours. When I danced it was 48 hours. There's speculation about why they changed it to 46 hours in 2007.

As a spectator you're not allowed to sit in the stands. The justification is that it demoralizes the dancers, but as a former dancer, I call BS on that.

So, you're not really kicked out, but people don't really sit down either. If that makes sense.

THON is really a big party and celebration, not something where people get scolded or penalized for not "doing it right"

[GtBFilms]

Sadly I've had a much less active weekend, and achieved only 5270 this week.

:-(

[GtBFilms]

11580!

My new tactic is to go for the pipes first, as there is a countdown timer for how much they are worth.

Also top row targets are worth more than the lower two rows.

When low on bullets concentrate on bottom level ducks as they are the only thing that can kill you, keep the rest of the bullets for hitting 10 and 5 bullet targets to increase your ammunition again. More turn up if you wait a while.

On the bonus level let the polar bear get to the middle of the screen before shooting it.

On the second bonus level you kind of have to juggle two polar bears.

You can turn the music off by shooting the music symbol on the far right!

[Fruitybit]

8800. Quite happy with that! I've enjoyed this one, more than the sum of its parts sort of thing.

[Lyle_JP]

I'm having a blast with this. My favorite since Phoenix. I may even post a score this time.

This is one of the few arcade games that received a truly excellent Atari 2600 port, which really preserved the look and feel of the game within the limits of the system.

[lilbud]

@Lyle_JP

favorite, phoenix

[Lyle_JP]

@lilbud Of the MAME rows, it's been my favorite so far.