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@GtBFilms Just lucky with the bonus screen, 10000 for uncovering a dinosaur!)

MAME ROW #23
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8528/mame-row-23

@meleu It's like the developers set out to make the most unfair arcade game, surprised the cabinets weren't broken in rage.

MAME ROW #21 is live!

@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.

Thanks @GtBFilms ... I was starting to wonder if we were going to have a #19 ;-)

Also, thank you @obsidianspider for filling in for @meleu again!

@GtBFilms @meleu gave me a link to his script and data file in a previous thread and I've been using that for the data, and to generate the new post I'm just "Quoting" the old post and then removing the > from the beginning of each line with a Find Replace to get the bulk of the content and then add the most recent MAME ROW and of course adjust the three games to choose from, etc.

That way you're not manually creating everything from scratch.

MAME ROW #17 is live!

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@meleu argh! I'm visiting relatives for Christmas otherwise I'd rise to your Pang! Challenge right away!

Nice score, I will have another go at Pang! soon!

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Almost made it to lvl 8, did not have another potion for the sorcerers on lvl 6, so had to go straight for the exit instead of heading NW for the potion there. If you have a potion, you can get a potion...

Wow, well played @R1n0X and @meleu! Great scores :)

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Might be able to do better if I can save the 2nd resurrection potion for a bit longer. I also should NOT have upgraded to the Balkan gun, as the old laser can hit the tails of the flaming claw snake things even through the segments, but the Balkan gun shells are stopped.

Once you get through the regular round on lvl 8, the bosses on 8 and 9 are really easy. The regular round on 10 is all space stuff from Hyperdyne SideArms and will end you if you don't have a LOT of health to smart bomb stuff with, or a 2nd player's aux gun to block more fire.

As I'm going through the ROWs of the past and putting my input and screenshots into them, I've come across one of my nemeses, Kung Fu Master. I have a rep for mastering games quickly, but this game is a critical hit in my Achilles Heel. No matter what I do, I can never get very far in that game. Being a hard game in general is no excuse, I usually learn to destroy hard games even more so than others. I just never got this one.

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A bit rusty, but any SNK/Neo Geo fighting game with Joe Higashi in it I can do reasonably well. His play has some similarities to Ken/Ryu, and he has some very impressive close-quarters combos.

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Yes, those twin planes are a pain to take out, but the real death knell comes from the heavily armored boats on round 3. Your game essentially ends after your first life is lost on this round because you won't even be able to defend yourself without full firepower. One of my all-time favorite games, Darius, also suffers from this. While I have cleared the game before, I had to do it on a single life, because once you die, the game is essentially over.

The helicopter is definitely the best choice because you can 'waggle' in place and spread fire over about half the screen.

As far as I can remember the hi-score here is from @GtBFilms : 235110.

The @UDb23 's new Pang overlay made me play it again. And this is my hi-score: 238350 270270 340830

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@twd Now the 'backup your data' lesson is one we've all learnt the hard way at some point!

I didn't get as far as the purple goo, but I did check out a YouTube play through to see what to expect next, and someone played through with that goo making the ship totally invisible. I thought at the time, there's no way I am going to make it through that! Seemed a bit weird there was then a whole lot more levels (including 'PRO' mode going through them all again!) when I reckoned most people would have run out of credits getting through that purple goo.

The fact it is meant to be transparent makes a lot more sense!