MAME ROW #36 - DonPachi

[obsidianspider]

This is the MAME Random Of the Week #36

The three random numbers for this week are: 1717, 447, 578

Click here to vote! Which game do you choose for MAME ROW #36?

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

1717
Game Name: Solar Quest
Company: Cinematronics
Year: 1981
ROM file name: solarq.zip

447
Game Name: DonPachi (US)
Company: Atlus/Cave
Year: 1995
ROM file name: donpachi.zip

578
Game Name: Final Star Force (US)
Company: Tecmo
Year: 1992
ROM file name: fstarfrc.zip

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!

Notes:

1. We usually post hi-scores screenshots after playing with only one credit. If you used more than one credit, please mention it on your post.

2. There's no need to use RetroPie to join the MAME ROW! You can play it on any platform you want.

Every Monday we create a topic at the "General Discussion and Gaming" forum section with the 3 random games to be voted. And on Wednesday we check the result.

These "rules" are constantly being improved!

Previous Rounds

[dankcushions]

donpachi is one of, if not the best shootemups ever. easy choice for me! :D

[obsidianspider]

This week's decisive winner is DonPachi!

[GtBFilms]

Didn't get my vote in in time, but Donpachi is a classic.

Bettered only by Ikaruga in my opinion, with it's novel black/white polarity game mechanic.

Look forward to giving this one a go.

[pjft]

Oh wow, DonPachi. Have heard loads of good things about it, never played it.

Will try to get a few games in this week then! :)

[backstander]

I don't think I've ever played DonPachi but I have played DoDonPachi (which I believe is a sequel). I've heard that this game gets pretty hard!

[obsidianspider]

Mega @meleu is ready to go!

[pjft]

@obsidianspider Haha! You'll have to tell the story behind that one for the rest of us :)

[obsidianspider]

@pjft It's all @mediamogul's fault

[meleu]

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #36 - DonPachi:

@pjft It's all @mediamogul's fault

Let's call it @mediamogul 's tribute. :-)

[mediamogul]

I blame rock and roll music.

[dankcushions]

i'll open the scoring... 1456820

[meleu]

I wanna try harder later, if I get a chance. Bu it's what I've got so far: 916980


Edit: having problems to post the screenshot from my Android phone. Will try to post later.

Update: got a better score and posted below.

[meleu]

Tried harder and got 1540980.

[meleu]

@dankcushions what's your favourite ship?
Mine is the blue one

[dankcushions]

@meleu the red, but now you have beaten my score i will try the blue ;)

[lilbud]

@meleu & @dankcushions

[obsidianspider]

You guys are machines! I can't get above ~700,000

[lilbud]

My score is in the red box: 579,201
I couldn't get the scoreboard to show up when I died

[meleu]

@lilbud & @obsidianspider Try again using the blue ship!!