MAME ROW #49 - Battle Chopper

[UDb23]

@obsidianspider

;-)

[GtBFilms]

I had a go of these last night.

To begin with I found Battle Chopper pretty difficult, then I watched the YouTube video again and discovered that you can fire UP as well as forward! For some reason the second fire button doesn't work on my cab under LR-MAME2003, but in ADV-MAME 0.94 it works fine.

I tried some other games (Golden Axe) and discovered the same problem - so it looks like I've managed to screw up my MAME2003 controls somehow.

Anyway, once I got it working in adv-mame, it was a pretty good game.

I thought Hard Hat was going to be rubbish, but actually I quite liked it. It needs a bit of strategic thinking when the letters are at the edge of the screen. Played this one for longer than I thought I would.

Moon Alien Part 2 is a proficient contribution to the genre, but lacking anything special to make it stick out from the crowd, in my opinion.

Still undecided whether Hard Hat or Battle Chopper will get my vote !

[Fruitybit]

Tough one thIs week, a bit for everyone, (ok no fighting, so maybe not quite) I'm actually really hard pressed to pick one, each one merits more play!! In Battle Chopper when you're on the ground the 'fire up' button drops bombs, handy for breaking loose the extra fire power. I won't be sad if it wins. In Hard Hat pushing the letters off the screen, or even better, into targets, gets loads of extra points- did my best here maybe; 11160. Moon Alien is very Galagaesque, nearly got my vote purely as I live for the pewpew 😜

I'm not a stranger to playing devil's advocate (damn- why isn't that the name of a game!) especially with the more weird games on here, but I find myself wanting to play more...

Hard Hat. Direction buttons only, yet harder and more taxing because of just that.

So that's where my vote goes tonight:) if my 11160 stands more than 24 hours I'd be surprised!

[obsidianspider]

Voting closes in two hours!

[Fruitybit]

@obsidianspider After my post last night I went back to playing Battle Chopper, I was seriously tempted to change my mind. But seeing as my thumb is aching somewhat this morning(!) now I'm not so sure...

[obsidianspider]

It was a tie. Based on precedent from past weeks we'll leave it to Random.org to pick the winner.

Battle chopper was first in the list, that will be odd. Hard Hat was second on the list, that will be even.

The number chosen was 5. Odd.

This week's winner is Battle Chopper

[UDb23]

@obsidianspider
Flyer graphics are quite nice, instructions are available and useful... thought an overlay could be welcome ;-)

Brand new ! Available here.

[Fruitybit]

@udb23 Mr Heli... The Japanese version methinks? Now I have 'Mr Sparkle' in my head:)

[Fruitybit]

Thumb masher this game.

36930 at least got me onto the leader board!

[obsidianspider]

I was never able to get past the first level. Crazy hard game.

Never fear, MAME ROW #50 is here!