MAME ROW #59 - Lightning Fighters

AndersHP

Went with Birdie. My trigger finger needs a week of rest after R-Type, and this game looks kind of alternate.

GtBFilms

Gave these a try last night.

Magician Lord seems to be a sort of cross between a poor man's Altered Beast and a generic 2D sidescrolling adventure game. Not bad, but not remarkable.

I quite liked the idea of Birdie King 2, it would be a nice change of pace. However I couldn't work out how to control it. All I could do was hit the ball a few feet at a time before running out of shots.

Lightning Fighters seems a bit generic as well but decently executed.

As I can't work out how to control Birdie King 2, Ms suspect it probably needs a trackball, I'm going to go for Lightning Fighters this week.

obsidianspider

This week's winner is Lightning Fighters

GtBFilms

This is one tough game. I only managed to level 2 once, with a top score of 55010.

It seems to be the 'Dragon Laser' is a much better smart bomb type weapon than the 'Particle Beam' - it stays on screen longer and does more damage. For the primary weapon I thought the 'S' power up gave a nice spread weapon and as most enemies can be destroyed with a single hit, it was better than the 'V' rapid fire single rocket primary weapon
although I'm guessing it becomes more useful later on with tougher enemies.

The idle demo seems to show a slave unit assisting the player, but I never got anywhere near obtaining that.

I'll give it a few more plays but this is a tough one!

GtBFilms

I'm improving!

72500

cyperghost

@gtbfilms It isn't the fastest shooter :D
Good to play if you consumed some drinks and your reaction time decreases.

meleu

@cyperghost said in MAME ROW #59 - Lightning Fighters:

Good to play if you consumed some drinks and your reaction time decreases.

best tip!

cyperghost

@meleu said in MAME ROW #59 - Lightning Fighters:

@cyperghost said in MAME ROW #59 - Lightning Fighters:

Good to play if you consumed some drinks and your reaction time decreases.

best tip!

Isn't ment sooooo serious ;)
And you know: Don't drink and fly ;)
But today I've some spare time ... The game itself is funny - will you also take part on this?

obsidianspider

@meleu I am going to have intermittent forum access this week, would you be able to run MAME ROW #60? If not, I will be updating at odd hours.

meleu

@obsidianspider I will do that. ;-)

obsidianspider

@meleu Thank you, sir!

meleu

@obsidianspider MAME ROW #60 post done: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/117802

But I'm getting a server error from strawpoll.me... :(

Maybe I will try to find another web poll service later...

GtBFilms

I was just trying a few games at random tonight and came across Gunbird 2 - it's quite similar to Lightning Fighters (bullet hell vertical shooter) but is better executed all round.

I'd never seen this (or the original Gunbird) before, I'm guessing perhaps they only appeared in Japan?

Anyway, for fans of these types of games, I recommend trying out Gunbird 2. Runs really nicely on a Rpi 3.