MAME ROW #21 - Carnival

[obsidianspider]

This week I've moved the voting link to the top of the post to hopefully make it easier to find.

This is the 21st MAME Random Of the Week

The three random numbers for this week are: 941, 246, 11

What game do you want to choose for MAME ROW #21?

941
Game Name: Liberation
Company: Data East Corporation
Year: 1984
ROM file name: liberate.zip

246
Game Name: Carnival (upright)
Company: Sega
Year: 1980
ROM file name: carnival.zip

11
Game Name: 3 Count Bout / Fire Suplex
Company: SNK
Year: 1993
ROM file name: 3countb.zip
BIOS: neogeo

The results of the poll will be posted on Wednesday, so we have Monday and Tuesday for experimentation.

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 ROMset 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!

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 results.

The current week's game thread is just where there are more people interacting/talking about the game(s). Feel free to post your hi-score (or any content about the game) anytime you want on the previous "rounds" topics (links below).

These "rules" are constantly being improved!

Links to the previous "rounds"

• Phoenix (not randomly chosen)
• New Rally-X (not randomly chosen)

1. Bosconian
2. Blue's Journey / Raguy
3. Lizard Wizard
4. 4-D Warriors
5. Raiga - Strato Fighter
6. Pang!
7. Air Duel
8. Pac & Pal
9. Puyo Puyo 2
10. Forgotten Worlds
11. Moon Cresta
12. Frenzy
13. Wanted
14. Cop 01
15. Aliens
16. Mystic Riders
17. Scion
18. Cosmos
19. Thief
20. Super Glob

[mviars]

Oh boy this week will be hard. They are all pretty good. The unique thing I like about liberator is that since its a helicopter you can hover unlike other similar games that usually use jets. Carnival is a classic and 3 count bout being a neo geo game just looks real good. difficult choices indeed.

[Fruitybit]

^this, all great fun, love how you can land the chopper in liberation and get in a tank! But love the shooting too... wrestling is (for me at least) a button mashing fest, but awesome fun.

Think I'm going to have to play some more before I can decide!)

[obsidianspider]

What do you think about a separate weekly post to talk about what game(s) you're playing this week? I was thinking something along the lines of the weekly posts at /r/snes and the post from @lostless about actually finishing a game on your Pi. I know for me I spend so much time fussing with making things work, or changing and updating "just because" that I don't really play my Pi that much, and that's going to change.

[Fruitybit]

@obsidianspider Agreed, I've found so many gems I would otherwise have missed by mentions of them in posts, make it so:)

I decided on Carnival in the end- too addictive- must have another go...

[meleu]

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #21:

What do you think about a separate weekly post to talk about what game(s) you're playing this week?

That's what the "General Discussion and Gaming" section is for! :-) I think it would be cool to strengthen our community in the social aspect. And then when a frustrated newbie comes here asking poor questions and saying we are a bunch of elitist NERDs that always answer with the "read-this-first" link, we can say "Hey! We are nice and friendly here!" :-)

BTW, sorry for not showing up on MAME ROW #20. I was working on this new feature for RetroPie-Setup.

And also I'm working on the "MAME ROW management" tool. Look how it's getting: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/56323

[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"