High Score Competition #107: Rastan

[jasonbar]

Mimic: Alexander is 3 months old, so he'll hit that 6-month landmark in 12 weeks, and each competition is 2 weeks long, so that gives me 6 more competitions to pwn you guys before I'm unable to find time to play my cab for more than 30 seconds straight. Bring it!!!  :]

Popsicle: the wife & I decided that we're going to expose him to only retro home video game consoles for as long as possible, before he sees how fancy the new machines are.

-Jason

[Gray_Area]

Hardly! Trust me I know from experience it only gonna get worse not better! Untill at least 5 years old, that's when they become less needy. Enjoy a little bit of gaming time untill about 6 months old, while he is sleeping a lot. Once he starts turning, crawling, walking,etc FORGET ABOUT IT!!!
At least you will have your own personal gaming buddy in about 10 years

Um, that's why you get one of those papoose bags. Put kiddoe in the front: full-time contact and visibility, plus you have yourself a little buddie as audience, witness, and, protege. Of course, if they barf, you need to have ninja reflexes.

[popsicle]

When my girl was just learning to talk, I was playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory quite a bit.  One day she was playing with toys by herself and she yelled 'fire in the hole!'   



 

[jasonbar]

Hardly! Trust me I know from experience it only gonna get worse not better! Untill at least 5 years old, that's when they become less needy. Enjoy a little bit of gaming time untill about 6 months old, while he is sleeping a lot. Once he starts turning, crawling, walking,etc FORGET ABOUT IT!!!
At least you will have your own personal gaming buddy in about 10 years

Um, that's why you get one of those papoose bags. Put kiddoe in the front: full-time contact and visibility, plus you have yourself a little buddie as audience, witness, and, protege. Of course, if they barf, you need to have ninja reflexes.

Yes, the Baby Bjorn has allowed "us" to play some pinball the last couple of days! :]

[mimic]

Hardly! Trust me I know from experience it only gonna get worse not better! Untill at least 5 years old, that's when they become less needy. Enjoy a little bit of gaming time untill about 6 months old, while he is sleeping a lot. Once he starts turning, crawling, walking,etc FORGET ABOUT IT!!!
At least you will have your own personal gaming buddy in about 10 years

Um, that's why you get one of those papoose bags. Put kiddoe in the front: full-time contact and visibility, plus you have yourself a little buddie as audience, witness, and, protege. Of course, if they barf, you need to have ninja reflexes.

You pointed 2 things already, why I wouldn't be playing with my cabinet with kids around. 1. Flashing lights from a monitor (that can't possibly be good for brain to process, not a doctor, just a hunch!) 2. Cleaning barf from under the joystick washers or around the push buttons!? NO THANK YOU!

Can popsicle pick a new game already!? I feel like such a "yenta" now, talking about babies, etc! This topic has been totally hijacked! 

[jasonbar]

The competition's already over. What's the harm in derailing an obsolete thread??!?!   

[Gray_Area]

Well, usually the game picker gives a run-down of scores. Regardless, Popsicle, get off yer arse an pick a new un!

[TheShaner]

Seconded.  I am itching to get back in this mix.

[popsicle]

Black Tiger?  That may be the only other game I could seriously compete in.

[jasonbar]

Already chosen & played. See #30 above, Black Dragon (Japanese version of Black Tiger).

Pick another, please. :]

-Jason

[Gray_Area]

It's nice to play a game one doesn't suck in, but picking a favorite you're good at is often a sefl-fulfilling prophecy.

[harveybirdman]

at some point we need to compete in Peguin kun wars.... Just a suggestion, as I will never win one of these 

[kixfan]

at some point we need to compete in Peguin kun wars.... Just a suggestion, as I will never win one of these 

Oh my gosh!   I almost picked that the last time!   I thought nobody else would like it!

[popsicle]

Penguin Kun Wars it is.

[danny_galaga]

How about listing the scores for this competition? It's part of the etiquette 

[jasonbar]

Penguin Kun Wars it is.

OK, please make a new thread, including competition end date & DIP switch settings & such.

Thanks!
-Jason

[mimic]

How about listing the scores for this competition? It's part of the etiquette 

No it's not , you can tally up yourself

Penguin Kun Wars it is.

OK, please make a new thread, including competition end date & DIP switch settings & such.

Thanks!
-Jason

I vote if popsicle does not start a new compo by tonight then we do it for him. We'll just honor his choice!

[jasonbar]

My son agrees with you, mimic.

Jason

[popsicle]

Jesus, if I knew winning would bring all this responsibility I would've jumped into the fire lake.  Give me a few hours to help run this bat----steaming pile of meadow muffin--- crazy household and I'll fire up Penguin Kun when the kids are asleep.  I'll even post the first score I get, which will be laughable.

[PL1]

Jesus, if I knew winning would bring all this responsibility I would've jumped into the fire lake.

Spidey speaks the truth.   


Scott

EDIT: Fixed image.

[mimic]

My son agrees with you, mimic.

Jason

Cute and already a geek, perfect combination

Jesus, if I knew winning would bring all this responsibility I would've jumped into the fire lake.  Give me a few hours to help run this bat----steaming pile of meadow muffin--- crazy household and I'll fire up Penguin Kun when the kids are asleep.  I'll even post the first score I get, which will be laughable.

JUMP, JUMP, JUMP!

Seriously though, if you can't "we" can set it up for you. It's not like that didn't happen before. As long as we know, otherwise, you know joysticks are rusting, panels are getting dusty, etc.

[popsicle]

Ok, I set up the new competition.  How bad did I screw it up? 

[Nephasth]

Um... need to make a new thread for the new game.

Edit - Nevermind, you're on it!

[popsicle]

Ya, I quoted rick's previous thread to get all the links and then forgot to copy them into a new thread.   

[PL1]

Ok, I set up the new competition.  How bad did I screw it up? 

Looks good.  Spidey is glad that you have fulfilled your responsibilities so well. 

One minor point - You might want to change 
"Romset :  Penguin-Kun Wars (US)"
 to
"Romset :  Penguin-Kun Wars (US) - pkunwars"
in case someone running command line MAME or a limited game list has to find/add the ROM .ZIP file to their games directory.


Scott

[jasonbar]

Does this mean that I have to stop posting adorable photos of my son now...?!?!?

 

[danny_galaga]

How about listing the scores for this competition? It's part of the etiquette 

No it's not , you can tally up yourself

Cool. I just did a quick tally, and by my reckoning, I won with ~59,000. Next competition is Asteroids (",)

[mimic]

How about listing the scores for this competition? It's part of the etiquette 

No it's not , you can tally up yourself

Cool. I just did a quick tally, and by my reckoning, I won with ~59,000. Next competition is Asteroids (",)

SWEET! Start'er up! That will be competition #1,287! We'll catch up to you in the future!


popsicle - 526,100 (with pic)
rick6668 - 234,600
mimic - 111,900
kix - ~106,000
ninjasquirell - 99,300
spoot - 97,800
gray_area - ~84,000
Harveybirdman - 80,400
danny_galaga - ~59,000

Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?

[Gray_Area]

It is part of the etiquette. Sadly, I was a lame ass as well a couple/few comps ago.

@jason: awwwww, I'm a sucker for brown eyes.

[mimic]

It is part of the etiquette. Sadly, I was a lame ass as well a couple/few comps ago.

C'mon now, we not gonna argue over trivial nonsense like that, are we? Took me whole 5 min to put the list together as a point that if danny_galaga wanted the run down of all the scores, instead of being the nudge about it, he could've just do it himself, what's the big deal there? Perhaps OP has better things to do than make sure that his post is looked into till the end. What, are we children?

And I'll still claim there is no etiquette. When did it start? Who started it? Why? Who sign up for it? Who's gonna be the keeper of the etiquette? How is it going to be enforced? You see the problem here? Etiquette just takes the fun out of it.

Someone already started with the we have to have photos of game, machine, etc now if someone doesn't it's frown upon, what's next? Prize for winning? Oh, wait...

[Gray_Area]

It is part of the etiquette. Sadly, I was a lame ass as well a couple/few comps ago.

C'mon now, we not gonna argue over trivial nonsense like that, are we? Took me whole 5 min to put the list together as a point that if danny_galaga wanted the run down of all the scores, instead of being the nudge about it, he could've just do it himself, what's the big deal there? Perhaps OP has better things to do than make sure that his post is looked into till the end. What, are we children?

And I'll still claim there is no etiquette. When did it start? Who started it? Why? Who sign up for it? Who's gonna be the keeper of the etiquette? How is it going to be enforced? You see the problem here? Etiquette just takes the fun out of it.

Someone already started with the we have to have photos of game, machine, etc now if someone doesn't it's frown upon, what's next? Prize for winning? Oh, wait...

Um, who's post is longer?  Chiill, yo. Obviously I participate in the recognition of it being a thing, but am quite cavalier about the practice of it.

[danny_galaga]

I guess I am lamenting the fact that when people enter a competition (even a non-offical one), they expect a few little things out of it. Sure I could hunt down all the scores, but it's kinda nice when it's presented. What happened here is that I couldn't even tell the comp was finished, all of a sudden there were pictures of babies!

I know no one meant it, but when the thread trails off like that, the message that is sent is 'hey, someone won and it wasn't you, so who cares about you?'. But runners-up like to know how they faired, even if they were last. You want to encourage as many people here as possible to enter. It seems reasonable to assume that whoever wins and starts the new thread, finishes it too.

 Anyway, enough of that. Let me see if I can even play the next game on my cab! Game On!

[rick6668]

Holy cow!  My fault guys, I just realized that I thought that the winner finished the write up in the thread, but then I just looked back at the last one and the OP did it, so sorry for not wrapping this up.

Congrats popsicle!  Here are the scores that someone posted earlier.

popsicle - 526,100 (with pic)
rick6668 - 234,600
mimic - 111,900
kix - ~106,000
ninjasquirell - 99,300
spoot - 97,800
gray_area - ~84,000
Harveybirdman - 80,400
danny_galaga - ~59,000