High Score Competition #119 Green Beret

[mimic]

Previous winners:

#001 thru #099 - For list of winners for those competitions  please refer to this link
#100: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Winner - Gray_Area, Second - Tafoid
#101: Marvin's Maze: Winner - Kixfan, Second - Hammerfist
#102: Rally-X:  Winner - Tafoid, Second  djm858
#103: Lock 'N Chase:  Winner - Kixfan, Second - Jasonbar
#104: Space Fury: Winner - Gray_Area, Second - kixfan
#105: Pig Out: Winner - Kixfan, Second - Gray_Area
#106: Carnival: Winner - rick6668, Second - Kixfan
#107: Rastan: Winner - popsicle, Second - rick6668
#108: Peguin-Kun Wars Winner-dancawar, Second - Popsicle
#109: Blood Bros.* Winner - harveybirdman, Second - Jasonbar *scores reflect use of game features considered cheats
#110: Rabbit Punch: Winner - jasonbar, Second - mimic
#111: Alien Syndrome: Winner - mimic, Second Comtek
#112: Block Hole: Winner - Comtek, Second - idsane
#113: Pepper II: Winner - Comtek, Second - Kixfan
#114: Break Thru: Winner - jasonbar, Second - mimic
#115: Ninja Baseball Bat Man: Winner - mimic, Second - Tafoid
#116: Shao-lin's Road: Winner - mimic, Second - Kixfan
#117: Scramble: Winner - Kixfan, Second - jasonbar
#118: Lost Tomb: Winner: Jasonbar, Second: mimic

Competition #119: Green Beret

Romset: gberet
Default Settings:
Lives: 3
Bonus Life 50K, 100K, Every 100K
Dificulty: Normal


Last day is Monday, July 15st (11:59:59pm Pacific Daylight Time), 2013

KLOV





http://www.mamedb.com/game/gberet



General Rules:
- One Credit, No Continues.
- Highest score wins.
- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.
- MAME INP recordings are encouraged but optional.
- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the game screen.
- If you're a MARP competitor on this title, keep in mind this is just a friendly competition among forum members, so maybe you shouldn't enter. However, if you're a forum member and this is a game you're good at and nobody knows about it, this is your time to shine!
- Even if you don't have a competitive score or if you don't *think* that you have a competitive score, please post it anyway to keep the thread fun & to give everybody a good sense of score ranges.
- Please make sure your scores are from games that take place during the competition period (no posting your best score from last year, etc.).
- Use of autofire or other non-standard hacks within MAME or your PC's OS are not allowed.  No program or other person or entity of any sort may manipulate your controls during your game.  Coaching & back-seat driving is fine as long as the party doesn't directly influence the game or controls.
- If you can beat any of the high scores from the previous competitions, you can submit your score to the BYOAC High Game Scoreboard.

Good luck!

[kixfan]

This game was on my possible selection list.   Much better than Knuckle Joe!   

I remember playing this on a regular basis somewhere in my childhood but can't recall where.   

Very first attempt, 47,350

[vorghagen]

Played this a fair bit on the C64, never tried the arcade version though.
Might actually have a chance at finishing it now...

[eds1275]

I had it for c64, though it was under the name Rush 'N' Attack. SO HARD. I will give this one a shot though.

[popsicle]

My 1st salvo

98,300

[lettuce]

How do you use MAME INP recording?

[Comtek]

How do you use MAME INP recording?

first does your ver of mame support it
if so I just set my command line in MALA to %rom% -record %rom%.inp

[mimic]

You made a slight mistake while typing, let me correct it...

This game was on my possible selection list.   Much better than Knuckle Joe! Lost Tomb   

There is a new "kid" to smack around [that statement does not represent my attitude towards children!!]

I had it for c64, though it was under the name Rush 'N' Attack.

That's how it's known in "states". I know it as Green Beret and it also a parent rom.



58,140 - first try. Not posting a picture, I'm confident I can do better than that.

[UFO]

Totally useless at this game... Its one of those "one day, I'll spend all day on it" games...

28,500

[kixfan]

105,390

I found that if I slow down I can average about 42k on the first level.   If you take to long, it just kills your player.   Almost made it thru the 2nd level.

[leapinlew]

I may give this a run. I finally beat this game in 2007: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,61943

Will try to get a recording or screenshot if I can break 100k

[kixfan]

When you get to the last screen on level 2, the dogs that come from the right you have to hit while crouching, dogs from the left hit while standing.

The most frustrating thing about this game are the ladders.  You have to be careful not to stop on top of a ladder else if you need to duck you end up going down the ladder (then I usually die cause I wasn't expecting to be where I am).   So far I have not found a reason to jump yet so I avoid it at all cost, I don't like the jumping either.

[popsicle]

105,390

I found that if I slow down I can average about 42k on the first level.   If you take to long, it just kills your player.   Almost made it thru the 2nd level.

? I was on board 4 (my best ever) when I got my 98k score.  I'll have to slow down like you said to maximize points each level.

Third boss is flying mini-copter things you have to jump and stab.  Kind of scary.

[kixfan]

105,390

I found that if I slow down I can average about 42k on the first level.   If you take to long, it just kills your player.   Almost made it thru the 2nd level.

? I was on board 4 (my best ever) when I got my 98k score.  I'll have to slow down like you said to maximize points each level.

Third boss is flying mini-copter things you have to jump and stab.  Kind of scary.

Well then, I expect you will completely destroy my score!     There seems to be 2 methods the game uses to keep you moving.   If you stay in one area too long they will start sending a bunch of the white coat bad guys at you.   Then, I believe there is a total time for the level that the game uses and will sound an alarm with a visual message to hurry up.

[leapinlew]

Attached is my score. Didn't make it to the final boss, but was pretty close.

I got in a bad spot where I died and had to jump a landmine, kill a white coat coming down in a parachute, a bazooka guy and the normal baddies. You can jump over an enemy and what I do to give me some more time is when those 3 bad guys come from the right side of the screen, I kill 2 of them and then jump the 3rd. He finishes running across the screen before they come out again. This buys me another second or two when I need it.

I don't point press, but you do get twice as many points when you kill the bad guys with a weapon vs using your knife, so I make sure to use my weapon up. At the end of stage 1 when all the bad guys come from the truck, use your flame thrower to kill them.

[eds1275]

That's how it's known in "states". I know it as Green Beret and it also a parent rom.

I'm in Canada. I think it was a North America thing.

[jasonbar]

70.6k after a couple of games. I used to have a Rush 'n Attack PCB--rescued it (and a Tempest & Atari XO Football parts) from rotting away in the fraternity yard across the street back in grad school. Great game. Hard. Harder than Lost Tomb.

-J

[mimic]

Getting better

[popsicle]

I always liked this game, and used to play it at the local bowling alley as a kid.  I'm getting better but still can't quite get to the end of the 4th stage.  Thanks for the tip Lew, I've been saving my shots and waiting for the guys that are prone and crawling toward you or the blue gun men to use my weapon, trying to hit no less than 4 each time I shoot.  Of course using them on the artillery guys helps too.  Does blowing up the mines give you points too? 

159,650

[popsicle]

Oh, and I've found that if I save one rocket on the 3rd stage flying copter bosses I can kill the first one easily.   I run all the way to the right of the screen, face left, and jump and fire a rocket as the first copter enters the screen and starts descending.  Fighting the other two is not hard, just jump and stab away.  They can't hurt you, only their grenades.

[leapinlew]

w00t! I'm a hero!

Rescued them, but then died early the next time through.

[Epyx]

Haha so awesome you guys are still doing this...think the last one I took part in was in the 40s?  Will have to give this and next few a try for sure. 

[popsicle]

Well, I hit the 200k mark, but still haven't rescued the POWs!

[Comtek]

one hour left

[mimic]

one hour left

Not really. It's Pacific not Eastern time! But probably won't matter at this time. Are you counting minutes till the end? 

Unless someone jumps in at the very last minute, the competition looks as follow:

leapinlew - 214,810
popsicle - 200,480
mimic - 135,420
kixfan - 105,390
jasonbar - ~70,6K <-supposedly
UFO - 28,500

[Comtek]

LeapInLew what is next for us to have a go at