High Score Competition #207: Elevator Action Returns

[lettuce]

High Score Competition Rules and Scoreboard

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Game Name : Elevator Action Returns
ROM Name  = "elvactr"
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Settings:
   default : Lives 2, difficulty Normal

Controls:
   Joystick: 8-way joystick
   Buttons: 2 (Fire, Jump)







Taito Corporation, 1994

'The player controls a member of special task force who must foil a terrorist group that has planted numerous nuclear bombs in various facilities. The player must obtain secret intelligence data scattered throughout each facility in order to disarm the bombs. There are six stages, consisting of a skyscraper, an airport, an underground arcade, a sewer, an underwater oil plant and a missile base..'


Last Day: Sunday, January 1st 2017 



Quest for the Bronze Joystick! The most successful competitor of each calendar year will possess & display the BYOAC Bronze Joystick Trophy. See this thread for details: The BYOAC Bronze Joystick.

Happy Gaming!

[lettuce]

Sorry for the delay guys

[acvieluf]

Sorry for the delay guys

No worries, awesome pick! I love this game.

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[yamatetsu]

167,200. This is a game that I actually like. Though it does look horrible with my HLSL settings and even more so without it.

[Titchgamer]

Ive never heard of it lol

Ile give it a go over crimbo though :p

[yamatetsu]

190,500.

[nick-g]

Will try this game this weekend.


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[yamatetsu]

205,200. Carnage ! Mayhem ! Destruction ! Oh, and Merry Xmas everyone !

[acvieluf]

Not great, but a start. 151,900



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[yamatetsu]

247,900.

[Titchgamer]

Someone mind explaining to me what the hell ime meant to do on this? LOL

[yamatetsu]

For starters, you could read the mission briefing  At the beginning of each level you are told that you have to 'treat' x bombs. The bombs are behind the red doors, so you have to go to the door, push 'up' to enter it and 'down' to leave. You can also enter blue doors for a bonus. You have to 'treat' all bombs and reach the level exit in time. Simple.
One more thing. After a while an alarm goes off, which means that more enemies are spawning. That alarm can be turned off by entering a red door.

[Titchgamer]

Cheers yam.
I got the red door thing but didnt really understand what I was doing lol

[yamatetsu]

407,300.

[jasonbar]

Love this game. Have played it only a little before. Love the graphics, the upgrades, the level of violence, & I'm glad it's got the smooth jazz soundtrack, as a moody one would probably give me the willies.

Took me a long to figure out I had bombs & how to use them. Hold both buttons for a second.

117,600. I hope to play a few more times.

Thanks,
-Jason

[Titchgamer]

Finally got to play this a bit tonight.
Pretty fun once you work out the mechanics lol


108,900

[SlyBlueFox]

Had time to play some since the holiday. Pretty fun. Hopefully I'll get a little better before the weeks over.

137,600



213,800

[yamatetsu]

For those of you who want to paint the walls red with your enemies' blood : Hit F2, go to 'configuration', switch 'violence mode' to hard. Enjoy !

[Titchgamer]

For those of you who want to paint the walls red with their enemies' blood : Hit F2, go to 'configuration', switch 'violence mode' to hard. Enjoy !

I like the sound of that!!

[jasonbar]

For those of you who want to paint the walls red with your enemies' blood : Hit F2, go to 'configuration', switch 'violence mode' to hard. Enjoy !

And who doesn't like a little relaxing painting? Where's the "like" button for this post?

 

136,200. Got pretty well into level 3. I was baited by a goody, but there was some little pea-shooter gun in the right wall that kept plinking bullets at me. I don't think it was shootable. Ducking probably would have been advisable...

-Jason

[acvieluf]

I have a feeling that my scores aren't going to get much better. Great game, though.

170,100




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[SlyBlueFox]

264,900

[Titchgamer]

Got a bit higher tonight.
Keep getting wasted at the end of level 3 by them flying guys.

[Titchgamer]

Out of interest what characters u guys using? I seem to have the most luck with the Woman.

I love the game but the title has got to be the worst ever LOL

[yamatetsu]

I use the first guy. Hasn't got the woman's firepower, but a longer health bar.

Regarding the flying guys in lvl3 : Go to the lower right or left corner, crouch, keep constantly shooting. Due to the crouch you cannot be hit by high bullets, occasionally one guy sinks into the floor and shoots low at you, jump up, dodge the bullet, crouch again. Easy peasy.

[JDFan]

Out of interest what characters u guys using? I seem to have the most luck with the Woman.

I love the game but the title has got to be the worst ever LOL

Either the Woman or the first guy seem to be the best 2 ( the heavy guy seems the worst as his speed and weapon are too weak)

As for the Title, I think they were trying to leverage the fan base for the original Elevator Action game !

EDIT : guess I should post a score since I keep forgetting toward the end of the week to post lately - 141,000

[Titchgamer]

Cheers yam ile try that tomoz :p
The heavy guy was ok but to sloowww

[SlyBlueFox]

I use the first guy but the girl is pretty good too. The only problem for me when using anyone but the first guy is I cannot blow up the red boxes with her bomb.

[acvieluf]

I use the first guy but the girl is pretty good too. The only problem for me when using anyone but the first guy is I cannot blow up the red boxes with her bomb.

Press down, then bomb, and she'll drop it right in front of her. Shes my favorite for speed and gun power.

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[SlyBlueFox]

I use the first guy but the girl is pretty good too. The only problem for me when using anyone but the first guy is I cannot blow up the red boxes with her bomb.

Press down, then bomb, and she'll drop it right in front of her. Shes my favorite for speed and gun power.

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That's what I had read & I kept trying to no avail. Apparently it had something to with the buttons I had bound to the jump & fire buttons in MAME - I remapped them & it started to work correctly just now. Thanks.

[Titchgamer]

Well slight improvement....

[SlyBlueFox]

Don't think I'll get to play anymore this weekend so this will probably be my last score update. Fun game by the way.

350,600

[yamatetsu]

I finally beat this sucker. Not worth it. You just get some credit screens. Didn't even do a new high score.

Some vids.

Level 1-3.



Level 4-5.



Final level.



Note how I apparently commit suicide on level 5. 'Pull the stick twice in the direction you are facing to run' doesn't work for me, so I never run in this game. The one time I accidentally start to run I end up getting crushed. Oh, how I laughed.

[Titchgamer]

LOL Congrats yam!
And yeah same thing happened to me when i accidentally worked out how to run!

[lettuce]

215300

[Titchgamer]

This is the best ime gana do I think...

[yamatetsu]

The scores.

1st       yamatetsu         407,300

2nd      SlyBlueFox        350,600

3rd      Titchgamer        229,201

4th      lettuce              215,300

5th      acvieluf             170,100

6th      JDFan               141,000


The final scoreboard.



Titch, you have the honor of starting the BYOAC High Score Competition 2017.

[Titchgamer]

The scores.

1st       yamatetsu         407,300

2nd      SlyBlueFox        350,600

3rd      Titchgamer        229,201

4th      lettuce              215,300

5th      acvieluf             170,100

6th      JDFan               141,000


The final scoreboard.



Titch, you have the honor of starting the BYOAC High Score Competition 2017.

Woo!!

Ile think of something and post up later

[acvieluf]

Congratulations Yamatetsu! It. Is. Yours.



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[yamatetsu]

Congratulations Yamatetsu! It. Is. Yours.

Thanks ! Congrats to you too for grabbing the second place 

How yamatetsu feels about the bronze joystick this year: haha