All New BYOAC High Score Competition! Game #58 (287): Saturn

[vodkatonic]

Competition #58 (287) Saturn





https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9438

ROM Name: saturnzi

Description:  Defend Saturn by shooting aliens.

Settings: Default

Game Play:
8-Way + 1 Button

Competition ends Sunday March 22 at midnight pacific

ALL NEW BYOAC High Score Competition! Games played so far

[vodkatonic]

4250

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[NuclearWarren]

Hey Everyone

Couple things. I'm sure everyone has figured out the rom name is saturn.zip. The other thing is that there is a second button, it launches something like a double bomb.

Good Luck all!

nuclearWarren

[FrizzleFried]

Holy hell that has to be in the top 10 most annoying attract mode sound...  it's friggin' horrible.

Luckily the gameplay seems much better.  Hell,  the sounds in game aren't bad... but that attract... damn.

Anyway,

My first attempt...

10,070

[mimic]

This game's color palette is not working for me (is it broken? Or this is how it originally looked?). I feel like it's going to give me eye nystagmus!

[FrizzleFried]

That looks pretty accurate.  Maybe a bit bright... but yeah.

[pbj]

19,290 I think.

One and done with this turd.

[pbj]

"I think" because score doesn't match from the table vs what's at the top of the screen. This might be an arcade first.

[yamatetsu]

20,330. In 3 games I found out that I last much longer when playing it just 2-way. 8-way is getting me killed in an instant.

[pbj]

I did the usual BS I do on all these games.  Move continuously in an infinity loop and shoot.  Seems to mess with the AI on this one particularly well.

[nexusmtz]

"I think" because score doesn't match from the table vs what's at the top of the screen. This might be an arcade first.

Whether she's 18 or 19, she's legal to me, but the 9 in 290 has no bottom, so I'd call it an 8 instead of a bug.

[NuclearWarren]

Ok this may be the only game with a 'detract' mode, but I got into it. The first stage was just ok, but I liked the astro smash stage, and then the gameplay really changes with the third stage more like Time Pilot. I didn't make it past the 4th stage which was more like the first one,  but I'd like to see if there is something else. Is there a base like Phoenix? I also noted that the game has some very random elements. For one thing, the background Saturn is never the same colors.

So here is my score of 35,360. I'd say I "spent" about $5 in quarters in total plays.

Nuke

[wp34]

3,350

[yamatetsu]

Wow! For this one we actually have something akin to a high score table.

NuclearWarren    35,360

yamatetsu          20,330

pbj                    19,290

FrizzleFried        10,070

vodkatonic          4,250

wp34                  3,350


pbj, your turn.

[pbj]

https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10874