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Game Name: Son Son
ROM Name: sonson
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/SonsonCover.jpg)
Default Settings:
3 Lives
Normal Difficulty
Bonus Lives at 20000, 80000 and every 100000 after that
Controls:
Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 1 (shoot)
KLOV: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9620 (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9620)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonSon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonSon)
The game is a 2-D sidescrolling platformer. The screen scrolls automatically, only stopping to fight major enemies. The screen features six continuous platforms that occasionally feature small gaps. Sonson and Tonton walk automatically across these platforms. Pressing up or down will cause them to jump up or down to the next platform. Pressing left causes them to move more slowly than the screen scrolls, essentially continuing to move forward but at a reduced pace. Pressing right does the opposite - SonSon and TonTon will move across the platforms faster than the screen scrolls. The duo have only one attack - the ability to fire energy blasts from their stalves. Touching an enemy or an unfriendly projectile causes the player to lose a life. If a player has any additional lives, they will return to the screen riding on a cloud that will give them temporary invincibility. If the player presses the control stick in any direction, the cloud will disappear and the character will resume its usual walking mode. The cloud will eventually disappear on its own if the control stick is not used.
Power-ups come in the form of various fruits which produce points (with enough points giving the player an extra life). Gathering certain fruit will cause all enemies currently on a screen to turn into point-bearing fruits. Walking across certain platforms will randomly cause a bamboo shoot to sprout, yielding many extra points.
It is possible to play the game co-operatively with partner who plays as TonTon (who is Zhu Wuneng in the original story).
Thanks a lot to harveybirdman for the suggestion!
Scoring Updates:
1. WakiMiko 724,840
2. yamatetsu 331,630
3. popsicle 141,160
4. harveybirdman 117,680
5. JDFan 96,280
6. jasonbar 66,740
7. pbj 53,340
8. epetti 20,020
Last day: Sunday, July 12 2015 midnight Pacific
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- 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 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,137522.0.html).
Happy Gaming!