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Title: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: RayB on June 05, 2006, 10:19:41 am
Excuse me????!!

From the front page news about simultaneous high score records:
"....as it wasn't one of the more popular arcade titles."

So not true. The reason no one has bothered to try and set a wolrd record for that game is because it's a linear side-scroller, with continues, and most people play it to try and reach the end, rather than play for score.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: kowal on June 05, 2006, 10:25:57 am
 :o
 this very good cult game.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: SirPoonga on June 05, 2006, 10:55:41 am
I had to go to KLOv to look up the game, never heard of it before.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: shardian on June 05, 2006, 11:15:50 am
I played it alot on Nintendo...never knew it was in the arcades.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: emerica on June 05, 2006, 11:29:41 am
one of my favorite games to play
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: MYX on June 05, 2006, 11:51:57 am
I like it.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: RayB on June 05, 2006, 11:58:45 am
Jeez guys, fire up MAME and play it! It rocks. The music is also half the experience. It's fantastic!
 ;D
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: Clonedsheep on June 05, 2006, 12:05:33 pm
This game is cool and easy to learn but it's so damn unforgiving. I have been trying to master it since I was a kid but it's still as frustrating.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: TOK on June 05, 2006, 12:17:29 pm
This game is cool and easy to learn but it's so damn unforgiving. I have been trying to master it since I was a kid but it's still as frustrating.


I enjoy a lot of difficult games, but re-doing the level from the beginning very time you screw up gets old fast.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: Havok on June 05, 2006, 12:20:05 pm
Seriously! That game rocks! The music in it is like Spy Hunter: it keeps playing and playing, and you love it!
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: ahofle on June 05, 2006, 12:25:30 pm
It is a great game, but was it that popular?  It came out at a time when the arcade industry wasn't nearly as strong as a few years before.  It's a shame really -- I never understood why the 'arcade crash' happened around 1984 or whenever it was.  The games around that time still seemed really good to me, and they were still far better than what was available on consoles. 
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: quarterback on June 05, 2006, 12:54:07 pm
I had to go to KLOv to look up the game, never heard of it before.

 :o

I loved this game, and seemed pretty ubiquitous in my mid-to-late 80s arcade-visiting years.    It's much tougher when you have to pump quarters into it though.  MAME adds the double-edged sword aspect of "unlimted quarters"  You can keep playing forever, but it loses a bit of the intensity when you know you can keep working a level until you beat it.
Title: Re: Rolling Thunder not popular?!
Post by: RayB on June 05, 2006, 02:09:25 pm
I'd say it was popular. Enough to get a sequel and console ports.

If you find it too hard, set the time limit (in the dipswitches) to 150 seconds.