High Score Competition #168: Wizard of Wor

[jasonbar]

High Score Competition Rules and Scoreboard

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Game Name :   Wizard of Wor
ROM Name  =   wow
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Default settings:
 bonus life:  after 3rd level
 lives: 3 for 1 credit (use 1 credit for this competition, not 2 credits for 7 lives!)

Controls:

    Joystick: 4-way
    Buttons: 1 [Fire]





KLOV: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10459

Description from KLOV: "One or two players move around a variety of line-drawn mazes shooting the creatures that wander within. Eliminating all of the monsters will advance the players to the next level. Creatures called Worluks and the Wizard Of Wor himself will occasionally appear and these can be shot for bonus points.
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Last Day: Sunday, June 28 midnight PST

Scoreboard (updated 2015-06-20 20:06 PST)
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1) Popsicle 71,900
2) Fytr 49,500
3) WakiMiko 35,200
4) Yamatetsu 34,600
5) JDFan 33,300
6) Jasonbar 27,000
7) Knightrdrx 17,800
Epetti 16,300
9) PBJ 16,200

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! 

[JDFan]

Forgot to upload the score for last comp so figured might as well get one in early this time - 23,000 33,300

[WakiMiko]

34,600

Game is quite hard and the voice is nightmare fuel
Soft reset in MAME doesn't work correctly so be careful!


 
On a completely unrelated note, I finally got grand master rank in TGM1!

[popsicle]

71,900

I really love this one, but it gets so fast and ridiculous quickly.  Your best chance after level 5 is just finding a secure corner and spamming fire back and forth while watching the radar.  I got lucky in this game and got the Wizard twice.

[JDFan]

71,900

I really love this one, but it gets so fast and ridiculous quickly.  Your best chance after level 5 is just finding a secure corner and spamming fire back and forth while watching the radar.  I got lucky in this game and got the Wizard twice.

yep the speed increases rapidly --- It's a much better game when playing 2 player coop - though it's difficult to not wind up shooting at each other ! ( Of course that's probably what the manufacturer wanted since it meant more quarters pumped in 

[yamatetsu]

34,600

[WakiMiko]

Terrible game, doubt I'll be putting much time into this.

[pbj]

Last Place checking in with 16,200

[epetti]

Just squeaked past you. Frustrating game. 16300.


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[jasonbar]

19k, but I'm not going to tell you guys how many games it took to achieve that score...

Top post updated with current standings. WakiMiko & Yamatetsu, you guys have to play more. You're tied for first. Cut it out.

-Jason

[yamatetsu]

I'd say that popsicle has earned the first place with 71,900 points so far.

[jasonbar]

Corrected.

Still too much tying going on around here...

[fytr]

49,500 here (but I'm still trying!)

This game is interesting in that there's definately a "pattern" aspect to it in terms of the best tactics for each level, but even if you execute that aspect perfectly, a lot comes out to luck. For example, where the Worluck or Wizard appears in the maze vs. your position can have a large impact on your ability to shoot them before they escape or kill you.

It's amazing how a seemingly perfect game can go to hell almost instantly after the first few levels. Very frustrating but definately has that "just one more play..." aspect to it that keeps me coming back!   

- Ken

[tomstewdevine]

 
On a completely unrelated note, I finally got grand master rank in TGM1!

Whoa, nice work.

[WakiMiko]

35,200 just to break the tie



I've only seen this stupid wizard once and he promptly teleported next to me and killed me.   

Whoa, nice work.

Thank you! Took me a long time

[knightrdrx]

I'm on the board for the first time ever but far from first. This is a fun game for 1980.  Reminds me of that show brain games which was on hbo. There was an aliens game in an episode.

[knightrdrx]

I only have an 8-way joystick. I hope that is okay. I doubt this makes me any better.  I want to play along.

[jasonbar]

27k cements & solidifies my 6th place awesomeness.

Knightrdrx, welcome. As long as you follow the rules, you're welcome to play as you wish. But please type your score into your post body. It's sometimes difficult to decipher numbers in attached images.

-Jason

[yamatetsu]

Unofficial scoreboard.

[jasonbar]

1) Popsicle 71,900
2) Fytr 49,500
3) WakiMiko 35,200


Waki, pick something fabulous!

-Jason

[yamatetsu]

My bet is on another fricking shmup.

[harveybirdman]

What about Son Son?

Don't think you guys have done that one.

[WakiMiko]

My bet is on another fricking shmup.

But I have never picked a shmup before

I'll make a thread soon with a game I've never played before. And it won't be a shmup

What about Son Son?

Don't think you guys have done that one.

Considering it!

[yamatetsu]

My bet is on another fricking shmup.

Because you are so very good at them. And, of course, because I don't particularly like them 

Maybe I'm getting old, the idea of mashing a button hundreds of times per minute over a long period of time does not appeal to me.

[WakiMiko]

Maybe I'm getting old, the idea of mashing a button hundreds of times per minute over a long period of time does not appeal to me.

There are a lot of shmups with build-in autofire (e.g. everything by Cave, though in some cases it has to be activated in the setup menu). I don't like button mashing either.

But don't fret, I picked SonSon!

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,146051.0.html