bigbee99 Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 (edited) Strategy X Game Information Game Name: Strategy X Released By: Konami 1981 MAME ROMset: stratgyx Dip Switches: Lives: 3 Chosen By: roadrunner ROM Location: http://romhustler.ne...4635/strategy-x AtariAge Arcade/MAME HSC Record: Competition ends Sunday, April 8st @ 12PM EST Leaderboard 31,080 Cynicaster 23,550 bigbee99 17,560 M.A.M.E Offender 13,700 kane 9,860 acelkin 7,780 roadrunner 4,190 jblenkle Season Standings Calculations through round 28 1. M.A.M.E Offender 425 2. bigbee99 424 3. Cynicaster 385 4. patbb 240 5. mr. toast 166 6. kane 155 7. roadrunner 110 8. acelkin 105 9. LarcenTyler 83 10. richard stewart 78 11. Barra 66 12. JohnnyBlaze 55 13. kojr 39 13. keilbaca 39 15. retrorussell 27 16. mightymage 23 17. onmode-ky 17 18. rmaerz 16 19. homerwannabee 15 20. jblenkle 14 21. NE146 8 22. chuckwalla 6 22. Raygunn 6 24. Kurt_Woloch 3 25. Fres 1 Edited April 8, 2012 by bigbee99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Kane came up on the 1st roll for game choice, but there were no request from him. RR was next. If you would like a game you enjoy to be considered for the weekly HSC drop the game name in the Main Request Thread http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/167179-arcademame-hsc-game-requests/ Also, I will be updating the Spring Break Tourny Thread later this evening. You can make request games for it up until then. There are a few tie breakers needed for votes, if not it will go to a poll this evening. http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/195173-hsc-round-430-spring-break-tournament/ B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Cool, one of my game choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Strategy X - 4,190 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 3,850 The controls for this one take awhile to get used too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 22,610 Interesting game, I kind of like it. The controls are a bit of a handful for sure. I actually tried a Robotron-esque setup where I was using my right joystick left and right to move the cannon with right joystick up as fire. I figured that was too different from the original hardware so I went back to the buttons. Best I can tell, the original cabinet had an 8-way joystick for movement, buttons to rotate left and right (a la Asteroids) and a thumb button on top of the joystick for fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acelkin Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Another one that was off my radar back in the day, never seen this one before. Totally reminds me of Front Line & the tank sequence. I just got this one downloaded, so not ready to submit a score just yet. Got around 3K so I'll give it some practice here & see what I can come up with. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Another one that was off my radar back in the day, never seen this one before. Totally reminds me of Front Line & the tank sequence. Yeah, I've never heard of it either. In a weird way, with the vertical scrolling through narrow corridors and continuous refueling, it almost reminds me of a slowed down River Raid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acelkin Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 All right, made it through the 1st round, it's actually pretty entertaining! 9,860 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acelkin Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Another one that was off my radar back in the day, never seen this one before. Totally reminds me of Front Line & the tank sequence. Yeah, I've never heard of it either. In a weird way, with the vertical scrolling through narrow corridors and continuous refueling, it almost reminds me of a slowed down River Raid. Another one that was off my radar back in the day, never seen this one before. Totally reminds me of Front Line & the tank sequence. Yeah, I've never heard of it either. In a weird way, with the vertical scrolling through narrow corridors and continuous refueling, it almost reminds me of a slowed down River Raid. Yep-I can see River Raid in there too, good comparison! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 Another one that was off my radar back in the day, never seen this one before. Totally reminds me of Front Line & the tank sequence. Yeah, I've never heard of it either. In a weird way, with the vertical scrolling through narrow corridors and continuous refueling, it almost reminds me of a slowed down River Raid. Yep-I can see River Raid in there too, good comparison! Reminds me of Countermeasure on the 5200 or the homebrew sequel of Countermeasure on the 7800, Failsafe. I set my 3 buttons up a little different on this one. I put the fire button in the middle with the rotates on the outside. Helped me some. 23,060 B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 31,080 Hey B, on the third level with the tanks, can you see their bullets? I don't know if I've got an emulation issue or what, but those tanks fire at me and I can't see their bullets. Sometimes I just explode and don't know what hit me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 31,080 Hey B, on the third level with the tanks, can you see their bullets? I don't know if I've got an emulation issue or what, but those tanks fire at me and I can't see their bullets. Sometimes I just explode and don't know what hit me. No I can't see them either. I am using .106. I don't know if it's an issue with that version of MAME or what. The 1st few times it killed me I didn't know what was going on. B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 31,080 Hey B, on the third level with the tanks, can you see their bullets? I don't know if I've got an emulation issue or what, but those tanks fire at me and I can't see their bullets. Sometimes I just explode and don't know what hit me. No I can't see them either. I am using .106. I don't know if it's an issue with that version of MAME or what. The 1st few times it killed me I didn't know what was going on. B Well I'm using .122 so maybe that's just what the game is like. It's worth pointing out that I don't get any of those "this game has known problems" disclaimers when I fire it up, and often when I do get those warnings the game plays perfect as far as I can tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 7,780 Yeah, this game is alot like Countermeasure/Failsafe and River Raid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 (edited) I forgot today was Easter and stuff so I will let this round continue on until 11:59 PM EST for those who got tied up today. Need longer? Just say something. I will try and get the 4.30 HSC thread straight today as well. I will at least post the ROM and settings for each track for those ready to start on them today. B Edited April 8, 2012 by bigbee99 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kane Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 13,700 I don't have much co-ordination on this game, needs a dial for the aimer I reckon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 I managed to up mine some. 23,550 B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Right on!! I am up in Sarnia visiting with family so this extension really helps!! My first submission is: 17,560 Picture proof coming later tonight. Hopefully with a much higher score! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Right on!! I am up in Sarnia visiting with family so this extension really helps!! My first submission is: 17,560 Picture proof coming later tonight. Hopefully with a much higher score! Don't know if it matters, but I can vouch that I was with him when he got this score and it was before noon--unfortunately our grandmother does not have Internet and we struggled getting our cell phones to work on AtariAge, hence the lateness of the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Not so fast, Cynicasters, I have until midnight. Yep, I agree with everyone so far, about this game. It has a "Universal" feel to it, along with the game Venture. I'm under the impression this was released right after Venture, as the game completely robs its concept. Strategy X - 25,260 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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