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Season 5, Week 6: Insector X (World), MAME; romulan 'insectx'
Topic Started: 22 Oct 2006, 11:13 AM (2,477 Views)
Kaiserpc
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
459400

lost my 1st life half way through this level, and then struggled to reach the spider with just a pea shooter on my last life

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merman
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Bleugh. Enough. Higher score, not as far, game over.

182900
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
I am beginning to get a deep hatred for this game. I said a while ago that we hadn't had this seasons Gravitar. This could be it.

184500

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necronom
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I didn't get quite as far, but got a better score. It was going so well until this point, then I lost my first life and couldn't get any further.

It's funny how some people hate this game, and I think it's possibly the best this season. Wasn't Metro Cross this season's Gravitar?

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RS200
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vroom vroom !
necronom
Oct 25 2006, 11:57 AM
It's funny how some people hate this game, and I think it's possibly the best this season. Wasn't Metro Cross this season's Gravitar?

/rant on

I really do detest this game, it is so poorly designed, I hate the way that having full weapons gives absolutly no gain when fighting bosses, I hate the way you can't see the main sprite when the backgrounds are so garish and I hate the poorly drawn sprites and piss poor collision detection, it's no way a "cute em up" like Parodius - which is a FAR superior game - this is just a crock 'o shit !! .... and the music and sound effects remind me of an ST !!! .. oh yuk ... i want a 'bang' not a 'fizz'

I never, EVER want to see this game again .... sticking pins in your eyes is more fun than this ...

.. I'm going back to 'The Speed Rumbler' for the rest of this week :)

/rant off

Ross ....

PS Metrocross IMHO is much, much better than this ... and that was still bad !
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
necronom
Oct 25 2006, 11:57 AM
Wasn't Metro Cross this season's Gravitar?


Na. Metro Cross was this seasons Mappy. :rolleyes:
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Smurph
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:o

This may not be an all time classic, but to label it with the 'G' word is horrible. Poor little thing, it tried its best!

Dammit, I don't care. Lots of fun, so it works for me and a couple of others.

Which was nice.
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necronom
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Killed the spider!

For those that have got to here, what does that pickup do that's in my screenshot? I'm guessing it kills everything on the screen.

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I like this game :D

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Elgin_McQueen
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It is trying, but it's a frickin memory shmup. The second level where dragonflies suddenly appear from the left of the screen right where most people will be positioned. Just sucks. It's not a challenge, it's frickin Simon.
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Elgin_McQueen
Oct 25 2006, 05:03 PM
..... it's frickin Simon.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Maybe I was a little too harsh on it and it has nothing to do with your gaming taste Smurph :) .. just this really drives me mad !
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Utini

Well, got to the end of level two, and promptly died:

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Sureshot
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necronom
Oct 25 2006, 06:02 PM
I'm guessing it kills everything on the screen.

Yeah.
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Elgin_McQueen
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The main thing with the power ups seems top be that you have more of an opportunity to attack more guys at the same time and stay out of range of their weapons, they're not more powerfull.
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Elgin_McQueen
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Finally killed 2nd boss with full amount of power ups so could stay outta it's way. twisty bit of 3rd stage is hard.
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Utini

Gaah!

On to stage three, lost all power ups with 30 seconds, then lost the remainder of my lives slightly quicker :(

277900
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necronom
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fairziff
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King Hanafuda Sandcrab IV
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markopoloman
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Sorry, this game is SHIT!



Now, did someone mention that rather great game.........................


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Now - thats what a game should play like! :lol: :P
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Antiriad2097
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Still haven't played this properly. Meant to fix my joystick and do it last night but ended up chatting to Dudley and Opa-Opa at the RG IRC about Weekend Gamer episode 4.

[size=1]Scores updated in first post[/size]
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opa-opa
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Yup that was me, sorry :)

Although I don't think Dudly has much of an opinion Weekend Gamer or my thoughts on GT, more a deep interest in racing games...

Thanks for your thoughts though Ant, it helps to know what people think...
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
280800

Got past that ******* grasshopper!

Got killed by those twangers. :P
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Kaiserpc
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Finally got past the spider, a lot easier with full weapons (mostly because of the slow down)
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Utini

Well this has taken me all day, but I finally managed a reasonable score!!!

417600
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madroXounds
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Turned out nice again...
Fecking hell this game is testing lol, this has to be the only shmup in my gaming life that ive ever been good at. I still dont like it though :lol:

633 500

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Elgin_McQueen
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Not near this infamous spider yet. Would've gotten further if I hadn't lost all my weapons to the butterfly/bee?


how many levels in this version?
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merman
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Right, part 1 of 2. Today's score from MAME on the PC, achieved with keys:

184300
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merman
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Part 2 of 2, achieved with my JAMMA Cabinet and Xbox version of MAME...

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fairziff
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The 'Tiger Club' beckons for me again this weekend, so thats it for me for the week.
Many thanks to Smurph for choosing this one, I have really enjoyed it.

Also, thank you all for the birthday mention this week. It was greatly appreciated.

Good luck to everyone on this one.

Here's hoping for another shooter next week :)
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markopoloman
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NOPE!

Played it again and in a 'angry german kid' kinda way a threw my joypad ...... and snapped off one of the little stick thingies :o Its had some superglue treatment and may be ok for the next game - but this one is NOT getting another second of my time.




Deleted said game from PC - now the family can sleep............................


until the next game :blink:
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markopoloman
Oct 27 2006, 01:45 AM
Deleted said game from PC

So 19800 is the final score I have to beat?

I might manage that, I'm not sure. Its more than I got when I tested the game.

[size=1]Scores updated in first post[/size]
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
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Doubt I'll beat this score again! Managed to get quite a way into level 3 with my first life and a lot of power ups. Then I lost quite quickly...
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madroXounds
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Turned out nice again...
This is the closest im likely to come to winning a round so i cant give up, getting around the same score each time.... keep plugging away i spose....
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Smurph
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Are you getting to the last boss every time as well? Its doing my nut in, I know I can kill it, as this was one of the first games I one-credited, but Christ, my reactions must have slowed...

This is also my most likely top score ever, so I guess I'd better keep on at it. A few still to post scores though... :unsure:
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tk421
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590700 :ph43r:
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Kaiserpc
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
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smallest of improvements
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zaphod79
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Like 69, but bigger
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Any tips on which secondary power up to get , and how to tell them apart ?

Best one i think i had was a 2 shot insect type thing that waved up and down a bit :-)

Also i take it if you get a 1up out , and miss it it doesnt come back ? (i lost the 1 up at the start of level 4 by losing my first life and expected it to be back out on my next life but it didnt appear :-(

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Smurph
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The blue power ups are air-to-air, the brown are bombs. Four levels of each, which are:

Blue:
Flaming missile, shoots sparks;
Wobbly insect thing;
8-way ring boyo; and
6 missile spread.

Brown:
Straight down bombs;
Can of raid, fires out coloured bullets (can be confusing during boss fights);
Bombs which shoot diagonal fire when they hit the ground; and
Bombs which spread either way along the ground when they hit the ground.

You can mix and match up the levels, ie switch from 1st blue up to second brown, then back to level 3 blue again. Best ones are the one you mentioned or the spread missiles.

1-ups will only respawn if you haven't shot the guy holding it first. Once you shoot it, it won't come back.
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SirClive
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Played this once and probably won't get another go, so this is just to register a score :(
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markopoloman
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

SirClive - now that you have posted a score VERY close to my shit score (but a few hundred better) I may feel the urge to re-install this pile-o' cak and have a go with the keyboard - or try my joypad as the joystick thingie seems fairly solid with all that superglue!!

But really - I DON'T WANT TO PLAY THIS AGAIN!


Oh - but that score is soooo close....................................................................

and I bet Ant comes storming in above me also :huh:
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SirClive
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Don't bother matey, had another go and beat the level 1 boss, so got a nice 100k bonus. Can't beat the level 2 boss though, so this is definately my last submission.

156700
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madroXounds
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Turned out nice again...
694 400

Not a hope in hell of beating that for me, ive pretty much immersed myself in this game over the last few days, its aged me by 10 years i swear lol. If someone beats that then at least i can say i did my best lol. :D

Just noticed, i died in almost the same spot as last time, dagnammit!

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Leezer
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Leecher more like
558200 <_<

yep this really is a badly designed game, and once you`ve died once just turn the bastard off. in fact it looks more like a comuter game than an arcade game.

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SirClive
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Used the extra hour we got from the clocks going back. Got off level 2, but can't even get to the boss on level 3.
This game was fun for a very short time, but then became a chore. My worst of the season so far.
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Antiriad2097
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Just about to give this a go, I'm not hopeful of achieving much.

[size=1]Scores updated in first post[/size]
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Antiriad2097
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Third time lucky. First couple of goes didn't quite reach MPM's benchmark, but the next one got me a fair way into the second bit where the beasties get you from behind.

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Like 69, but bigger
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tk421
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602300 :ph43r:
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Antiriad2097
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Time is up. Scores posted after this will not count towards league points.

[size=7]Congratulations MadroXounds[/size]

Leaderboard updated

Week 7 here
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Antiriad2097
Oct 29 2006, 12:01 PM
Time is up.

Update shortly...

Thank the creators that is over with... :angry:
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