Golden Era Game of the Week 8/13/05: Red Baron

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Golden Era Game of the Week 8/13/05: Red Baron

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Golden Era Game of the Week

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The Game: Red Baron

romname: redbaron

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Reward: $50 (usd)

Deadline for submission to MARP: August 19, 2005 2359 hours GMT

Further Bounty: none

Another game sponsored by George "gastrainga" Strain (Zhorik on the forums).

Twin Galaxies record for the arcade machine is 447,860 by David Palmer in 1985. His recent communications with TG when his Star Wars record was reinstated revealed that after that performance he bought his own machine and later exceeded 1 million points.

This was one of the monochrome games competed on in the 2005 International Classic Game Tournament at Funspot. Dave Nelson took first place on it with 92,000 points.

FAQ available here.

Use WolfMAME .98 or .99

"On Deck" game: Armor Attack
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On this game its important to get a good calibration on the joystick in the first 10-15 seconds. Do a lot of full circles with the stick. If after 10-15 seconds you don't fly straight when you let go of the stick, start over and try again. I can get a good calibration about half the time.

I find it very hard to have good control with a keyboard on this game.

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Mouse?
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destructor wrote:Mouse?
Sup?
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Mighty Mouse wrote:
destructor wrote:Mouse?
Sup?
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destructor wrote:Mouse?
If you often play with mouse on games, mouse would probably be ok. I tried it out and and control seems pretty good, but original game had stick, and that is what I'm more comfortable with.

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Sunday's bonus points to new MARP member GREYTOP1.
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Re: Golden Era Game of the Week 8/13/05: Red Baron

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Do you know if David Palmer plans to make an official submission of a million+ score?

Not going to have time to play, classes started this week and I'm swamped with lesson planning and such. :(
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Ok ppl.. i'm back in the game (got back from work) :)
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jbd41 wrote:Do you know if David Palmer plans to make an official submission of a million+ score?
No, but if I did it wouldn't be appropriate for me to say.

I am reminded of the Congo Bongo week last year when , in the last five minutes before deadline, Jason Cram submitted his first MARP entry ever, just barely winning.

You never know...
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jbd41 wrote:Do you know if David Palmer plans to make an official submission of a million+ score?

Not going to have time to play, classes started this week and I'm swamped with lesson planning and such. :(
Million+ would be well past the usual 1 hour time limit for GEGOTW games. More than 200K in an hour would require serious point pressing I think.

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Zhorik wrote:Million+ would be well past the usual 1 hour time limit for GEGOTW games. More than 200K in an hour would require serious point pressing I think.
And we will definitely be observing the hour time limit if anyone surpasses it.
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Gstrain:
I watched your inp and I saw that one plane appear at one time (only one plane). When I play, I often have 3 planes at one time.
How do you do it? Where is secret? 3 planes are harder to kill than one.
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destructor wrote:Gstrain:
I watched your inp and I saw that one plane appear at one time (only one plane). When I play, I often have 3 planes at one time.
How do you do it? Where is secret? 3 planes are harder to kill than one.
Really? Think of the extra points I'm throwing away.

E-mail me a good Congo Bongo recording (I promise I won't snipe you for bounties later), and I'll tell you.
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Zhorik wrote:E-mail me a good Congo Bongo recording (I promise I won't snipe you for bounties later), and I'll tell you.
Blackmail!!!
Wait, I must find it on my HD.
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