See introduction here
The Game: The End (Stern)
romname: theends
Screenshot:
![Image](http://weehawk.marpirc.net/theends_play.gif)
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Reward: $50 (usd)
Deadline for submission to MARP: August 25, 2006 2359 hours GMT
Further Bounty: $100 for exceeding 50,000 points this week {Edit - Claimed by sikraiken 8/19/06}
A game that combines the typical danger of losing lives, with the possibility of losing the game by having too many blocks stolen, similar to Rip Off or King and Balloon, but in those games it doesn't matter how many lives you lose. When the space bugs have stolen enough block to spell out "END", the game is over.
We'll use the Stern version this week since that's probably what the U.S. players were playing in the Golden Era.
Also, while I realized that this had been used for Robert Mruczek's Monthly MAME Challenge at TG, I didn't realize it had been so recently, March 2006. They wound up using the Konami version, ROMset "theend". Another good reason for us to use Stern. The TG thread:
http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6891
Pages on the game:
http://thelittons.net/homearcade/TheEnd/
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1371333
Bit of a different gimmick in the flyer here:
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But anyway, they're wrong. This is "The End"
Random prize: One player exceeding 25,000 points, selected randomly from those who do, will receive a vintage tabletop Zaxxon game from 1983:
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