The RGF Shmup League - Season #3 Game #3: taking nominations

[AmidstStorm]

:shock: Had no ides this even existed!!

get involved. Next game will be starting in a few short days.

[AmidstStorm]

Nominations for Game #8 are as follows:


Blazing Star - Neo Geo/MAME - 4 votes

Gradius - Arcade/MAME (console ports to be discussed) - 5 votes

Mahou Daisakusen (aka Sorcer Striker) - Arcade/MAME - 2 votes

Power Strike II - Master System - 1 vote

Sol Divide - Arcade/MAME/Saturn/ps1 - 2 votes



All players who submitted a score for game # 7 get two votes each:


Smraedis - blazing star & gradius
AmidstStorm - blazing star & mahou
coffeejoerx - gradius & mahou
kollisionBR - power strike & sol divide
weakboson - blazing star & gradius
Sputryk - blazing star & gradius
Gmintyfresh - gradius & sol divide


Only a few players so this should be short and sweet. Deadline is 25th June.

[coffeejoerx]

I vote in Mahou Daisakusen and Gradius.

[weakboson]

I'll go for Blazing Star and Gradius

[AmidstStorm]

Blazing star and mahou for me.

[Smraedis]

Gradius and Blazing Star
yeah

[kollisionBR]

just because I'm all for underdogs

Sol Divide
Power Strike II

[Sputryk]

Uh-oh. Last to vote. And it's GRADIUS that we will be playing.

Blazing Star
Gradius

[Misery]

So, Blazing Star had another chance here, and instead......

......freaking Gradius.

I'm not even gonna bother on this one: count me out. Dislike this series even more than Touhou, and that's saying something.

[AmidstStorm]

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GAME #8 - GRADIUS - Arcade, MAME, PS1 & Saturn* (24th June - 8th July)
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Submit scores on 1 credit without continues in the following format:


Player - Initials - Score - Stage reached** - Format & Region - Auto fire on/off

Eg. AmidstStorm - AMS - 212,340 - 2-1 - MAME JP Rom - Off


*There are so many versions of Gradius and some have different scoring so to keep it simple, I suggest everyone plays the original arcade versions on MAME or the PS1 & Saturn deluxe pack versions. All other ports are not excluded but i don't have the time, knowledge or Internet connection currently to work out all the relevant ports we could use. If you know of any "true" arcade ports in terms of scoring then please let me/us know and I can add them to the list.

**Stage format due to the sheer number of times this game can loop should be submitted for admin ease as the first number being the loop number and the second being the stage reached.


BONUS POINTS: standard 3 point bonus for the first loop clear only.


The game will officially start on the 24th but as per usual I will accept submissions from today.

Any info I've missed out that you think is relevant, please let us all know.

Sorry for the lack of usual editing and info standards but without the internet at home even this small post took me close to an hour to research info and edit etc. normal standards will hopefully resum very soon.

Enjoy!

[Misery]

There are no different ship types (or loadouts) in the original.

The Vic Viper (I think is what it's called) , always with speedup/missile/double/laser/option/shield.

And some versions of the game are very different indeed in the difficulty level (which includes things like placement of enemies and such).

[AmidstStorm]

There are no different ship types (or loadouts) in the original.

The Vic Viper (I think is what it's called) , always with speedup/missile/double/laser/option/shield.

And some versions of the game are very different indeed in the difficulty level (which includes things like placement of enemies and such).

Ok cool cheers for the info.

[AmidstStorm]

Had my first few credits on the Saturn version. Kicking my arse. Flashbacks of the early credits of sexy parodius.

Only about 30k so far. Wont be submitting anything with photos for awhile, too much hassle without the net connection, doesn't mean I won't be playing the game though, as much as I suck at horis

[Smraedis]

I don't like the Gradius games, which is why I picked it. I've never spent time with the series, because there is very little scoring involved.

Smraedis - .SM - 335,800 - 1-7 - MAME JP Rom - Off


I believe the stage is 1-7, it's the last one in the first loop. I thought this game was hard, I've not even put 2 hours into it yet...

[AmidstStorm]

Good work smraedis. There's a silly amount of loops I hear. Be interesting to see how far you can go. I suck so bad at horis, just something doesn't click for me with them, especially konami games. I will see how I do with this one. :/