MMMC Club Week 2: Rampart

[scooterb23]

Week 2: Electric Boogaloo



Club Rules

01. You do not need to sign up for the club. If you want to participate, simply download the game of the week and post about it!

02. At the end of the week, I will randomly select a game from a list of nominations.

03. The current MAME Club Pick of the Week can be found every Monday stickied at the top of the Arcade Alley.

Welcome everybody to week 2 of the new and improved(??) Monday Morning MAME Club. I think week 1 went well. The only real downside is that we only got three nominations for this week, so the random number generator didn't get much of a workout.

So, what is this week's game? It's a game probably best known to people for its home versions...the Atari classic Rampart

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9263



Now, we've got two...count them...two sources for the MAME Club ROM files!

Flack is back with hosting at http://www.robohara.com/mameclub/

and 2DSkillz will have the ROMs like last week on his blog at http://www.retrogoggles.com/

Now, you may notice 2 ROM files... you need rampart.zip to play, but Rampart was originally a trackball game in the arcade. And while it works with the keyboard...control is a little imprecise at key times. So there's a joystick version...that's what the other file is for. So try them both, and tell us what you like better.

OK, I think that's it! Have a great week, and... MAME ON!

Oh yeah, one more thing...if you're just coming into the MAME Club, and would like to see the other games we played, I will keep a list at the bottom of each weekly post, and if you search the arcade forum for "MMMC Club" you will find the older threads (as I will rename them that once their week is done to make finding them easier). ANd by all means, if you have more to add to the older games, do so!

Former MMMC Games: Jump Coaster

[jb143]

Good call on having both versions. The trackball one is a bit finicky on a keyboard.

I'll reiterate what I posted on the other thread. I didn't really care too much for this game at first. It was a bit frustrating. But after getting into it and learning the stradigies it's quickly becoming one of my favorite games to play.

I'll try to post a high score in the next couple of nights for people to beat

[scooterb23]

One thing I know: I'm way better at this game on my Lynx than I am with the arcade version. I can get to the second battlefield, but that's about it

[Ed Oscuro]

I can't imagine I'd be any good at this game with a joystick. Used the trackball set and set up my mouse. Not too bad; I never had tried capturing another castle before. On the second map the difficulty cranked right up; the other guys were putting walls around a castle too!

[jb143]

On the second map the difficulty cranked right up; the other guys were putting walls around a castle too!

Really? I've gotten quite a few levels in and never noticed that before. What difficulty were you playing on? Or is that maybe just a feature of the trackball version?

I hate those pesky grunts that come up on shore though. Always in the way when it's time to build.

[scooterb23]

Ed - Joystick controls work fairly well, maybe a bit stiff. I have a laptop, so I don't exactly want to set up a mouse, and haven't tried the touchpad to see if it'd work, I suppose it might...

[Ed Oscuro]

Really? I've gotten quite a few levels in and never noticed that before. What difficulty were you playing on? Or is that maybe just a feature of the trackball version?

I hate those pesky grunts that come up on shore though. Always in the way when it's time to build.

That time I selected the area to the southwest immediately after the opening round. I assume that the next stage is equally difficult no matter where you set up your base.

The castle-building segments annoy me somewhat because you have to be really quick at 'em, and the pieces don't like to fit together well. You have to be VERY quick to encircle another castle - heck you have to be very quick just to surround all your cannon again.