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Ben is correct. It's the same every time and you can map out what you want to do. The game is actually pretty challenging.

Use the 10 minute mode to help yourself find the best plan. There are quite a few places you can chain ultra short routes together and build up a pretty decent bank of time.

For sure. When I was really into Crazy Taxi I was taking notes. Game is a masterpiece imo. Knowing all the techniques can help a bit too.

http://www.crazytaxi.net/skills.html @SupremeSarna

There are a handful of customers that may request different destinations, but most of them are predictable.

The issue I had was that the person immediately down the hill from the heliport would flip flop between wanting the baseball stadium (preferred) and wanting KFC (run ender). To make it worse, the person slightly further from him can ask for one of those two destinations. So I don’t know which to take a gamble on.

Backtracking to the KFC will ruin you, as it requires you to turn around, drive a solid distance over hills that slow you down or winding roads with insane traffic, and then drop off the customer. There are very few people around KFC to pick up afterward. One is a reverend who wants to get to the church—a low-fare job—and another wants to get to R.B. Station but doesn’t give enough time for you to make it there and continue on.

There are probably guides for ideal routes, but I’ve played enough for a while. Great game, I must say.

We had an even five nominees for September. Here they are:

Nominees
Banjo-Tooie
Blaster Master: Enemy Below
Tomb Raider *psx*
Cold Fear
Driver franchise *psx*

Either publicly in this thread or privately in a PM to me, give each nominee 0-5 points. Omitting a nominee is equivalent to giving it a vote of 0. The game with the highest score by the end of the month will be the September 2023 GOTM.

Here are my votes:

Banjo-Tooie - 2 Blaster Master: Enemy Below - 4 Tomb Raider - 5 Cold Fear - 2 Driver franchise - 4

Go ahead and post your votes!

Blaster Master 5

Cold Fear - 5

@Renaissance2K Banjo-Tooie is also on and .

I vote Banjo-Tooie (5).
I would’ve voted Tomb Raider as well, but I discovered my disc is too scratched to play.

Cold Fear - 5
Tomb Raider - 3

SupremeSarna wrote:

I don't feel like listing out a zillion platforms for 5+ games, so I just lost the retro platforms when we're nominating and try to be more exhaustive for the game we pick.

Only have three* of the five nominees, so here my votes.

Banjo-Tooie - 1
Tomb Raider - 3
Driver franchise - 5

*technically only two I guess because I have Tomb Raiders, not Tomb Raider.

I played Ms. Pac-Man at a real arcade today. I didn't have much time to devote to every game I wanted, so I stopped after two attempts. My best score was 20230.
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Banjo-Tooie - 2
Blaster Master - 1
Tomb Raider - 5
Cold Fear - 3
Driver franchise - 4

Blaster Master: Enemy Below - 5

Well dang I'd best start looking for a copy of blaster master

benstylus wrote:
If you have Nintendo Switch Online, it’s in there.

SupremeSarna wrote:

Oh nice. Because looking online, people want $50 cart only for it. Switch online it is (if it wins)

Well, crap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Uht_GoRjk

Arc Sys just announced an Asia-exclusive collection with the Double Dragon console games: 1-3 NES, 4 console (the crappy one), Super Double Dragon, and... Double Dragon Advance

Dammit, I HOPE this doesn't stay Asia-only. And that they port it to PC... I want Double Dragon Advance again. :(

I beat the games in 3 Wonders. Here's my score for each:

Chariot 2688022
Midnight Wanderers 908823
Don't Pull 1423180

The arcade at my team event today had a World's Largest Pac-Man/Galaga cabinet/machine/monstrosity available. Despite initially thinking the format sucked because I can't see the whole playfield at once, I did waaaaaaay better than expected.

And then the game crashed without letting me put in my initials. Boo.

Last day for votes! It's a pretty tight race this month, so if you have some points to give, don't hold back.

Also, it's the last day of Arcade August. Submit your scores, and I'll post the final leaderboard on Friday.

Of course, I didn't notice that the medals I made for this month were exported without a transparent background. Bah. I'll fix these later.

The arcade is now closed! Here's the final leaderboard for our score challenge:

image image 1. Renaissance2K 57150 2. Slickriven 14750

image image 1. Renaissance2K $6,260.20 2. SupremeSarna $4,201.31

image image 1. SupremeSarna 1549400 2. Renaissance2K 1352500

image image 1. Renaissance2K 77200 2. BleedingViolet 19480

image image image 1. Slickriven 23750 2. SupremeSarna 20230 3. BleedingViolet 12000

image image 1. BloodPuppetX 317 2. Renaissance2K 283

image image 1. Renaissance2K 1014406 2. BloodPuppetX 908823

image image 1. BloodPuppetX 2688022 2. Renaissance2K 2517910

image image 1. Renaissance2K 1493040 2. BloodPuppetX 1423180

Congrats to SupremeSarna, BloodPuppetX, and BleedingViolet for flexing their quarter-burning muscles. Here's all the badges we've earned this month:

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Many thanks to everyone who nominated a game, played a game, or submitted a high score this month. As with other badges in our history, you can continue to earn Front Room and Back Room arcade badges in future months. I'll also continue to make Back Room badges for future nominees that have an arcade version.

The tally for September was another close race with three games competing for the top spot. After a recount to double-check my math, here are the final results:

1. Tomb Raider - 16 points
2. Blaster Master: Enemy Below - 15 points
2. Cold Fear - 15 points
4. Driver series - 13 points
5. Banjo-Tooie - 10 points

Tomb Raider is one of the defining titles of the 32-bit generation, offering gamers a fully-3D third-person action adventure unlike anything they'd seen before. Tomb Raider introduced the world to Lara Croft, who remains even today one of the most recognizable game characters ever, known for her grit, her athletics, and various other... hmmm... aspects to her personality. While the game was launched first for the Saturn, the game is remembered as a pivotal title for the original PlayStation as well as a hallmark for the advent of 3D acceleration on the PC. The franchise spawned numerous sequels, no less than two reboots, and two mediocre forays into Hollywood, though the original game found a new life on mobile devices - including a surprisingly compitant port for the - and a modernized remake for seventh-generation platforms.

Play the original Tomb Raider* on
PlayStation
Saturn
MS-DOS
PlayStation 3 (psOne Classic)
PSP (psOne Classic)
N-Gage

Play Tomb Raider Gold / Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business on
Windows
*ios* iOS
Android

Play Tomb Raider Anniversary on
PlayStation 2
*x360* Xbox 360
PlayStation 3
Windows
PSP
Wii

* The OpenLara project has spawned native ports for a number of additional platforms, but you're on your own to find these.

Finish Tomb Raider or its remake to earn the Lara Croft badge: image

If you manage to keep your cell signal while you're spelunking, don't forget to upload a #BeatIt screenshot to mark your accomplishment. And watch for snakes.

Dang, Blaster Master loses again, by only 1 point!

Scott wrote:

It might be time for another Redemption Month, where we vote on the second place / near miss nominees from the year. There have been quite a few close votes in 2023.

Not next month, though. I have big plans...

When I was younger, my brother was friends with a kid named Shunsuke. He pronounced the "Tomb" in Tomb Raider like the name "Tom" but also pronounced the B at the end.

So ever since then that is the pronunciation that goes through my head every time I see the name.

benstylus wrote:

That has to already be the title of a porno.

@Renaissance2K you missed my Ms. Pac-Man score Post #198, I topped Sarna's score

Also cool about TR being the choice, I meant to vote last night but forgot.

Slickriven wrote:

Thanks for the heads up. Updated this morning's post, and I'll update the OP once I fix the medal badges.

benstylus wrote:

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I'd play the crap out of Tomba Raider.

@Jaded JP stuff came in. Will take some time to test out things before they get in the thread.

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@Gypsy Dang, nice haul!!

Gypsy wrote:

Holy Holy Diver Batman! ... That's a really solid set of famicom games ...

Yeah, definitely keeping the pictured games for now. Would be hard to pick out 10 better famicom games as long as you like side scrollers and shmups.

Gypsy wrote:

What'd you do? Sneak into that warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

I started Tomb Raider at the end of last week. The PC version is a rare DOS game with 3dfx support, so I used that as an excuse to hook my retro PC back up after all the reorganization I did a few months back. The versions you get from Steam or GOG use a fake wrapper to get the same effect, but I'm a fool with too many toys.

Digital Foundry made a short video comparing the different versions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VutzIK3DqZE

I started Tomb Raider years ago when it got a Greatest Hits release but only made it to the third level where the REDACTED shows up. It's fun, and the controls aren't as clunky as I feared, but I definitely wish I had a better keyboard to play with.

Oh they are plenty harder to deal with than I remembered but I haven’t played
Much Tomb Raider since the 360 was my main console.
And even then I think i was mostly playing the 3 newer games on that system.
I bought the 360 version digitally on Friday and only got to the second stage so far,
I really wanted to get everything in the first stage but I can’t remember how.

Oh well I still love the game its just hard to control. Im so used to how
Newer games seem to do everything for you. It’s going to take me a minute especially since
Mortal Kombat 1 is dropping next Friday I think? But I can't wait 😃

Lara has a really fantastic moveset, even beyond the simple stuff that's laid out in the control map. The way she can spring off of an incline, or do diving jumps to avoid traps... It looks really good for such an old game. The problem is chaining everything together fluidly. I really want to just hop from platform to platform like it's a Mario game, but it's so difficult to do that without slamming into a wall or falling to your death.

Medals and the OP are finally updated. Hooboy, that was a project.

Played through Contra and Image Fight so far. Awesome stuff.