Time for one of my favorite games ever. It's Wolf Team's classic:
Granada! Released for the Sharp X68000 and Sega Genesis in 1990 (over two years before Recca!), this game is so far ahead of its time it will make your face melt. It's about the complex relationship between a man named Leon and his trusty Granada, the little tank that could, as they do the one thing they know how... fight! The music --
here is a rip of the soundtrack from the X68000 version of the game (not the officially published CD) -- is jaw-droppingly awesome, and honestly, so is everything else about the game. Almost twenty years later, I'd say still no game has topped Granada in the multidirectional top-down shooter genre.
I decided I did want at least one week to be mostly about survival (per SSS acronym), so this will be the one. We will be playing the REV00 Genesis version of the game since that will be easier for most people (although the X68000 version has story pictures as splash screens in between stages, less slowdown, and higher quality graphics and music). As far as I can tell, REV01 is the same except some of the text has changed, so it should also be ok. You can use a real Genesis or any Genesis emulator; the one I use is
Gens since I already need it to watch TASvideos movies. For the rom, I would type "edgeemu" as a search into Google. Load the game and go into the configuration.
Set the level to Mania -- good luck, you'll need it! Leave Granada at 3 of course, and you can change whatever else you like, including controls. I highly recommend you do change the controls to something you like, because they are highly configurable and you want them to fit you like a glove, although the default is ok.
There is a fair amount of info about this game online (a lot of it in Japanese), but judging from what people prefer in STGT and past tourneys, I will leave everything up to you. You can pretty much figure out everything yourself, but I will say that there is a secret in stage 2 that you will probably want to learn or discover. Also take it upon yourself to figure out the optimal means of movement! Something to pay attention to is that bosses have weak points that you'll want to hit, and sometimes you'll want to be very precise. There are neat tricks and strategies to all of them.
Format your submissions like this:
Radix - 1,010,101 - Stage 5
A warning if you do complete the game: at least the Genesis version has a bug, just like Thunder Dragon 2, where the final stage's score tally isn't added to your score. So if you beat the game, screenshot or remember your finishing time bonus for the last stage, then manually add that to your final score.
Remember, since this is for survival, the top goal is stage reached! Score will be used to break ties for the same stage. I would also like to add that if you want to play another difficulty like Normal for fun or practice, I will take those scores too in another table, although it will not count for this tourney. In fact, if you feel like you're getting stuck and want to see more of the game, I'd recommend Easy. In these cases, note the difficulty of course. Good luck, and please feel free to ask any questions you may have. Now have fun!
updated through rashreflection on page 8
(if your latest post is beyond this, you can edit if you want, otherwise please make a new post so I see it)
(also want to re-emphasize that pics are entirely optional and no proof is required)
Week 1: (pages 1 - 8)
Enhasa - ALL - 2,607,285 (Youtube:
1 2 3)
Normand - ALL - 1,146,519
feasel - Stage 7 - 1,175,198 (
pic)
SkratMan - Stage 7 - 932,528 (
pic)
dannnnn - Stage 7 - 586,065 (
pic)
ZaibirQuild - Stage 6 - 1,009,236
gia - Stage 6 - 670,233
Flip714 - Stage 5 - 388,422 (
pic)
NoiseCrash - Stage 5 - 351,265 (
pic)
Baron Dante - Stage 5 - 342,575
VorpalEdge - Stage 4 - 348,799 (
pic)
spineshark - Stage 4 - 211,504
RaneofSoTN - Stage 4 - 205,025
Breakdown - Stage 4 - 199,983
DoubleThink - Stage 4 - 153,074
WeaponXMetsu - Stage 4 - 113,215
Dunedain - Stage 3 - 212,007 (
pic)
Skullboy - Stage 3 - 180,651
Zyre - Stage 3 - 130,287 (
pic)
romscout - Stage 3 - 122,426 (
replay)
ZenicReverie - Stage 3 - 117,497
SMK - Stage 3 - 104,025
Stupid - Stage 3 - 96,878
Camo - Stage 2 - 97,968
rashreflection - Stage 2 - 40,073
sunburstbasser - Stage 2 - 22,440
Aftermath - Stage 2 - 18,960
sshplur - Stage 1 - 32,000
Cromarty - Stage 1 - 0
