Cynicaster

Almost seems kind of pointless now, but what the heck... 33,260

Small improvement: 65,308

Kind of forgot I got this slightly improved score until I saw the photo on my phone this morning. Doesn't move me up the standings, but might as well post it. 153,010

22,900 Yeah, it takes a while to get used to how the mechanics and “rules” work on this game. It took me several tries to even clear the first stage. There’s something quite addictive about it, though, and I love that intro theme. One thing I don’t really like is that spider, because if he appears after you’ve eaten the two powerup things, there is a good chance you’ll find yourself in an impossible situation, in which you can see your certain death coming several seconds ahead of time because there is no way out. That type of thing always smacks of poor game design, IMO.

Ahhh... I did not realize this; that might be the missing piece of the puzzle.

1,479,560 Cool game, but I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing because I'm struggling to see the value in the charge weapon. While you charge you're a sitting duck for several seconds, and the payoff is weak, IMO. It seems it's more of a way to expedite your demise than anything else, especially if you're in the midst of a boss battle.

144,920 I think my PB is around 180k, but this will have to do for now.

195,850

Wow... not even going to bother chasing after that first place score, so for now I'll settle for the #2 spot. Not my PB, but good enough to stoke the competition here a bit. 58,950 The above score is from my MAME cabinet, but I had the pleasure of playing this game on a real cabinet a few weeks ago at The Arcade in Brighton, Michigan. It was awesome, but unfortunately I've become accustomed to playing this game with my right hand moving the stick and left hand pressing buttons, and the original Taito cabinet is the other way around, so the best I was able to do after 5 or so credits was about 35k.

Greetings MAME'ers I figured DK would make a nice choice of game for my first score entry on this site. 147,300 As you can see in the picture this is not my personal best, but I managed to get this score specifically for posting here.