It is true about the flame thrower,but you can use it with accuracy. You just have to spend some time with it learning the exact range of it. the enemies and hostages always appear in the same spots,so that will work in your favor. One thing that I did find is that the spread weapon (to me) is the most worthless weapon in the game which is kind of funny considering in a lot of shooters it is the absolute best weapon.

2,131,900

Ugh, pressing this game is annoying!  So many "cheap" ways to lose points, thanks to a bunch of gimmicky movements from the soliders.  Finally figured out enough ways to kill them though.  First time beating the game without continues too!

I will definitely second (erm, third?) Doug's and gutsman's advice on this game.  SLOW movement is the key.  Also remember to back away every time you advance so that you don't push the screen too far while attacking whatever appears.  You might just trigger too much at once if you're not careful.

I like this game very much, but, anybody feels it is kinda long? It has a lot to do with the fact we advance slowly on purpose, but still, I feel it is a bit too long.

I think the game is just about perfect in length. The only thing I think they could have done is combine the last two stages.

Okay, then that is probably my lack of play time that influence my judgement

^ Your score still is pretty awesome. I may try another run and shoot for 2 mil,but I'm not sure. I'm
not in first,but I'm pretty happy with my score.

569,800. Awesome game! Too bad i haven't had really anytime to play it alot longer for this week.

Wow, that's a heck of a score! I'd try to take the lead back, but I'm not sure how I'd find 40,000 more points to get it done. Great job!

I second this.  I've always felt this game is a little long, even when you're not moving slowly on purpose, but I love the game and I discovered it when I first started collecting and have completed it many times.  They probably could have done away with a couple of the levels to make it a tad bit shorter, but at the same time, it makes me wonder if SNK would've only given the player limited continues if the game had been shorter.

This game is pretty interesting when it comes to the score. Since it doesn't loop, there's only so many points you can get in one run (assuming you don't point rack). Combine this with the fact that the best way to rack up your score, aside from hostages and big points like the ships, is to take out lots of enemy troops. Problem is, you have to be really fast and kill them in time before they run off the screen. But most of the time, this contradicts the best strategy of the game which is to take everything very slowly.

I think the thing to realize is that you don't have to necessarily take each screen slowly, you just need to know when to scroll the screen forward. Also, shooting rockets diagonally with the thing that makes them split up (I think it's the T powerup? Not sure) is a great way to get enemies that leave the screen quickly. There are a few cheap parts in the game such as the waters where the enemies can spawn directly underneath you in two places. For the most part you just need to either remember those spots or stay out of the water when scrolling the screen.

The hardest spot in the entire game, I think, is taking out the 4 turrets before the final boss. Seriously, how do you guys do it? They took like 15 hits each with my gun/grenades. I'm guessing they go down quicker with rockets.

If you played the game before i would say: take more risks in the early levels and take it slow later on.

What I do is either run in a U pattern from each outside turret and bomb those outer turrets first then work on the inside ones. Or I go to one side and move around just enough to slip and dodge the rockets but not too far out of range. I usually use the U technique though as the other way can be a lot riskier. Either way,they are a big pain...especially if you are having to use just grenades.

Great scores all around this week.

Sadly, I'm officially done now. I ended up making one last run, but I only improved my previous score by 500pts, so I'm not bothering with an update. I'll be at work tomorrow when the deadline passes and I just don't have enough time before then to make another quality run.

Still, I had a lot of fun with the game and I'm glad I got to play it this week. It's probably in my top 25 NES games that I've played now.

1.583.500 Brutal ! I was so close.

402,700

So my freaking game starts getting graphic glitches as I'm going through level two. This was the only chance I had to play this week so rather than risking pressing on, I ate my last two lives in fear of the game completely freezing.

My score was 345,400 but the shit is all garbled so understandable if my score won't count. I hope I can at least get a part point. Sucks because this is actually a game and genre I'm good at.

I've never played this game before and it's a lot of fun.    176,600

First and only attempt, guessing it's a participation point. This is a pretty new game for me, I've played it for maybe an hour lifetime total. Would've loved to try for something higher but heck, my game time has been really low the past couple weeks.

473,500

OK, I'm done. I could have done much better but didn't feel so good at the end of the week so I rested a lil' bit.
I could've done MUCH better with it... On with Bad Dudes! (YME BAHD!!!)

1,820,800


Everything was fine, but I got sleepy near the end of the game and lost lives stupidly. I wanted to give this another go to beat the game, but, well, I couldn't justified the time it takes to complete this game.

Congrats to those that beat it without continue! You guys rock!

323500

49,300



I found this game to be really hard. But maybe it was because I had to emulate it.

Here's mine, beat it twice, best of the two...