NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T15:16:05 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 Originally posted by: bimmy_lee

Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Originally posted by: bimmy_lee

The contests usually slow down a bit at this time of year due largely to the holidays. Things will pick back up when the 2015 contests start.
Yeah, I guess I just didn't realize this wasn't a popular game

I mean, it's not as prolific as Double Dragon, but I expected a bigger turn out.

(then again, as a kid, I only knew one kid who owned the game... so I guess it wasn't widely known)

 


I had a feeling this game would have a low turnout since it isn't a very popular game.  I've found that people either really like this game (which isn't many ) or they really hate this game (which is the usual consensus).  I'm one of the few who like this game and find it to be much better than games like Renegade or Target: Renegade.  The Beat 'Em Up genre is the hardest one to pick out games for year in and year out because there aren't that many quality ones with a point system.
Yeah, I was surprised by the negative reaction.

I only played the game a handful of times at a friends house when we were kids (probably 2nd or 3rd grade), and to my recollection I never made it past the first boss, if we even made it that far.

But I always sort of had a nagging desire to play it again, despite never picking it up back when I was buying for the collection.


And either I had a bad ROM dump, or the wrong mapper, on the PowerPak for the longest time, meaning I couldn't play it then, either.

I've got a new ROM set now, and the latest mappers, and was happily surprised that it all came together and worked.


I actually really liked this one (though part of that was seeing how within reach the world record would be )

]]> NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T15:13:05 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Originally posted by: bimmy_lee

The contests usually slow down a bit at this time of year due largely to the holidays. Things will pick back up when the 2015 contests start.
Yeah, I guess I just didn't realize this wasn't a popular game

I mean, it's not as prolific as Double Dragon, but I expected a bigger turn out.

(then again, as a kid, I only knew one kid who owned the game... so I guess it wasn't widely known)

 

I had a feeling this game would have a low turnout since it isn't a very popular game.  I've found that people either really like this game (which isn't many ) or they really hate this game (which is the usual consensus).  I'm one of the few who like this game and find it to be much better than games like Renegade or Target: Renegade.  The Beat 'Em Up genre is the hardest one to pick out games for year in and year out because there aren't that many quality ones with a point system.
]]> NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T15:04:33 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 Originally posted by: bimmy_lee

The contests usually slow down a bit at this time of year due largely to the holidays. Things will pick back up when the 2015 contests start. Yeah, I guess I just didn't realize this wasn't a popular game

I mean, it's not as prolific as Double Dragon, but I expected a bigger turn out.

(then again, as a kid, I only knew one kid who owned the game... so I guess it wasn't widely known)


]]> NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T15:03:34 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 Originally posted by: guillavoie

Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Leaderboard updated and sent to Guillavoie.

I'm surprised we didn't have a bigger turn out this week.
Not even a holiday week, yet

I missed Czar5 early score in the leaderboard, I fixed it the results, could you resend me the updates?

The contest has been slowing down lately, especially with less popular games.
  Update sent!


]]> NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T15:02:29 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T14:59:41 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Leaderboard updated and sent to Guillavoie.

I'm surprised we didn't have a bigger turn out this week.
Not even a holiday week, yet
I missed Czar5 early score in the leaderboard, I fixed it the results, could you resend me the updates?

The contest has been slowing down lately, especially with less popular games.

]]> NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T09:44:33 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 Originally posted by: CLAYB1RD

Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Nicely done. When this is over I am going to have a laugh that the extra lives bonus bit me in the ass
(Though still worth it to squash point pressing confusion)

Yeah haha too bad a low score contest wouldn't have worked or else that could have solved things. 
 
I think a low score contest could have worked in its own way, I just disagreed that it was a better display of actual prowess on this one (unless you get into some hardcore point avoidance like letting guys hit you that are willing to run away after one sucker punch).

Though it does save a couple thousand points to shoot the helicopter boss and there is probably some strategy in deciding exactly which guys to kill on Boss 5, along with being able to skip all of the bonus rooms except probably armor and the occassional life upgrade.

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I'm surprised we didn't have a bigger turn out this week.
Not even a holiday week, yet ]]> NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-17T00:12:51 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80
1st - CLAYB1RD - 275,900 +11 points
2nd - Balloon Kid - 272,100 +10 points
3rd - arch 8ngel - 262,500 +9 points
4th - Caleb47 - 101,800 +8 points
5th - Czar5 - 99,700 +7 points
6th - arnpoly - 98,000 +6 points
7th - Vectrex28099 - 47,700 +5 points
8th - JamesRobot - 42,000 +4 points
9th - BriGuy82 - 26,200 +3 points
10th - BilltownSparty - 22,800 +2 points

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Thanks for participating in this week's contest! ]]> NintendoAge 2014 Weekly Contest Presents: P.O.W. Prisoners of War http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=137923 2014-11-16T22:03:37 -05.00 bimmy_lee 80 Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Nicely done. When this is over I am going to have a laugh that the extra lives bonus bit me in the ass
(Though still worth it to squash point pressing confusion)
Yeah haha too bad a low score contest wouldn't have worked or else that could have solved things. 

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