See introduction here
The Game: Time Pilot
romname: timeplt
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(click to see current MARP scores)Reward: $50 (usd)
Deadline for submission to MARP: June 17, 2005 2359 hours GMT
Further Bounty: $150 (usd) for exceeding 2,000,000 (two million) points by September 15, 2005 under the same rules as this week's competition (see below)(Edited to increase bounty 6/22/05)
Another week sponsored by gastrainga (Zhorik in this forum)
Twin Galaxies is using this title for the Deca, but they chose to allow a technique by which a player may play infinitely (or almost so) ignoring the main enemy, the fighters, and collecting parachutes for points. George has responded by submitting an entry scoring over a million points without leaving the first level.
This was a cool game with sort of a novel theme, you battle against fighter planes from succeedingly later time periods, starting with World War I era biplanes, going through World War II era Mustang or Zero type planes, Viet Nam era helicopters, modern (in 1982) jet fighters, and futuristic (and still so) flying saucers.
The GameFaq is here:
http://members.aol.com/faqfinder/timepilot.txt
Some pretty good pages devoted to it:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... mepilo.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bevho ... epilot.htm
Legend has it that the creator, Yoshiki Okamoto, was under orders from his employer Konami to design a racing game while he was actually developing Time Pilot. It turned out to be a big hit for them, but he didn't stay in their employ much longer anyway.
Settings: Well, obviously we won't be using the same settings used in the Deca. George suggested, among other things, setting a limit on the number of lives and ranking entries by level reached. I hate not using the game's scoring system unless it's absolutely necessary, and I'd really like to see the game played the way (in my opinion) it was supposed to be played. Suggestions for setting easily abided-by rules to ensure this were not really explored well in the forum discussion, and I gave up. Rather than leave the matter to my own subjective judgement, I will impose an arbitrary time limit for completing each level. Even with my all-too-frequent deaths I have no trouble finishing all the levels in 5 or 6 thousand frames each. I will therefore require that every level be completed in 10,000 frames or less, counted from warp to destruction of the mothership. You may use F11 if you wish to watch your framecount while playing. It does not obscure the playing screen and does not appear to affect recording. If you fail to complete a level by the necessary frame your score, for GEGOTW eligibility, ends at that point. If you keep your top priority destroying the necessary fighters and killing the boss to end the level, the limit should not affect you at all. Use MAME default for difficulty and bonus settings.
Use WolfMAME .96 or .97
"On Deck" game: New York New York
