Crazy Kong kill screen?

[giantkeeling]

There is a Crazy Kong cocktail on Ebay at the moment, and it's fairly local to me. I'm tempted to bid on it, but there is one thing putting me off. When i was a kid, there was an tiny electrical shop in Lichfield where i live, called Adeys, which had about 12 different cabs at any one time. It was the closest we had to having an arcade in Lichfield. Anyway, they had an upright Crazy Kong cab for quite a while, and one of my mates got really good on it. He got so good that he managed to get to the kill screen a few times. The thing was, the kill screen came way, way earlier than it does on Donkey Kong. As far as i remember, he used to get through the four screens about 4 times, and then he'd lose the men he had left on the next barrel screen. I'm not sure i'd like to own a cab with that kind of limitation. Does the kill screen vary on different Crazy Kongs? Does anyone have any more info on this?

 

[smythe]

Have a play on the various sets on mame

see what crack is

 

[giantkeeling]

It's a good idea but i'm not that good on it, yet!

 

[smythe]

put cheats on

 

[Pacman83]

Personally, I think it would be a great buy regardless of the killscreen scenario.
As you probably know, Crazy Kong was our version and I never saw a Donkey Kong BITD.

Be a really nice cab restored and would be quite rare I expect.

 

[giantkeeling]

Cheats? Didn't realise you could do that! Yes, i would like it, i think the price on it may go too high for me though, it's at £150, with two days to go.

 

[favouredson]

The version of CK I used to play had the kill screen on either Level 11 or 12.

The first 25M round had the first barrel coming down diagonally instead of the usual straight drop and the first 75M round had the jacks at their final (easier to dodge) spacing.

The closest match (gameplay wise) in MAME seems to be Crazy Kong on Scramble hardware version (ckongs as of MAME146) but the version I played had the correct colours and sound rather than the mess in MAME.

 

[giantkeeling]

Thanks for the info. Yeah, the one i used to play had the correct colours too.