Ten Pence Arcade Podcast #36 is out!

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The new podcast is out - Lunar Rescue.
A great audio diary from Shaun from PLAY Blackpool with a chat to the 1942 World Record holder.

Download or listen at http://tenpencearcade.co.uk and view the clickable shownotes.

Also available from iTunes

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Marvellous, look forward to listening to it.

I believe the first time I played this game was on a cocktail in a pub (played sooo many games this way!). I always thought the invader talking during the attract screen was awesome.

I'm trying to figure out if I was always crap at games, have got better or worse!
My current high score so far is 3900 (crawls away in shame)
I'll have a few more plays though and see if I can't improve on this paltry amount...
It's a decent playable game though, surprisingly addictive :)

By the way I can't see this episode on tenpencearcade.co.uk, maybe it's not been updated yet?
 
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Just listened to it; very good lads! Really enjoyed listening to Shaun's Play Blackpool diary; I got so wrapped up in it during my cycle to the station that I cant actually recollect the journey. During the train commute I played more of lunar rescue whilst you discussed it. I'll definitely be doing that again with future podcast games. Thanks again!
 
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There's something not quite right with the offline file.
When I played it on Kodi, it cut off a few minutes before the end, so I listened to it on my PC using Media Player Classic, and it does play to the end, but the timer reads 2:04:44 as the length of the podcast, but it reaches that point, the clock freezes, but the audio carries on.

Weird.
 
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Great podcast guys.

There were two Lunar Rescue uprights, the black and white version is the same shape as a Space Invaders upright with a large all in one marquee/bezel (this is the one I had at Revival).

The other, which is on the flyer you have shown, is the colour version. Taito at this time started making colour versions of some games and that's where the small marquee and sloped colour monitor versions come from.

Taito had created quite a lot of cabinets in this era with the striped art you speak of. They had colour side art stickers that would be put on by the operators to create a more colourful and attractive cabinet. Sadly most of these stickers haven't survived as they appear to have hardly ever been put on!!

Trivia fact: they made a colour Space Invaders Part 1 (it is hideously rare, I only know of one that is in Australia).

Shaun - for your way back jingle, how about the Waynes World one?

ps I didn't beat my 11,900 - not because I can't (I can I can!!) but because I didn't get a chance to play it again!!

Would love to see Crazy Balloon in the future.
 
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Great podcast again guys. Did only get to have two games but 1942 is not good for my rsi so unfortunately won't be playing that.

As for games that should of been in the arcades. I nominate SpinDizzy by Paul Shirley, - awesome game and awesome programmer. The Amstrad version was the best version - fact!. Not bad on the SNES later but lost something for me.

I am currently in the process of ensuring that a version does exist on arcade hardware, although I'm targetting pac-man hardware just to make it that little bit more impossible to code
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, should have something to show in a couple of weeks (hopefully), I'll be calling it Spin Pac-dizzy. Once I have proved it can be done on pac-man hardware I'll be moving onto the taito L system thanks to Ade (but that's in the future) to put together something more comprehensive.

I also second Oll's crazy balloon request
 
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Another great listen gents...
Agree with everything you said about lunar patrol, very easy and painful at first but completely refused to save state and start from the 3rd screen, I did score 12400 but didn't post it when I heard people were scoring 20k+, I was like a sulking child....and how someone could go up to nearly 300k is crazy stuff

So onto 1942...my PC has died in my mame cab this week which I'm gutted about so I'm having to play on coinops and I'm fining it rock hard....struggling to break 30000!!! All be it only after about 8 try's, I'll keep trying and submit a score this time no matter how rubbish
 
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