Snow is falling,
All around us,
Children playing,
Having fun,
Cast your votes,
For the final round of the Lemon 2004 Games Competition,
Merry Christmas,
Everyone!

This vote is for the game we will play in round 12 (December)
The voting starts now and will end sunday, December the 5th, 24:00 pm (GMT)
Vote for 5 games
Your first choice gets 5 points, second 4pts, third 3pts, fourth 2pts, fifth 1pt.
These games have already been played and may not be voted for:

2004:
Round 11: H.E.R.O.
Round 10: Trailblazer
Round 09: Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Round 08: Space Taxi
Round 07: Green Beret
Round 06: Arkanoid
Round 05: Iridis Alpha
Round 04: IK+
Round 03: Ikari Warriors
Round 02: Wonderboy in Monsterland
Round 01: Thrust

2003:
Round 12: Rainbow Islands
Round 11: Dropzone
Round 10: Gyruss
Round 09: Leader Board Golf
Round 08: Ghosts 'n Goblins
Round 07: Armalyte
Round 06: Paradroid
Round 05: David's Midnight Magic
Round 04: Wizard of Wor
Round 03: Buggy Boy
Round 02: Rodland
Round 01: Bubble Bobble

Of course any new Lemon visitor
can join this compo any time!

Remember to choose games that are suitable for competition play!
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1/ wonderboy
2/ salamander
3/ rick dangerous
4/ delta
5/ sanxion
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1. Operation Wolf
2. Bomb Jack
3. Metro-Cross
4. Alleykat
5. Merry Christmas (Melbourne House)

1. Hot Road!!!

1. Beamrider
2. Intensity
3. IO
4. Turrican II
5. Hard 'n' Heavy
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1. Nebulus
2. Salamander
3. Operation Wolf
4. Rick Dangerous
5. Kamikaze

1. Hover Bovver
2. Nebulus
3. Army Moves
4. Revenge of the Mutant Camels
5. Frogger
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1.) Le Mans
2.) DRUID
3.) Moon Patrol
4.) Milk Race / Ten Speed
5.) Encounter

1. Beamrider (It'll never happen )
2. Intensity
3. Hard'n'Heavy
4. Zolyx
5. Zybex
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1. Le Mans
2. Wonderboy
3. River Raid
4. Turrican II
5. Metro cross
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1. Spy Hunter
2. Super Pipeline 2
3. Wonderboy
4. Zolyx
5. Pooyan
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1. Rick Dangerous 2 (how silly to vote for the frustrating 1st part!)
2. Intensity!
3. Pirates!
4. Zolyx
5. Beamrider

1 BOFH: Servers Under Siege
2 Nebulus
3 Operation Wolf
4 Space Pilot
5 Tetris

copy - paste , as usual

1. Metronaut
2. NITH
3. Spy Hunter
4. Double Dragon 2
5. Giana Sisters

1. Toy Bizarre
2. Nebulus
3. Northstar
4. Slinky
5. Army Moves
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Just a small update on the scores so far:

1 Nebulus 20
2 Wonderboy 15
3 Intensity 12
4 Beamrider 11
5 Le Mans 10
6 Operation Wolf 8
7 Spy Hunder 8
8 Rick Dangerous 6
9 Zolyx 6


... and remember there's still time to vote because you <enter picture of Uncle Sam> can make a difference.

I think most people that like one Rick Dangerous game like the other one as well. I can't really remember the differences, although I think the sequel has fewer death traps.

It's a problem that RD players vote differently, that way we'll never play any of them.
I would like to vote for the one with most points without specifying which one, but I guess I have to choose.

1. Rick Dangerous II
2. Rick Dangerous I
3. Kick Start II
4. IO
5. Tilt

Here are my votes for the next round:

1 NEBULUS (we can play the TNT compo edition!)
2 Wizball
3 Split Personalities
4 Brainstorm
5 Hard n Heavy

shteev wrote:

It's much, much easier than H.E.R.O., and a single mistake isn't fatal. Playing it unmodified will result in the top players having to throw themselves off the top of level 5 thirty or so times to maximise their score; not an interesting thing to do.

I totally agree. which is why we should play TNT's compo version.

shteev wrote:

Modifying the game, if it was something that our resident hacker tnt would be prepared to do, would be a big job.

It was hardly a big job when he edited it a couple months back. No extra lives, just the three you start with (vastly minimising point whoring) and even with a special screen so you tell it was the compo edition:



I've got a copy of the compo edition on my HD. All it needs is a home to download from.

shteev wrote:

But can't we just play something that's actually SUITED to competition play?

What could be more suited? Nebulus is a fast paced, fun game, and with the compo version, is no lonbger infinite.

Apollyon wrote:

TNT (or someone else?) has made a version where you start with just one (yes one!) life and you do not get any bonus lifes. It will be fantastic to play this.

I think we should play the three lives version as I mentioned above. Give the people who are not so hot at the game a chance at least.[/img]
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Game on

1. Zybex
2. Beamrider
3. Intensity
4. Nebulus
5. Zolyx
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Great, just great guys, there was more than one reason not to play nebulus. So we have a version with no extra lives? Wonderful, it still doesn't change the fact that it's too easy for competition and it will come down to dying at the top of the tallest tower. But you can't tell some people.

White Demon wrote:

What could be more suited? Nebulus is a fast paced, fun game, and with the compo version, is no lonbger infinite.

So what? it's easy and the score is only going to differ on the bonus stages. Simply put, it's not a compo game and no amount of lives counter altering (and thank you TNT for that, I don't in any way disrespect your work), is going to change the fact that it will suck as a compo game.

That said,

1. Wonderboy (because anything is better than Nebulus as a compo game)
2. Beamrider
3. Rick D II
4. Spindizzy
5. Hard 'n' Heavy

I pray to a greater power not to play Nebulus, because it would be a real shame if the last round in the competition, the round that decides who gets what place, will be esssentially forfeit because everyone will have the same score.
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1. Wonderboy
2. Rick Dangerous 2
3. BadLands
4. Zolyx
5. Jeep Command