{"id":640,"date":"2009-12-06T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=640"},"modified":"2009-12-06T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T21:04:30","slug":"mame-wr-no-7-1945k-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"MAME WR No. 8 \u2013 1945k III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1945k III\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a5\/1945kIII.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Initially I assumed, what with this being called 1945, that it was further entry in Capcom&#8217;s 194X series of games.\u00a0 Well blow my cock off and call me wrong. It sounds like one, looks like one but it&#8217;s not made by Capcom and it has nothing to do with the aforementioned series whatsoever.\u00a0 It was actually developed and released in 2000 by Olympic Soft and, after a initial few goes, it transpires it&#8217;s a pretty nondescript vertical shooter&#8230;\u00a0 The current MAME high score recorded over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twingalaxies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twin Galaxies<\/a>, <span>held<\/span> by Antonio Filho, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twingalaxies.com\/index.aspx?c=22&amp;sid=103554\" target=\"_blank\">3,070,200.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see where we can get with this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Firstly you get to pick from nine different planes, each from a different country and each with their own distinct shot type.  To be nice and patriotic, I&#8217;ve gone for the Tornado and for the reason it&#8217;s shots spread across the screen rather than straight up.  Then, after taking off from the longest aircraft carrier ever you are propelled (no pun intended as the plane has a fucking jet engine) into the heat of battle.  Now, whoever called this 1945 has never attended a history lesson.  If lasers and quasi-mechanical flying fortresses were in World War II then so was I.  Not only that, when the games starts, it clearly states the year is AD 2000.  Yes I know that this a sequel \/ clone of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strikers_1945\">Strikers series<\/a> and they&#8217;e just kept the name going but if you&#8217;re going to set a game in the present day you might as well change the title to reflect it.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Tedious\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/0\/06\/1945kIII-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a handful of goes it&#8217;s pretty apparent the gulf in class between this and the Capcom shooters I&#8217;ve already played in this ridiculous challenge of mine. The game suffers from a terrible amount of slowdown.  At times the screen is that cluttered from bullets, your own and the enemies, and the game slowly grinds it&#8217;s gears until the screen clears.\u00a0  Unless, I&#8217;m missing the point and it&#8217;s intentional by the developers.  A Matrix stype bullet-time effect if you will.  Whatever it is, it&#8217;s bad.\u00a0 Trying to keep track of your plane, when the screen is that full of bullets and you&#8217;re firing your special weapon and the fact that your plane is so fucking small is just too much like hard work.<\/p>\n<p>So as it stands my score is 1,166,000 which puts me at 4th in the world.  I take my hat off to Antonio Filho for a) achieving such a score and b) for having the patience to get in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So all in all it&#8217;s not that this is a bad game per se, it&#8217;s just that, well yeah it is.  It&#8217;s shit.<\/p>\n<p>Next up; <strong><span>19xx: The War Against Destiny<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sull.co.uk\/inp\/SUL-1945kiii-1166000.zip\" target=\"_blank\">inp<\/a> for playback in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twingalaxies.com\/index.aspx?c=48&amp;id=39\" target=\"_blank\">WolfMAME 0.106<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially I assumed, what with this being called 1945, that it was further entry in Capcom&#8217;s 194X series of games.\u00a0 Well blow my cock off and call me wrong. It sounds like one, looks like one but it&#8217;s not made by Capcom and it has nothing to do with the aforementioned series whatsoever.\u00a0 It was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MAME WR No. 8 \u2013 1945k III&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}