Yip... it's time again.

A few comments:

ALL votes must be placed on the board in one form or another or IT WILL NOT COUNT!!!

DO NOT REPEAT A GAME THAT'S ALREADY VOTED FOR!!! IT WILL NOT COUNT! We had a problem with that last tournament - and I gave most of you a fair warning of it - but this time I will NOT do that(I'm too busy). Yes, if you find the error, you may change your vote. As a matter of fact, you can change your vote as many times as you need in the time allotted - but they have to be reflected on the board.

Games that have been played in tourneys 1, 2, and 3 are not allowed to be tourney 4.

Finally, I'll need TWO votes from you. This would be a sample ballot:

Vote if we had to use MAME 35 FINAL - pacman, mspacman, super pac-man

Vote if we got to use MAME 36 FINAL - outrun, tekipaki, block hole

No, this is not my vote, I'm just trying to help you out :)

If there's something I missed, please indicate it on the board - thanks :)

Voting ends April 10, 2000 at 2359 GMT. After that time, I will randomize the games, and hopefully we'll come up with games you like :)

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), March 24, 2000

Answers

Might as well get in here first then...

If using MAME 0.35: Street Fighter Zero (added in MAME 0.35 wasn't it?), Rainbow Islands, Magic Sword.

If using MAME 0.36: Street Fighter II (sf2 romset), Rainbow Islands, MAgic Sword

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hn.pl.net), March 24, 2000.

My Three choices are:

Black Tiger Pitfall 2 Wonder Boy II (Monster Land)

Lucky me they all can be played with MAME .35 & .36

-- Lord AxE (alvaromarques@hotmail.com), March 25, 2000.

If using MAME 0.36: astro blaster, hypersports, dragon buster

-- Game Guru (gameguru@cableinet.co.uk), March 26, 2000.

For MAME .35: Circus Charlie, Super Breakout (progressive), Targ. For MAME .36: Gimme A Break, Pole Position, Gee Bee.

-- Donut (glenwpc@home.net), March 26, 2000.

1. Robotron 2. Star Wars 3. Ghosts 'N' Goblins

I don't think these were in a previous tourney. Is there a list of tourney games anywhere?

-- Ian Sutton (suttoni@hotmail.com), March 26, 2000.

I'll go for : 1.WonderBoy 3, 2.Bubble Bobble & 3.Pang

-- Blost (Blost@flashmail.com), March 27, 2000.

My votes are for: Juno First, Do! Run Run, Bagman (all supported by both versions).

If we want 036Final to be used, be sure Mark is going to complile a TG version for it !

Cicca

PS: To Ian: There's not a list of tournaments games yet (I'm planning to open an "Archive" section, eventually included in the stats), but you can see games played in each tourny using the search page: search for "tx-" in the short name game box, and for "x" in the tournament box, where x is the Tournament number, of course.

-- Cicca (cicca@writeme.com), March 27, 2000.

For anyone who doesn't know the games played for the first 3 tourny Taken (and modify) from them the top 1 link.

t1-2020bb.........2020 Super Baseball, t1-bombjack.......Bomb Jack (set 1), t1-combascb.......Combat School (bootleg), t1-dotron.........Discs of Tron (Upright), t1-dowild.........Mr. Do's Wild Ride, t1-galagads.......Galaga (fast shoot), t1-gyruss.........Gyruss (Konami), t1-lnc............Lock'n'Chase, t1-miexchng-sp....Money Puzzle Exchanger / Money Idol Exchanger, t1-pang3..........panic Pang! 3 (Japan), t1-usvsthem.......Us vs. Them, t1-zzyzzyxx.......Zzyzzyxx (set 1), t2-ccastles.......Crystal Castles (set 1), t2-jrpacman.......Jr. Pac-Man, t2-kungfum........Kung Fu Master, t2-ldrun..........Lode Runner (set 1), t2-lrescue........Lunar Rescue, t2-pbobble........Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move, t2-pooyan.........Pooyan, t2-rastan.........Rastan (World), t2-scramble.......Scramble, t2-ssprint........Super Sprint,

t3-amidaru........Amidar (Stern), t3-brubber........Burnin' Rubber, t3-gaunt2.........Gauntlet II, t3-ghouls.........Ghouls'n Ghosts (World?), t3-ladybug........Lady Bug, t3-marble.........Marble Madness (set 1), t3-ninjak2a.......Ninja Kid II (set 2), t3-tron...........Tron (set 1), t3-xenophob.......Xenophobe, t3-yard...........10 Yard Fight.

-- Lord AxE (alvaromarques@hotmail.com), March 27, 2000.

My votes for tournament 4 :

With MAME35 and MAME36 : 1 - Ant Eater ( anteater ) 2 - Nibbler ( nibbler ) 3 - Rally X ( rallyx )

-- lagavulin (darre@club-internet.fr), March 27, 2000.

My vote for tournament 4:

Mame 35 and 36: wonderboy, super cobra, gunsmoke

I think those games could be played on both version. Please correct me if i4m wrong.

-- QRS (qrs@telia.com), March 27, 2000.

Please:

1. Wonderboy (any version), 2. Star Wars (any version), 3. Galaxian (any version)

This is my vote for either version of Mame, I will enter myself into T4 (My first tournament)

-Del Riley

-- Del Riley (crpltunnel@feist.com), March 27, 2000.

Eventually, I'm going to play in one of these things. I just need the right games...=) But, anyway, my two lists:

MAME .35 1. Badlands (yes, I still want this in!) 2. Klax (there's ALWAYS time for Klax) 3. Pang (is this game eligible now? Pang! 3 was in tourney 1...)

MAME .36 1. Badlands (do you see that I want this game in?) 2. Hang-On (only because Mad Gear is ineligible because of brubber) 3. Teki Paki (like you didn't see that one coming)

-- Sports Dude (sportsdude820@hotmail.com), March 28, 2000.

I'd like the following games to be played Championship Super Sprint, Popeye,Arkanoid II mame 0.36 is my vote MadMat

-- Matteo Barbieri (rns_madmat@hotmail.com), March 28, 2000.

SportsDude - let me help you out - I will support Mad Gear in debate - because there's no 50K bonus for not crashing into a car - 5K / car, and I think you get a big fat gooseegg for being chicken! :)

My vote is... MAME 35 - Pnickies, 1943 KAI, WindJammers(look familiar?)

MAME 36 - OutRun, Block Hole, Pnickies

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), March 28, 2000.

Note 1: Matteo, Super Sprint was in T2. On behalf of GB, I'd like to say "You need an alternate." =) Our rule is that once a game is in a tourney, that particular game or that particular style of game cannot be allowed in the tourney for...um...is it 3 tourneys or 4? Regardless, you'll need a new game. Sorry. =)

Note 2: GB, everyone says Mad Gear is Burnin' Rubber on steroids, and that's why I felt unsure about picking it. =) Then again, maybe the Badlands rule applies here, a blatant copy of another game (in Badlands' case, the Super Sprint series (full circled this post! Yes!)), but different enough to be considered eligible. I actually would rather have Hang-On based on skill, but I would still love to see Mad Gear in the tourney instead.

And in Mad Gear, most of your bonus points are for crushing stuff. So yeah, you've got a majorly valid point. --Sports Dude (Hopefully, Ray Atkinson isn't going to kill us in Mad Gear. =P)

-- Sports Dude (sportsdude820@hotmail.com), March 29, 2000.

Bank Panic, Cosmic Guerilla, Galaxy Wars.

-- AlexLux (Aleksandar.Lukic@ev.co.yu), March 29, 2000.

For either MAME 35 or MAME 36:

Zoo Keeper Guzzler Solar Fox

-- boxster (qmjcd@hotmail.com), March 29, 2000.

Hmmm... after Marble and Tron are there good ones left :) BTW, it's been fun for me watching your tactics/improvement on them.

Ok, Paperboy, Phoenix and Track & Field!?!

Pacmania would be great for m36, but it's requires so damn fast machine.

-- Tommi (tiihoto@hotmail.com), March 30, 2000.

My vote is 1942, tetris, and pacland. They can be played with both versions.

-- Pam Nichols (suzieq@iglou.com), March 30, 2000.

warlord - pingpong - tagteam (all 3 are in both 35 and 36)

-- phil (plamat@club-internet.fr), April 01, 2000.

Ok what about Championship Super Sprint? The game is quite different from Super Sprint since, records and tracks are different.

-- MadMat (rns_madmat@hotmail.com), April 02, 2000.

I vote for 1) diamond run 2)moon patrol 3)karate champ

-- QueenMary (mdelprat@club-internet.fr), April 04, 2000.

I vote for : mame 35 : Klax - Centipede - Darwin mame 36 : Klax - Mad Crasher - Atomic Point

Julie.

-- Julie (julie_de_linieres@hotmail.com), April 06, 2000.

For either MAME 35 or MAME 36 Green Beret, Gaplus, Time pilot '84

-- Renzo Vignola (maxnet@themail.com), April 11, 2000.

I vote for New Games: Penta (or, if you prefer, Pengo), Exerion, Crush Roller... ehr, so we could use the last... maybe Mame30?!

-- IUR Dhurin (iurdhu@hotmail.com), April 11, 2000.

MAME 36: Arch Rivals (point difference between teams at end of full game, none of this 'see how many points you can get in 2 minutes' stuff currently on the scoreboard), Asteroids Deluxe, Berzerk

MAME 35: Red Baron, Asteroids Deluxe, Berzerk

-- Jason Dyer (jdyer@u.arizona.edu), April 12, 2000.

Sheesh, I put off voting for the T4 games as long as possible and then almost forgot that the deadline was approaching!

my votes for both MAME 0.35 and 0.36 - Psychic 5, Sega Ninja, The Punisher

-BBH

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), April 29, 2000.