Justin Posted May 15, 2019 Report Share Posted May 15, 2019 Shinobi Sega Master System Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Default SINGLE LIFE: Achieve high score using only one life to win challenge Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST May 31st, 2019 OBJECTIVE: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between May 15th through May 31st, 2019. Screen captures are not allowed as they are easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor! ELIGIBILITY: Anyone can join in. All players are welcome! PLAY RULES: Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following rules and game settings as delineated in the Squad Challenge. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Default. There are no difficulty options in Shinobi. Press Start to play. SINGLE LIFE RUN: You are only allowed ONE LIFE to achieve your high score in this Squad Challenge. FAIR PLAY: Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that no use of cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, Photoshop, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage is allowed. Everybody hates a cheater. MORE: To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: https://forums.atari.io/topic/1219-high-score-squad-how-to-play/ MESSAGE: Welcome to our 60th Squad Challenge! This will be our FIRST Squad Challenge for the Sega Master System and for one of the system's pillar titles: Shinobi! This is a SINGLE LIFE RUN Challenge, and you are only allowed ONE LIFE to achieve your high score in this Squad Challenge. ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing! NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for Atari Lynx. Be there! Shinobi.pdf Shinobi.sms Atari Creep, Sabertooth and ThatBuffGamer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted May 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2019 SINGLE LIFE RUN: This Squad Challenge allows ONE LIFE to achieve your high score. Sabertooth, ThatBuffGamer and Atari Creep 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted May 18, 2019 Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) Nice! i will start this one with 43850 Open Emu USB game pad Edited May 18, 2019 by Atari Creep Sabertooth, ThatBuffGamer and Justin 3 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 18, 2019 Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 Great pick for the squad challenge! This is my first time playing this version of Shinobi since at least 1991! My childhood best friend had an SMS and I loved this game. First time out: 54,900 on Mednaffe with a USB controller. Atari Creep, ThatBuffGamer and Justin 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 18, 2019 Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 A slight improvement thanks to the bonus stage. I couldn't activate my magic so I lost Ken Oh. 61,400 Justin, Atari Creep and ThatBuffGamer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 18, 2019 Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 97,500 ThatBuffGamer, Atari Creep and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 18, 2019 Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 119,500. ThatBuffGamer, Justin and Atari Creep 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted May 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 4 hours ago, atarilbc said: Great pick for the squad challenge! This is my first time playing this version of Shinobi since at least 1991! My childhood best friend had an SMS and I loved this game. Shinobi is what introduced me to the Sega Master System. It was the first game I played. I was at a friend's house, and he and his older brother were Shinobi ninja masters. I really loved the Sega Master System, there are a lot of really awesome games on there. I wish we could do a Phantasy Star Squad Challenge. SMS is what opened me up to other systems and made me realize I had a passion for 8-Bit gaming outside of just Atari. It's hard to imagine 1986-1989 without enjoying all of these systems to the max. 3 hours ago, atarilbc said: 119,500. Dude that is incredible. Sabertooth and Atari Creep 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 18, 2019 Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 I can't remember if it was Shinobi, Rampage or Space Harrier that I played first. I just recall being very impressed when I first played an SMS in 1989. At the time I had an XEGS so you can imagine how much better the SMS looked and played compared to Atari's repackaged A8. New score: 131,500 Justin, Atari Creep and RadioPoultry 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 18, 2019 Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 Must quit playing. 🙃😁🙃 New score: 142,050 Justin, Atari Creep and ThatBuffGamer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted May 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, atarilbc said: I can't remember if it was Shinobi, Rampage or Space Harrier that I played first. I just recall being very impressed when I first played an SMS in 1989. At the time I had an XEGS so you can imagine how much better the SMS looked and played compared to Atari's repackaged A8. Absolutely can! One of the first games I played on Sega Master System at my friend's house was F-16 Fighting Falcon. It was my first time seeing a Sega Card. I thought it was one of the coolest things I had ever seen! This was before the TurboGrafx-16 came out. The Sega Cards were less expensive than regular game cartridges and F-16 Fighting Falcon wasn't that impressive of a game, honestly this is one example where the XEGS may have outshined the SMS with Flight Simulator II. But playing video games on something the size of a credit card seemed really impressive. The other thing that stood out to me was using dual controllers to play F-16 Fighting Falcon. My friend and I (we were kids at the time) made a really cool "cockpit" out of cardboard boxes and magic marker. We taped the two Sega Master System controllers to our cardboard cockpit and flew what we thought were the coolest missions. Our cardboard controller beat Nintendo Labo by 30 years. MaximumRD, Sabertooth, RadioPoultry and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted May 19, 2019 Report Share Posted May 19, 2019 55350 @atarilbc YOU ARE A BEAST!!!!!!!! lol Justin and Sabertooth 1 1 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted May 19, 2019 Report Share Posted May 19, 2019 97450. I did this on a live stream tonight, around the 8:00 mark. First time I've played this game in a long time! Gave the site some shout outs too. Sabertooth, Atari Creep, RickR and 2 others 5 The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 19, 2019 Report Share Posted May 19, 2019 New score: 154,000 I played a pretty good game until I got to Black Turtle. Once there, I had no idea what strategy to employ. I definitely got past it when I was 12! 🙃 ThatBuffGamer, Justin and Atari Creep 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted May 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2019 12 hours ago, nosweargamer said: Gave the site some shout outs too. I caught that, THANK YOU @nosweargamer!! 💥🙌 Atari Creep and Sabertooth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted May 19, 2019 Report Share Posted May 19, 2019 Not much better but moving in the right direction. 63600 ThatBuffGamer, Sabertooth and Justin 3 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBuffGamer Posted May 19, 2019 Report Share Posted May 19, 2019 (edited) Awesome challenge!! I already see a lot of great attempts 😅 I’ll definitely have a crack at this. The Master System was my second console after the 2600 and shinobi was one of my favorite games back then! Never managed to beat it though, curious to see how I’ll do now 😄 -edit- allright here’s my first try: 139050. Only 1 bar left when I got to tha choppaaa! Edited May 19, 2019 by ThatBuffGamer Score update RadioPoultry, Atari Creep, Sabertooth and 1 other 4 The game is never over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioPoultry Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 97,400. Just 50 points behind @nosweargamer! nosweargamer, Sabertooth, ThatBuffGamer and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBuffGamer Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 (edited) Heheheheh.. 😏 229400! 🙌 By the way, I’m playing on my Game Gear, off my Everdrive GG which also supports Master System roms. Edited May 20, 2019 by ThatBuffGamer Sabertooth, Atari Creep and Justin 2 1 The game is never over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 15 hours ago, ThatBuffGamer said: Heheheheh.. 😏 229400! 🙌 By the way, I’m playing on my Game Gear, off my Everdrive GG which also supports Master System roms. Great score! 🙌 Atari Creep, ThatBuffGamer and Justin 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 #LunchtimeUnwind. I didn't get as far but I did better in the bonus rounds. New score: 157,450 ThatBuffGamer and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 These scores are INSANE!!!! Keep it up guys. ThatBuffGamer and Justin 2 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBuffGamer Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 43 minutes ago, atarilbc said: #LunchtimeUnwind. I didn't get as far but I did better in the bonus rounds. New score: 157,450 Good score!! 👌 It seems the bonus rounds are key to crank up the score! Atari Creep and Justin 2 The game is never over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBuffGamer Posted May 20, 2019 Report Share Posted May 20, 2019 (edited) 165,650 My 2nd nightshift, first attempt. Didn’t come as far this time and I failed two bonus stages, but still a pretty good score 😄 Edited May 21, 2019 by ThatBuffGamer Atari Creep and Justin 2 The game is never over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 22, 2019 Report Share Posted May 22, 2019 (edited) 54950 - just wanted to get my name on the board. Edited May 22, 2019 by RickR ThatBuffGamer, Justin and Atari Creep 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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