Justin Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 Pengo MAME Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: DEFAULT Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST April 30, 2024 Nominated by @Smell Dawg Objective Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between April 1st through April 30th, 2024. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more 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 / Mini console, FPGA or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following all rules and game settings defined in the challenge. Choosing between real hardware or emulation, and choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds, save states and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level DEFAULT. We will be playing Pengo using DEFAULT arcade settings. As this is an arcade game emulated on MAME, dip switch settings and debug menus can complicate things. Feel free to post questions or suggestions regarding difficulty settings to make sure we are all on the same page. Fair Play Your integrity is everything. 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 we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater. More To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: Message Welcome to our 157th Squad Challenge! This month we'll be playing the original Pengo arcade game from Sega, nominated for High Score Squad by @Smell Dawg for us to play on MAME. Pengo is a maze game where the basic layout is akin to Namco's legendary Pac-Man, featuring a top down, single screen, maze-like arrangement. Pengo's enemies, the Sno-Bees, are also similar to the Blinky, Inky, Clyde etc. - the ghosts that pursued Pac-man; not least because Sno-bees also come in 4 different varieties, each represented by a different color. One aspect that distinguishes Pengo from the Namco classic is that the maze itself is a wholly interactive environment. Each section of wall is represented as a block of ice, which can be pushed onto the Sno-bees to destroy them. The Sno-bees themselves will destroy the ice blocks as they move around each level, so speed is of the essence. Some of the blocks are "Diamond blocks" which can't be destroyed, and can be re-used by Pengo. The outer wall of each level can also be utilized; if the player pushes against the wall when a Sno-bee is next to it, the Sno-bee will be temporarily stunned; allowing Pengo to move in for the kill. DID YOU KNOW: According to Zero magazine, Hudson Soft's Bomberman series adopted gameplay elements from Pengo. ROM and Instructions will have to be sourced online. Enjoy! socrates63, Sabertooth and DegasElite 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted April 2 Author Report Share Posted April 2 Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge, YOOMP! on the Atari VCS! Sabertooth and DegasElite 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 Pengo is a fun game! I don't have MAME installed. I'd need to get the latest version to play this challenge! DegasElite and Sabertooth 2 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 Can the VCS use MAME? Sabertooth and DegasElite 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted April 2 Author Report Share Posted April 2 2 hours ago, TrekMD said: Pengo is a fun game! I don't have MAME installed. I'd need to get the latest version to play this challenge! You can also play on real hardware if there’s a Pengo machine in your area. DegasElite and Sabertooth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 This post was recognized by Justin! "Thanks for the help!" Sabertooth was awarded the badge 'Helpful' and 10 points. 1 hour ago, Atari 5200 Guy said: Can the VCS use MAME? Yes. You'll have to run it in PC-MODE. DegasElite and Justin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 (edited) 4960, playing on a modded PS1 Classic. This game is cute, but it will take some time to get used to the rhythm of the game. Edited April 5 by RickR Justin, socrates63, Marco1019 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 (edited) The Internet Archive (!) has Pengo for MAME: https://archive.org/details/arcade_pengo# The downside is that you're limited to using the keyboard. Here's my run - 25,060. I managed to line up the diamonds twice, which is 10,000 points each. Edited April 17 by Marco1019 Added note about controls Justin and DegasElite 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 New PB: 54,770. This is likely it for me because it's brutal with the keyboard. Justin and DegasElite 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 I found the game on this site: https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/pengo-set-2.html It can be played with the keyboard or with controllers. Is this an acceptable way to play it? I think we just need to know the settings because it has difficulty options and when to earn lives (score). Does anyone know the default settings for the arcade game? DegasElite 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 2 hours ago, TrekMD said: I found the game on this site: https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/pengo-set-2.html It can be played with the keyboard or with controllers. Is this an acceptable way to play it? I think we just need to know the settings because it has difficulty options and when to earn lives (score). Does anyone know the default settings for the arcade game? I mentioned the same link in last month's thread lol. IIRC, that site has several versions of Pengo and I was confused as to which version to play. DegasElite and TrekMD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 Ah, so probably not the best one to use. DegasElite 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted May 2 Author Report Share Posted May 2 Congratulations Marco1019! Congratulations to @Marco1019 on another victory in High Score Squad Challenge! @Marco1019 takes the top spot in our Final Standings for Sega's Pengo on MAME with 54,770 points. WAY TO GO MARCO! Our runner up winner for Pengo is "The Don" @RickR in 2nd with 4,960 points. We'll have to work hard to increase participation for MAME Squad Challenges in the future. As always I'd like to encourage @Marco1019 to post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Marco on his big win, thank Rick for his participation, and I'd also like to thank @Smell Dawg for nominating this game! 👉 Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge on the Atari VCS! Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be announced shortly. Be there! RickR, Marco1019, DegasElite and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Congrats to @Marco1019 Sabertooth, DegasElite, Marco1019 and 1 other 3 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 20 minutes ago, TrekMD said: Congrats to @Marco1019 Thank you, Sir! Sabertooth, DegasElite, TrekMD and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Nice job @Marco1019! Justin, DegasElite, Sabertooth and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Ω - Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 I have this game on my 5200, sadly the first I heard of this Pengo competition was the post about the winner. Anyway congratulations @Marco1019!! Marco1019, Justin and DegasElite 2 1 <<< My YouTube Page >>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Thank you all for your shoutouts, and thanks to @Justinfor continuing to host this monthly series. (In an ironic twist, the EverythingC64 High Score Challenge for May is Pengo by Colosoftware. One massive downside to that version is that the difficulty level does not increase as you progress, so it becomes an endurance test.) RickR, Justin and DegasElite 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Man, I tried and tried to line up the diamond blocks on level 1 but could not do it without getting caught by penguins. This is a difficult game! Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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