Caravan Shootout

**Seahawk** · 04-16-2011, 12:01 AM

In the late 80's and early 90's several video games held competitions called "Summer Carnival". In these events gamers would challenge each other at shoot-em-ups for prizes and fame. The games focused on special time attack modes lasting only 2 or 5 minutes long, and the objective was to get the highest score possible. Some games were even developed with only the time attack modes.

Those days are long over, but the challenge lives on.

CARAVAN SHOOTOUT CONTEST
This is an individual contest. Teams are not involved.

The objective is to play the followings on their score attack modes, and to score big:

Final Soldier Special Version - 5 Minutes
Soldier Blade - 5 Minutes
Blade Buster - 5 Minutes
Summer Carnival '92 - Recca - 2 Minutes

The winner is the one whose total combined score on all four games is the highest.

To access the score attack mode:
Final Soldier: Press the SELECT button (spacebar by default) to access the 5 minute challenge.

Soldier Blade: At the title screen press SELECT (spacebar by default) and select the challenge mode. On the next menu press SELECT again to choose 5 minute mode.

Blade Buster: At the title screen press SELECT (spacebar by default) to select 5 minute mode.

Recca: Choose score attack at the title screen. The game time is two minutes.

For easy score tracking, PLEASE POST YOUR SCORES IN THIS THREAD.

The contest starts NOW, and ends on midnight on May 16, 2011.

The Prize:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tenser

Winner can get a badge or a random game mailed to them from my duplicate carts box.

Happy Shooting!

**Enemy Ace** · 04-17-2011, 05:33 PM

I'm in.
Blade Buster is excellent. Never played before, thank you for presenting it.

**bearhawk72** · 04-17-2011, 07:03 PM

Post a screenshot with the score I assume?

**Seahawk** · 04-17-2011, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enemy Ace

I'm in.
Blade Buster is excellent. Never played before, thank you for presenting it.

It was only recently developed and released last year, so that is why.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bearhawk72

Post a screenshot with the score I assume?

Yes, that would be excellent, that way I can take score tallies without flipping through many pages of high scores.

**Mareeps** · 04-18-2011, 03:48 PM

I'm in. I previously have a score in blade buster, can i use that, or do i need to start fresh?

**Seahawk** · 04-18-2011, 05:42 PM

Start fresh. You can submit as many scores for each game as you want until the contest is over. Only the highest one for each game will count.

**xtremelean** · 04-18-2011, 07:40 PM

This sounds like a good contest. I think I will participate. Thanks Jozman for recommending this to me.

**Paul** · 04-19-2011, 02:03 PM

Definitley in.

**Seahawk** · 05-03-2011, 02:29 AM

An update!

Final Solder Special
1. Enemy Ace - 2,074,800
2. Seahawk - 1,963,500
3. wolfman24 - 1,081,500
4. jozman3000 - 945,200
5. thetedster - 915,600
6. Game_Crazy06 - 742,300

Soldier Blade
1. Enemy Ace - 1,425,200
2. Seahawk - 1,404,900
3. wolfman24 - 1,002,800
4. thetedster - 901,100

Blade Buster
1. Enemy Ace - 1,216,600
2. brawlmaster12344 - 862,400
3. wolfman24 - 622,900
4. xtremelean - 293,300

Summer Carnival '92: Recca
1. Enemy Ace - 461,340
2. Game_Crazy06 - 199,017
3. xtremelean - 139,806
4. brawlmaster12344 - 122,396
5. wolfman24 - 119,263

Cumulative totals
1. Enemy Ace - 5,177,940
2. Seahawk - 3,368,400
3. wolfman24 - 2,826,463
4. thetedster - 1,816,700
5. brawlmaster12344 - 984,796
6. jozman3000 - 945,200
7. Game_Crazy06 - 941,317
8. xtremelean - 433,106

Some tips:
- You can adjust your speed freely in all games by pressing whatever button corresponds to select (Spacebar by deafult)

- In Blade Buster, Soldier Blade, and Final Solider, there are secret tiles worth big points!

- Defeating some midboss enemies in special ways gets you a big bonus. For example, in Soldier Blade, on two occassions there are two identical pods on the water, if you destroy them at roughly the same times you get a 50,000 bonus!

Remember that you can submit scores at any time! There are no restrictions on how many scores you submit, only the highest score will count though. The contest ends on May 16!

**Wolf** · 05-03-2011, 10:29 AM

wow I can't believe that I am in 3rd place

**joz** · 05-03-2011, 11:08 AM

Soldier Blade is freezing on me.

**Seahawk** · 05-03-2011, 12:08 PM

Where does it freeze? I know the main game has issues, but I've done many runs on the 5 minute mode and I've never had a problem.

**joz** · 05-03-2011, 12:23 PM

Soldier Blade (T-16) freezing

**Seahawk** · 05-03-2011, 12:35 PM

That's the an issue with the main game. There are no problems with the challenge mode.

**joz** · 05-03-2011, 12:45 PM

Silly me for not reading the instructions.

**Enemy Ace** · 05-16-2011, 11:23 PM

My last scores:

Final Soldier: 2.084.400

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Soldier Blade: 1.551.500

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Blade Buster: 1.216.600

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Summer Carnival'92: 461.340

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Total: 5.313.840

The last weeks have been complicated for me, some tests in college (and my work...) prevented me from participating more. This explains my hurry to do my best early on! Because I thought I couldn't play enough to get reasonable scores. But I enjoyed myself. I simply love Caravan games.

My thanks to all who participated. It was an honor to compete with you, as always.

**Seahawk** · 05-17-2011, 10:41 PM

Congratulations to Enemy Ace for winning this contest! You can discuss what badge you'd like here or PM Tenser about your prize.

I was busy with projects and final exams so I never had time for a go at Blade Buster. I will be taking back Soldier Blade though!

**Slime Slayer** · 05-17-2011, 11:00 PM

Nice EA.

**StarfoxFan2009** · 05-17-2011, 11:03 PM

Good job EA.

**Enemy Ace** · 05-17-2011, 11:43 PM

Thanks, guys. That's cool! Finally I won something. Although it seems that I won by W.O.

I'll not bother Tenser about a award, Seahawk. I have all the games I wanted here with me, and have no time for play them!

My badge could be the Soldier Blade ship.

---------- Post added at 12:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:38 AM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I will be taking back Soldier Blade though!

Hahaha, I know. But this is the fun part of it.
Without an adversary that can overcome you, a Caravan shooter game just sucks.

**joz** · 05-18-2011, 12:11 AM

Congratulations EA! It's a relief that there are warriors strong enough to take on the tyrant of the skies, Seahawk!

**Josephjo** · 05-18-2011, 01:28 AM

Congrats amigo.

I had the pleasure of watching a lot of your scores for verification.

You Sir, are an unbelievable talent

**Kugyince** · 05-18-2011, 03:59 AM

Congrats EA.

I'll move this to closed contests and get Kongger to upload that badge.

**Mareeps** · 05-18-2011, 03:45 PM

I completely forgot about this contest. At least i managed 2nd in Blade Buster.

**elrod21** · 05-18-2011, 04:07 PM

Nice one EA! Your name suits you well.