Key to being awesome on 19" Robotron = playing on 13" Robotron first?

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Key to being awesome on 19" Robotron = playing on 13" Robotron first?

When I played on a Robotron UR at the Disneyland arcade, there was actually a moment when my brain went, "Hey, this isn't that hard." And I'm convinced it's because I usually play Robotron on my cabaret cabinet.

That smaller screen makes it WAY harder, and really forces you to concentrate on what the hell is going on. I'd recommend both a cabaret and a UR for the true Robotron high score junkie...
 
that's a good point. another good training thing is to play robotron on the 19-1 pcb which has ridiculous out of sync blitter rate so projectiles are stupid fast.
makes real robotron seem like slow motion.
 
When I played on a Robotron UR at the Disneyland arcade, there was actually a moment when my brain went, "Hey, this isn't that hard." And I'm convinced it's because I usually play Robotron on my cabaret cabinet.

That smaller screen makes it WAY harder, and really forces you to concentrate on what the hell is going on. I'd recommend both a cabaret and a UR for the true Robotron high score junkie...

You may be on to something here. Just cuz I want to get better I would be willing to trade you my upright for your cabaret. You interested?



LOL- I know the answer, but figured I would try!
Those cabarets are seriously sweet- never seen one in person.
 
You may be on to something here. Just cuz I want to get better I would be willing to trade you my upright for your cabaret. You interested?

I can't - then I'd start stinking at UR Robotron. :D

(Well, I sort of do, anyhow.)
 
I was never good at Robotron until i stopped worry about my offense (shooting, collecting humans, moving towards stuff to shoot at) and focused more effort into defense -- keeping the player away from the herds, always scanning a little ahead to ensure I have an escape route. after all, you can't score points if you're dead. This logic works on many games, of course.
 
Similarly, I keep my SuperSprint on expert mode. Seems normal to me, but I smoke my guests every time.
 
Interesting point...
Any idea how the Midway (the one with 12 games) bar top Robotron plays? There's one for sale local to me for $100. Was thinking of picking it up for the office
 
I picked at the robotron subject quite a bit and concensus seems to be that robotron running at authentic speed has everything to do with running on an actual CPU and processing the video the same way as real. so JROK is the closest facsimile.

sounds like the MAME variations are going to have blitter issues regardless.
If the one you are talking about is the cheap one they sold at Target, it's running on a hokey computer setup which is supposedly a mess to troubleshoot.
 
The key to playing Robotron, is to play Robotron. Crank it up to the max and play at the most difficult setting with a lot of men and when you set it back down to normal mode it will seem easy by comparison.

The smaller screen probably makes you focus more, but I have found that the following make the game play much better:
(a) the settings
(b) how well tuned the leaf switches are
(c) 4" joysticks are way better than 3.5" joysticks
(d) leaf switch Wico joysticks are way better than any other kind (especially microswitch)

ken
 
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