Space Dungeon

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Does anyone have any gameplay tips on this game. It is kicking my butt and I have a feeling there are things going on that I am not understanding.

I am not sure if monsters keep appearing if you stay in a room. I don't know what the different colors on the minimap mean either.
 
I've never played the arcade version (I would like to) but on the Atari 5200 version, there is the initial wave of enemies that come at you in the room but if you stick around too long, something else comes chasing you down.

On that version red squares indicate a room you've died in and left your treasure in.

I've only made it up to Dungeon 4 so I'm not sure if that makes me any good at the game. I like to visit all the rooms in the dungeon where possible although that is because I want to get all the treasure. This is probably the hardest way to go - otherwise it's go through a couple of rooms and head straight for the level stairs
 
Does anyone have any gameplay tips on this game. It is kicking my butt and I have a feeling there are things going on that I am not understanding.

I am not sure if monsters keep appearing if you stay in a room. I don't know what the different colors on the minimap mean either.

Try to press the early levels, going through all the rooms, if the next room is tough (wall shooting things, many enemies, etc), I'll linger in the previous room until I kill the tougher enemies there with less stuff going on, then proceed, making the next room a bit easier.

You should follow the thief through rooms and shoot him to get him to drop treasure (he is marked on the map but I forget denoted by what, I haven't played in a bit. If you see wall shooters when you enter a room, shoot them immediately obviously (at least on one side).
 
So is the number of enemies on a level set, or do they keep spawning forever. Are they following me from room to room?
 
I had never even heard of that game until I saw it at CAX this year where I couldn't stop playing it. Well, until something went kinda haywire with it and suddenly you could play forever without dying which got boring.
 
So is the number of enemies on a level set, or do they keep spawning forever. Are they following me from room to room?

I'm not sure I haven't played it enough to really analyze it but it appears to me that they do follow you from room to room so if I find a nice empty room but a shitty room next, I'll sit in the empty room and kill off a wave of the defender looking aliens until I think it's safe to tackle the next room.
 
Does anyone have any gameplay tips on this game. It is kicking my butt and I have a feeling there are things going on that I am not understanding.

Getting your ass whooped in the BYOAC contest? ;)
 
Yep, getting royally whupped.

It also doesn't help that I hadn't touched a joystick in 3 years before yesterday. But I was still able to do 260K on my first try on Robotron, but Space Dungeon is killing me. About 80 games played now, I have only cracked 30K once.
 
Yep, getting royally whupped.

It also doesn't help that I hadn't touched a joystick in 3 years before yesterday. But I was still able to do 260K on my first try on Robotron, but Space Dungeon is killing me. About 80 games played now, I have only cracked 30K once.

It would be nice if I could get my hands on a Space Dungeon so I could actually play it for the first time in like 25 years. Please post pictures of your cab.
 
I haven't personally played a real one, but there is no reason to think it wouldn't be exactly the same.

I have played Zoo Keeper and Qix (which run on the same basic hardware as Space Dungeon) and they are exactly the same in the real machine as they are in mame.

With the vast majority of games you just can't tell the difference between mame and the real thing. I have owned a lot of games and boards over the years and I could never tell the difference between the real game board and Mame. Only game I can really remember being different was Robotron (and even that they fixed like 5 years ago).
 
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Great Game.

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Ok, doing much better now. For the most part I am ignoring the treasure because it only awards points on exit of the level and you drop it on death. Drop a bunch in one room and it attracts a bunch of bad guys and makes the room deadly.

I am however trying to visit each room for the huge bonus.
 
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