--- Clayton Frank Helvey <msspcva_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gentleman!
>
> Where are you located? This auction sounds
> interesting but I suspect you're far from Virginia...
Columbus, OH. The next auction here is 9-Nov. The whole
schedule (OH, IN, NJ) is at
http://www.usamusement.com/calendar.html
There are other companies that run on different circuits. I
have never looked into the schedules for VA, but I would
suspect that you have one or two within a 3 hour drive.
I know that people do show up at the USAA auctions from
all over the state and beyond.
> I've been thinking about getting one of the old
> Xenophobe games myself. The arcade game was one of
> the first cooperative multiplayer games out, so I used
> to enjoy it (and the first Gauntlet) a lot.
Yep. Gauntlet is another favorite of mine, but I couldn't afford
to get very good at it.
I was just amazed at the lack of interest in it. The last
time I saw one sell, there were three or four and the first
ones went for $300-$400; it was the final one that went cheap.
All the really interested parties got theirs early.
> I recall the Xenophobe game as also being no pushover,
> but maybe my inability to pump quarters in held me
> back from learning the secrets to success.
I also think it's an easy game to play to completion, presuming
that you have an endless supply of quarters. Picking up goodies
gets you health; dropping coins in the machine gives you more
health (1000 or 2000, depending on the switches).
I have beaten it on my Lynx. It _is_ an excellent cooperative game,
even on _that_ platform (yes, I have multiple Lynx consoles (3) *and*
multiple copies of Xenophobe (2)).
Once you get the finger memory to move, pick up stuff, and throw
bombs at the "Festers", it's a pushover. The higher levels get
a little tricky with fires to put out (you have to switch between
weapon and fire extinguisher) and with yawning chasms (switch out
jetpacks and weapons), but it's lots and lots of running search sweeps
and killing everything that's green.
> Do you know if there's a copy of the PROMs for
> download into an arcade simulation program for a PC?
Such things exist.
-ethan
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Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 00:47:00 BST