Jolt Country

Greg: I've been playing the Flash version of BurgerTime. I've got a decent amount of money invested in computer games and the Xbox... and I choose BurgerTime. FAKE BURGERTIME.
ICJ: Fake BurgerTime in Flash is in fact better than the replacement-level Xbox game, in my opinion.

Greg: It needs music though.
ICJ: It's like, years ago, when Alex Rodriguez made more money than the entire Devil Rays
Greg: Or maybe it doesn't need better music, since it's taking up all my spare time.
Greg: Exactly! Flash BT is the A-Rod of computer games.

ICJ: Do they let you use the keyboard? Or is it mouse based?
Greg: Yeah. all keyboard
ICJ: Is... is pepper "space bar" by chance?
Greg: Yep - with the mouse, Peter Pepper would be skidding out of control into the gaping maw of a ferocious dill pickle.
ICJ: FUCK YEAH
Greg: four arrows, space bar. Simplicity. and joy.

ICJ:: The pickle, haha
Greg: the pickles are ROUGH
ICJ: I have a screenshot for you, one sec. It is a HORROR, but you need to see it.
ICJ: The pickles are my greatest enemy in the game.
Greg: The hot dogs... whatever. The eggs... a bit of a hassle. But the pickles?
Greg:The pickles are nature's enforcers.
ICJ: This is Burgertime for the 2600



ICJ: The guy had to make the pickle CHEESE (which is that square thing to the right)
Greg: BAHAHAHAHAHA
Greg: Oh, god.
Greg: I feel so much better about the flash game
ICJ: You can't have three sprites on the same plane without flicker, and Mattel demanded no flicker. So he had to take the "missile" graphics, which can ONLY be square, to use as the third enemy. Why he didn't make it green, I have no idea... But those are the worst graphics I have ever seen on anything

Greg: oh man. and the burgers - they're all the same material, taken from the innards of an Egg McMuffin.
ICJ: Hahahah
Greg: that makes 2600 Adventure look like Half-Life
Greg:wow. I have great love for the 2600, but I can't justify that. Some things should never have been attempted.
ICJ: That is an abomination.

Greg: Did they ever do Crazy Climber for the 2600? That's my other old favorite
ICJ: Hmmm
Greg: survey says - YES!
ICJ: Yes
ICJ: http://www.atariage.com/screenshot_page ... SCREENSHOT
ICJ: Oh dear
ICJ: OHHH dear
Greg: that's exactly what I just found
Greg: It's probably good I never ended up getting that on the 2600. I'd probably have turned completely away from video games. I'd be a priest now.

Greg: I was thinking about doing a blog post on this: when I was a kid, I didn't know about the arcade style of putting a quarter up to say "next game"
Greg: So when some kid did that while I was playing, I dunno, Zaxxon or whatever
Greg: I thought he was supporting my Zaxxon awesomeness
Greg: and so when I died, I grabbed the quarter and put it in the machine
Greg: He didn't say anything! Later I figured it out and I still feel guilty, 25 years later
ICJ: HahahHAHAHa
ICJ: Holy shit

Greg, here is, hopefully, an old copy of MAME32 and the files ya need for Crazy Climber and Burger Time. To get the roms out, just unzip roms.rar and throw the files inside that archive into the /ROMS directory.

(So, it'll look like this)

/roms/cclimber.zip
/roms/btime.zip

And so forth.

http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/m32-061.zip
http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/roms.rar

Fantastic, thank you. That's my week set then. I'm already being reminded of how unforgiving the real Burger Time can be.

My only tip is that you want to go hard to the right, IIRC, when the pickle shows up. But I think you routinely get farther than I do. I'll check my high score on the cab in a sec.

OK, I reached 29,990.

I'm going to put Burgertime on my PSP!

Then your PSP will be a.... a winner!

Love me some BurgerTime.

Greg! What is your CURRENT HIGH SCORE?!?!

Current (since you gave me the MAME high-scores keeper thingy) is 20,800, so I have a ways to go to get back to Robb-level.

Rest assured, I'll be playing it all night now.

Hey wait no I suck!

My PSP can not run Burgertime in MAME. Though maybe the roms on romhustler are just bad, I dunno.

ROM Hustler, hahah

Did you ever see the Star Hustler? He changed the name of his show because kids were typing it into search engines and getting directed to hustler.com

I don't know which site gave kids the greater education

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Hey wait no I suck!

Part of the problem is that I tend to start playing at home, at night, after a few glasses of whatever.

And part of the problem is that at my advanced age, I suck at things.

Nonetheless, full-time BurgerTime is an excellent thing.

What roms should I be getting? My PSP recognizes the Midway one but won't run it. Is there any sort of a bios I need to run that particular one? Help me out you rom hustlers.

What version of MAME is your PSP running?