Distant_Rainbow posted...
Tell that to poor young D_R who got completely stuck at the arcades in the middle of blasting his way through stage 4(or maybe 5).
All enemies dead, but the screen wouldn't move. I was basically stuck in limbo with nothing to do but die by time out. Game over-ing and putting in more quarters didn't help; only made that mistake once.
That time, the owner was at least a nice enough guy to return my two quarters. Too bad for the dozen I spent getting there though!
That wasn't a single occurrence either. Happened several times afterwards. Most often on stage 2, and ONLY with X. Never with any of the others.
So, no, I'm never anointing X the best of anything. Those experiences tarnished my view of it incontrovertibly.
I'd even dare call it the worst of the whole bunch if it weren't for 4 being a phoned-in low-effort self-plagiarized mess, and 5 being an unwelcome tonal shift with an unnecessary, stupid sliding move.
I've never experienced any of that in the hundreds of times I've played it.
I played it a lot on a NEO GEO MVS when I was 16/17 years old at the little arcade in the student union at the local university and never once had it freeze on me.