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    Season 11 ~ Week 23 ~ Beat The Leaders 1

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    37 minutes ago, TheActivisionary said:

    Also, your YouTube video is very helpful @Botbird208, and I’m very impressed by the way you play this game. You make it look so easy and rake in the points! I love that in the video you approach the game in such a calm way, swooping down and grabbing the treasure and saying “you just swoop down and grab it, very simple move.” It may be simple for you but no matter how many times I watch you do it, I still can’t figure it out ?

     

    I made a new video just before I began my most recent run! I could’ve edited it, but I didn’t. Maybe be in the future.

     

     

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    Season 11 ~ Week 23 ~ Beat The Leaders 1

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    19 hours ago, kermit73 said:

    Dragonfire: 16820

     

    I found that with the faster dragons, it is critical to not just move left/right, but to also incorporate diagonal, circular, or figure 8 movements.  If you just move left/right, the dragon's shots (especially the white dragon) are timed perfectly to take you down. 

     

    I never did perfect the upper left diagonal movement upon entering the dragon room that @Botbird208 demonstrated in his video.  For this to work, you have to push left to enter the room, and then immediately switch to the diagonal direction.  If you're too slow switching to the diagonal direction with the faster dragons, you're dead.  I had better success entering the room when the dragon was facing the left, and then moving straight up. 

     

    I also never figured out how to consistently pick up the treasures that appear toward the bottom of the screen in the middle of the room.  I would frequently have the room clear and then lose multiple lives trying to pick up the last treasure or two in these awkward spots.

     

    My biggest frustration with this game is if you happened to be moving to the left when getting hit by a dragon, you may inadvertently just barely move your next man into the room near the entrance.  If you don't realize this immediately and push the joystick to the right to ensure safety, you'll often get spanked with additional lost lives.  This was the one scenario where I felt "cheated" by the game, losing 2-3 lives when I should have only lost one life.

     

    Overall, I really enjoyed this game and am glad the decision was made to switch to this from Cosmic Ark.  This was my favorite among the Imagic titles selected for this season.

     

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    If you move just left and right in good timing, the dragons shots will never take you down. You just need to be out of phase with the dragon, as in when he is the farthest to the right, you need to be all the way to the left, and vise versa.

     

    There is a method to pick up the treasures foolproof every time. Maybe I should make another video about it, but I don’t know if I can do that before the weekend is over. I can show my method now because even though it’s he same as in my original video, I really didn’t explain it well with my 13 year old vocabulary. There are ways to not get screwed by the cheap deaths too. The diagonal movement is 10x easier with a joystick, especially one with short throws. I feel like I’m better at this game now than I was then, but I can’t buy a new joystick and have to take this one apart multiple times a game.

     

    Im confused as to why no one has posted, I feel like they all have high scores on their backlog but their not going to post until Sunday night or something. Sorry about this post being too long.

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    Season 11 ~ Week 23 ~ Beat The Leaders 1

    in 2600 High Score Club

    Posted · Edited by Botbird208
    Forgot words

    2 hours ago, Lauren Tyler said:

     

    All right, what is your strategy for this game?

    Check out this vid I made when I was 13. It’s very cringy for me to watch but the tips are the ones I use:

     

     

    On 7/12/2021 at 6:33 PM, Lauren Tyler said:

     

    Try using a Genesis controller.  May not be an actual joystick, but they're still durable.

    Also I hate hate hate the sega genesis controller. The d-pad is like a big mushy button, and it’s completely useless for fast movement games like this. 

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    Season 11 ~ Week 23 ~ Beat The Leaders 1

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    Posted · Edited by Botbird208

    I now remember why I stopped playing Atari 5ish years ago... because every damn controller I bought broke!

     

    On this game I made it to about 60k after losing 2 lives, but then the upper left position on my star fighter stopped working, and the left position became super spotty. This caused me to lose 3 lives on the bridge because my little man stopped moving and 2 lives in the lair because instead of going up and left, my little man just went up. Super annoying having to take apart the joystick after every game, only for it to break halfway through the next one. I’ll figure it out eventually though.

     

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    Season 11 ~ Week 23 ~ Beat The Leaders 1

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    I am so so happy it is dragonfire haha I missed it earlier this season and hopefully I can make a new record.

     

    I was about to suggest that we play cosmic ark game 4, since that game is so difficult that it makes it so that you can’t get past the 2nd or 3rd planet, which makes it so that you kinda have to leech, however you won’t be able to play it for hours because you’ll die so quickly. Just putting that thought out there in case we can’t do dragonfire for the 2nd time in the same season. But if we are doing dragonfire I am beyond excited!

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