Goochman Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 (edited) HSC Season 5 10 Contest Ends: Noon 5/23/08 EDT Wizard of Wor 7 men Score Points doctorclu 1 377,400 8 poobah 189,500 6 _Fandal_ 130,500 4 Deteacher 119,500 2 goochman 92,600 1 Shannon 65,200 1 JellE 32,800 1 Player Weeks Won Score HSC5 Scoresheet 2008 HSC5 Contests _Fandal_ 2 58 Hyperblast doctorclu 5 52 Crystal Castles dodgers 1 26 Megamania Shannon 1 20 Gauntletak poobah 1 14 Asteroids jdh 0 12 A.E. goochman 0 12 Laser Hawk mimo 0 9 Whistlers Brother JellE 0 8 Ollies Follies Deteacher 0 8 Wizard of Wor 7 men a8isa1 0 3 devwebcl 0 3 Bunsen 0 1 Hornpipe2 0 1 krupkaj 0 1 pseudografx 0 1 Edited May 23, 2008 by Goochman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Starting off with 110,700. Let's go kill some dungeon monsters!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 377,400 ... I beat my last Atariage score, which was like 240,000. Some tips: 1) the first four levels you can wander about and hunt monsters, after that, good to bunker in as soon as you can. 2) I died the most to those monster appearing practically right next to me when they came in. When you bunker in, watch the radar but just keep firing. (Never know when one will appear and if you are shooting one direction in the bunker, that takes care of 50% of the ways they can get you. 3) Once a monster fires at you, you have two choices, move out of the way of the fire, or kill the monster, which stops a shot in motion. Odd to me, but hey.. anyway, most often monsters will fire, and then vere off, be careful of that. 4) The Worlock is not that big a problem, just approach with guns blazing from a cautious distance. 5) The Wizard of Wor is one that I believe is programmed to appear BEHIND you. When he disappears, throw a shot behind you real quick. Amazing how many times that works. 6) The Pit at level 13 is the screen you save up your lives for. I generally try to work from the bottom corner. Open to suggestions. 7) The game resets at level 21. It was odd fighting monsters at level 1 speeds (slow) when I was used to fast. It almost threw me off. Restarting the game is not so bad, if you can repeatedly beat the Pit. I died on the Pit (level 13) the second time around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 92600 - was hoping for 100k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 I like this game but I'll probably get my ass kicked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 You know, I just realized... the monsters turning invisible... I wonder if the arcade game programmers did that mainly so the processor would only have to update the image of a few monsters on the screen at one time? (And the rest of the time have them as blocks on a radar?) This JUST occurred to me. Those cheats!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 You know, I just realized... the monsters turning invisible... I wonder if the arcade game programmers did that mainly so the processor would only have to update the image of a few monsters on the screen at one time? (And the rest of the time have them as blocks on a radar?) This JUST occurred to me. Those cheats!!! Doubtful since the level starts with the max blue enemies (ie, 8 dragons - when 1 is killed then the yellow/red guys come out) - so at first you have all of the on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 63,300 for me. Started playing Atari 8-bit in emu again, and I love this game, so I figured, what the heck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Major improvement for me: 119,500. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fandal_ Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 94,400 F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 Better post this before I forget. 65, 200... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellE Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 I haven't figured out how to do a screen shot on my mac yet... but I did get 32,800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fandal_ Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 130,500 F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+poobah Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 This game brings back memories, in high school, there was a wizard of wor machine in the pizza place across the street from the school. Cost me more than a few "lates" for 6th period! My friend Ken and I could play for a very long time in 2 player "cover your buddies rear" style =D 189,500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellE Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Okay guys... since I can't seem to modify the chart... here are the standings thus far: Player Score doctorclu 377,400 poobah 189,500 _Fandal_ 130,500 Deteacher 119,500 Goochman 92,600 Shannon 65,200 JellE 32,800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellE Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Contest closed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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