darthkur Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) What an appropriate time of year to be a penguin on a frozen wasteland pushing blocks of ice about. But beware of the malevolent Snow-Bees. Don't let them near you or they will sting you and ruin your day. Either crush them with a strategically pushed ice block or freeze them by pushing against the wall when they aligned with you against the same wall surface, then run over them or push an ice block over them. Snow-Bees are single minded of purpose from the time they hatch from their ice encased eggs so keep aware at the beginning of each round for the location of Snow-Bee eggs will flash momentarily. Annihilate them quickly to prevent them from hatching. Snow-Bees are determined to get you and they will smash ice blocks to shorten their path but will not do so with a block containing an egg. Also use the magical, indestructible diamond cubes to you advantage. Align them vertically or horizontally next to each other for both big bonus points and to momentarily render your pursuers immobile and vulnerable. You score really big points for lining the diamond cubes within the playfield but only half as much if you line them up against one of the surrounding four walls. So be alert and crush your enemies quickly for the faster they're gone the more points you will be awarded. Emulators are fine as is whatever controller you feel the most comfortable with. Screenshots are great but not mandatory. Settings:Intermediate (default) Contest ends on: 1-5-09 at 1:00am EST. Final High Scores: 1st: Cafeman - 144,340 (+11) 2nd: darthkur - 111,240 (+10) 3rd: chuckwalla - 95,370 (+9) 4th: doctorclu - 56,810 (+ 8 ) 5th: bohoki - 9,810 (+7) Current Standings: 1st - darthkur (109) (4) 2nd - Doctorclu (104) (4) 3rd - Mike5200 (51) 4th - Bydoempire (46) 5th - Shannon (39) 6th - Atari5200 (38) (1) 7th - Cafeman (28) (1) 8th - phuzaxeman (22) (2) 9th - Laserhawk (21) (1) 10th - bohoki (20) 11th - midnight8 (13) 12th - Hex6500 (10) 12th - Lord Thag (10) 12th - midnight magicman (10) 12th - shadow460 (10) 13th - Phantom (9) 14th - JetSet ( 8 ) 15th - RXD (7) 16TH - chuckwalla (6) 17TH - Goochman (4) Numbers in RED are accumulated points. Numbers in BLUE are number of rounds won. Link to the official manual: Pengo Manual Edited January 5, 2009 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwalla Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 (edited) Guess i'll lead off here with one of my all-time favorite games. Use that wall-freeze trick as much as possible. Got 95,370 after playing for about an hour. Edited December 23, 2008 by chuckwalla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 It is unplayable using A8Win - Pengo keeps moving erratically and gets stuck until killed. Will have to fire up the real system for this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 It is unplayable using A8Win - Pengo keeps moving erratically and gets stuck until killed. Will have to fire up the real system for this one. works with kat5200 cant seem to make star trek work though in either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKE5200 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Hopefully, my cart will work by tomorrow.. Getting it dryed out from being downstairs in the cold, it starts and i press the start button and the screen gets mess up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) It is unplayable using A8Win - Pengo keeps moving erratically and gets stuck until killed. Will have to fire up the real system for this one. works with kat5200 cant seem to make star trek work though in either you can put me down for 9810 sorry i don't have the patience to play this for an hour but i figure heck if nobody else submits a score i'll get second place years ago i played it for a long time what i would do would use a dry erase marker to dot the blinking bee blocks to peck them first but i would also do the same thing playing classic concention for my commodore64 marking the "cards" Edited January 1, 2009 by bohoki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) Here's my entry. Had time today to hook up the 5200 and play a few rounds. Once I got used to the semi-clunky movement it became a fun little game. EDIT - Naw, I did better ... see a lower post for my score. Edited January 3, 2009 by Cafeman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 56810! Happy new year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 111,240 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) 144,340! Edited January 3, 2009 by Cafeman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight magicman Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 96,530 Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 96,530 Good score. That would've taken 3rd place had it not been past the cutoff time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 That's it for this round. Congrats to Cafeman taking first place. I hope everyone had fun and a good holiday season as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I just read the manual. I only now realize that you can line up the indestructable blocks for bonus points. I never tried it but I did see them flash at times. I got my points by squishing stuff and just holding out as long as I could. Coulda scored higher had I know about the lining up. Oh,well. Pengo is better than I thought. I never played (or saw) the arcade game but might try to find it for Mame soon. You'd think SEGA would have put Pengo on one of their compilations for PS2, along with Zaxxon etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 I just read the manual. I only now realize that you can line up the indestructable blocks for bonus points. I never tried it but I did see them flash at times. I got my points by squishing stuff and just holding out as long as I could. Coulda scored higher had I know about the lining up. Oh,well. Pengo is better than I thought. I never played (or saw) the arcade game but might try to find it for Mame soon. You'd think SEGA would have put Pengo on one of their compilations for PS2, along with Zaxxon etc. Wow, that's an extremely good score then for not having either the 5k or 10k bonus' included. It is a shame that Sega seems to have abandoned this little gem of a game. There were several ports of it back in the 80's though and a couple clones, one of which being Hopper for the TI99/4A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Odd for some reason I didn't post my score during this particular HSC... Bummer.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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