Mister VCS Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 (edited) NOTE: THIS WEEKS GAME HAS ENDED! COLECO PRESENTS FROM OUT OF THE JUNGLE... Tarzan Trademark by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. Game Info Journey to the heart of darkest Africa on a thrilling adventure with Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. Cruel hunters and the Beastmen of Opar have abducted Tarzan's tribe of Great Apes and imprisoned them in cages throughout the jungle. It's up to you to save the apes from being shipped out of their jungle home to zoos. Patch Challenge If you can score more than 270,500 points (TwinGalaxies High Score), then you will receive 2 bonus points.Screenshot please! Helpful hintsGenerally, it is safer to travel through the trees. Most of the enemies are on the junglefloor and so are the traps. The next best route is the foreground. The XX icon represents snake eyes. Keep your distance. You can outswim the croc, if you get an opening and a good jump. To open the cages, punch away as soon as you land on them. When you free Nkima from his cage, jump off the center post, because a pit is hidden below. To successfully grab a swining vine, make sure you are on the far side of the tree andyour feet aren't lower than the bottom of the vine. Also, make sure your control knop is facingright as you leap. Careful of gunfire from the hunters. You can stun them with a punch if you time the shotsand get close enough. If Tarzan frees all the apes and defeats the Flaming Idol at the temple, you earn a bonusof 1000 points for every segment left in the Vitality bar at the end of the round. Settings Skill level 1 - 1 Player Use the same skill level as posted so that all the scores will be accurate! Contest ends on Wednesday, 04-15-09 at 1:00 AM eastern. Link to HSC2 Leaderboard Please read the Rules & Regulations thread for a thoural description of the HSC rules.Current High Scores 1. JEFF31 345,750 [+11] [+2] 2. Ikrananka 250,750 [+10] 3. Mister VCS 208,750 [+9] 4. darthkur 203,000 [+8]5. roadrunner 125,750 [+7]6. ed1475 91,500 [+6] Edited October 17, 2009 by Mister VCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF31 Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Terrible first score (and GAME!!!). I would have 'killed' myself back years ago If I'd spent 29.95 + tax on this game Anyway 44,000 Gads! must do much better! please!... anybody.... pass this score... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Man this game is tedious and also rather easy at this skill level - I persevered and got a high score of 250,750 - then gave up and let myself die thinking that I'd beaten the Twin Galaxies high score and got the +2 bonus points - DOH!!!!! Looks like I need to have another session and make sure I stop over 270,500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF31 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 OK hmmm got to be honest here... Screen 1: punch 'Bolangi the gorilla' a bunch of times, get 20K points or so. get bored and the gorilla punches me runs around and fall into a pit. Screen 2 & 3 water and snakes bypass these screens Screen 4: Bolangi again! punch him every 4.5 - 5 seconds for what seems like hours... another 50K or so in points - now at 70+ K. slip up on a punch and the gorilla hits me again and goes running around and falls into a pit... Screen 5: water again darn go to next screen Screen 6: Hunter screen! yea! Punch hunter for 30 minutes (yes every 5 seconds or so...) get score to 300K+ Finally decide to go to the 'idol' screen and finally die there. Score: 345750 (hard to see but can just make it out) Now all that being said was that cheating or using a bug in the game? Part of me says yes, part no - I'll let MR VCS decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister VCS Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) Now all that being said was that cheating or using a bug in the game? Part of me says yes, part no - I'll let MR VCS decide. That wasn't cheating! There was a similar situation at Game 1B - GORF post #5 & 6. I think this not in sense of the game, but "legal". Edited April 10, 2009 by Mister VCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister VCS Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 first game - first score: 145,000 This game is new in my collection - not sure if i like or hate it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 (edited) Hello, I'd like to join you in the Colecovision HSC. Emulators are OK right? Edited April 12, 2009 by roadrunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister VCS Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 You are right. Emulation is fine... Welcome and have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 52,000 I couldn't figure out how to beat the Flaming Idol at the temple. How do i save a screenshot on Mess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 52,000 I couldn't figure out how to beat the Flaming Idol at the temple. How do i save a screenshot on Mess? To defeat the Flaming Idol: 1. Release the four caged Gorillas. 2. Get to the top level of the temple, i.e. the same level as the Idol's face - then immediately press any numeric (0-9) button - this should result in the Idol being defeated signified by the Idol's face sinking into the temple. Don't know how you get a screenshot in Mess - I use BlueMSX for CV emulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 52,000 I couldn't figure out how to beat the Flaming Idol at the temple. How do i save a screenshot on Mess? To defeat the Flaming Idol: 1. Release the four caged Gorillas. 2. Get to the top level of the temple, i.e. the same level as the Idol's face - then immediately press any numeric (0-9) button - this should result in the Idol being defeated signified by the Idol's face sinking into the temple. Don't know how you get a screenshot in Mess - I use BlueMSX for CV emulation. Thanks for the tips!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 125,750 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 145,250 I kept putting this game off since I never knew how to play it. I found the instructions online today and now I wish I had done so way beforehand. It's a pretty fun game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Now all that being said was that cheating or using a bug in the game? Part of me says yes, part no - I'll let MR VCS decide. That wasn't cheating! There was a similar situation at Game 1B - GORF post #5 & 6. I think this not in sense of the game, but "legal". Actually most people do consider it cheating. It's called "camping" or "spawning". Just had a similar judgment call on the A8 HSC. It's up to you though. The bad thing about doing that is that it turns games into simply a time endurance contest instead of progressing through the levels as was originally intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1475 Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 high score: 91500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister VCS Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 My "last word": 208,750 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 203,000 I thought I'd give it a few more tries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF31 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Now all that being said was that cheating or using a bug in the game? Part of me says yes, part no - I'll let MR VCS decide. That wasn't cheating! There was a similar situation at Game 1B - GORF post #5 & 6. I think this not in sense of the game, but "legal". Actually most people do consider it cheating. It's called "camping" or "spawning". Just had a similar judgment call on the A8 HSC. It's up to you though. The bad thing about doing that is that it turns games into simply a time endurance contest instead of progressing through the levels as was originally intended. Like I said... above... but then again if you play the current game and 'hang around' (ie 'camping') and move around until you group the ghosts - isn't that the same thing? On one hand I did make progress in the game (made it to the first idol screen) but did 'camp' on a screen until I had to progress... I'm sure that players better than me could score a 'million' points or more if they used this technique. Bottom line for me is that I won't do it again - it just doesn't 'feel' right. I'm having a lot of fun playing my Coleco again and having friendly competition amongst my atariage friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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