darthkur Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 (edited) There's pests in the pipe's and it's up to you, Mario, to plumb them out. And since your trusty brother Luigi is out of town at the moment it all falls upon your shoulders. Stand underneath the floor upon which the little cretins walk and punch it with all your might. When the critter is stunned hurry to it and give it a good swift boot. Some pests might take more than one hit to stun or a more precise blow so stay on your toes. Be sure to grab those coins because they are quite valuable. Beware especially of the dreaded fireballs because the slightest touch will make plumber flambé out of you. Emulators are fine as is whatever controller you feel the most comfortable with. Screenshots are great but not mandatory. Settings: Standard, One Player (default) Contest ends on: 5-11-09 at 1:00am EST. Final High Scores: 1st: roadrunner - 895,290 +11 2nd: famicommander - 212,240 +10 3rd: darthkur - 125,140 +9 4th: keitaro - 111,360 +8 5th: gdement - 102,700 +7 6th: atomickneedrop - 91,640 +6 7th: Kurt_Woloch - 88,760 +5 8th: mightymage - 67,200 +4 9th: aftermac - 59,430 +3 10th: xZanU - 40,040 +2 11th: LarcenTyler - 11,470 +1 Current Standings: 1st - famicommander (106) (3) 2nd - Darthkur (97) 3rd - xZanU (80) (3) 4th - keitaro (79) (1) 5th - HammR25 (64) (1) 6th - roadrunner (61) (1) 7th - gdement (59) (1) 8th - atomickneedrop (50) 9th - aftermac (43) (1) 10th - AtariFever (41) 11th - suaiden (38) (1) 12th - Sauron (37) (2) 13th - doctorclu (34) 14th - Almost Rice (32) 15th - shadow460 (25) 16th - chuckwalla (22) 17th - rockman_x_2002 (18) (1) 18th - LarcenTyler (17) 18th - LaserHawk (17) 19th - MrBeefy (14) 20th - Shannon (12) 21st - ratfink (11) (1) 22nd - Allan (10) 22nd - theKLT (10) 23rd - Lord Thag (8) 23rd - thursday83 (8) 24th - midnight magicman (7) 25th - Artlover (5) 26th - AdeptRapier (4) 26th - bfutrel (4) 26th - Zoyx (4) 27th - Kurt_Woloch (1) 27th - mightymage (1) Numbers in RED are accumulated points. Numbers in BLUE are number of rounds won. Link to the official manual: Mario Bros. Manual Edited May 11, 2009 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 32,200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightymage Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 67,200 MARIOBRO_00.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 19,340 Ha ha, I am really bad at this. Never played this game before, but am getting a feel for it. I love the sounds and music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 *waits for game to get to house in mail* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 11,470 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 *continues waiting for game to come in the mail* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 (edited) Does anyone have strategy tips for this game? I played it a bit more today, but scored lower than my current high score. Guess I am just having trouble paying attention to all the moving bits. EDIT: Score Update 37,580 The only thing I figured out is that you can run across to (through) the other side of the board to avoid the spinning green things, I've tried to run under, jump over them in the past but never could. Runnin away from works great! EDIT2: Got a better score, last one was 31,400. Edited May 1, 2009 by xZanU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 It's on, now! It came today! 64,500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 42,450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 578,540 phase 57 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 ^That score is nuts. I've been playing all night, and the best I've put up is 91,320. But hey; I just got it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 59,430 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Roadrunner is good at this one. I have a hard time with sliding around and missing my jumps, but am getting better. The twin galaxies site lists scores in the 2,000,000 range. Just got to find your groove I suppose : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 895,290 phase 87 i really like this game. Tips - take out the sidesteppers as soon as possible. with the second punch try to get the sidestepper to land on the same floor as mario. make sure you get all the coins on every coin phase. that really helps to increase the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 (edited) OK, here's my best so far... 88760 (as shown on the upper high score line). The first thing that occured to me here is the low framerate, which reminds me a bit of the Colecovision versions of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. I suppose they didn't make it to rewrite the display list in each frame. Of course the arcade original has a smooth 60 Hz framerate. Then the animation of the turtles are a bit comical since they somehow seem to dance around erratically. And of course you have to get a feeling for this version and its somewhat incorrect implementation of physics - not that the arcade version was 100% accurate, but this one here is even more questionable, with the pests, when they reach the bottom pipe, jumping straight into the air and then sideways. Also, it seems that here you are a bit faster going left and right when jumping than when running (similar to Miner 2049er on the Atari 2600), which also wasn't the case in the arcade version. I've played the C-64 version of this for a long time (the one by Atarisoft which I'm not even sure if it was ever really released, not the one by Ocean), and I have to say that they did a better job on the C-64, in my opinion. The sounds sound better (unless you have one of those slightly buggy sound chips which sometimes switches off one of the voices without it having been requested by the CPU, which in this case means you lose part of the sound effects, because Atarisoft here chose to leave all sound channels on and then only vary the frequency!), and the animation also looks better, even showing a smooth framerate. On the other hand, if more than 8 objects appear on the screen there, all of them start to flicker! But all in all, it's an enjoyable version, and at least Mario looks like Mario. Mario_Brothers__1988___Atari__03.bmp Edited May 3, 2009 by Kurt_Woloch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 212,240 Getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 85,420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdement Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 65,400 This game is aggravating, more than I remembered. Could they have put the respawn point anywhere more dangerous? On both of my good games, I did fine then lost 2-3 lives in rapid succession on a pretty simple level. The POW block doesn't seem very useful, I can't set up more than a 2 turtle combo regardless. I'll probably try again, because my good games were cut short by such sudden and massive choking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 40,040 I did a little better... Finally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdement Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Phase 9 is the one that always slaughters me, and I don't know why. It isn't the ice - I usually die before the ice even shows up. I finally got past it this game. 102,700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keitaro Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 111360 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 125,140 Finally had a decent game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomickneedrop Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 91,640 not my best but my best now. very fun game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 That's it for this round. Congratulations to roadrunner for his phenomenal high score. I hope everyone had fun punching pests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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