Ze_ro Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Important Note: This weeks competition is over and no further scores will be accepted. Oh no! Brutus has kidnapped your one and only Olive Oyl, and he's not giving her back without a fight! You'd better grab yourself a joystick and a can of spinach, because this week's game is Popeye! (Note: The "115,120 point" bug is against the rules. Do not use it.) Game Information Game Name: Popeye Released By: Parker Bros, 1983 Left Difficulty: N/A Right Difficulty: N/A Game Mode: Default Post your scores right here in this thread, and I will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone elses. The deadline for posting scores is Wednesday November 24th at 1:00 AM (Central Time, UTC-6). Challenges Theme Avatar - Change your avatar to something Popeye related (or Olive Oyl, or Brutus, or whatever), and you get 2 bonus points.Mingy Jongo [+2] Scrabbler15 [+2] Deteacher [+2] Miss 2600 [+2] roadrunner [+2] lastkill3r [+2] JacobZu7zu7 [+2] toymailman [+2] Comic Challenge - Take a Popeye comic strip, and rewrite it to be something video game related to get 5 bonus points.Mingy Jongo [+5] Scrabbler15 [+5] Deteacher [+5] Miss 2600 [+5] roadrunner [+5] lastkill3r [+5] JacobZu7zu7 [+5] toymailman [+5] Current High Scores 102,200 (Deteacher) [+11] 63,000 (toymailman) [+10] 56,650 (JacobZu7zu7) [+9] 54,300 (Scrabbler15) [+8] 48,650 (oyamafamily) [+7] 30,100 (Miss 2600) [+6] 29,800 (lastkill3r) [+5] 24,350 (roadrunner) [+4] 17,600 (LarcenTyler) [+3] 16,900 (Mingy Jongo) [+2] 16,350 (Mangia-Boy) [+1] Best Tips Deteacher TwinGalaxies Top 3 (Game 1, Difficulty B)805,750 (Todd Rogers) 125,100 (Christian L Keilback) 122,820 (David R Archey) (Emulator) Current Standings toymailman [184] JacobZu7zu7 [162] Scrabber15 [152] Deteacher [147] oyamafamily [144] roadrunner [68] zylon [61] Miss 2600 [57] Jifremok [54] Zoyx [53] Chuck D. Head [52] LarcenTyler [36] SeaGtGruff [33] keilbaca [30] ClassicGMR [29] Mingy Jongo [22] pis [21] HatefulGravey [17] doctorclu [13] Pioneer4x4 [12] Mangia-Boy [10] MrJimbo [8] Mister VCS [7] satan165 [7] rmaerz [5] 4Ks [4] madbutscher [4] dooglehead [3] ed1475 [2] littleman jack [2] pacmanplayer [2] Austin [1] MIKE5200 [1] SpaceDice2010 [1] Scoring Points in Popeye Catching a note, heart, or X on...Platform #1 - 500 points Platform #2 - 300 points Platform #3 - 100 points Platform #4 - 50 points While in Water - 50 points Punching a Bottle - 100 points Knocking Brutus Overboard - 3000 points You will receive an extra life if you reach 20,000 points. Only one extra life can be earned. You will receive double points for collecting a note, heart, or X while the "Popeye Theme" is playing (ie, after eating the spinach) Hints and Tips The Manual As always, you really should read the manual. In case you don't have the manual, AtariAge has a typed copy available online. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide any specific hints. We played this game once before in the High Score Club, you might want to check out that thread for more hints. Deteacher You can sort of "freeze" Bluto in his tracks for a short time. If you're on one side and you want to keep him on the other side a little longer, you can bait him to throw bottles at you. Just stand on the same level as him and wait until he starts throwing. He won't move until he throws all 3. Use that time to gather hearts/notes/x's on your side of the screen. In level 1, you can use the middle ladder to lure Bluto onto the 2nd level...just don't go all the way down the ladder. Go down all but the last step. Once he drops down and starts throwing bottles, shoot back up the ladder and resume your collecting. In level 2, you rarely have to leave the top floor. Using the "freeze Bluto" technique, you can keep going from one side to the other, collecting 500 point notes. Once you get the hang of this, the only time you'll need to drop down is to grab the spinach. In level 3, This is a lot like level 2. You should rarely ever have to leave the top level, except to get the spinach. Just keep sliding across and grab the 500 point x's. Overall, Bluto is not a very large threat. The bottles from the Seahag are the real enemy in this game. Once you learn to control Bluto, you should be able to rack up some serious points. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mingy Jongo Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 (edited) <- My avatar My score: 16900 My comic: Edited November 17, 2010 by Mingy Jongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss 2600 Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Nice comic, Mingy Jongo! Did you create the dialogue? It was funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mingy Jongo Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Nice comic, Mingy Jongo! Did you create the dialogue? It was funny! Yep. Took me forever to come up with something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 (edited) PARTICIPATION POINTS - 37,750 Edited November 17, 2010 by oyamafamily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Clearly, I need more spinich. 9150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 (edited) <--- My avatar And my bonus cartoon (no offense intended to those that like E.T.) First submission: 46,900! Edited November 18, 2010 by Deteacher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Feeling a little better since I had the spinich. 17,450 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 In honor of all the guys who've been there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss 2600 Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Here's my bonus: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 <----- avatar changed 15,350 for now My comic has to wait. I got writer's block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 17,600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 (edited) I'll try to think of a comic idea soon. Edited November 18, 2010 by LarcenTyler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastkill3r Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 <---------------------------------Avatar Comic http://img207.imageshack.us/i/i060604popeye.jpg/ Score is only 9800 and i forgot to take a picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 (edited) New high score for me: 60,600! I have to try this out on real hardware. I know I can improve on this score. Edited November 18, 2010 by Deteacher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 (edited) Got to Level 3 and really had no idea what was going on. So I ran to the spinich to make sure I got the extra 3,000 for knocking out Brutus. The spinich disappeared and Brutus was bearing down on me. My Popeye is standing there, punching the air, hoping the spinich would be back. Brutus would have whacked my last Popeye, but he stopped and jumped in the air (just in case Popeye was on two levels at the same time, I guess). It gave me just enough time to get the spinich and I got to knock out Brutus on each of the first three levels. It was all kind of comical, so to speak. 24,700 Edited November 19, 2010 by Scrabbler15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Ok, time for some tips: You can sort of "freeze" Bluto in his tracks for a short time. If you're on one side and you want to keep him on the other side a little longer, you can bait him to throw bottles at you. Just stand on the same level as him and wait until he starts throwing. He won't move until he throws all 3. Use that time to gather hearts/notes/x's on your side of the screen. In level 1, you can use the middle ladder to lure Bluto onto the 2nd level...just don't go all the way down the ladder. Go down all but the last step. Once he drops down and starts throwing bottles, shoot back up the ladder and resume your collecting. In level 2, you rarely have to leave the top floor. Using the "freeze Bluto" technique, you can keep going from one side to the other, collecting 500 point notes. Once you get the hang of this, the only time you'll need to drop down is to grab the spinach. In level 3, This is a lot like level 2. You should rarely ever have to leave the top level, except to get the spinach. Just keep sliding across and grab the 500 point x's. Overall, Bluto is not a very large threat. The bottles from the Seahag are the real enemy in this game. Once you learn to control Bluto, you should be able to rack up some serious points. BTW, this is an excellent port of the arcade classic, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastkill3r Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Score I had 21000 pts, but forgot to take a picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 (edited) 24,350 My comic, and my new high score. Edited November 20, 2010 by roadrunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Still climbing. 33,500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastkill3r Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 New Score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 41,050 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss 2600 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 22,450 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 45,550 One heart away from finishing the level (bah) and getting to another can of spinich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Here is my score: 16.350 I play this game for the first time. Twice my Popeye was killed randomly without being hit by Brutus or by a flying bottle. Were these deaths caused by the seahag? How can Popeye protect himself against the seahag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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