Scrabbler15 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Amazing Squidelicious. :) . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botbird208 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 216400 sorry the pic is blurry. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerguy99 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 149,490 i am proud of this score cause i havn't done the best job with this game but yay! but i got to keep my head 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbotelho Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 (edited) Dolphin 127,720 Edited August 30, 2014 by mbotelho 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacey Invader Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 137,960 Poking along slowly but surely. I had a pretty good rhythm going until those seahorses drank their Red Bull and started approaching at mach 8. Been timing the jumps and going over most of the seahorses, dipping down once in a while to grab a "good wave." But by the time it speeds up, my poor green dolphin doesn't even hit the water by the time the next slew of seahorses shows up. To all the Amazing folks out there, how do you deal with this? Navigating those pesky little gaps at this sort of speed is near inconceivable to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 137,960 Poking along slowly but surely. I had a pretty good rhythm going until those seahorses drank their Red Bull and started approaching at mach 8. Been timing the jumps and going over most of the seahorses, dipping down once in a while to grab a "good wave." But by the time it speeds up, my poor green dolphin doesn't even hit the water by the time the next slew of seahorses shows up. To all the Amazing folks out there, how do you deal with this? Navigating those pesky little gaps at this sort of speed is near inconceivable to me. P_Aug30_134852.JPG The timing for most of the game is - wait for the current to move off the screen - jump the seahorses. But there is spot (seems to be where you were) where the timing changes. When the current moves off the screen at that point, it requires two jumps in a row. Then wait for the next current to move off the screen, and it's jump twice again. That phase of the game seems to only last for about 20,000 or 30,000 points. Then it changes back to one seahorse jump per current, but at a really fast speed. You're closer to being Amazing than you might think. . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 The double sea horse section lasts for a couple of squids, whether you kill them or not. I lose most of my lives in this section trying to capture a sea-gull. A better tactical play if you want to save some lives is to just jump the sea horses like mad (every 13 gates is a new color squid) and if the squid gets close to tailing you, wait till it hits a wave forward and change direction. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) 132,500 144,980 I jumped the seahorses in my first game. Then I read manual and started to learn the tones... It was only after going back to jump all seahorses that I impreved from 50k to 130k. Now it's time to deal with this double jumping seahorses. Edited August 31, 2014 by LidLikesIntellivision 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I go by the tones and shoot for the openings. The game seems to lose its charm if you ignore the auditory cues. But it may be necessary to jump seahorses to get the big scores. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) I go by the tones and shoot for the openings. The game seems to lose its charm if you ignore the auditory cues. But it may be necessary to jump seahorses to get the big scores. You're right. It would be better if we could always use the tune clues for openings... Well, I'm still using the highest tone/opening untill about 130k when there are the double barriers of seahorses. And now 209,650 249,580 I thought it would be an amazing game... Edited September 1, 2014 by LidLikesIntellivision 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 263620 Well, poop. I only had a chance to play 4 times and each time got closer and closer, but couldn't muster the goods. It's been about 8 years since I maxed this game last, but clearly my skills have eroded. Ah well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 16,870 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) 38,830 Edited September 1, 2014 by JacobZu7zu7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacey Invader Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 141,360 Just hoping to get this one in under the wire. My version of midnight's still a couple of hours away. Thanks to CaptainClassic and Scrabbler15 for the great advice, seen above, in regard to the timing of the seahorses and whatnot. If I'd had a little more time today (not just a few minutes at the end of the night), this valuable advice might have seen some Amazingness. Thanks for the advice. I'd been following the cues as much as possible, but the only one I'm 100% on is the top, high-pitched gap. All the others seem to be too confusing, especially when it hits double-time. I was counting seconds between horses, and hadn't even noticed that the current leaving the screen coincides neatly with the appearance of the horses on the right. Ah, if only I knew then what I know now ... And, giant squid, the competition may be over, but I'm still after you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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