CGQuarterly Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Welcome to round 8 of the 13th season of the Atari Age NES High Score League! This round we are playing the Taito classic Elevator Action. http://youtu.be/durTn-5IAms This round ends on Sunday, October 4th. Title: Elevator Action Developer: Micronics/Taito Publisher: Taito/Nintendo Released: August 1987 Rules: None that I can think of. Scores So Far Current Standings 1. bubufubu 123 2. DonPedro 91 3. S.BAZ 89 4. darthkur 59 5. Jibbajaba 49 6. roadrunner 46 7. wongojack 40 8. jblenkle 39 9. Retrogamer81081 30 10. AlexKIDD 22 11. asponge 20 12. SiLic0ne t0aD85 18 12. atari2600land 18 14. cparsley 15 15. bigbee99 12 16. LidLikesIntellivision 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Oh,fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Elevator Action - 13,400 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubufubu Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 24,800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubufubu Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 29,850 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I'm excited about this one. I've been aware of this game since I was a child from the arcades and other versions, but I've never really tried to play it for score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 I'm excited about this one. I've been aware of this game since I was a child from the arcades and other versions, but I've never really tried to play it for score. I actually had this game back in the day. Micronics had a knack for making buggy home conversions of popular arcade games, and somehow I ended up with several of them. This is a great game though, and the Micronics bugs are just cosmetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 One of my favorite games. 24,200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 22,900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 5,750 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 20,500 one of the great things about Elevator Action: watching is as fun as playing, so many wacky funny things happening. some friends & i played for about 8 hrs & we were pretty much laughing the whole time! one of them came over the next day & we went for another couple hours & many more laughs. that whole time I never once survived the 1st level without dying, and never once got past Level 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Elevator Action - 14,850 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 15,950 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 35,150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubufubu Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 36,050 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 21,500 not much improvement, but i did actually survive the 1st level w/o dying! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 27,150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 21,500 did actually survive the 1st level w/o dying! I think the difficulty in this game increases with score. I notice that on level one that things get very difficult once I get to about 8k. At 10k, if I haven't died there are sometimes some crouching guys who might as well be firing a machine gun. Try to exit the red door with one of those guys bearing down on you! After a death things go back to a more reasonable difficulty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I think the difficulty in this game increases with score. I notice that on level one that things get very difficult once I get to about 8k. that totally makes sense, I knew there was some nasty tricky shenanigans at work here! every time i think i'm doing well something crazy goes down! @ bubu- did you make it to Level 4?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubufubu Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I think the difficulty in this game increases with score. I notice that on level one that things get very difficult once I get to about 8k. At 10k, if I haven't died there are sometimes some crouching guys who might as well be firing a machine gun. Try to exit the red door with one of those guys bearing down on you! After a death things go back to a more reasonable difficulty. I, too, am in agreement with this. I can sense the difficulty increasing around 5,000 - 6,000 points. It becomes very apparent between 8,000 - 10,000. However, I don't feel the difficulty decrease all that much after a death. You have a short break to come up with a strategy, but then the enemies appear to be just as hyper with spawns and behavior. I've had multiple deaths occur within short periods of time. @ bubu- did you make it to Level 4?? No, I haven't made it that far, S.BAZ. I don't anticipate that kind of stage progression while playing for points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Lead changes are fun - 36,450 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubufubu Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 40,650 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Tag: 42,400 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubufubu Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 44,150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I think I've had a breakthrough - 55,550 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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