coleco1981 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) ROUND 5 - SEASON 9 Lead your Commando against a battery of mechanical monsters in a bizarre, alien high-tech structure. Watch out for Evil Otto! Plays like the Frenzy arcade game! Don't be fooled by Evil Otto's smile. It's deceptive. He, the robots and the skeletons are out to get your Commando! Trapped in a bizarre, alien high-tech structure and surrounded by robots, your Commando moves from cell to cell as you face a band of deadly mechanical monsters. Odd marching skeletons clunk toward you. Robotic tanks trundle into position. Face your enemy and fire, or be doomed by their fatal touch! Eliminate all automatons and proceed to the next assembly. Stay alert! Your enemies now fire deadly blasts. Some cell walls ricochet the blasts--both yours and your enemy's, so watch where you fire! Worst of all is Evil Otto, the bouncing menace who passes through walls and destroys any creature on contact. It's a bizarre battle for survival as Evil Otto bounces toward you! Will you make it? Game InformationGame Name: FrenzyReleased by: Coleco/SternSettings: Game 1ROM: Frenzy (1983)(Coleco).zip Contest Ends Sunday, November 1st 2015 at 11:00PM ESTContest RulesThe HSC rules can be found here Current High Scores 1. Nebulon 1,100,949 [+100] 2. Northcoastgamer 1,029,126 [+93] 3. sega_SHARK 254,434 [+23] 4. darthkur 61,849 [+6] 5. Mangia-Boy 52,041 [+5] 6. TPR 39,745 [+4] 7. jblenkle 21,880 [+2] 8. digress 14,514 [+1] 9. ed1475 13,794 [+1] 10. SiLic0ne t0aD85 11,373 [+1] 11. Darrin9999 10,988 [+1] 12. roadrunner 4,434 [+0]Leaderboard(up to end of prior round) 1. Northcoastgamer [371] (4) 3 2. sega_SHARK [264] (4) 1 3. coleco1981 [212] (4) 4. darthkur [184] (4) 5. ed1475 [159] (4) 6. TPR [147] (4) 7. jblenkle [136] (4) 8. atariron82 [114] (4) 9. Mangia-Boy [110] (3) 10. S.BAZ [91] (4) 11. klasko54 [54] (1) 12. SiLic0ne t0aD85 [47] (2) 13. roadrunner [30] (3)[ ] = Points( ) = Rounds PlayedBLUE = Rounds Won Edited November 3, 2015 by coleco1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Frenzy - 5,740 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I love Frenzy...but I pretty much suck at it! lol 6,388 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 88,621 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digress Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 14,514 not the best perhaps i'll try again later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 224,719 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) Frenzy - 7,790 SEE NEXT POST Edited October 21, 2015 by jblenkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Frenzy - 9,986 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 18,335 There's no other video game, where the villains behave as unfair like in Frenzy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Getting a bit better at it... 14,958 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 4,434 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sega_SHARK Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 65,365 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1475 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 13794 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 39,745 So some strategies this time around that seemed to work pretty well: - Hiding and letting the robots destroy themselves - Not waiting around to destroy all the enemies for the bonus and just getting out of a level quicker - Levels where I was able to easily kill all the robots, wait around for Otto and kill him a couple of times. Being someone who used to own a Berzerk machine, I had sort of forgotten the rules of Frenzy that you can now touch the walls and the robots without dying so I sort of used that to my advantage. I'm getting better but I feel like it's still a game I'll never be able to master. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sega_SHARK Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) 39,745 So some strategies this time around that seemed to work pretty well: - Hiding and letting the robots destroy themselves - Not waiting around to destroy all the enemies for the bonus and just getting out of a level quicker - Levels where I was able to easily kill all the robots, wait around for Otto and kill him a couple of times. Being someone who used to own a Berzerk machine, I had sort of forgotten the rules of Frenzy that you can now touch the walls and the robots without dying so I sort of used that to my advantage. I'm getting better but I feel like it's still a game I'll never be able to master. All of this is solid advice. ^^ This page is a bit of a cluster, but It does have some really good tips: http://spyhunter007.com/frenzy_new_high_score.htm The short version is: Control where Evil Otto spawns. Control where you spawn. Try to exit rooms using only the bottom of the east wall, or the far left of the north wall. You might have to shoot out some dots to make an exit, but Evil Otto will always spawn on the bottom west wall. It's easier to rack up three kills on Otto if you know where he is coming from. You can shoot out your exit and camp him by standing near your exit. This allows you to escape quickly when the impossible #4 Otto spawns. If you use these two exits, you will always spawn on the bottom left. Running this pattern really helped me. Edited October 25, 2015 by sega_SHARK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Frenzy - 10,519 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 (edited) One of my favorite CV games... not my best game but its fun either way. Rustiness aside, here's my first go at it. 7,722 EDIT: 11,373 Edited October 27, 2015 by SiLic0ne t0aD85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Little improvement... 22,902 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 10,988 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 61,849 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 144,128 Original system and controller. One try. No breaks. http://www.blitter.com/~nebulous/Brig/cgi/Frenzy_Nebulon_1.JPG Yeesh, my body hurts. It's tough to sit on the floor that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Frenzy - 13,788 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Had a good run! Frenzy ! 52,041 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) 1,029,126 Skill 1. Had the day off yesterday, so I started early in the morning and finished late afternoon. It was around 11 hours total. The first video starts just under 985,000 and shows rollage around the 12:45 mark. My camera turned off, so I to record a second video for the final score. Edited October 30, 2015 by Northcoastgamer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Part 2. Shows final score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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