BuckoBrand Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 i got to level3. how far have you gotten? this is a really good game...i like this game. the skunk gets me every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratedTopping Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I remember making it up all the mountains when I was a kid. I'm too old to try that now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 NVR played this one. I'll have to see if its on one of my multi carts tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) I remember getting past level 12, i.e. twice all mountains (1-6), first round with falling rocks, second round with avalanches, and third round (levels 13-18) with icicles. I don't believe I made it to the end, though. P.S.: I remember once there was a documentary feature on German Television, at some time near the end of the 80ies, which showed Alpiner in their teaser. They used it as a symbol for the rise and spreading of home computer technology, with concerns about its possible future (in the view of that era), showing how the climber got hit by rocks... Edited October 28, 2015 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Always liked this game since I was a fan of Crazy Climber too. I think most of us TI'ers are fond of it. Can't remember the last time I played it though or how high I got. These days I pop in Bigfoot for my climber fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Last time I played I could get to around level 9 or so... the falling avalanches are so damn fast you almost have NO time to react. In fact... I'd go so far as to say it's pure luck to avoid them in a lot of cases. An early strategy me and my brother figured out was to move your alpiner to the side of the screen so he was equally split between left and right sides. It would buy you a few extra moves to get out of the way of falling objects. Unfortunately, in the later part of the game, the falling objects will come split screen as well... I do remember being disappointed by the abominable snowman... I was expecting a big Yeti creature like from Empire Strikes Back, and instead it's some stick figure with a goofy hat on skis... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernalKeith Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I never liked this game. I didn't realize there was an endgame to it, but I never wanted to play long enough to get too far. Bigfoot, on the other hand, is awesome. (Even with his constipated sounding Speech Synthesizer "growl"). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 There's no end to Alpine... I did a video debunking the "third time through" ending some time ago (while showing how to find cheats with the debugger). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qjZN6qf1wk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Yeah, Parsec never ends either... games of that era didn't have "end scenes", they just repeated endlessly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 There's no end to Alpine... I did a video debunking the "third time through" ending some time ago (while showing how to find cheats with the debugger). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qjZN6qf1wk Too cool.... I watched all 34 minutes of that. Interesting how you can look at scratchpad and instinctively know what the writes are doing and to what addresses they are being written. I imagine that took quite a bit of time and practice. It was a fun watch, for both the boy and me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Thanks. It takes time to build intuition, of course, but you can make guesses right off. For instance, if a value only changes when you move, you know it has something to do with movement. If it changes for left/right but not up/down, then it's something to do with horizontal movement, etc. Just keep narrowing it down. Eventually you do have to guess - come up with a value you can write that will test your theory. Then just keep iterating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckoBrand Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 i made it to level 4 a couple days ago. man it was hard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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