+therealbountybob Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 (edited) Pengo & Time for the Thermals Bonus To give me some time to get on with my abbuc softrware contest entry we'll have another extended 3 week round [ends Sunday 17th July 10am UK time] featuring several games that are cool, and probably a few that should be put in the deep freeze Pengo will now be the main game with standard HSC points, the others will be bonuses scored individually, Tables on POST #2. Let's see how it goes Download the games from Fandal and find information on atarimania Here is a disk image with all the games on apart from Polar Pierre. Winter Wally does not run on this menu as uses himem. HSC13 R11 Time for the Thermals.atr Block Pushers: Pengo - Flawed. Top players play on Advanced, and are not allowed to peck in the corners or hide there! STOP PLAYING IF YOU REACH LEVEL 21 AND POST YOUR SCORE. Others players play on the intermediate, if you then reach level 21 stop post scores and play again on advanced if you wish. Pengon - Pretty good! P is Pause, R is Resume. 1000pts for lining up the blocks or 500pts if they are on the screen edge. Looks like an extra Willy after each screen, you can never have too many willies, though probably you can and will get a huge score. [You do so stop playing after 20K] Ice (Cymbal Software) - Not bad. Stand still and use fire to push - didn't get any bonus from lining up the cubes (on the edge). Kill the baddies to complete each level, does get faster and is a BASIC game in part. Level 8 is the hardest it gets (brown blocks). Ice-Cap - Terrible. OSA - you'll need to first run the translator (on the disk image) or change emulator's firmware setting to Atari 800/OSA. Push stick then press fire to shove the blocks. Ice (Raindoft Soft) - Bonus game as 2 players only - crush flowers and opponent. Platformers: Winter Wally* Also terrible - prepare to fall off the platforms. One from the HSC punishment list. Looks like there are 9 levels you can press select to practise them. Start on level 1 for your HSC score. Can't find one that works on the mydos menu. Download from Homesoft or atarionline.pl Polar Pierre - Could be better. Thought I had issues with getting this to work properly on one player, but let's see how it goes. Seems to use only Disk 1 (if you need to access Disk 2 emulator users in the file/disk menu you can mount disk 2 after loading the first one). Play for level reached as the score doesn't reset to 0 after each go! Collect the flags, you can fall off some places and survive if you keep moving perhaps. Players may press Select to skip up to 3 levels (the random lightning spoils some of them). Shooter!: Polar Explorer Good! Another one from Stephen Macilwee and thankfully this is pretty decent and it does level up Bonuses: Play 2 player Polar Pierre or Ice by Raindoft Soft. Everyone welcome to join in, play any games you wish, and post scores, screenshots optional. Suggestions welcome for bonuses / challenges. Post if you need help getting anything running. Have fun Edited July 12, 2016 by therealbountybob Pengo now main game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 FINAL TABLES Pengo (main game) Stop play if you reach level 21 and post your score. Top players play on Advanced, others play on Intermediate unless you really want to play on beginner like bluecat 1st McKong (p) 314,750 12pts 2nd Dope (n) 254,100 11pts 3rd therealbountybob (p) 252,970 10pts 4th JK40001 (p) 52,070 9pts 5th roadrunner (n) 43,940 8pts 6th orpheuswaking (n) 23,560 7pts Time for the Thermals Bonus (details on each game above) Polar Pierre 1pt per place based on screens completed (not including skipped screens so tell me!) 1st Dope (n) 13 4pts 2nd therealbountybob (p) 5 3pts 3rd McKong (p) 4 2pts 4th orpheuswaking (n) 3 1pt Winter Wally 1pt per screen completed 1st Dope (n) 3pts 2nd therealbountybob (p) 2pts 3rd orpheuswaking (n) 1pt 3rd McKong (p) 1pt Pengon 1pt per place (they love plaice!) 1st therealbountybob (p) 20,000 3pts 1st Dope (n) 20,000 3pts 3rd orpheuswaking (n) 7,180 2pts 4th roadrunner (n) 2,855 1pt Ice (Cymbal Software) 1pt per place 1st Dope (n) 23,460 4pts 2nd therealbountybob (p) 22,060 3pts 3rd McKong (p) 18,180 2pts 4th orpheuswaking (n) 16,160 1ptIce Cap 1pt per place 1st therealbountybob (p) 420 1pt 1st Dope (n) 420 1pt Polar Explorer 1pt per place 1st therealbountybob (p) 5,200 5pts 2nd Dope (n) 4,200 4pts 3rd orpheuswaking (n) 2,400 3pts 4th roadrunner (n) 800 2pts 4th McKong (p) 800 2pts 6th Sikor (p) 600 1pt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 @trbb, I'm too lazy... Can You prepare one big atr for this round? Please 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk40001 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 (edited) Pengo - never played this before, so tried on default level 52070 Edited June 26, 2016 by jk40001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Wow I'd forgotten how slow pengo was. 85k 143k I remember my brother and I playing this game for quite a while, having not read the instructions, before one day working out that you got a bonus for lining up the white blocks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) Polar Pierre - 8800 Got to Level 4 The game is definitely a bit buggy, well on Altirra any how. I've noticed on my version the game doesn't reset the score from the previous game for some reason. Also sometimes instead of progressing to the 4th screen it goes back to the 1st! If I get time I'll play tonight on my 800 XL to see if it works better. Edited June 27, 2016 by McKong 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 Pengo is really too easy after a while, there are only a limited number of boards. It's fun though. Try and line up the 3 white blocks away from the edges to get the big bonuses. I've created a menu disk with the games on but I need a file version of an OS/A translator (on mydos) as soon as I have one I'll post it. I know we have a few games again but they may not all be playable, lets check them out and see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 A disk image with all the games on apart from Polar Pierre is on the first post. For Polar Explorer Load the OSA translator utility from the same disk and press Select to reboot - let's hope it is worth the effort 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Pengo 326850 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 1, 2016 Author Share Posted July 1, 2016 Well, what a rotten selection we have here (sorry folks!) Ice Cymbal Software - 14,860 Stand still and use fire to push - didn't get any bonus from lining up the cubes (on the edge). Kill the baddies to complete each level, does get faster each level and it's a BASIC game so not that bad. Press break and type list to see the code! Ice Raindorf Soft - 2 players so bonus game only - crush flowers and opponent. Ice Cap (OSA) 195 pretty dire, push stick then fire to shove the blocks Pengon 7,530 not bad Pengo - still too easy on Advanced once you get into it so TOP PLAYERS WE WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST SCORE FOR THE FIRST 20 LEVELS - IF/WHEN YOU REACH LEVEL 21 STOP PLAYING AND TAKE THE SCORE. 117,150 (12) Polar Pierre - really a 2 player game, my original copy seemed to keep the score on each go so we'll play for level reached. (3) Winter Wally - from the HSC punishment list - reached screen 3, looks like there are 9. Top players no practising from the menu. Can't find one that works on the mydos menu. Download from Homesoft or atarionline.pl Polar Explorer thankfully is pretty good fun. It does level up with a nice tune 2,700 So this round Pengo, Polar Explorer and Pengon are probably the best games. I've updated post #1 with this info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 3, 2016 Author Share Posted July 3, 2016 Pengo will now be the main game with the others scoring some bonus points. First post updated with more info on the games. Tables on POST #2 ICE Cymbal 22,060 Ice Cap 420 Pengon 9,350 Polar Explorer 4,000 Polar Pierre reached Level 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 (edited) 314750 Pengo Edited July 3, 2016 by McKong 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 Ice - 18180 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 4, 2016 Author Share Posted July 4, 2016 314750 Pengo That's a good score I was highly confident of racking up lots of big bonuses but it all went wrong after a good start and I was out at 117K... At least this way there is a challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 My God, I suck at Pengo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 My God, I suck at Pengo... you'll get brain freeze Pengo 195,640 round 16... still trying to get too many bonuses to concentrate on staying alive. You will notice that they cannot peck through the blocks harbouring their siblings, you can take out some of these at the start. Try and go for the bonuses but stay alive. If you get down to two plunger guys they go a bit fast, so perhaps avoid this until the end. I rarely get a time bonus but that might be an alternate strategy? For me Polar Pierre is spoiled by the random lightnings. The movement is not so great, but I'm assuming they are simulating him being on ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Yes the random lightening makes the game pot luck which is annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 No time to play... :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 Yes the random lightening makes the game pot luck which is annoying. Polar Pierre - How about we allow 3? screens to be skipped using Select and see how we get on. It's a nice game otherwise. Would be better if they were on a timer or simply rotated. After this round I might see if Fandal will take a look at the game Hope you've all bought the new issue of Pro© Mag Tables for this round UPDATED on POST #2 Current Standings Updated with Demon Attack points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I don't see my score on table... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 I don't see my score on table... look again my friend ok I missed Polar Explorer which is one of the better games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Pengo - inter 10,980Pengon 2,855Polar Ex. 800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Pengo - 23560 Pengon - 7180 Polar Pierre - 3 Screens Winter Wally - 1 Screen Ice (Cymbal Software) - 16160 Ice Cap - 300 Polar Explorer - 2400 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dope Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Pengon - 11285 Polar Pierre - Reached screen 13 (3 skipped) Polar Explorer - 4200 Pengo - 215260 Winter Wally - Screen 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 Pengo 252,970 levels 1-20 on Advanced. Pengon 21,265 retired Pengon is really too easy with all the free willies so we'll cap it at 20K for the win. Round 12 Poll OPEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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