+therealbountybob Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 Well sorry folks, it's a sad state of affairs when a Jigsaw game is the best one of the round... Cohen's Towers 650 did manage the odd delivery but this is really a terrible game, random deaths slow gameplay poor timing allowances... Tower Toppler is locking up on my 130XE (from mydos disk on 1050 tried two versions). I couldn't even figure out how to get past the first hole, the 2nd bit opens up and you can't jump again - is there a long jump or something i'm missing? DOH - I see I go in the towe! Trying again using version from fandal's site using APE to load it... If you press Option on the title screen it will eventually go to Mission 2 - so we could try both? I'll put the next poll up tonight and we can start the next round when we have a winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 Tower Toppler (worked on PAL 130XE from APE boot using fandal's version) 8,250 finished the first tower. Not bad. 7.830 If players want to use Ctrl-2-9 to start on the other Towers' that is ok, may as well explore the game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Yeah, Tower Toppler worked on my PAL 130XE on first attempt, unlike some of the other HSC games we've played earlier. I understand there is a bit of YMMV when it comes to Atari 8-bit compatibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Ok, first time ever playing Tower Toppler. Took a few tries to figure out what I was doing. It's very hard to see when it's safe to walk, or if there's a hole there. I guess that was done on purpose. LOL 6,320! Made it to tower #2 (barely.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 The C64 (and NES) versions are prettier, with colours instead of the striped look. Not even with NTSC interlacing colours it would look good. Improved scores: Cohen's Towers - 520 pts Kason's Tower - Reached level 1:2 Tower [Stephen Taylor] - 708 pts, tower 4 Tower Toppler - 7690 pts, tower 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Tower Toppler: 12,640! Still can't get off the 2nd tower. I saw the top of it, though! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Yeah I like the C64 version of TT but I'm not very got at it because you need a good memory to remember which blocks not to tread on! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 On 9/17/2019 at 7:47 PM, carlsson said: Yeah, Tower Toppler worked on my PAL 130XE on first attempt, unlike some of the other HSC games we've played earlier. I understand there is a bit of YMMV when it comes to Atari 8-bit compatibility. What did you load it from? I need to run it through something to make it a boot disk perhaps? (worked ok from APE) EVERYONE Tower Toppler - Try the other towers using the warp Ctrl-1-9 we may as well thrash it out for the next few days! Been spending some free time on Block on Legs: First Steps for relase after abbuc, I think you will all like it (fingers crossed) OK POLL TIME... POLL OPEN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Tower Toppler: 22,250. Made it to the 4th tower. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 hours ago, therealbountybob said: What did you load it from? Regular SIO2SD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 (edited) Tower Toppler 7110 tower 2 (Mission 1) 2560 Tower 1 (Mission 2) Edited September 20, 2019 by McKong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 On 9/19/2019 at 12:21 AM, carlsson said: Regular SIO2SD. ok, I did get Tower Toppler to work from disk loading directly from mydos without a menu :) Played it some more, started on Tower 2, got to the top fell down the hole. One last go on Cohen's Towers ARGH!! Both games are equally bad. Block on Legs will kick their butts :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Nebulus is all about memorizing the levels. I learned the first level 30 years ago, but haven't got very far on the second level to be honest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 3 hours ago, therealbountybob said: ok, I did get Tower Toppler to work from disk loading directly from mydos without a menu Played it some more, started on Tower 2, got to the top fell down the hole. One last go on Cohen's Towers ARGH!! Both games are equally bad. Block on Legs will kick their butts I'm sorry that the consensus on my game was so negative. I know it wasn't the best choice in my list, but I figured, in spite of it's flaws, the challenge level would merit a better response. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 44 minutes ago, Deteacher said: I'm sorry that the consensus on my game was so negative. I know it wasn't the best choice in my list, but I figured, in spite of it's flaws, the challenge level would merit a better response. I'ts good to try something different, I really like his other games Ghost Chaser, Ollies Follies, Nuclear Nick and Scooter (I think that's him too) perhaps on NTSC the extra speed makes it more playable. I'll hook up a stick to the PC and take a look. Wounder if Cohen's Towers was rushed out or something or one of his earlier games :ponder: Saying all this my new game is a bit twitchy but I hope some better level design will help here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 I don't find Cohen's that bad, just that it seems to have a steep difficulty level right from the beginning, perhaps the level design could have been a little more forgiving to start with. When you get barely nowhere in a game, you soon lose the interest to play it any further. I also went through my small notebook of C64 high scores from my youth and while I'm fairly sure I've played Cohen's Towers on it some time, I never got as many points that it was worth writing down my score which tells me something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Nope me neither, I enjoyed playing it. It's just a shame that it's so slow, otherwise it's my kind of game 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 21, 2019 Author Share Posted September 21, 2019 Cohen's Towers has all the elements of a good game, if it was slicker and less annoying it would be a good game, especailly with the verticall scrolling in a platformer, though others use it e.g. Electrician they are more to get to an area to do stuff rather than a key part of the game, this one with the vertical lifts in both directions would be a winner. Damn Block on Legs, just when I thought I'd finished overnight I've decided to add some movement velocity to try and make it less twitchy! More assembling coming up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Nope me neither, I enjoyed playing it. It's just a shame that it's so slow, otherwise it's my kind of game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Cohen's Towers 7740 most of the way through tower 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 21, 2019 Author Share Posted September 21, 2019 2 hours ago, McKong said: Cohen's Towers 7740 most of the way through tower 2 You guys must have some added patience! I did give it a quick spin on NTSC and the movement is much better (faster) but the waiting for the jump etc is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 22, 2019 Author Share Posted September 22, 2019 Congratulations to Deteacher for winning the round. I've made up the scoring, hope this is ok with everyone. We've discussed the games already so let's move on to the next round Cohen's Towers 1st Deteacher 11,580 6pts 2nd McKong 7,740 4pts 3rd therealbountybob 650 2pts 4th carlsson 520 2pts 5th Sikor 220 2pts 6th slx 220 2pts Tower Toppler 1st Deteacher 22,250 6pts 2nd therealbountybob 8,250 3pts 3rd carlsson 7,690 3pts 4th McKong 7,110 3pts 5th Sikor 2,690 1pt Tower 1st McKong 1,283 2pts 2nd therealbountybob 839 1pt 3rd carlsson 708 1pt 4th Deteacher 407 1pt Kason's Tower 1st Deteacher 6 2pts 2nd therealbountybob 2 1pt 3rd carlsson 1 1pt Tower of Flames 1st Deteacher 70 1pt Tower Jigsaws 1st RedThunder 2 2pts UPDATED: Season 16 Current Standings 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Scoring is fine, sorry I didn't get round to playing the other two games, I've not had too much time recently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 22, 2019 Author Share Posted September 22, 2019 44 minutes ago, McKong said: Scoring is fine, sorry I didn't get round to playing the other two games, I've not had too much time recently. You didn't miss much, I will get Tower of Flames to work just in case it was the hidden gem of the round (!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 4 minutes ago, therealbountybob said: You didn't miss much, I will get Tower of Flames to work just in case it was the hidden gem of the round (!) It wasn't...trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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