HSC17 Round 17: The Tombs of Doomb!

[roadrunner]

Pyramid Run, what is the big giant circle blob thing i have to avoid?

[+therealbountybob]

1 hour ago, roadrunner said:

Pyramid Run, what is the big giant circle blob thing i have to avoid?

It's a hole that drops you down to the floor below!

[roadrunner]

3 hours ago, therealbountybob said:

It's a hole that drops you down to the floor below!

Good info, that pinball game Egypt Ball ain't bad. It's playable, better than some of the other ones i tried out this round.
 

[carlsson]

By the way, I noticed that Mastertronic (MAD) sold both the C64 and A8 versions as Revenge II, but on the title screen they differ in that the C64 says Return of the Mutant Camels while the A8 says Revenge of the Mutant Camels. I see that on the Llamasoft Archive, the canon title would be Revenge of the Mutant Camels II, but for some reason the title screen doesn't resemble this. Wikipedia further writes that the Amiga game Revenge of the Mutant Camels II didn't involve Jeff at all, except possibly design.

 

Steve A. Riding (also Airstrike, Captain Sticky's Gold etc) who did the A8 version also is co-credited for the Amiga game. He ended up at Psygnosis with a number of titles.

[McKong]

I've been out of the loop for a couple of weeks, I hope everyone's having fun. 

 

I haven't been reading the posts to this topic.

 

I'll have a go at a couple of the games this week, which are the best ones?

[carlsson]

I don't know which are the best ones, but going by number of participants so far:

 

Pharaoh's Curse - 7 entries

King Tut's Tomb - 7 entries

Desert Falcon - 6 entries

Lost Tomb - 5 entries

Pharaoh's Pyramid - 5 entries

 

All other main games 2 entries each, plus the puzzle and adventure bonus games.

 

I think the games originally voted for were along the line of Pharaoh's Curse and King Tut's Tomb, some of the others just were included for variety and to get a round that lasts four weeks.

[McKong]

10 minutes ago, carlsson said:

I don't know which are the best ones, but going by number of participants so far:

 

Pharaoh's Curse - 7 entries

King Tut's Tomb - 7 entries

Desert Falcon - 6 entries

Lost Tomb - 5 entries

Pharaoh's Pyramid - 5 entries

 

All other main games 2 entries each, plus the puzzle and adventure bonus games.

 

I think the games originally voted for were along the line of Pharaoh's Curse and King Tut's Tomb, some of the others just were included for variety and to get a round that lasts four weeks.

Thanks Carlsson, I'll choose a couple of that list first then

[McKong]

Pharaoh's Curse - 1015

Kings Tut's - 3191 Shame you can't fire on the vertical on this one

Edited September 14, 2020 by McKong

[+therealbountybob]

20 hours ago, roadrunner said:

Good info, that pinball game Egypt Ball ain't bad. It's playable, better than some of the other ones i tried out this round.
 

The ball keeps getting stuck on the flipper and you can't tilt or anything to restart - CANNED!!

[McKong]

King Tut's - 5888 got to the third level and then got 'disk error' so couldn't continue

Edited September 15, 2020 by McKong

[roadrunner]

Pharaos Quest 

800 points


Revenge of the mutant camels

2,340
 

[graywest]

Mutant Camels: 12,780

Not exactly sure what I'm doing in this one. ?

[McKong]

Pyramid Run 2410 - Quite like this one

[McKong]

Pharaoh's Pyramid - 4296 4896 16115 19849 Level 2 Round 2

This is my favourite so far

Edited September 17, 2020 by McKong

[graywest]

Woohoo! I've got a three day weekend, so that means it's time for some high score club.

 

Pyramid Run: 3000

 

Lost Tomb: 12220

 

Pharos Quest: 1650

[graywest]

On 9/13/2020 at 2:02 PM, roadrunner said:

Pyramid Run, what is the big giant circle blob thing i have to avoid?

It's also kind of cool because you can hide behind it and the enemies will fall in trying to get to you. A nice touch.

[graywest]

The Tomb of Death: Well, I tried it. ? I actually really like text adventures, but this one is... not up to par.

 

Desert Survival Test: My first go. After you play through it once, the game tells you the correct answers. This is un-ironically kind of a fun little diversion. Not really a game, but now if I'm ever lost in the desert, I have a slightly better chance at living to tell  the tale.

Edited September 18, 2020 by graywest

[McKong]

Pharaoh's Pyramid 222082

[+slx]

slxjr scored 16500 on Lorien's Tomb while I had 10300 only. His timing using the moving blocks was better than mine.

 

Improved to 3415 on Pharaoh's Curse.

 

[carlsson]

Pharaoh's Pyramid - 8327 pts (round 5 starting on Slave/Novice)

Pharaoh's Quest - 1550 pts

 

I played Pharaoh's Curse as well, but didn't manage to improve my 1st run score. I still don't get Pyramid Run to work, tried several versions. I'm not sure how many of these games I will have a final go at next week.

 

 

 

[+therealbountybob]

The Tombs of Doom!

lates tables

the round is open until the end of the month, not a bad set of gamesl, Im going to make some scoring improvements later in the week (he said confidently) May also take a look at the maze creator for King Tut - see the atarimania info - maybe someone's disk has some different levels on it - bonus points anyone?!!!

 

Master Table - HSC Points

  1st   therealbountybob              53  12pts
  2nd   graywest                        50  11pts
  3rd   carlsson                          30  10pts
  4th   roadrunner                      29  9pts
  5th   McKong                          19  8pts
  6th   Caco                              16  7pts
  7th   Deteacher                       12  6pts
  8th   slx                                 10  5pts
  9th   jblenkle                            8  4pts

scoring may change

 

Main Games

Pharaoh's Curse

*completing the default level "0" will get 7pts plus 1pt for each of the other 3 skill levels completed

  1st   graywest                 17,790    10*
  2nd   trbb                         3,665     6
  3rd   slx                            3,415     5
  4th   carlsson                     2,575     4
  5th   jblenkle                      2,050     4
  6th   McKong                     1,015     3
  7th   roadrunner                    740     3
  8th   Caco                            435     2
 

King Tut's Tomb

play with No Backfire and on Skill 1 Professional - use Option / Select to set this.

  1st   trbb                          27,206     7
  2nd   deteacher                  19,370     6
  3rd   graywest                     8,755     5
  4th   McKong                       5,888     4
  5th   Caco                           5,548     4
  6th   roadrunner                   4,914     3
  7th   carlsson                      4,597     3
  8th   slx                             4,299     2

 

Lost Tomb
use the whips to break the walls, get the chests and get out!

  1st   trbb                           71,420     7
  2nd   deteacher                   41,840     6
  3rd   graywest                     12,220     5
  4th   jblenkle                        2,720     4
  5th   carlsson                       2,000     4
  6th   roadrunner                   1,360     3
  7th   Caco                             200     3

 

Pharaoh's Pyramid

default skill, get the bricks at the base and take them to the top!

  1st   McKong                      22,082     7
  2nd   trbb                          16,853     6
  3rd   graywest                    16,701     5
  4th   carlsson                      8,327     4
  5th   roadrunner                   2,826     4
  6th   Caco                             655     3

 

Desert Falcon

play on Advanced

  1st   graywest                   44,151     7
  2nd   trbb                         18,542     6
  3rd   carlsson                      8,577     5
  4th   Caco                          7,400     4
  5th   roadrunner                  5,707     4
  6th   slx                             2,900     3

 

Pharos Quest

Turbo-BASIC Pharaoh's Curse!

  1st   trbb                           2,050     7
  2nd   graywest                    1,650     6
  3rd   carlsson                      1,550     5
  4th   roadrunner                     800     4

 

Pyramid Run

take the default options

  1st   trbb                            4,430     7
  2nd   graywest                     3,000     6
  3rd   McKong                       2,410     5
  4th   roadrunner                     650     4

 

Revenge of the Mutant Camels

Report % complete as well as score

  1st   trbb 8%                      31,950     7
  2nd   graywest 3%               12,780     6
  3rd   carlsson 3%                 12,360     5
  4th   roadrunner                    2,340     4

 

Puzzle Bonus

Lorien's Tomb

just for fun - but post which level you reached

trbb             lv10 2pts
graywest    16900 2pts
slx jr          16500 1pt
jblenkle      11300 1pt
Caco         11300 1pt
slx             10300 1pt
roadrunner    5800 1pt

 

Pyramid (KESoft)

trbb - failed to complete a screen!

 

Adventure Bonus

just for fun but you may get some additional points, who knows... not me

The Tomb of Death

tackled by: caco & graywest

 

The Sands of Egypt

trbb - stuck in the pool! this one is too hard and not enjoyable as you start in an unmappable maze so try another one with a suitable theme: e.g. Curse of the Pharaoh.

 

Beneath the Pyramids

---

 

Desert Survival Test

survivors: graywest

 

[carlsson]

On 9/2/2020 at 11:35 AM, carlsson said:

Edit: Actually I downloaded Riddle of the Sphinx for 16K expanded VIC-20 and was pleasantly surprised by its variation of maze with mini-games. Some are pure random, some are skill based, pretty much all in BASIC. While I lack skills in Atari programming (even BASIC) so I won't give it an attempt at converting, I might play this game a little more seriously later in the month, outside the HSC then.

After spending way too much time trying to "crack" the TAP file (multiple tools such as WAV-PRG, FinalTAP and tapclean wouldn't recognize the individual files so I had to load them one by one in the emulator and then use the machine code monitor to extract them to a D64), I have now played this game for half an hour ... and what a piece of random it is. I count to at least 7 different mini-games, of which three are somewhat skill based, one is semi-random and three are entirely random number based. In order to win the game, you both need to find a key and get at least 500 in treasure within your three lives. So far I was extremely close to making it once but lost my last life right before the entrance to the last chamber so I don't know what the final prize is. With better odds on the random games and perhaps some other improvements, it could be decent for VIC-20 purposes but I would never have dig it up if it wasn't for the tomb theme here in the A8 HSC.

 

And yes, I played the VIC version of Pharaoh's Curse too while I'm at it. Maybe I'm swearing in the church, but except for fewer colours and blinking software sprites, it looks just as good as the A8 version and perhaps even plays at a nicer speed, less random about the guys suddenly appearing and firing at you. I get a little bit of Bruce Lee feel about that, enemies spawning on screen and die of their own. Relatively speaking, definitely a bigger technical feat on the VIC than the A8 game is.

[+therealbountybob]

nice post carlsson

screenshots ?!!

[carlsson]

I didn't bother, but Riddle looks like this. You have some selected screenshots from the three different versions of Pharaoh's Curse.

[+therealbountybob]

After a lot of travelling up and down throgh the screens I finally beat Pharaoh's Curse (level 0!!)

5,810 - higher score is worse here! Took ages to get the timing right on that one where you drop down the sides of the screen to land on the lift in the middle. At the end I couldn't figure out how to end it but luckily landed on birdy and he took me to the title screenl.

 

Found a little feature - if you press reset after beating level 0 on the password screen it then shows the next password and so on - press Option to see the screen again as it blanks out.

 

Also played Desert Falcon earlier on ? and reached Level 11 on Lorien's Tomb the timing for level 10 was not so bad afterall, might play this more too.