+therealbountybob Posted January 30, 2022 Author Share Posted January 30, 2022 Hey Fres, nice cabinet Many Thanks Caco Trying to contact a bunch of previous players and lure in some new ones now... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMarc-er Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Never met a Nintendo game I was good at. 30,000 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 30, 2022 Author Share Posted January 30, 2022 At last got past level 4 pie and would have completed the level if I didn't mess around with that hammer, it's just so satisfying! Had a whopping 13 pie and bug kills on one go with it! 120,200 [hit space to pause to get nice screenshot] Like I said guys don't be put off by the big scores from some of us, it's a tough game all round 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benighted Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 17,800 for now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzabass Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 47600 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 31900 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevymad Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 19200... sorta better.. only took a couple dozen games.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 115200 (all bonuses) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pusakat Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Almost missed it. I'm back. Hopefully, I can keep in the game. Here's my first score after not playing this game for a really long time. 38,800 up to level 3 pie stage. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 31, 2022 Author Share Posted January 31, 2022 Welcome even more HSC returnees We have another week left on DK [ends Mon 7th Feb]. I'll start up the round 2 poll in a few minutes... latest tables same scoring system as usual and keeping the bonus point for the top player on NTSC system # 1st Deteacher 155,300 13pts # 2nd 8BIT 1337 134,700 11pts 3rd therealbountybob 120,200 10pts 4th McKong 115,200 9pts 5th graywest 112,200 9pts 6th AtariSphinx 88,600 9pts 7th Fres 76,200 8pts 8th Gury 73,000 8pts 9th Cafeman 68,900 8pts 10th tompateus 63,100 7pts 11th Atari8guy 48,000 7pts 12th Gazzabass 47,600 7pts 13th jblenkle 47,000 6pts 14th carlsson 42,900 6pts 15th pusakat 38,800 6pts 16th Sikor 38,700 5pts 17th devwebcl 34,300 5pts 18th NIKON 31,900 4pts 19th Caco 31,300 4pts 20th MagicMarc-er 30,000 3pts 21st chevymad 19,200 3pts 22nd Piotrus 18,500 2pts 23rd Benighted 17,800 2pts 24th roadrunner 17,400 2pts Also McKong has set a new HSC record 248,100 (standard play not collecting everything) if anyone else wants to challenge him for this fire away!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaG Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 I would like to take part in your competition. When I got my 800XL in 1983, DK was my first game together with Dig Dug. And I still love it Today, I play on my 130XE on the projector in the livingroom. After hard practicing I finaly managed to get 72900 Points 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 2 hours ago, MichaG said: I would like to take part in your competition. When I got my 800XL in 1983, DK was my first game together with Dig Dug. And I still love it Today, I play on my 130XE on the projector in the livingroom. After hard practicing I finaly managed to get 72900 Points Welcome 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 New high score. Always the first round of a session. Not sure why that is. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerpoco Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 67,100 Was only my fourth or fifth time playing the game, I don't love the version. Nice to meet ya'll, can't swear I'll play every game, but I'll try. Relatively new 600XL owner, memory upgrade, composite out, it's an awesome machine. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Donkey Kong - 67,300 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 13 hours ago, Rogerpoco said: 67,100 Was only my fourth or fifth time playing the game, I don't love the version. Nice to meet ya'll, can't swear I'll play every game, but I'll try. Relatively new 600XL owner, memory upgrade, composite out, it's an awesome machine. 16 hours ago, MichaG said: I would like to take part in your competition. When I got my 800XL in 1983, DK was my first game together with Dig Dug. And I still love it Today, I play on my 130XE on the projector in the livingroom. After hard practicing I finaly managed to get 72900 Points Yes a big welcome to you both, I think the first "new" players of the Season it's all friendly competition here so enjoy the games and suggest anything you want to play on the games list thread at any time. That could be the biggest Donkey Kong we have seen?!! 10 hours ago, jblenkle said: Donkey Kong - 67,300 Level 4 pie Now then jb you have got just about as far as I did but my score was about 50% more and that's probably down to a lot of hammering, it is risky though and can mess up your rhythm and of course lose lots of lives when it runs out or from being careless 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BIT 1337 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Welcome new players! Quote Level 4 pie Now then jb you have got just about as far as I did but my score was about 50% more and that's probably down to a lot of hammering, it is risky though and can mess up your rhythm and of course lose lots of lives when it runs out or from being careless It seemed to me that you lose 100pts off the timer every 2-3 seconds or so? And the hammer gets you 300 pts per barrel/fire you crush, so I figured it makes sense, especially in L1/L2, to use the hammer on the barrel level. Take that for what it is though. I normally seem to score in the 70-80k range, which is why I haven't been able to beat my own score so far 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Getting closer Deteacher 133,900 got caught on the ladder on level 5 pie trying to get the third item! My usual HSC Strategy is to have a copuple of goes each day, I avoid constant restarts to avoid a game becoming frustrating! As 9 of you have voted already the round 2 poll is not a secret! It will stay open until Monday evening when we start rouind 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Donkey Kong: 90,900 Small improvement. Trying to break 100k but sure will be able to. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benighted Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 23800 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerpoco Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Thanks for the Welcome! Just gabbing, extra time on my hands. I played in the 2600 HSC for three seasons in a row, taking this year off-I was actually a bad, bad Man over there(lol), but it was a lot of pressure to play daily to improve my scores, and it took a lot of time from my regular pursuits, general high scoring. Again, there, I'm a bad, bad Man...(Totally teasing, with the "full of myself". I'm good, bad, AND ugly.). I tend to play pretty much any and every system imaginable, live in "nowhere" Tennessee, but stumbled on a deal for several 80's PC's, and the Guy lived just down the(gravel...)road!!! So being an Atari fan in general, the first one I got going/got into was the 600XL-actually, with the deal, I got one super minty, in the box, matching serial numbers-but the comma key is stuck on the keyboard, been told "easy fix". Well, I was so excited, I went ahead and got one from someone here already upgraded and output modded and all, and I DO have plans for the Guy who did the work on my "good" one to fix my minty one, I just haven't gotten it done yet. But I really do love it-Pitstop is a particular favorite, I'd been familiar with it from Coleco and C64. I really do try to be "everybody's buddy", but I also say what I think, lol-I really don't like this Donkey Kong. I was about a 350/400K scorer on MAME years ago, not great but decent, and have done OK on some platforms, I don't hate the game, but not a particular favorite. It just seems like the known thing about Kong is the occasional randomness that screws you up, but other than that, you typically DO have some form of manipulation/control(I have the MAME W/R on Burgertime, BTW, lol, I'm good at manipulating baddies...). This version doesn't give you any of that, it seems like, the Pie Factory in particular just seems like luck every time I'd get past it, and I KNOW DK strategy. Now-not that it makes it a bad game, but it's just, to me, a not quite right version of the game, the girders are too close together on the opening screens, just a lot of little things. Yeah-depending on how far my head is up my tail on a particular game scoring, whatnot-if I get time, I don't mind a bit to play a game a time or two and just submit whatever, waiting for those couple games I just can't put down, I don't have a lot of pride, haha, stinky scores can be as fun as good ones. Skiing of somesort, hmm. I saw that. I'm a good Skiier. And TRBB, you programmed it, am I seeing that right? That's AWESOME! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 10 hours ago, therealbountybob said: Level 4 pie Now then jb you have got just about as far as I did but my score was about 50% more and that's probably down to a lot of hammering, it is risky though and can mess up your rhythm and of course lose lots of lives when it runs out or from being careless I usually try to avoid using the hammer unless I get caught with no other way out. I know you get more points for hammering things as opposed to jumping over them, but I just don't know if it's worth it because of the extra time used which diminishes your score. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 3 hours ago, jblenkle said: I usually try to avoid using the hammer unless I get caught with no other way out. I know you get more points for hammering things as opposed to jumping over them, but I just don't know if it's worth it because of the extra time used which diminishes your score. Looks like you lose ~500 points from the bonus every time you grab the hammer. So you need to hammer at least 2 enemies to about break even. I find on the second level (blue metal) if you grab the hammer without 2 enemies around you can lose points. To make it worth the risk I think you need to hammer >=3 enemies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevymad Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 A little better, but much more fun with my Slik Stick working. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzabass Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 59900 I'm still making to many silly mistakes. Joystick seems to misbehave just when you don't want it to! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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