5200 HSC Season 15 Round 9 - Montezuma’s Revenge

[+DamonicFury]

Welcome to the ninth round of the 15th 5200 HSC season!  Montezuma’s Revenge beat Rescue on Fractalus by two votes.  Play using the default settings.  Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records.

 

The high score was set by Northcoastgamer with a score of 1,306,100 points.  Beat this if you can for a bonus point!  (Good luck… that’s a monster score!)

 

The ROM and manual can be found here:

 

https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=640

 

Round ends Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @9pm EST

 

Standings:

jeremiahjt - 305,400

jblenkle - 79,150

roadrunner - 66,300 

rubeon - 24,200

bemis - 8,950

[+jeremiahjt]

Let us start this out with a score of 37,250.  I almost finished the first pyramid.  I did finish it on the continue for the first time though.  This score should get eclipsed by me, and others of course, very soon.

 

Edit: Finished the first pyramid with a score of 84,100.

Edited May 2, 2022 by jeremiahjt
New score

[+jeremiahjt]

New score of 85,900. I had six lives left, but I had a meeting a work I had to get too. So I turned off the game and went to the meeting, which was canceled. Awesome.

[+jeremiahjt]

2 hours ago, jeremiahjt said:

New score of 85,900. I had six lives left, but I had a meeting a work I had to get too. So I turned off the game and went to the meeting, which was canceled. Awesome.

I got another chance and broke the 100,000 point barrier with 106,150.  I found the torch on the second pyramid after getting to the dark part of the pyramid.  I searched everywhere in the lighted part, so I am pretty sure I did not miss a torch in that area.  That is pretty tricky to have the torch hidden in the darkened section of the pyramid.

[roadrunner]

66,300



 

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by roadrunner

[+DamonicFury]

New poll is up:

 

 

[+jeremiahjt]

New score of 123,300 ended with quite a few lives left because I used up too many blue keys.  I cheated and looked at the map.  I was having trouble figuring out the best route to get all the treasures on the first pyramid.  Since I used a map on the first pyramid I figured I would use it on the second too.  I did see that there was a torch before the dark area, but I did not count all the keys.  The blue door blocking the treasure room was my demise.

Edited May 9, 2022 by jeremiahjt
grammar

[jblenkle]

Montezuma's Revenge - 79,150

[roadrunner]

Maps here C64 version -


https://symlink.dk/nostalgia/c64/montezuma/
 

[+jeremiahjt]

My final score of the competition will be 305,400.  I was on the fourth pyramid.  Unfortunately I lost my last life by accidently moving on a rope while looking at the map.  Quite the fun game.  I never got as proficient with it as I did the 2600 version, but this one is much bigger.  Maybe I will try out the Master System one next.  Thanks to all the people that voted for this one, which gave me a good excuse to put some time into it.

[rubeon]

18,750

 

I'd never played this one before, and was pleasantly surprised: it's a fantastic adventure game. I'll give it a few more runs and see if I can get a more respectable score ? 

 

[+jeremiahjt]

18 minutes ago, rubeon said:

I'll give it a few more runs and see if I can get a more respectable score

I swear to God if you post a score of over a million points tomorrow I am going to yell obscenities at you using your screen name.

[rubeon]

24,200

 

not much of an improvement really!  I wish I had taken more time with this game, it really rocks

 

[+Bemis]

8,950.  Pretty awful, I know. It was a last minute single play attempt to get on the board. I don't recall playing this much, if ever, before.  Looks like a great game that I will have to try again in the future.   

[+DamonicFury]

Kudos to jeremiahjt for taking the most treasures!

 

River Raid is up next. 

 

Final standings:

jeremiahjt - 305,400  +11

jblenkle - 79,150  +10

roadrunner - 66,300  +9

rubeon - 24,200  +6

bemis - 8,950  +5