Season 14 ~ Week 9/10 ~ Summer Special

[Mikey50]

neither did I dont feel bad

[keilbaca]

Lost Luggage - 2785

[Mikey50]

 game 4 \A/B  1296

[keilbaca]

Beefsteak - 7305

[+jeremiahjt]

12 hours ago, Atarian7 said:

Lost Luggage Game 4 A/B: 2221

 

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes Default A/B: 500 

 

I just read the instructions for Revenge... so now I know how to build walls.  I didn't even know I was supposed to build walls.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

The walls are a good thing? I did it accidentally, but I thought it was something bad.

[Vocelli]

18 hours ago, keilbaca said:

Lost Luggage - 2785

Please play Game 4

[Keir]

The tricky part for me with RotBT is that it’s so hard to see (and therefore avoid) the shots being fired at my sprayer. For every game I actually complete, I probably restart 10 because I get shot before even scoring a point. This also means it gets a lot easier later once I’ve started a wall that I can hide behind, but each wave begins the challenge anew.

[keilbaca]

3 hours ago, Vocelli said:

Please play Game 4

Whoops, I must have hard reset between runs. Will do. 

[keilbaca]

Beefsteak - 8235

[keilbaca]

Lost Luggage - 2331

[Atarian7]

11 hours ago, jeremiahjt said:

The walls are a good thing? I did it accidentally, but I thought it was something bad.

LOL  You get the most points by building the walls but you have to complete the bottom one before completing the one above it.  You can partially do all the walls but to complete one you have to have the one underneath 

it complete.

Also if a plant starts to grow on top of the wall and you don't shoot it in time , it wipes out that section and you have to redo it.

 

[Atarian7]

Revenge of... Default A/B: 7520

 

I completed one set of walls.  I didn't get far on the second set.

[+jeremiahjt]

5 hours ago, Vocelli said:

Please play Game 4

How can you tell he was not playing on game 4?

[Absalon]

 Tapper (A/B) : 39300

Revenge Beefsteak (A/B) : 28235

 

both games flicker a lot using the ntsc rom in my pal JR (no pal versions available, right?). almost unplayable. Had to switch to emulation for these two games.

 

Revenge took some time to get used to the gameplay. But now it's almost fun.

Edited July 3, 2023 by Absalon

[Atarian7]

I have a problem with double firing when shooting the bricks in Revenge...   It's really frustrating to wait for a color and then lose it.

[classicgamer_27330]

Tapper 17,600 as long as I'm in last, I don't think a pic is needed to show my suckatuge 

[gbag]

Luggage 697

tapper.  25,750

beefsteak. 2,130

 

no pics…sorry…camping and only 2 bars…hope this message gets througj

[kermit73]

Lost Luggage: 2087

Tapper: 59825

Tomatoes: 29450

 

On Tapper, when I start the game, I have 10,000 points.  Is that happening for everyone or did I somehow screw up the game settings?

 

 

Edited July 5, 2023 by kermit73
Asking 10k point question.

[Jasonhrb]

Some interesting games this week. Revennge of the tomatoes is definitely an RTFM game. I spend my first couple of games just shooting the blocks thinking there has to be more to it than this , which of course there was 😀. Once I read the manual and got into it, it was pretty good. I didn't really get into it, but it's an interesting attempt to try something a bit different.

 

Lost luggage is one I actually really liked for what it is. Yes, it's simple and repetitive, but it does what it does well and can be pretty engrossing in short bursts. It's probably the one of the three I'm most likely to play again.

 

Tapper is probably the most impressive of the three. While it's (as you'd expect) far from arcade perfect, it manages to capture the core elements, even the music (after a fashion!). The graphics are good enough to work, and it has the frantic gameplay of the arcade. The thing that stopped it being close to a top tier title for me though, was that the controls felt a little "off". There was a bit of lag in movement sometimes, and (more annoyingly) it seemed like sometimes a drink wouldn't release when you pressed the button, or sometimes there'd be two drinks go at once. 

 

This might be me just not quite getting the rhythm right, or maybe it's an emulation thing (I've heard other people talk about "controller lag" in emulation more generally although I rarely notice it myself). But whatever it is, it has stopped me getting really into what is otherwise a really remarkable game given the hardware limitations.

 

Anyway, that's enough from me, here are some scores :

 

 

 

 

[Atarian7]

10 hours ago, kermit73 said:

On Tapper, when I start the game, I have 10,000 points.

Mine is starting at 10,000.

 

[Vocelli]

Getting on the Board.

Lost Luggage 4A/: 1750

Tapper 1A/: 19400

Beefsteak Default A/: 29520

Edited July 5, 2023 by Vocelli

[Vocelli]

Forgot how to play Tapper... Now I remember.

44750

[Keir]

15 hours ago, Jasonhrb said:

This might be me just not quite getting the rhythm right, or maybe it's an emulation thing (I've heard other people talk about "controller lag" in emulation more generally although I rarely notice it myself). But whatever it is, it has stopped me getting really into what is otherwise a really remarkable game given the hardware limitations.

It’s not an emulation thing because I’m playing with an original cart and it happens to me too. I’ll either think I’ve tossed 2 drinks and move on but I’ve actually only tossed 1, or I’ll think that only 1 went and throw an extra only to have it crash to the floor.

[Atarian7]

Lost Luggage Game 4 A/B: 2516

 

 

Funny thing but not so funny about this 2516: I didn't realize I still had a round left and wasted an opportunity to take the lead.

[fakecortex]

21 hours ago, Keir said:

It’s not an emulation thing because I’m playing with an original cart and it happens to me too. I’ll either think I’ve tossed 2 drinks and move on but I’ve actually only tossed 1, or I’ll think that only 1 went and throw an extra only to have it crash to the floor.

Same here. I blame the costumers. They demand too much from us mild-mannered tappers.