+therealbountybob Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 PinHead Nice game "and some of the best music ever" - music so good you can turn it off with S or something but then the game is a bit hollow Practice moving L/R into the balloon and then kicking it back up and please "Don't Kick the Bucket" as you are all needed here https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=2600 atarimania has COM file and instructions plus a nice write up on the game fandal has XEX atarionline.pl has XEX and ATRs Round closes 10am Sunday 5th May - we can wrap it up sooner if we have all had enough after a week or so HAVE FUN! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 9570 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Pinhead: 14,025 Played this one quite a bit back in the day. Fun one 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Pinhead: 7675 pts Cool game, apparently based on Kick-Man by Midway but with some small differences. It is cute that Robert Jaeger even included Pac-Man in the interlude, except unlike Midway he probably didn't have any rights to the character. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 (edited) 12475 13900 134270 Edited April 22 by McKong 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 (edited) 2775 - need more work Edited April 22 by Goochman 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Pinhead: 24,090 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 After a quick joystick service... 12,285 then 76,070 Many happy times playing this one with my siblings 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 11640. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Quick controls check: Is there any way to move faster? I keep getting killed on later levels where multiple balloons drop at once. Not sure if it's just bad RNG or what, but sometimes they drop from both sides at roughly the same time, which seems impossible unless I'm doing something wrong. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 5,570 I played on an emulator. Wish I still had it on a disk to play on my real Atari 800. But for now, my linux laptop will do. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 9 hours ago, rdrunner said: Quick controls check: Is there any way to move faster? I keep getting killed on later levels where multiple balloons drop at once. Not sure if it's just bad RNG or what, but sometimes they drop from both sides at roughly the same time, which seems impossible unless I'm doing something wrong. It does seem impossible sometimes when the balloons drop on either side of the screen at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 On 4/25/2024 at 3:37 AM, littleman jack said: 5,570 I played on an emulator. Wish I still had it on a disk to play on my real Atari 800. But for now, my linux laptop will do. Get that Atari hardware back On 4/25/2024 at 8:00 AM, McKong said: It does seem impossible sometimes when the balloons drop on either side of the screen at the same time. Yes just a feature of the game, you can sometimes kick one back up and dash across for the other but sometimes you are stuffed first tables PinHead Player Score Points 1st McKong 134,270 12 2nd therealbountybob 76,070 11 3rd AtariSphinx 24,090 10 4th Sikor 11,640 9 5th devwebcl 9,570 8 6th carlsson 7,675 7 7th littleman jack 5,570 6 8th Goochman 2,775 5 The R7 McKong Poll is open: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/365551-hsc21-round-7-poll/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 On 4/25/2024 at 3:00 AM, McKong said: It does seem impossible sometimes when the balloons drop on either side of the screen at the same time. Gotcha. Well at least you get 5 lives (plus bonuses) to compensate for bad luck. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 13 minutes ago, rdrunner said: Gotcha. Well at least you get 5 lives (plus bonuses) to compensate for bad luck. Thanks! I was presuming that you know that you can kick the balloons up in the air if you don't quite get there in time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 1 hour ago, McKong said: I was presuming that you know that you can kick the balloons up in the air if you don't quite get there in time Yup, I knew about the kicking. It has a rather short range, but it's effective with practice. I've seen people play Kickman in the arcades, but never tried it. Not sure how it compares other than the Pac-Man references like @carlsson mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 From what I understand, Midway first released Kick without references to Pac-Man. Then that game became popular, and they figured they held at least the North American rights to the character and added it to the game, to make it Kick-Man. Since it wasn't really a Pac-Man sequel, probably Namco didn't care all that much. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Small improovment: 14075 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Even smaller improvement: 7885 pts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Pinhead: 7,250 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 very small improvements: 15450 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 89155 Finally got a lucky enough run where nothing bad happened on the first couple of multi-drop stages. It eventually catches up with you though. One time I had probably the worst break possible: Blue (fastest) balloon from leftmost column, bucket from rightmost a split second later. Uh, nope. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevymad Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 I had one game better but reset the machine before taking a pic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Pinhead - 920 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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