+therealbountybob Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 (edited) BEST OF PAL PACK Three weeks, three of the best PAL only games - all underrated on Atarimania NTSC players will need to use emulation as far as I know Hijack!, Zone X, Tales of Dragons and Cavemen HiJack! New to the HSC! A nice chopper rescue game from The English Software Co. From memory the firey tree explosions are fantastic. [Select]=Pause, [Option]=resume play. High Score shown at end of each go only. https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=2035 https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-hijack_2464.html https://www.atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=katalog&sub=H&tg=Hijack!#Hijack! Zone X Play starting on each of the starting stages Zones 1/4/7/10 (like in Boulderdash) post scores for each one as well as level reached. One of my favourite games. Collect multiple bombs for disposal for higher bonus. The mats can be dropped by pressing fire and used to block baddies. Before you exit the level collect them up by walking into them and return them to the stack for a bonus. I thought we'd played Zone X before but I can't see it Some levels have earth to tunnel into and you can have great fun setting up a network of tunnels with the mats. Game screens are not too large (again like Boulder Dash in size)... https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=3473 https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-zone-x_5942.html https://www.atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=katalog&sub=Z&tg=Zone X (Gremlin Garphics)#Zone X (Gremlin Garphics) Tales of Dragons and Cavemen We've played this one twice before, fantastic "Roc'n Rope" arcade game. https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=3332 https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tales-of-dragons-and-cavemen_5249.html https://www.atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=katalog&sub=T&tg=Tales of Dragons %26 Cavemen#Tales of Dragons %26 Cavemen Video: - guess it's ATR version as has intro text etc EVERYONE WELCOME TO JOIN IN AND POST SCORES, SCREENSHOTS OPTIONAL ROUND NOW ENDS WEDS 23rd OCT 8pm TUES 29TH OCT 1pm UK time GAME ON! Edited October 23 by therealbountybob Extended to TUE 29th OCT 1pm UK time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 T of D+C 78750 Level 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 (edited) Hey @therealbountybob - in your first post, the Fandal links for Hijack! and Zone X are flipped. 🙂 Tales of Dragons and Cavemen: 18,220 HiJack!: 1,703 Zone X: 5,400 All seem like fun games! This is my first time playing any of these. Edited October 3 by graywest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 5 Author Share Posted October 5 On 10/3/2024 at 10:19 PM, graywest said: Hey @therealbountybob - in your first post, the Fandal links for Hijack! and Zone X are flipped. 🙂 Tales of Dragons and Cavemen: 18,220 ... All seem like fun games! This is my first time playing any of these. Thanks fixed That's great graywest Hijack is the weaker game, but good for a HSC contest, the other two are superb. Had my first few goes. Should be a good round 1,,047 2,947 4,948 (3) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 T of D+C 109920 Level 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 (edited) T of D+C 165830 Level 10 Made it to level 11 no score improvement 1st Level in 1 life 20490 Hijack 3685 Level 2 Edited October 8 by McKong 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 6 Author Share Posted October 6 Hijack 5,591 (3) TOD&C 42,880 best so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 T of D+C 170040 Level 12. The bird suddenly flew across the middle of the screen on level 12 and got me. Not seen that before 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 10 Author Share Posted October 10 20 hours ago, McKong said: T of D+C 170040 Level 12. The bird suddenly flew across the middle of the screen on level 12 and got me. Not seen that before I didn't remember the cavemen jumping about merrily Not tried it but can you get the egg from the top bird ?!! Still getting into this one again, improved to 47,680 and 5,591 on Hijack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 (edited) 15 hours ago, therealbountybob said: I didn't remember the cavemen jumping about merrily Not tried it but can you get the egg from the top bird ?!! Still getting into this one again, improved to 47,680 and 5,591 on Hijack I dont think it's an egg that the bird is carrying, I think it's a rock, the bird throws the rock at you in later levels. You can get the bird with the torch when it's carrying the rock on the first level Edited October 11 by McKong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 12 Author Share Posted October 12 On 10/10/2024 at 9:18 PM, McKong said: I dont think it's an egg that the bird is carrying, I think it's a rock, the bird throws the rock at you in later levels. You can get the bird with the torch when it's carrying the rock on the first level HA! Level 6 and I found out, that square egg rock must have been painful ok lots of goes today and getting my mojo on 55,980 58,440 72,620 102,890 screenshots later! think will extend this round a few more days as Zone X deserves some serious play time too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 Hijack! - 1663 pts Tales of Dragons and Cavemen - 3820 pts Zone X - 2000 pts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 Zone X - start on Zone 1/4/7/10 so you can explore the levels. 61,,600 I made it through to the 4th Zone before I was psyched out Zone 3 has tunneling (screenshot) ToDaC 111,220 (10) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 What is the relation between Zone X and Boulder Dash? Same setup of levels, same font in the title bar. Did Gremlin Graphics get away with it or obtained license from Peter Liepa and the rest of First Star? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 47 minutes ago, carlsson said: What is the relation between Zone X and Boulder Dash? Same setup of levels, same font in the title bar. Did Gremlin Graphics get away with it or obtained license from Peter Liepa and the rest of First Star? I was just referencing the multiple starting places - for anyone reading Zone X is nothing like Boulderdash in gameplay I think Whirlinurd uses the same playfield as BDash (possibly it is a useful/natural size) but they are both programmed by Chris Gray https://www.atarimania.com/pgelstsoft.awp?system=8&type=G&team=494&step=25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 Tales of Dragons and Cavemen - 11,190 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 16 Author Share Posted October 16 ToDaC 137,720 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 19 Author Share Posted October 19 After a lot of goes over the past week today I have an improvement on ToDaC 182,490 am sure McKong will be pleased to play some more Will play more Zone X in this final period Reminder: ROUND ENDS WEDS 23rd OCT 8pm UK time 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 20 Author Share Posted October 20 Zone X - started on Zone 4 and completed it but Zone 5 looks intimidating, long coridoors so need to use the mats a lot to secure safe passage 23,650 Note: Screenshots do not capture the richness of the graphics! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absalon Posted October 21 Share Posted October 21 The games look. Too bad I had no time to play in the last weeks. Won't submit any scores for this round 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 (edited) ToD+C 176810 Level 13 234110 Level 11 Edited October 22 by McKong 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzabass Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 (edited) Hijack 2210 Tales 12260 ZoneX 8600 8925 Edited October 23 by Gazzabass new score 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 On 10/19/2024 at 1:32 PM, therealbountybob said: After a lot of goes over the past week today I have an improvement on ToDaC 182,490 am sure McKong will be pleased to play some more Will play more Zone X in this final period Reminder: ROUND ENDS WEDS 23rd OCT 8pm UK time I had been trying to improve my score. You deifnitely need to harvest as many points as possible from the first 9 or so levels cos it starts to get really difficult. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner Posted October 23 Share Posted October 23 Hijack - 5246, Level 3 Tales of Roc 'N Rope - 133170, Level 7 Zone X: Zone 1 Start - 79400, Reached Zone 5 Zone 4 Start - 28100, Reached Zone 5 Zone 7 Start - 17625, Reached Zone 8 Zone 10 Start - 5500, No zones cleared Hijack is a glitchy piece of junk. Moving on... I've always wanted to play Roc 'N Rope more and just never had a reason. Not very good at it yet though. Nice scores guys! Zone X is a fun concept but is rather painfully slow to play. I don't think it was meant to play through all the way in one sitting (unless you have all day that is). Couple of questions: Officially how many starting points were we supposed to play from? I know it says to start from Zones 1, 4, 7, and 10, but there are even more unique stages if you change the skill level (goes from 1 to 3). Did anyone successfully use a warp door on a PC? My emulator would always crash when I pressed the fire button to use one. Was able to complete almost all of Zone 5, but couldn't get past the warp doors. Same thing on Zone 8. Zone 10 is just a mess with all the one-way doors, but I'm sure it's beatable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 23 Author Share Posted October 23 6 hours ago, rdrunner said: Hijack - 5246, Level 3 Tales of Roc 'N Rope - 133170, Level 7 Zone X: Zone 1 Start - 79400, Reached Zone 5 Zone 4 Start - 28100, Reached Zone 5 Zone 7 Start - 17625, Reached Zone 8 Zone 10 Start - 5500, No zones cleared Hijack is a glitchy piece of junk. Moving on... I've always wanted to play Roc 'N Rope more and just never had a reason. Not very good at it yet though. Nice scores guys! Zone X is a fun concept but is rather painfully slow to play. I don't think it was meant to play through all the way in one sitting (unless you have all day that is). Couple of questions: Officially how many starting points were we supposed to play from? I know it says to start from Zones 1, 4, 7, and 10, but there are even more unique stages if you change the skill level (goes from 1 to 3). Did anyone successfully use a warp door on a PC? My emulator would always crash when I pressed the fire button to use one. Was able to complete almost all of Zone 5, but couldn't get past the warp doors. Same thing on Zone 8. Zone 10 is just a mess with all the one-way doors, but I'm sure it's beatable. Hijack plays fine on PAL hardware as does Zone X so perhaps try another emulator if you have time? Which one are you using? [useful for future info on these games if anyone else has any problems to report back please] Zone X yes all the starting points on the first skill level 1/4/7/10 Played Zone 4 - 40,650 made it to Zone 6 but didn't complete it. Not sure if the teleporters (Zone 5) only work once as I couldn't get back into them and didn't get the spade. Improved on ToDac to 204,720 think there is an extra life at 200k possibly - that low flyin' bird on level 12 got me Not many players and there's much more play left in this round so ROUND EXTENDED UNTIL TUES 29TH OCTOBER 1PM UK TIME 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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