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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!

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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

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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 :ponder: 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

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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!

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Extended to TUE 29th OCT 1pm UK time
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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 :thumbsup: 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)

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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

:thumbsup: 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 :)

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15 hours ago, therealbountybob said:

:thumbsup: 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 :)

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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

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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 :D

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 :love:

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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

 

 

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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 ;)

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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.

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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.
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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

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