+therealbountybob Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 (edited) Super Pacman A warm welcome everyone to Season 14 of the High Score Club Super Pacman battled "Gateway to Asphai" to win the first poll. The runner up game will go into the round 2 poll, the other games may appear again later on. I'll handle everything so simply play the game and post a score or two. It's more fun if you post when you play and not just at the end of the round. Screenshots optional. We'll keep things simple for round 1 so no bonus game. Super Pacman It's nice to start the season with a game that everyone can enjoy, it's similar to regular Pac-Man but you can now collect keys to open doors and use the super pills to embiggen pac-man and bust through the doors. Look out for the bonus match up thing in the middle. Play on the default skill level. Bonus Point Challenges (to be played as part of normal goes): #Highest score on stage 1 in 1 man (excludes Dope, trbb, McKong, SHiNjide, Deteacher, Orpheuswaking, RedThunder, CaptainClassic and maybe others!) #Highest score for first 2 stages in 1 man (everyone) #Highest score on 1st man (everyone) #2 Player Mode - if you get someone else to play. #Set new HSC record [AB Positive's 171,200 from Season 2!] If you need any help just post or send me a message. Scoring this season will be similar to before with 12pts for 1st place, down to 2pts for 11th and 12 places. Extra players add scoring positions from 4th 9pts down to 12th - don't worry it will all make sense I'll post tables periodically through the two weeks. Please don't be put off playing by the top players battling it out, otherwise it's a slippery slope where we only end up with a few players. As you can see above there are changes to the bonus point challenges this season Links/Downloads: Ensure the version you play has the title screen text! Fandal Atarionline.pl Atarimania Atari 8-bit forever Antic Podcast Interview with Landon Dyer Atariprotos Info UPDATE: Atariage - Key Bug fixed version ROM version also doesn't have bug where some doors don't open. Round finishes Sunday 5th February 10pm UK time (USA 5pm ET) If you are reading this in the future (using a time machine perhaps) then join in on the current round, there will be a couple of chances to catch-up later in the season. #1 Rule: Have fun Edited January 29, 2017 by therealbountybob Bug fixed version - link added 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHiNjide Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 My first score, where I mainly tried to figure out how this game works at all. 18.320 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Not played this one before. As TRBB said lets see the scores from your early games. I just played for a while and managed 20k ish, I'll play again later hopefully 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 How about a bonus point for anyone beating the current 171k HSC record? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Here's my warmup score: 37,760! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 17,580 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Improved a little bit...and adding the 2-screen bonus score: 40,000! Nice round number: 2-screen bonus: 17,830 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I like this more than regular Pacman games.... Score: 16,830 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 19,210 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 (edited) 16200 pts 24450 pts 28350 pts Am I using a buggy version, or does it sometimes happen that if you munched a lot of gates and keys while you're big, you might end up with fruit or power pills behind doors for which there are no more keys to open them? It happened thrice, all times I practically gave up two Pac-Men because I could not finish the level. One fruit was behind an unopenable door. Also perhaps it is common knowledge but I found that if I go big and then periodically eat power pills, I maintain my enlarged form. *cough* Not sure if I gain any points on playing it that way though. Oh yes, that can more than double the score... Edited January 21, 2017 by carlsson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I found that happens to me, too. My strategy is to eat all the keys first. Try to save the super pills and power pills for last. Notice any fruits behind unopenable doors and use the super pills for that. As for using the power pills to stay super longer, yes, that's supposed to happen. On the early levels, saving the power and super pills for last, then going on a ghost hunt at the end of the level really boosts your score. Also, you don't have to wait for the eyes to return to the house before eating another power pill...the eyes will turn into blue ghosts so you can gobble them up again. Of course, the best play is trapping all 4 ghosts in the house, then getting them with a power pill because you can enter the ghosts' house. New scores for me: High score: 83,450! Best 2-screen score in 1 man: 24,230! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 (edited) My poor first score... Edited January 21, 2017 by Sikor 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 One of my favourite games... I played it a lot in my childhood. Current score: 64250 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Not very good at this. First time I've ever played it. 4050 (2260 first man) 17,500 on second attempt. Edited January 22, 2017 by Tickled_Pink 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Final improvement for the night. First Man: 4060 High Score: 21740 Edited January 22, 2017 by Tickled_Pink 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Playing the crap out of this one tonight. New scores to post: High Score: 129,360! 2-screen High Score: 25,030! 27,430! 1-Man High Score: 56,940! I think I'm done for the night. Edited January 22, 2017 by Deteacher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Super Pacman seems like a pretty fun game. I have fairly limited experience with it. A few weeks back, I was watching Starcade (the early-80s TV show that features people playing arcade games). Super Pacman was one of the games that was played. I have never really given this game much of a chance before, so it was pretty fun to play a few rounds of it tonight. Super Pacman - 25,410 (Real NTSC Atari 130XE 8-Bit running the game from an AtariMax flashcart) What's a good approach to play this game? I've been going around and collecting all the keys first and then clearing the fruit. Anyone have any tips? AtariProtos has a good review of the 5200 version of this game (of which, I guess, this is a port?): http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/superpac/superpac.htm It's nice to be back playing in the HSC-- though I have to admit, it's not like I haven't been playing Atari games... I just lost track of the HSC after I failed to be able to play in a few rounds in a row. Again, thanks to TRBB for sending me a personal message inviting me back here. Adam 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 One of my favourite games... I played it a lot in my childhood. I thought that this game wasn't released. Ah, wait, I suppose that there must have been some version of it floating around on disk, maybe ported by Glenn The 5200 Man. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Super Pacman seems like a pretty fun game. I have fairly limited experience with it. A few weeks back, I was watching Starcade (the early-80s TV show that features people playing arcade games). Super Pacman was one of the games that was played. I have never really given this game much of a chance before, so it was pretty fun to play a few rounds of it tonight. Super Pacman - 25,410 (Real NTSC Atari 130XE 8-Bit running the game from an AtariMax flashcart) Super Pacman (Atari 8-Bit)(NTSC)(25410)(Cropped).jpg What's a good approach to play this game? I've been going around and collecting all the keys first and then clearing the fruit. Anyone have any tips? AtariProtos has a good review of the 5200 version of this game (of which, I guess, this is a port?): http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/superpac/superpac.htm It's nice to be back playing in the HSC-- though I have to admit, it's not like I haven't been playing Atari games... I just lost track of the HSC after I failed to be able to play in a few rounds in a row. Again, thanks to TRBB for sending me a personal message inviting me back here. Adam Look back at my post #11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 66740 started to get the hang of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Good too see so many posts already I've not played yet but had a thought that the fire button made Super Pacman go faster... probably made that up Players might enjoy listening to the Antic Podcast interview with Landon Dyer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 slight improvement to 21,110 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Grabbed a few bonus fruits and was awarded an extra Pac-Man at 30K, which is no good if you end up with unopenable doors... New PB at 30550 pts 46400 pts Edited January 22, 2017 by carlsson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHiNjide Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 My second try: 39190 Could be worse, but Pacman was never my thing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 I've not played yet but had a thought that the fire button made Super Pacman go faster... probably made that up Yes, you're right: the fire button does indeed make Super Pacman move faster. Are there some versions of this game where this isn't the case? Thanks for pointing out the interview with Landon Dyer. I'll try listening to that in a few days. Adam 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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