zylon Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 (edited) The game this round is Pacman. Emulation is Ok as is whatever control scheme you choose. Play on Default setting: Level 1 Cherries. Pics not required but recommended. Round ends Monday 11:59pm EST Aug. 8th 2011 Current HSC record: Pac Man - jetset 81,000 Beat this for an additional HSC bonus point Scores: 49,960 sdamon +11 47,000 JacobZu7zu7 +10 45,930 chuckwalla +9 32,180 zylon +8 28,540 atariron82 +7 27,080 Sonic R +6 25,450 4Ks +5 24,810 BydoEmpire +4 20,800 roadrunner +3 11,950 peedenmark7 +2 Current standings - Points - sdamon - 123 atariron82 - 109 roadrunner - 83 zylon - 67 DensB68 - 44 JacobZu7zu7 - 41 doctorclu - 31 NoahsMyBro - 31 peedenmark7 - 30 BydoEmpire - 28 Sonic R - 20 rxd - 19 NML32 - 17 Gabriel - 13 rmaerz - 13 Mingy Jongo - 4 Rounds won - sdamon - 6 doctorclu - 2 atariron82 - 2 NoahsMyBro - 1 rxd - 1 Edited August 9, 2011 by zylon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 26, 2011 Author Share Posted July 26, 2011 170 views and no scores? Put some points up! Here, I'll present a target. 1st crack: 20,640 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I'll try to get a score in tonight, just dealing with the Intellivision, blues right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 I'll try to get a score in tonight, just dealing with the Intellivision, blues right now. Take your time. I'm just busting chops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Ks Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Man, I was so close to beating zylon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 3rd attempt at it, 24,280 This is a tough version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 This version seems significantly harder than the similar 8-bit computer version I grew up with. The added intermissions sure are nice though. 42,550 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 (edited) Nice work so far. I'm going to have to change the way I hold the stick for this one. Everytime I get going good, I bump the start button. I'm still right around where I usually score on arcade conversions of Pacman games. Edited July 27, 2011 by zylon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 (edited) Man, I was so close to beating zylon... I see the "target" idea worked. 2nd shot: 22,420 Edited July 27, 2011 by zylon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 First go 18,470 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Just for fun, I played the A8 cart of this one a little today. The few tweaks made for the 5200 version are obvious. Sprite graphics were touched up a little and ghost AI is very different. Given my skill-set to be the same on both ports, I did get further on A8, but scored much less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Ks Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I can't help but notice that 5200 Pac-Man is much harder than most other versions. I can break 30,000 without much trouble on my 8-bit machine, but I was lucky to even get 25,000 here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I can't help but notice that 5200 Pac-Man is much harder than most other versions. I can break 30,000 without much trouble on my 8-bit machine, but I was lucky to even get 25,000 here. There are a couple of versions of Atari's Pac-man for the 8-bit once is much easier than the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Hmmm. How can you tell the difference between versions? I've got the old 400/800 cart and I get further than on 5200, but score much less. I can distinguish the Millipede versions because I have both, but not sure on Pacman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Worked on it some more: 26,620 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Hmmm. How can you tell the difference between versions? I've got the old 400/800 cart and I get further than on 5200, but score much less. I can distinguish the Millipede versions because I have both, but not sure on Pacman. There is some discussion from when we played it last season here, checkout the first post, also see here post 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 I checked all 3 of mine and they just stay at the "press start" screen so they must be the 1st or easier one then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 it's safe to say I am terrible at this game! 27,080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 (edited) it's safe to say I am terrible at this game! 27,080 I wouldn't say that, you're currently in 2nd place with that score for now. BTW Gents(and others) , Round 13 poll is up and running and I started it a day early so "More votes and less excuses!" We now return to your regularly scheduled gaming. Edited August 2, 2011 by zylon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 "Now" is over, for now. 32,180 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 31,300 Made it to APPLE 2, and passed the second intermission. Sonic doesn't suck at this game! 27ks is a good score... if it was only 7ks...without a 2 in front well, hmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 (edited) ^Agreed^. Anything over 20k is actually quite good if using stock controls IMO. 27k is actually right in the middle currently. We have players of almost all skill levels and intensity so the only "bad" score is the one not submitted. Personally, I play for my own personal bests and achievements. Competing against others is secondary, but fun. Edited August 2, 2011 by zylon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 pac-man slight lil' improvement 32,920 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 20,800 On a side note, why is the maze so small on the Vic 20 version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 20,800 On a side note, why is the maze so small on the Vic 20 version? Never had that port so I can't say. Try Cosmic Cruncher or Snakman. Those are pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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