BillyHW Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 First try: 10,680. Never heard of this one. Looks like it never received a home port. The resolution is pretty high for the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 72750. This is definitely better than Choplifter, and the designers do deserve credit for trying something different. Still, I doubt I'll play this one again. I disagree. Choplifter was a classic game that received many home ports. The arcade version may have been a tad too hard, but the home ports had more realistic difficulty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I did 179,000. To imagine the best ever score on this is 6 million is just madness. I'd love to see the guy get that, there has to be a trick! Ok - some things I've learned. You control where the bear comes out. He always comes out, on a regular basis, aligned on the screen to get you with the bee hive. You can use this to make him appear away from the next tree (pause a second, let him appear, then run to the tree). You can axe the beehives for 500 points. Trees go down after five hits. You can also deliver four hits, and a nudge to make a tree come down. Use this nudging when trying to get all the trees to go one way. Someone mentioned a doozy earlier - at level 4 onwards if all the trees fall the same way you get 5000 bonus points. I find this can be done for levels 4, 5, 6, and 7. On level 8 though it all happens too fast for me, and I can't manage it. I'd say try to get them one way on the four levels I mentioned, after that just hack away. The turkey is worth 1000 bonus points, and he falls out the top of the tree as it hits the ground. As the tree falls run to get him (but on levels 7 onwards I don't bother, there's not enough time). On the earlier levels (pre-5) you can be tempted to wait and just kill off a lot of hives. I've not found this scores any extra points though, since you lose the time bonus. Sometimes falling over a stump - which freezes you for a couple seconds - is the fastest way to the next tree. You do not need to be completely aligned with a tree to start hacking it, if you are slightly off the game moves you. The trees always fall in the same pattern, learn the levels. The log interlude is random, and gets you 1000 bonus points if completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Second Try: 33,245. The log rolling reminds me of World Games on C64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I did 179,000. To imagine the best ever score on this is 6 million is just madness. I'd love to see the guy get that, there has to be a trick! Ok - some things I've learned. You control where the bear comes out. He always comes out, on a regular basis, aligned on the screen to get you with the bee hive. You can use this to make him appear away from the next tree (pause a second, let him appear, then run to the tree). You can axe the beehives for 500 points. Trees go down after five hits. You can also deliver four hits, and a nudge to make a tree come down. Use this nudging when trying to get all the trees to go one way. Someone mentioned a doozy earlier - at level 4 onwards if all the trees fall the same way you get 5000 bonus points. I find this can be done for levels 4, 5, 6, and 7. On level 8 though it all happens too fast for me, and I can't manage it. I'd say try to get them one way on the four levels I mentioned, after that just hack away. The turkey is worth 1000 bonus points, and he falls out the top of the tree as it hits the ground. As the tree falls run to get him (but on levels 7 onwards I don't bother, there's not enough time). On the earlier levels (pre-5) you can be tempted to wait and just kill off a lot of hives. I've not found this scores any extra points though, since you lose the time bonus. Sometimes falling over a stump - which freezes you for a couple seconds - is the fastest way to the next tree. You do not need to be completely aligned with a tree to start hacking it, if you are slightly off the game moves you. The trees always fall in the same pattern, learn the levels. The log interlude is random, and gets you 1000 bonus points if completed. Do you mean that the trees always *appear* in the same patterns? I wonder why they didn't make it random. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kane Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I think it was me that nominated this game, no reason really, it's just a game I'd heard about but never gave it a proper go. I finally got through 9, couldn't get 10 though... 169,705 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 46,555. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Ok, I'm finally through the worst of everything at work. I'm going to sit down tonight and update everything. Can we just consider this week to be a break from the action and I"ll have a new game up on Sunday, where we will continue along? Thanks for your patience and understanding. I shouldn't have any other things keeping me from keeping this going...until the next school year begins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 I vote “yes” for not starting a contest in the middle of the week, especially since the only opportunity I would have had to play this week would have been Monday. Maybe come back with a double-header? I remember tournaments and multi-game contests being discussed before the season started, but I can’t remember the outcome. Did that get nixed altogether? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I'm okay with every two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 Ok, everything is totalled up. I'm really bummed too, because Timber is one of my favorite games. Sucks that I missed it. Anyway, everything will resume tomorrow. I'll post the game and the new week begins on Sunday. Thanks for all your patience. I apprecaite it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 25, 2013 Author Share Posted May 25, 2013 I vote “yes” for not starting a contest in the middle of the week, especially since the only opportunity I would have had to play this week would have been Monday. Maybe come back with a double-header? I remember tournaments and multi-game contests being discussed before the season started, but I can’t remember the outcome. Did that get nixed altogether? I would love to do multi game tourneys that run for 2 weeks or so. Maybe now that summer vacation is only 8 school days away (not that anyone's counting) I'll have a little more free time. I'll still be working during the summer, but it won't be nearly as stressful. I'll try to work something out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 You missed my score in post #5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 25, 2013 Author Share Posted May 25, 2013 You missed my score in post #5 Fixed it and the updated the leaderboard to reflect the changes. Sorry about that. Posting the next game and opening it up for submissions today. That'll give you a week and a day to post scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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