classicgamer_27330 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centiqueen81 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Well a slight improvement before beddie byes! 25,770 Good night everyone! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 282860 I really wanted 300K, but my stupid dog wanted in and I lost concentration. The great thing about Vanguard is that the difficulty tops out after your second pass through tunnel 2, so after that it is just a matter of avoiding simple mistakes. For me that happens more on the horizontal levels than anywhere else, mainly because more things are shooting at you! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) same here. also, 1 out of every 2 times approaching the boss, those "arrow" things are shooting at you. those are hard for me. 215210 got more than 100K on my last life tip for the "arrow" things: shoot as many as you can vertically, shooting head-on. that makes the ones passing you and shooting at you farther away, so it's easier to dodge their shots Edited March 17, 2014 by S.BAZ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 41,840 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 41,070 I'm glad the designers of this game had the foresight to make the score readable, unlike Defender, so if 30 years later somebody comes up with an Internet, so that there can be an Atari High Score Club, players can take a picture of their score and the score can be read without squinting. That's the kind of forward thinking we needed in the '80s. . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 also, 1 out of every 2 times approaching the boss, those "arrow" things are shooting at you. those are hard for me. tip for the "arrow" things: shoot as many as you can vertically, shooting head-on. that makes the ones passing you and shooting at you farther away, so it's easier to dodge their shots See, I do the opposite. On Tunnel 2 when they shoot, I stay low on the screen and to the right. They only shoot left, so the farther right you can stay the less chance you have of being in the line of fire. I stay low because if I stay toward the middle, I almost always collide with debris from one I have shot vertically. Based on my experience last night, it will take about 3 hours to roll this one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 New score, and a very tiny improvement: 44,990. Again, I died at the same spot. See attached picture. Just this time I had two more lives and thus had game over three corners later than in my last game. At the moment, I have no idea how one can fly through there without crashing automatically. It's scrolling way too fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 The second the level starts, veer hard right. You will just exactly hit the E tank. From there stay right and take out the next two sections of bases (ignore the shooting X). As you are about to lose your invincibility, get to the top of the screen so you clear the indestructible block, then pull back hard and get as far to the bottom of the screen as you can. Stay right in the tiny gap between the rocks on the right and the oncoming rocks on the left and shoot upward through the gap to destroy the X thing that shoots at you, then veer right just enough to navigate the channel. Accelerate to dodge the indestructible block, then back off again and repeat. The level should be over after two passes through the channel after you've exhausted the E power. I'll do it with pictures later when I get home. Stan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centiqueen81 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Slowly getting the hang of it! 40,950 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) ----- Edited April 2, 2014 by roadrunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GornThrifting Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 44110 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 an observation... StanJr's tips are excellent! I play that part karo is talking about differently, but I see that way works too. thanks, SJr, for that about the arrows. I was keeping low, but didn't notice they only shoot left, staying to the right that'll be a big help! karo -- before I got past that wall, my problem was just that I wasn't flying fast enough. remember you're flying faster when not shooting, so if you playing with autofire, you will need to remember to press the button to stop shooting & go fast. that part eventually made me stop playing Vanguard as a youngster! I thought the game just didn't you past that. I actually thought the makers of the game hadn't played it that far! here's how I do it: I play with the diff. switches on A/A - auto firing forward & joystick in any direction fires. so when I get to that doozy of a wall, I immediately hold down the button so I'm going fast, line up with the gap to shoot the X-guardian through it by letting go of the button for a sec, then go around & forward through the smashing door, etc. after the first pass-through of that stuff it is easier to get to the E tank & I use the E-tanks from there on as StanJr. described. It's just the very beginning that I play different. I like shooting that thing. no one has mentioned going to the left - there's a different scenario over there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 42,290 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I don't go to the left because those blob guys are worth less points than the bases. Plus they move side to side increasing the chance of a collision. Plus no E tanks. No profit going left. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Here you go. Don't even worry about shooting bases until you get good at navigating the channels. After the E tank runs out, just concentrate on surviving the pass. Once you get good, start taking out extra bases as you go. I only get about 80% of the bases per pass through, so don't feel the need to be perfect. (For some reason it loads the pictures in the wrong order, so look at the third picture first, then the first picture, then the middle for proper order.) Edited March 18, 2014 by StanJr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I have too much to do and shouldn't play tonight... But I couldn't resist and played. 287,940 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botbird208 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Ok 45150 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 44,680 I forgot that this game is fun. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 @StanJr, your tips are very useful. Excellent! See Previous Vanguard Thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/164632-hsc-season-7-week-44-vanguard/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vocelli Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Ok... On the board. On the section where people crash... I take out the 'x' block and stop shooting. I ignore all points and just try to get thru. Vocelli: 97100 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 453440 challenge: shoot through the gap AND get the E-tank 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Atari Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 First score 37,440 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt2d2 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Wow, LOVE this game. Waaaaay back when this was a big quarter eater for me. Great game for SNK who went on to make many other great games and the Neo-Geo. Never owned this title for 2600, so not doing well on the high score front. Having some fun, but barely cracking 10k! Thanks for sharing some tips. Any more would be great, and may improve my game enough to get a score up that I'm not ashamed of! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GornThrifting Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Funny because I never saw it in the arcades. Never even knew it was a coin-op until recent years (found it for MAME). I owned the cartridge back in the day and played the hell out of it thinking "damn, Atari came up with a great original title for the 2600!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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