+therealbountybob Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 Hey you guys, I'll extend this round until tomorrow night MONDAY 25th Feb *10pm* UK TIME as it looks like a few of you might want another session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 216725 points Trapped with 4 lives left... Sleepy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 216725 points Trapped with 4 lives left... IMG-20190224-00685.jpg Sleepy Which level? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Level 29: Sleepy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 Level 29: Sleepy Just checking that you know you can press Ctrl-A to kill off a stuck man With a few hours remaining Satan is holding off the Karate Guys by 1 vote (remember it's bar is showing 1 less vote) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 (edited) Just checking that you know you can press Ctrl-A to kill off a stuck man O.K., I didn´t know that "trick"... namely I tried all keys except <RESET>, but didn´t try <CTRL>-combinations... I hope I remember next time... Sleepy Edited February 25, 2019 by Sleepy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 1,036,650 L114 Beaten by DES.... Curse you DES :-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 With one hour to go here are the Very Nearly Final tables, it's conrgatiultions to RedThunder for the win with and incredible feat of reaching level 114 out of the 151? there are. Deteacher also posting an impressive level 90 takes runner up spot. I've given out a few bonus points for screens created and epic performances. Looks like slx Jr. will soon be climbing the rankings! pusakat if you do finish that go you can post it late Lode Runner holds up very well and remains challenging, they could have programmed it to make sure you got to top of the escape ladder but I'm being picky! And we now have the 50 level disk Deteacher posted for another time Good to see so many players, hope to see you all in round 3 Lode Runner Very Nearly Final tables (play for level reached) 1st RedThunder 114 1,036,650 14pts 2nd Deteacher 90 428,975 13pts 3rd therealbountybob 33 291,500 10pts 4th Sleepy 29 216,725 9pts 5th slx 27 172,800 9pts 6th pusakat 21 115,100 8pts 7th Marius 20 151,175 8pts 8th graywest 17 120,800 7pts 9th McKong 16 100,000 7pts 10th slx Jr. 14 88,050 6pts 11th Gury 9 59,275 6pts 12th youxia 6 30,000 5pts 13th skr 6 42,025 5pts 14th roadrunner 6 38,525 4pts 15th carlsson 5 30,250 4pts 16th Sikor 4 29,475 2pts 17th jblenkle 2 8,175 2pts = bonus points 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Ok, since nobody guessed which game my screens were borrowed from, here's the link. Those guys are not as smart as the ones in Lode Runner, though on the other hand you can't dig holes, just throw dirt balls at them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) Awesome game. I must confess, I did play the game a lot over the last two weeks. Probably played it more than I did in the 80's.Couple more days and I reckon I would of cracked the 150. But DES was a painThe game play and collision detection IMO is flawless and as a platformer the best one out there, even now.Maybe a 360 degree version should be done on modern hardware Cant wait for 1984.Notes:Rubbish levels in IMO are any you got to wait for the guards to pick up treasure from a un-accesable area. Gets tedious.After a while you can get used to the AI as such. And you maintain a say 10 life buffer you can go a long way. Say lose a couple of life on one level and get a couple of easy levels and your back.Unless you meet DES. We need to find out who DES is ? Edited February 26, 2019 by RedThunder 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 Ok, since nobody guessed which game my screens were borrowed from, here's the link. Those guys are not as smart as the ones in Lode Runner, though on the other hand you can't dig holes, just throw dirt balls at them. Do you guys remember what you did on that nasty level (was it lv30) that looked like this: ------------------= = \-----------/ = = \--------/ = = \------/ = --= ----------------= Yes that's exactly what it looked like It took me a lot of men 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Those ASCII graphics remind me of Ladder, which I also considered converting levels from but those require you to jump which we can't in Lode Runner. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Awesome game. I must confess, I did play the game alot over the last two weeks. Probably played it more than I did in the 80's. Couple more days and I reckon I would oc cracked the 150. But DES was a pain If it keeps a 2010s teenager playing for more than a courtesy try, it must be good slxjr does not fancy everything served on HSC but this one was a natural, maybe because of the block-level similarity to Minecraft. I mostly enjoyed playing although sometimes it's tedious to repeat most of a level just because something went wrong on the last few ingots. This game would greatly benefit from a "rewind" feature like braid (although that's probably asking a bit much for an 80's game.) or some kind of continue feature within a level. While it may be true retro spirit, at age 33 (hex, that is) I find myself tipping increasingly into an old man's mindset that I don't have enough time left to endlessly repeat sequences I know how to tackle just to give the challenge beyond them another try ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) L30 I'll check it out later. ......I bet DES created it Edited February 26, 2019 by RedThunder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 Those ASCII graphics remind me of Ladder, which I also considered converting levels from but those require you to jump which we can't in Lode Runner. nice, I remeber when Gwobby was just a "Q" What?! jumping in a platform game, that will never catch on slx - at least with ctrl-U you can skip through the levels, might be worth looking at that LR utility disk to see how easy it is to move a set of levels around then you could split the game up. go DES, he's a friend of ULF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) We need to find out whi DES is ? What are the odds for the programmer Douglas E. Smith? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_E._Smith Edited February 26, 2019 by carlsson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 What are the odds for the programmer Douglas E. Smith? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_E._Smith But do you remeber who the immortal ULF was that is the question - roadrunner will know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) L30 The waiting for Guards to collect level. Slow level and advanced Guard wrangling. Someone has done video on YouTube For Applem but the same. Edited February 26, 2019 by RedThunder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 L30 The waiting for Guards to collect level. Slow level and advanced Guard wrangling. Someone has done video on YouTube... Ahh *waiting* on that ledge and luring them to the side was the trick I missed, no wonder it cost me 10 lives!! Seems to get more respawns at the top left on the apple version which makes it easier too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 slxjr paid a lot more attention to stuff like that and always tried to lure the guards out of the way and trap them somewhere while I would have tried a dash and a couple of quick holes behind me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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