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  3. Posted

    As for retrogamer price and wait time for North American, I live in Canada and have taken advantage of the new subscription rates for North Americans. I do not know if they still have the "deal" available, but I purchased a 1 year subscription for 80 US, which includes 13 issues. The normal price of the newstand around here is $16.50 Canadian, and the wait time is usually about 6-8 weeks after the UK release

     

    I subscribed like 1 month before that special price, I paid 130$ (80 UK pounds)

  4. Posted

    Speaking of veggies here's another tip ...

    If you take the veggie and still have a skull in the screen, wait until an enemy runs in it and the veggie will return.

     

    Yeah I found this out just before I went to bed. Is this true all the time? I figured the game just bugged.

     

    I tried on 4 or 5 levels and it always worked.

  5. Posted

    Turns out I don't suck at Ladybug as much as I do at Burgertime. Not bad for first try in quite a few years. 75,370 on level 14. I rarely got the veggies as I seemed more concerned with clearing the boards versus waiting for all of them to clear out and for the veggie to appear.

     

     

    That's good.

     

    If you can get to level 14 and wait the the veggies you will probably get around 120k.

     

    Speaking of veggies here's another tip ...

    If you take the veggie and still have a skull in the screen, wait until an enemy runs in it and the veggie will return.

  9. Posted

    Well, it does look good, but it clearly doesn't work technically, especially the right-most portion with the slope that gets split over two screens in an arbitrary way. If I had time, I would do a proper mockup of BagMan on CV. But I have no time for this right now, so heh...

     

    I don't see what you mean here. I don't what is not doable here.

     

     

    If I understand correctly, the slope is cut in two. So if you put a bag on the slope, it will travel or slide to the lower screen. Also, you wont see the guard arrived.

    Other problems are that you wont see the guards when they are on the other (lower or higher) screen. This is a problem especialy if you want to drop a bag from the top of the ladder.

     

    I should have a look on how to program for the coleco. I being programming in C++ for 16 years, is that going to help me? or is it closer to machine language?

    Use the starter kit from Daniel Bienvenu , it is very good to start and you code in C . I used it for my Ghost'n Zombies on Colecovision.

     

    I think I will start from there. I've being watching Daniel's work for a couple of years and it's very impressive.

     

    C'est une idée que je me fais peut être, mais il semble qu'il y ait une majorité de Francophones qui codent sur Colecovision!

     

    Effectivement!

  11. Posted

    Can wait, this is one of my favorite arcade game.

    The graphic look very good on the image posted by Retroillucid.

    Well, it does look good, but it clearly doesn't work technically, especially the right-most portion with the slope that gets split over two screens in an arbitrary way. If I had time, I would do a proper mockup of BagMan on CV. But I have no time for this right now, so heh... :)

     

    I see, at first I thought that it was full screen but obviously the resolution of the coleco is not sufficient enough.

     

    I should have a look on how to program for the coleco. I being programming in C++ for 16 years, is that going to help me? or is it closer to machine language?

     

     

    Salut patbb! :)

     

    Salut Retroillucid!

  14. Posted

    Since i have no plan to buy this game anytime soon, i'd still like to give it a shot. Can anybody recommend an emulator? I haven't tried an Intellivision emulator in few years and the ones then weren't that great. Wasn't sure if they improved on them since.

     

    I use the Nostalgia 5.

    http://www.zophar.net/ivision/nostalgia.html

     

    The previous releases also work great.

     

    I had many problems running the other emulators under Windows XP.

  15. Posted

    eBay Auction -- Item Number: 3102014199121?ff3=2&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&item=310201419912&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER] 13.99 - with 10 other games!

     

    You jerk! I'm watching a Colecovision lot right now and now you throw out this morsel. I see a few games in there I don't have and would love to get.

     

     

     

    this lot with the 10 games is a great price.go ahead and splurge,you deserve it!

     

     

    oh, and yes i am a jerk :P

     

     

    I would have take this lot but the seller does not want to ship to Canada :sad:

  17. Posted

    I got over 100k ... on my 3rd game.

     

    It's the first time I play this game on the intellivision.

    I've being playing the colecovision version for years.

     

    Tips for beginners:

    Try to eat the hearts while they are blue and as soon as possible, this way you will have X5 the points.

    Always eat the letters yellow, when EXTRA will be spelled, you will have an extra life.

    After the fourth enemies goes out, a vegetable will appear in the center, this is worth a lot a points, the points increase at each level.

     

     

    In the arcade and Coleco version, you can also spell SPECIAL to get to a level with vegetables all over the place, this is why the letters turns to red.

     

    Thanks for the tips! Are the side buttons or keypad used at all for this game (other than skill level and number of players)?

     

    No

  18. Posted

    I got over 100k ... on my 3rd game.

     

    It's the first time I play this game on the intellivision.

    I've being playing the colecovision version for years.

     

    Tips for beginners:

    Try to eat the hearts while they are blue and as soon as possible, this way you will have X5 the points.

    Always eat the letters yellow, when EXTRA will be spelled, you will have an extra life.

    After the fourth enemies goes out, a vegetable will appear in the center, this is worth a lot a points, the points increase at each level.

     

     

    In the arcade and Coleco version, you can also spell SPECIAL to get to a level with vegetables all over the place, this is why the letters turns to red.

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    I hadn't thought about considering the homebrew titles...since I'm fortunate to have them I would definitely add Space Patrol and Stonix. Hopefully Rick D will also be added to that list later this year. If you want any of the upcoming games, I'd certainly recommend heading over to Beeslife.com to get yourselves on the list. As you mentioned, Ice Trek and White Water could have easily been on my list as well.

     

    Space Patrol and Sonix, never seens those two before.

    Thanks for the link.

     

    Are they playable in an emulator? or the author copyrights are respected for those games?

  21. Posted · Edited by patbb

    1-MLB Baseball --- I probably played over 1 million games, I still have some blisters on my fingers ... almost 30 years later!

    2-Lock N' Chase --- a lot better than pac-man, also this version is better than the arcade

    3-Night Stalker --- One game would take me many hours to complete

    4-Astrosmash --- Still one of the greatest shooter

    5-Truckin' --- The first simulation game i ever played, the map that came with the game was very nice.

    6-Auto Racing --- I was in a champion chip tournament.

    7-NHL Hockey -- Fun head to head game --- GO Habs GO

    8-Atlantis --- Nice graphic, like all Imagic games, good shooter too.

    9-Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack --- First game I ever played, came with the model 1

    10-Q*bert --- My favorite arcade game, I was very happy to finally play in my living room.

    11-Burgertime --- I just recently discover the intellivision version, very well done.

    12-Pitfall! --- One of my favorite console game, I also played on the 2600 and colecovision

    13-Beauty and the Beast --- I just love those Imagic games.

    14-Demon Attack --- Another good shooter, not as good as Astrosmash.

    15-Skiing --- Whatch out for that tree!

    16-Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Treasure of Tarmin

    17-Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Cloudy Mountain

    18-Triple Action --- The plane and tank game are greate

    19-NFL Football --- I like simple football game, this is better than Madden 2010!

    20-Dragonfire -- Again Imagic

    21-Tennis --- Another fun sport game to play head to head

    22-Bowling --- Strike!!

    23-Bump'n'Jump - Nice port

    24-Dracula --- Imagic, I was the only one who like that game back then!

    25-Utopia --- Sim city before it's time

     

    After looking at all the other list, I realized that I never played games dated after 1983 and not a lot from 1983.

    Games such as the one in the Super pro series.

     

    I probably already was in my ColecoVision era.

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