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Boulder Dash cave 1 speed run bonus: 326 pts.

There's a code to practice on higher levels? Never knew that! Had I known, I could have practiced and it might have saved me a lot of time. To me, Miner 2049er is a trial-and-error game. You just keep playing until you play as mistake-free as possible. Some of these levels - although difficult - aren't as complicated as you might think they are. Once you beat them, you just have to memorize how you did it so you can do it quickly on your next playing session. The problem with level 6 is that you have to be very precise with your jumps; if you're too cautious, you'll end up wasting too much time. If you can consistently get to level six just about every time you play, then you'll have enough practice on it to eventually beat it. When I play, I have quite a few sessions where I fail to hit 20,000 points until it all just clicks and I get on a hot streak and just make everything look easy.

I still haven't been able to reach level 4 yet. Keep running out of time or getting myself stuck on level 3.

Boulder Dash: 1,998 pts. I stupidly trapped myself with 130 left on the timer!

Yeah, those MicroFun games end the game over screen quickly. I learned that the hard way when I played The Heist.

New personal best for me in Donkey Kong Jr: 611,100 pts.

Very nice! I might have to play again just to top this. Meanwhile, if you want to top my personal best, it's 560,100 pts. Here is the entry for it on High Score.

Took the liberty of updating my status in this round. MY SCORES Donkey Kong Jr. [327,300] Miner 2049er [69,755] Boulder Dash [1,429] BONUSES ACHIEVED Play all 3 games and post pic (+4) Score 200,000 in Donkey Kong Jr (+4) Score 30,000 in Miner 2049er (+4) I'll try to improve in Boulder Dash later.

Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles... I messed up any chance I had of beating this level the 2nd time around by accidentally falling down the slides before I could get the edges. Finished Miner 2049er with 69,755 pts. Played it for about an hour before finally doing that well.

1,429 pts in Boulder Dash. I cleared 2 caves, but I keep running out of time before I can find the exit on the 3rd cave. It's tricky when you're navigating around all those rocks and avoiding being squished.

Never played Boulder Dash in my life. Looking forward to giving it a try. Meanwhile, here's my Donkey Kong Jr. score. Not even close to my best and I lost several lives stupidly, but still a good run. Donkey Kong Jr. (Skill 1): 327,300 pts

Barring any added games/bonuses, I'm finished with this round. Improved on my cat-saving today by getting 23,490 pts on Skill 3 of Frantic Freddy.

Frantic Freddy [skill 3]: 15,620 pts Cat-saving pic bonus: +2, if memory serves me correctly.

Well, I didn't do nearly as well in this video as I did yesterday; nevertheless, this video demonstrates how you can patiently wait for the fires to cross the screen while you're hanging on the pipes. If you're quick enough, you can get to the top much sooner and complete the level with a much larger timer bonus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzqBfb9Qhqo Not in the video: for the first time, I tried skill 3 to see this cat-saving part NCG was talking about. I had no problems whatsoever saving the cats on the debris level; however, saving them on the pipe level was far more difficult. I was able to save several of them on the pipe level, but I'm not very efficient at it yet. First time on Skill 3, I finished with a meager 3,110 points. Edit: I just now realized NCG added cat-saving as a +2 bonus. Had I realized that sooner, I would have filmed myself saving a few of those cats. I'll get around to posting pics or video of it later.

Bingo. Should never get a game over on the pipes levels. Just hang on the pipe, wait for the fires to get across and then eliminate the red ones first.

Well, I thought I'd get my scores out of the way early and set the bar for the rest of you. After posting my new totals in this post, I shall sit out the rest of the round and give somebody else a chance to win this round. Kudos to whoever tops these scores and totals. I know Mangia is quite good at the Spectron game. In the next day or two, I might post a video of Frantic Freddy to show how to effectively rack up your score (the purple fires are not as difficult to evade as you would think). Frantic Freddy: 58,990 pts Flipper Slipper: 13,350 pts Spectron: 3,640 pts TOTAL: 75,980 pts Play all 3 games and post pics: +4 Score 15,000 on Frantic Freddy: +4 Score 3,500 on Spectron: +3 Score 10,000 on Flipper Slipper: +2 Break or set new record: To be determined...

Flipper Slipper [skill 1]: 13,350 pts. I like the other games in this round; however, I'm not a fan of Flipper Slipper. The controls are absolutely atrocious in this game. Sometimes the flippers just refuse to tilt/angle themselves, and that's very damning to your score when the game speeds up and you don't get the control response you're expecting.

Frantic Freddy [skill 1]: 22,280 pts

Hope the holidays have been good and kind to all. In the immortal words of Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar... GAME ON!

It was a fun round, as all have been thus far! Wish I would have participated in these a long time ago. It's fun! Not sure if we'll have another round before Christmas or not. Regardless of when the next round is, happy holidays to you all!

Sir Lancelot: 999,850 pts (already posted pic) Dragonfire: 18,000 pts (already posted pic) Gateway to Apshai: 7,040 pts (posting pic now) Updated total: 1,024,890 pts

Dragonfire... Most of my runs were in the 4k to 6k range; it took me about 20 tries or so just to get 10k for the first time and then a few more runs to finally get my 18k. I haven't come close to matching my 18k since then and I don't intend to. Not a fan of this game.

Off the top of my head, Fathom is the only Imagic game I like (if there are others, they've escaped my thoughts at this time). It's a shame, because Dragonfire is a great concept with great graphics for its time; however, I think the gameplay itself is just poorly done.