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  2. Posted · Edited by IntyFanMatt

    1 hour ago, felson42 said:

    Thanks for the tips. I’m getting better. This game is a blast. I got through all three levels and back to the first. Changing the bats to blend in with the background, now that’s a creative way for the designer to add difficulty!

    You’re welcome. This game is awesome. Easily in my top 5 Intellivision games ever. Great graphics and sound that really push the system to its limits. I heard the homebrew Mystic Castle is even better since they sped up the knight in it. Just need to get an LTO Flash so I can play it. Don’t want to do the emulator thing. 

  3. Posted · Edited by IntyFanMatt

    39 minutes ago, felson42 said:

    Is there a trick to catching the mouse? I can’t ever get him!

    Just keep following him around and stay close to him. He should stop and enable you to touch him every now and then. But the meat of the game is in the items. Use those to your advantage (except for comb lol) more than trying to catch the critters. 

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    42 minutes ago, mr_me said:

    Looks like you might be able to score in this game by avoiding the guardians and collecting objects.  The game I went the farthest was not the one I scored the most points in.

    Yeah you could employ a point farming technique like that, but the problem is it will take forever to build up a great score that way. The game is just too slow for that and it can literally take hours. 

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    3 minutes ago, m-crew said:

    That’s a good question??

    I average 90 k plus.  But once you hit 90 k those penguins move so fast it’s hard to box them. Not to mention that penguin and 3 polar bears. Just attack you. 

     

    But that hat my goal.  Lol 

    I wanna see you get there!  Sounds crazy hard though.  I don't know how you do it...I wouldn't want to put myself through the torture of trying lol.  Game is fun but gets on my nerves quickly.

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  17. Posted · Edited by IntyFanMatt

    3 hours ago, Bamse said:

    65600

     

    Little tip, try and cut as biggest hole in the ice as possible, far more points that way. On the first round, I keep trying until I sink the entire field. It can take a while but you finish that first round with 8ó00 points.

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    Yup. I do that every time as well. But the seal still gets too hard in subsequent levels. See you guys for the next game. 

  20. Posted · Edited by IntyFanMatt

    42 minutes ago, mr_me said:

    The intellivision is limited to eight sprites on screen total.  The atari 2600 can have two sprites per row but the same sprite can be repeated two more times on that row for a total of six.  And then for each scan line you can reuse those sprites with different patterns.  So as long as the sprites don't cross each other on the same horisontal line, the 2600 can have more of them.  Games are designed for their target system and didn't always convert well to others.

    The 6502 processor is probably the faster cpu at similar clock speeds.  The CP1600 was also slowed down by having a common data/address bus.

    The intellivision graphics bus is actually 14-bits and uses 14-bits of the 16-bit ram.  Sprite and tile patterns are eight pixels wide and stored in 8-bit memory.  Roms were 10-bit but they can certainly be programmed to create and move 16-bit data.  Modern intellivision cartridges use 16-bit rom and can store and move 16-bit data.  With  only 16 colours you can say colour definitions are 4-bit.  The Atari 2600 actually has 7-bit colour.

    That is cool info, I appreciate it.  But the specs really don't matter to me.  I don't mean that in a dismissive way, I just have never cared about specs.  I just find Intellivision games to be more fun for me.  And that's all that matters in my opinion.  It's kind of like Nintendo...they have never focused on specs and power but their games are amazingly fun for many people.

  21. Posted · Edited by IntyFanMatt

    47 minutes ago, Bamse said:

    It's normal  to favour what you know and what you grow up with. The intellivision was my first console and will always be my favourite. I have a great appreciation for the VCS as well though but for me me it will always be in intellivision first.

    Yup, I agree with that.  That's why I put "in my opinion" at the end because I know everyone has a different opinion.  I appreciate the VCS too but I enjoyed the Inty more...always have.  I think Mister-VCS is trying to make some sort of snide comment about the bits and power of the Intellivision, which I don't care about at all.  I think it's silly to make juvenile comments like he did to try to stir up an argument.  We're not in grade school anymore.  

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