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  6. Posted

    On 11/30/2020 at 11:18 AM, Bruce Tomlin said:

    Still staying home and digging into the attic now that the Texas weather has finally stopped being hot. But I finally found my Gamecube (and the missing Zelda TP disc that I knew was in it), my fat PS2, and my "dev" Sega Genesis (with a DB-9 installed in the "modem" port for serial debugging at a blazing 4800 baud!). Also a big box full of Sega stuff including a floppy disc game copier. (it supports SNES but didn't have the slot adapter)

    I have a Super Magicom, which supports snes and genesis. Used to confuse the crap out of my friends bitd, but I had one hell of a snes library 😆

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    Finally sat down to a game today. Level 15 trapeze is very hard. With the previous ones, I get myself into a groove jumping from bar to bar (and racking up some nice points), but by 15, it's harder to get in sync (I think they want you to use the trampolines, which I am not so skilled at). Then comes 16 fire, which tricks you up b/c you know how easy level 1 is, but then bam, there's so much fire and you need to keep backing up. Then 17 monkeys, which I'm currently stuck at. What used to be a walk in the park has become a crazy blue monkey onslaught. I'll jump back on again before the deadline, but beating stage 17 may be another day. Score improvement nevertheless, which has got to be b/c of which parts of stages I had to repeat after dying.

     

    163,690 Stage 17 no coins

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    I came up with a little story for Chablie when I play. So he's got this job at the circus right, but the ringmaster, you see, drives a tight ship. He gives ol' Chabs only a few tries to mess up before he's given the boot. His performance and audience approval is tracked by his points. When he does really well, the ringmaster will be so pleased he'll give him another chance to slip up. But eventually, the stress of the big top always gets to him and poor Chablie has to pack it in. In the end, he becomes what he's always feared- a sad clown.

     

    I hope you've enjoyed my Circus Charlie fan fiction 🤡

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  9. Posted

    20 minutes ago, asponge said:

    I still cannot get the hang of the trapeze stage.  Instead, I gave up and exploited the coin trick.

    216,000 - with coins

    Haha, awesome. I want to sit down with that again, not sure if I will during the time left for a regular submission, but at least afterwards. I looked back at my old notes and I have written down: If I didn't die from getting tired and messing up, when would I eventually die?
     

    The exploit I was doing on stage 1 was letting the clock tick down, which cost me a life, but I would earn another one before the next clock ran out. It was tiring, lol.

  10. Posted

    I was staying at a consistent score at stage 14 for a few goes (the changes in the horse round are hard). Then I found a good pattern for myself and was able to get ahead :D Of course, that loop's trapeze was having me swing out of sync 😵 Next loop had me losing my last two chablies on a fire hoop and a blue monkey of all things. Normally the tightrope is a freebie round, but in this loop, the blue monkey snuck up out of nowhere when I was doing a standstill jump. I was pretty surprised.

     

    156,830 Stage 17 no coins

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    Got an email from Intellivision that it was today in 1979 that it debuted! Happy 41st B'day INTV! Would they have thought that 41 years later there'd be a HSC on the internet about it? They'd probably say, what's the internet?!?!

     

    The email came with a cool vid that I could not get through:

     

     

     

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