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  3. Posted

    2 hours ago, IntyFanMatt said:

     Was it a world record score?

    It would have to roll over into negative numbers then to get the max score up around 32 million and change...  I personally wouldn't want to record or watch that even if I could do it again...  ;-)

     

    At least 72 people made that score back in the day, plus however many like me who took the TV instead of going to the finals...

     

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    Just now, Intelligentleman said:

    Dang it... I wish I’d eaten, like, three more dots! 😂

    Somehow I don't think that score is going to hold up....  

     

    My first time ever playing this on Intellivision.  Hell of a good home edition of PacMan for the time.  The constrained board and rapid re-deployment of ghosts are giving me fits, but have to give AtariSoft full props for the animation, control, and sounds.  Impressive!

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  9. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Rickster8 said:

    I don't know about you, but for me the steering is somewhat inconsistent. You can literally press up on the disk and the car will sometimes just down and crash instead of up like you intended lol. I'd look down at the controller like DAFUQ???

    Possibly to do with how far you're trying to do the extremes.  If you're doing straight left and right, it's hard to mess those up, but if you're trying for tight cornering near the top and bottom, it's easier to accidentally go past center and steer the other way.


    What you're describing sounds more like a loss of traction/spin.  If you're wiggling down a long stretch trying to get straight and do opposite input too quickly (a little right then immediately a little left) then you can lose traction and spin.  Always loved that the cars can do that, even if it's frustrating when it happens.  

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  10. Posted

    7 minutes ago, IntyFanMatt said:

    Also, there are tons of members on this site, and I am surprised that we don't have more participants in the HSC.  I would think all of these Intv fanatics would enjoy playing these games.  What can be done to get more people to join us?  Jacob, any ideas?

    Might make the occasional post in the main forum, not sure everyone sees this one.

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    53 minutes ago, mr_me said:

    It's really not possible to have text displayed in a fixed screen location in a multidirectional scrolling game.  What they could have done is have a clock at each checkpoint that scrolls in and out with the rest of the playfield.  As a workaround, just run your own stopwatch; that should tell you what lap your on.

     

    I would have liked the option to select the number of laps.  Courses three and four are a little too long for me.

    I wind up making a rough map of the track and jot down my best "times" at each wreck point.  Since they're usually the same, you can kind of rough out what times are possible on a given track and use that as a comparison for where you're losing time or not.  I count FUPs (F*-up points) where each is roughly a second of lost time vs what I think is optimum.  Rack up too many, start over.  🙂

     

    I know silly times are possible on track 2 because I wrecked top-side into the building right at the start/finish on lap 2 with a 1:06, so that should mean you could do slightly less than 5:30 (factoring out 2-3 seconds for acceleration at the start) if you could actually be that consistent, but being consistent in the blue/tan car is a real nightmare.  Track 2 is just made for the blue/tan car (over half the lap can be at top speed) but holy crap is it hard to keep up that kind of focus for over 5 minutes.

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  20. Posted

    24 minutes ago, IntyFanMatt said:

    Return of Biffman!  Nice time!

     

    Are you gunna play some more Shark Shark too?  Or are you just biding your time until you smoke all of us in Pac-Man?

    Thanks!

     

    I seem to be having issues on Shark Shark right around that magical 100k mark.  I've had a couple of better scores, but just incremental improvements of a few hundred points.  Still plenty of time to go, so hoping I can pull out something around 110k at least and feel like I was able to do something other than die past 100k.  🙂 

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