BiffMan

My inability to have more than 1 good ball per game is definitely the limiting factor here.... 121,750

I think it's mentioned in the rules, but it doubles your scoring while it's active

Slight improvement. Decent go except for the bit where I got the golden ball then immediately drained it without scoring a single point. 😕 107,010

Woohoo! Nice one!

Unofficial standings after Popeye (HIGH SCORES) 1. 55,700 gezkc [+11] 2. 52,900 BiffMan [+10] 3. 48,700 JasonlikesINTV [+9] 4. 48,100 cmadruga [+7] 5. 40,600 Player One [+6] 6. 39,300 fakecortex [+5] 7. 36,700 Mangia-Boy [+4] 8. 23,700 wolfy62 [+3] 9. 22,800 gar0u [+2] 10. 20,900 JacobZu7zu7 [+1] 11. 14,700 roadrunner [+1] 12. 13,600 jblenkle [+1] Rankings (through game 15) 1. BiffMan [+119] 2. gezkc [+116] 3. cmadruga [+94] 4. JasonlikesINTV [+81] 5. IntyFanMatt [+71] 6. JacobZu7zu7 [+68] 7. Ace24 [+64] 8. wolfy62 [+48] 9. mr_me [+46] 10. fakecortex [+39] 11. Player One [+32] 12. cparsely [+31] 13. dpisicane [+28] 14. Intelligentleman [+23] 15. jblenkle [+22] 16. ed1475 [+16] 16. Mangia-Boy [+16] 18. roadrunner [+15] 19. m-crew [+13] 20. Intellfan [+10] 21. hoosierdadee78 [+7] 22. S.BAZ [+4] 23. t0spmad [+2] 23. Mister-VCS [+2] 23. gar0u [+2] 26. DarthCloud [+1] Games Won 4 - BiffMan (Atlantis - Demon Attack - Mission X - Auto Racing) 4 - gezkc (Burgertime - Auto Racing - Happy Trails - Popeye) 3 - mr_me (Lock 'N Chase - Tron Deadly Discs - Space Hawk) 2 - IntyFanMatt (Frogger - Carnival) 1 - cmadruga (Tron Deadly Discs speed 1 - Beamrider) 1 - cparsley (Mouse Trap) 1 - ed1475 (Space Armada)

I know I used to get the EB on level 3 BITD. Not regularly, but definitely multiple times. Also remember having the multiplier up to 3x and 4x at least. Seem to recall that the game was more about the bonus and multiplier (like getting upset if I didn't increase multiplier when bonus was above 20 before draining) than it was straight scoring. That's why it's so irritating not to be able to get those kinds of scores nowadays. 🙂

Best advice I can give is to slow down and play tactical. This is not a Steve Ritchie flow table, this is stop and aim. First goal each ball is to get the lane blockers up by hitting those notches in the dog bumpers, that'll help a lot.

Finally starting to get a groove back on this. Only real bugaboo at this point are some of the unavoidable center drains on the 1st table bumper ejects. While it's possible to nudge and avoid those, a nudge can also turn a good eject into a center drain, and I can't react quickly enough once I know good from bad. 91,870

52,900 - skill 2 Blew 3 lives needlessly on lvl 5... grr... 🙂

The game definitely hates us, but the self-inflicted wounds are the worst. If I had a penny for every time I slapped the ball out with the underside of an upper flipper... Also, I think my average play time on the second board is around 3.2 seconds. It's remarkable how quickly I mess up after finally getting there. Lol

12,130 This is probably the best example yet of a game I was really good at BITD that I completely cannot play anymore. Quite horrifying 🙂

Unofficial standings update after Beamrider Rankings (through game 14) 1. BiffMan [+109] 2. gezkc [+105] 3. cmadruga [+87] 4. JasonlikesINTV [+72] 5. IntyFanMatt [+71] 6. JacobZu7zu7 [+67] 7. Ace24 [+64] 8. mr_me [+46] 9. wolfy62 [+45] 10. fakecortex [+34] 11. cparsely [+31] 12. dpisicane [+28] 13. Player One [+26] 14. Intelligentleman [+23] 15. jblenkle [+21] 16. ed1475 [+16] 17. roadrunner [+14] 18. m-crew [+13] 19. Mangia-Boy [+12] 20. Intellfan [+10] 21. hoosierdadee78 [+7] 22. S.BAZ [+4] 23. t0spmad [+2] 23. Mister-VCS [+2] 25. DarthCloud [+1] Games Won 4 - BiffMan (Atlantis - Demon Attack - Mission X - Auto Racing) 3 - mr_me (Lock 'N Chase - Tron Deadly Discs - Space Hawk) 3 - gezkc (Burgertime - Auto Racing - Happy Trails) 2 - IntyFanMatt (Frogger - Carnival) 2 - cmadruga (Tron Deadly Discs speed 1 - Beamrider) 1 - cparsley (Mouse Trap) 1 - ed1475 (Space Armada)

43,300 - game 2 Definitely more familiar with this from the arcade and 5200 versions, but this is quite solid. As @Player One noted, the use of color is quite good in this.

Oooh! Loves me some Intellivision Pinball! Very fun reimagining of pinball they did in this one. Really like the fun of getting to the "upper" tables and trying to stay there. 🙂

I played a couple more today and did manage to get to sector 20, but not quite 60k score, so I had to leave it 400pts short of the patch. Wouldn't be satisfying to get if it was easy, eh?

I post this mostly for the amusement of others. This was a somewhat frustrating point to end a game... 59,600 - sector 19 boss, 1 shot from a patch

Holy crap! Consistently hanging in that far is amazing!

Sector 15 is very solid, congrats! If you can hang at all consistently on sector 12 and above, you can likely pull out a better score. I find I do much better on my 2nd or 3rd sequential playthrough after my brain gets properly speed-adjusted to the higher levels. Makes it much easier to rack up the extra ships in the early sectors.

I think those exist in this version, but are called 'Red Zig Bombs'? Whatever they're called, they are the bane of my existence in this game.

48,084 Damn, but I suck above sector 13. Had 13 ships built up starting 14. Barely limped my way to 18... Lol Frustrating: shooting your extra ship Awesome: your shot stops just before hitting your extra ship Primal scream-inducing: shooting your extra ship then getting killed by the wreckage

Back on topic, another great choice for HSC! I enjoyed the hell out of this on the 5200, but never have played the Intellivision version, so looking forward to this round!

Unofficial standings after Carnival (High Scores) 1. 54,490 IntyFanMatt [+11] 2. 45,160 cmadruga [+10] 3. 43,200 JacobZu7zu7 [+9] 4. 28,590 fakecortex [+7] 5. 23,650 Ace24 [+6] 6. 22,220 JasonlikesINTV [+5] 7. 21,800 gezkc [+4] 8. 12,930 wolfy62 [+3] 9. 11,070 BiffMan [+2] 10. 9,420 jblenkle [+1] 11. 3,530 roadrunner [+1] 12. 2,100 Mangia-Boy [+1] Rankings (through game 13) 1. BiffMan [+98] 2. gezkc [+95] 3. cmadruga [+74] 4. IntyFanMatt [+68] 5. JasonlikesINTV [+64] 5. Ace24 [+64] 7. JacobZu7zu7 [+61] 8. mr_me [+46] 9. wolfy62 [+41] 10. fakecortex [+33] 11. cparsely [+31] 12. dpisicane [+28] 13. Player One [+24] 14. Intelligentleman [+23] 15. jblenkle [+21] 16. ed1475 [+16] 17. m-crew [+13] 18. Intellfan [+10] 19. roadrunner [+9] 20. hoosierdadee78 [+7] 21. Mangia-Boy [+5] 22. S.BAZ [+4] 23. t0spmad [+2] 23. Mister-VCS [+2] 25. DarthCloud [+1] Games Won 4 - BiffMan (Atlantis - Demon Attack - Mission X - Auto Racing) 3 - mr_me (Lock 'N Chase - Tron Deadly Discs - Space Hawk) 3 - gezkc (Burgertime - Auto Racing - Happy Trails) 2 - IntyFanMatt (Frogger - Carnival) 1 - cmadruga (Tron Deadly Discs speed 1) 1 - cparsley (Mouse Trap) 1 - ed1475 (Space Armada)

I don't think he's done an update that includes Carnival (he'd normally put that at the front page of the next game, Beamrider) but I'll do a quick unofficial one in a few when I wrap up work for the day. Edit - Unofficial update tacked onto the Carnival thread, congrats on moving up to 4th, Matt! And gezkc has totally closed the gap on me after I threatened to start running away with it there! LOL

It's a Coleco game. They hate us. 🙂

So all we have to do is accumulate a lot of lives and not die as often? Easy peasy! 🙂 I know what you mean though, I get very frustrated when I shoot an extra ship by accident because I know how much I'll need those later and how many bonus points I'll be missing out on