darthkur Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) Rand Peltzer discovers the Mogwai in a Hong Kong trinket shop. Rand is enchanted by the fluffy little creature and insists on buying it. "With Mogwai comes much responsibility," warns the wise old owner of the shop. Three absolute rules for the care and feeding of Mogwai are: 1. Keep them away from water. Don't ever get them wet. Water makes them multiply. 2. Keep them out of light. They hate bright light. It will kill them. 3. But the most important thing, the thing you must never forget, is that no matter how much they cry, no matter how much they beg, never, never feed them after midnight. If you do, they'll hatch into Gremlins! Rand presents the Mogwai to his son Billy for Christmas. Billy names his adorable pet "Gizmo"--in honor of his dad's business, which is inventing gadgets and gizmos. When Billy's friend accidentally spills water on Gizmo, five Mogwai spring out of the original one! Billy cages the Mogwai in his living room, but they break out for a midnight snack. As the game opens things look really grim--or is that grem? Emulators are fine as is whatever controller you feel the most comfortable with. Screenshots are great but not mandatory. Please do not use any cheat/hack options. These include auto-fire, unlimited lives, invincibility, etc. Settings: Night 3 (Default) Contest ends on: 10-26-09 at 1:00am EST. Final High Scores: 1st: Gabriel - 1,100,825 +11 2nd: darthkur - 185,584 +10 3rd: atariron82 - 154,556 +9 4th: Cafeman - 116,068 +8 5th: DensB68 - 106,429 +7 6th: RangerG - 56,723 +6 7th: roadrunner - 43,816 +5 8th: NoahsMyBro - 17,720 +4 Current Standings: 1st: Cafeman (151) (3) 2nd: darthkur (141) (3) 3rd: DensB68 (106) (1) 4th: roadrunner (103) 5th: atariron82 (101) (1) 6th: ckirkman (72) (2) 7th: NoahsMyBro (65) 8th: RangerG (58) 9th: doctorclu (48) (3) 10th: bohoki (39) (1) 11th: Scihorror (38) 12th: Shannon (36) 13th: LaserHawk (24) 14th: Gabriel (22) (2) 15th: MIKE5200 (15) 16th: LarcenTyler (12) 17th: Chris-in-NJ (11) (1) 17th: thursday83 (11) 18th: ataridoctor (8) 18th: shadow460 (8) 19th: chuckwalla (6) 19th: midnight magicman (6) 19th: NML32 (6) 20th: atari_envy (5) 20th: Mingy Jongo (5) 21st: mightymage (4) 22nd: phuzaxeman (2) 23rd: atariksi (1) Numbers in RED are accumulated points. Numbers in BLUE are number of rounds won. Link to the official manual: Gremlins Manual Edited October 26, 2009 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Finally, a game I like and never got the chance to really compete/learn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 19,693 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 29,889 pretty good game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 9,720 One of the games I still need in cart form, so never played it (until now on the flashcart). Good game - I'll get better, you need to attack the Gremlins from a space away and from the side, right - I keep getting too close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 9,720 One of the games I still need in cart form, so never played it (until now on the flashcart). Good game - I'll get better, you need to attack the Gremlins from a space away and from the side, right - I keep getting too close. You can kill them from any angle but, as you observed, you need to be a sufficient enough space apart from them or they'll get you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 44,574 Fun game. Very Robotronish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) 18,177 Great game - this one's unique to the 5200, right? I know the 2600 has one, but the gameplay is pretty different. And: 29,706 Edited October 15, 2009 by RangerG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 76,533. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 18,177 Great game - this one's unique to the 5200, right? It's true that the 2600 Gremlins is a totally diferent game but the same version as the 5200 was also ported to Apple ][, Commodore 64 and IBM PC (PC Booter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I didn't realize that Darthkur, so it's just unique to the consoles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariron82 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 This is one of my favorites The programmers did a lot of work on this game. We're fortunate that it finally made it out the door after spending two years in limbo. The Zelda style swordplay with 'slashing' sound seems unique to the Library, making this title really stand out. My starting score: 49,881 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I never got so far as I did today. I like the waves and variations. Sometimes you just get Mogwai, sometimes Gremlins, but mostly the mix. Sometimes there are walls to contend with too. I cracked up when I saw the Gremlin throwing food out of the fridge! The AI is pretty cool in its behavior too. I noticed you get 100 pts for killing a Gremlin, but Mogwai saves get incremental - 100, 150, 200, etc up to 400 for me in one round. That's how you get high points, I imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 56,723 Had a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 1,100,825 I could have played indefinitely at this point. The Night counter freezes at 99 but the various wave types keep cycling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted October 18, 2009 Author Share Posted October 18, 2009 185,584 I made it to night 46. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariron82 Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Wow Gabe your killin' me! You must have played a long time to get that far I made it to Night 42: 154,556 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Wow - you guys are good (especially Gabriel). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 116,068 is my best so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 My new high score 43,816 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DensB68 Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 106,429 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahsMyBro Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 16,167 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahsMyBro Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 17,720 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 That's it for this round. Congrats to Gabriel for his sky high score. I hope everyone had fun hacking gremlins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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