McKong Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 296k it becomes very difficult to get into a window on the 5th level . You just have avoid trouble and wait until you get lucky and one opens right next to you 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 (edited) Alley Cat - 002-3433 Did better -- see next post Edited March 25, 2015 by jblenkle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Alley Cat - 004-2261 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 296k it becomes very difficult to get into a window on the 5th level . You just have avoid trouble and wait until you get lucky and one opens right next to you Great Score I'm getting worse by the day... I was wrong about the multipliers being related to lives left, any ideas? Alley Cat - 004-2261 Looks like you found a game you like Round 5 Poll O*P*E*N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I wanted to play "Tin Pan Alley Cats" on my 130XE using my AtariMax cart. I created a disk with MyPicoDOS and the game (called TINPAN.BAS) and placed it on my flashcart. It works great! For anyone who wants to play this game on real hardware, then this ATR disk will make doing that just a bit easier. Tin Pan Alley Cats (with MyPicoDOS).atr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Another thry 9-9501 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Great Score I'm getting worse by the day... I was wrong about the multipliers being related to lives left, any ideas? Looks like you found a game you like Round 5 Poll O*P*E*N The score multipliers just go up by 2 each round so 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and you get double bubble if you make it to the top of the hearts screen with a present 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 Improved on Alley Cat 18-6920 mainly due to a 10x bonus, going to pieces getting onto the single bin on the Alley Cat stage and Tin Can 2,300 This round closes Sunday Morning - Vote in the Round 5 POLL everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecat Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Alley Cat 9739 Tin Can Alley Cat 2350 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 (edited) Alley Cat - 42,478 Edited March 27, 2015 by jblenkle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BIT 1337 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Well I guess I'll eat my hat a little bit - I did manage to get a pretty decent score on Alley Cat after all - 191,292. (As an added bonus, I managed to make it a selfie of sorts LOL) I also tried out Tin Pan Alley Cats and kinda liked it. 2,650. Have to admit I had as much fun getting it running my real Atari as I did playing it. Sorry about the bad pic: Edited March 28, 2015 by 8BIT 1337 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Nice varying game, stickerly for details! I love it! :-) My first round: 002-9185 real 800XL, PAL Sleepy Edited March 28, 2015 by Sleepy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I like "Alley Cat" quite a bit... I'm just not any good at it-- and playing it doesn't make me better. I've never even been able to clear the level called "The Kennel." My personal high scores for both games are: Alley Cat - 19,608 (NTSC, Real 130XE using Atarimax 8Mb Cart) Tin Pan Alley Cats - 3,650 - NTSC, Real 130XE using Atarimax 8Mb Cart) "Tin Pan Alley Cats" is simple, repetitive and dull. It reminds me of extremely early timed arcade games. Playing this game with the paddle, and some tweaking to gameplay, would make this game fastly improved... and I'm sure that when the game was published in the Antic book, that there were some budding kids (and the kid in all of us adults) that did just that and made "Tin Pan Alley Cats" their very own. That's the beauty of BASIC. Regardless of how much I live the bonus game, I like that it was picked. It's a weird choice, but it goes perfectly well with Alley Cat! Has anyone ever played "Alley Cat" and only collected the mice on the clothesline to see what score that they could attain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I'm just not any good at it-- and playing it doesn't make me better. A well-known problem for me, too. Sleepy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 1-6573 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Had some more goes and got steadily worse 299k, 199k and 143k! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Almost missed this round... 32,116 PAL How have I never played this before?? As a cat lover, I'm more than a little embarrassed. Edited March 28, 2015 by adam242 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakeboy Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 004-5389 I love the concept of this game, but man can it ever be frustrating at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 OK, here is my last attemp 12-8855 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Top cat McKong make it three HSC wins in a row with 8BIT 1337 stealing 2nd place from your truly Special mention to jblenkle breaking into the top 10 Bonus game "Tin Can Alley Cats" was won by ballyalley Alley Cat remains a challenging game showing quality throughout; from the manual to the seven screens. Each screen is so well designed that even after repeated play you can never take them for granted. The difficulty ramps up nicely but is perhaps a little difficult to start with. And the answer is NO Final Tables Alley Cat 1st McKong (p) 031-9956 12pts 2nd 8BIT 1337 (n) 019-1292 11pts $ 3rd therealbountybob (p) 018-6920 10pts 4th krupkaj (p) 012-8855 9pts 5th Sikor (p) 009-3102 9pts 6th MrMartian (n) 008-2534 9pts 7th Star castler (n) 006-0752 8pts 8th snakeboy (n) 004-5389 8pts 9th jblenkle (n) 004-2478 8pts 10th Bunsen (p) 003-6714 7pts 11th Deteacher (n) 003-2715 7pts 12th adam242 (p) 003-2116 7pts 13th MisterKerr (n) 003-1126 6pts 14th Sleepy (p) 002-9185 6pts 15th SHiNjide (p) 002-6339 6pts 16th Mrs McKong (p) 002-0558 5pts 17th ballyalley (n) 001-9608 5pts 18th LidLikesIntellivision 001-6573 5pts 19th pusakat (n) 001-3208 4pts 20th akator (n) 001-2970 4pts 21st bluecat (p) 000-9739 3pts 22nd NIKON (p) 000-9030 3pts 23rd airsoftmodels (p) 000-6040 2pts 24th roadrunner (n) 000-2334 2pts 25th Tickled_Pink (p) 000-2230 1pts------------------------------------------------ Bonus Points for this round (not shown in total above) # Set new HSC record [McKong's 060-9534] 1pt $ Top NTSC Player 1pt: 8BIT 1337 Tin Can Alley Cats 1st ballyalley (n) 3,650 1pt 2nd Star castler (n) 2,950 3rd akator (n) 2,880 4th 8Bit 1337 (n) 2,650 5th Sikor (p) 2,550 6th bluecat (p) 2,350 7th therealbountybob (p) 2,300 If you missed this round (or any others) you can post late scores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Late score, and late start on this game. The key on the Alley Cat difficulty is to drop off the short can on the right and run jump to the can on the left. Until the 6th level, you should be able to out race the dog. Alley Cat - 186,071 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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