globeron Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 52,500 RetroPie TI99Sim 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 48800 real iron.Fun gameSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Tex Turbo and the Big Bug Battles – April 2020 Thank you to Marc Hull for creating this game! FarmerPotato 82500 Globeron 52500 Jwild 48800 Tursi 34500 Roadrunner 5400 Jblenkle 600 FarmerPotato, would you like to select a new game? Congratulations on that great score. Any tips for how you did it? I have a feeling you get a lot more points when you eliminate several bugs at one time. I was too busy concentrating to watch the score change. Your score seemed quite high for the level you were on, so I have a feeling you were racking up points by doing something special. Thank you to everyone for playing. Happy May! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 Daayum potato!Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 7 hours ago, jwild said: Thank you to Marc Hull for creating this game! FarmerPotato, would you like to select a new game? Congratulations on that great score. Any tips for how you did it? I have a feeling you get a lot more points when you eliminate several bugs at one time.. May’s game shall be Spot Shot, or Dragonflyer. im disappointed that Tex Turbo doesn’t award any more points for combos. And only for killing bugs. I just played it a lot and got in the flow starting at speed 3. Wait, do you get 100xStarting speed? I got 300 points per bug throughout the game. Onward to Spot Shot! Good luck to all! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 11 hours ago, FarmerPotato said: May’s game shall be Spot Shot, or Dragonflyer. im disappointed that Tex Turbo doesn’t award any more points for combos. And only for killing bugs. I just played it a lot and got in the flow starting at speed 3. Wait, do you get 100xStarting speed? I got 300 points per bug throughout the game. Onward to Spot Shot! Good luck to all! Is that what it is, i could not figure it out. Always started with speed 1. Agree on the combos or longer than 5 in a row, etc. But excellent game enjoyed it. Took 2.5 hours i believe to get there.... spot shot, love the game! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 On 5/2/2020 at 12:23 PM, FarmerPotato said: May’s game shall be Spot Shot, or Dragonflyer. im disappointed that Tex Turbo doesn’t award any more points for combos. And only for killing bugs. I just played it a lot and got in the flow starting at speed 3. Wait, do you get 100xStarting speed? I got 300 points per bug throughout the game. Onward to Spot Shot! Good luck to all! Is that what it is, i could not figure it out. Always started with speed 1. Agree on the combos or longer than 5 in a row, etc. But excellent game enjoyed it. Took 2.5 hours i believe to get there.... spot shot, love the game! Real TI. 13250 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 4590 Real TI.Mine is called Dragonflyer. Is there a Spot Shot also?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 14 minutes ago, jwild said: 4590 Real TI. Mine is called Dragonflyer. Is there a Spot Shot also? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Oh I see from searching.. it looks like SpotShot was renamed (or also known as) Dragonflyer. It is an interesting game. quite different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 22040 Real TI.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 We probably ought to provide our monthly high score data to our esteemed newsletter editor, @sparkdrummer, as that will provide him several new/updated entries for the high score list at the end of most issues of Yesterday's News. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 If someone wants to send me the complete list since this was started I will update the whole page with these current games and high scores. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 I found Spot Shot by searching the messages. Here are both Spot Shot and Dragonflyer. I played one quick game of Spot Shot after several yesterday of Dragonflyer. They are "very similar". I can't tell just yet if playability is any different between the two. It is interesting in that the two file sizes are different. Download them both and see for yourself and let us know what you think. Good luck. SPOTSHOT32KB8.bin dragonflyer.bin 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 Reason the different sizes is because likely spot shot is converted from ea5Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 120880Be the DragonflySent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 On 5/5/2020 at 12:30 AM, jwild said: I found Spot Shot by searching the messages. Here are both Spot Shot and Dragonflyer. I played one quick game of Spot Shot after several yesterday of Dragonflyer. They are "very similar". I can't tell just yet if playability is any different between the two. It is interesting in that the two file sizes are different. Download them both and see for yourself and let us know what you think. Good luck. SPOTSHOT32KB8.bin 32 kB · 4 downloads dragonflyer.bin 16 kB · 4 downloads On the retropie i do not get further than around 5600-ish... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) Holy cow, I can not get anywhere near jwild's score. I never imagined you could get that far in this game! On 5/4/2020 at 10:21 PM, jwild said: 120880 Be the Dragonfly Edited May 7, 2020 by FarmerPotato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 My score 34230. I don't think I've seen level 7 until now. Some things I started to notice in the game: After level 4, you get a big bonus, then level 5 seems easier. Like how in Munch Man, the Hoono levels come in groups of 3, then the next group starts off easier, then ramps up. Level 4 I think is the twisty little chains of squirted out toothpaste? I suspect Level 5, Bricks in a Wall, only looks easier. Making the weakness holes bigger: I try to decide if I'm shooting the leading edge or the trailing edge of the weak spot. Do the holes line up again naturally? I guess the pattern repeats at regular intervals, but I'm not sure they align. I'm too busy shooting to observe! The time spent lasering all the way to the right and off the screen, is time you are not lasering any pixels. Which means more pixels in your way. You get more points per bug when shooting all the way over to the right. 10 when shot in the column right in front of you, 50 when it's way over to the right. The amounts go up after some levels. I saw 30-70. Overall, this game is really well designed, as you would expect from Sofmachine. Maybe someone can list out all their games (Qmaze/Jumpy, Barrage?) , as well as prior games of the programmers.. I believe it's the A's of the A list of TI game programmers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) It's just so weird that Databiotics would sell it as a cartridge under one name one year and sell it under a completely different name the next. In the Triton Fall 87 catalogue, it's Spot-Shot, and in the Fall 88 catalogue, it's Dragonflyer. With almost exactly the same blurb, and the same cartridge code. At least with TI Runner/Star Runner and SPAD XIII/Red Baron, they were in each case producing a cartridge release of a game not previously released in cartridge form and originally released by somebody else. Rebranding a game you yourself released the previous year in the same format is next level silly. Fall 88: Fall 87: Does anyone here have the "Dragonflyer" cartridge or manual? If so, was it fully rebranded, there? Edited May 8, 2020 by pixelpedant 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Renamings occasionally happen because of copyright issues (remember Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox). Maybe this was the case here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fimbulvetr Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 I am really finding this game tough. I have no idea how you guys get those scores, as I seem to have a hard time getting to 1000 pts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fimbulvetr Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 (I should have posted my score from last month though ... Dr. Mario games are my thing, and with Tex Turbo I got to the point where I could just get into a flow and kept going until I got bored and turned it off) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 7 hours ago, mizapf said: Renamings occasionally happen because of copyright issues (remember Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox). Maybe this was the case here... Good thought. It does seem like there was a C64 game of this era also called Spot Shot. In this case and this era, though, DBT is kind of notorious for renamed rereleases. So I feel like it's more likely this is just late-80s DBT being late-80s DBT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 9 hours ago, pixelpedant said: Good thought. It does seem like there was a C64 game of this era also called Spot Shot. In this case and this era, though, DBT is kind of notorious for renamed rereleases. So I feel like it's more likely this is just late-80s DBT being late-80s DBT. DBT had a thing for renaming their cartridges after a year or two--pretty much all of their cartridges went through a rebranding at some point. Some of them are much more difficult to find in one or the other of the two names they used for the same code, but the rebranding was complete, in that the manuals had the names updated as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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