digdugnate Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 what I do with Mr. Squawk is as i'm going across the ledge I make multiple ropes so he only grab the first one its a little harder in the faster levels to do but i don't tend to get carried off. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I truly feel like an idiot playing this game. LOL! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 don't feel too bad the folks that don't post scores have lower scores than you- i've really stunk up a few months of the high score contests, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 A little better 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Yeah, my first few games were rather abysmal and embarrassing, but once you get into the groove and figure out timing you move along rather quickly. I have to clean all my projects out of the dining room today then I shall put in a half-hour of game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 ... gonna hit me ... gonna hit me ... hmmmm... gonnnnaa hittttt mmeeeee ... Damn! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 ive gotten really good at the 'move move move move rope move' motion- it's very similar to lode runner's mechanics in some ways. i played some yesterday but kept getting stymied on stupid level 6. i wasnt getting above about 24k points, grrrrrr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I cant beat level 1!!! Lol!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I cant beat level 1!!! Lol!!! if it helps.... throw your ropes in the middle of the ledges, and line up your mountain climber dude where his head is 'in' the ledge. you wont get hit and you can time when the snowball goes past ya. sort of like- 'walk, rope, climb, wait, grab green box, grab gold'- it helps to pair the box/gold or grab clusters of boxes first. usually the last box/gold set is the one at the top for me and i get those last. i also make sure that when i do the rope at the end to get bigfoot, he has just thrown a snowball and it's one level underneath me. the double snowballs from lvl 5(?) and up really get me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 There needs to be a damsel to rescue. This game is less fun without a damsel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 You have 2 unlimited resources as far as the game is concerned: ropes, and time. It seems to me to be more of a puzzle game than an action game. -M@ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 You have 2 unlimited resources as far as the game is concerned: ropes, and time. It seems to me to be more of a puzzle game than an action game. -M@ i like this description! i find myself looking at each level trying to determine the best placement for the ropes. this month has been great because i really do like this game- and i can contribute by sharing my strategies/experience with it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Thanks for the insight guys!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Yeah, once I realized there was no timer I set about to run completely around the board with reckless abandon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 There needs to be a damsel to rescue. This game is less fun without a damsel.How do you know Bigfoot isn't the damsel? Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 How do you know Bigfoot isn't the damsel? Mind. Blown. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Very busy thread! Of all the pinned ones, this one by far has the most replies. CONGRATS! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I cant beat level 1!!! Lol!!! hehe, I can't either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Next week be sure to log your play-times for Bigfoot on the game tracker here on Atariage. If you dont know what that is..... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/273838-what-have-you-actually-played-tracker-for-2018-season-11/page-2 The TI took the to spot several times last year.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 just did! i'll try to remember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 He tracks weekly, so all times are tallied on Monday for the previous week. If you add times later in the week, just make a note To add: before your game and minutes. That way he knows this is additional time, and not total time. It is an awesome thing he does. I try to post when I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 22170 on a real TI. Great game choice. Thanks also for the videos, Matt! I’ll practice up! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count9929A Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Wonderful game and nice memories of the past! Bigfoot (together with Fathom) have been the first (and only) asm language game that I bought on cassette tape, when I was a kid. In Italy, in 198x (x<=5) it was really difficult to have TI99 material and even news. In the city where I was living no shop sold TI99 stuff. One day I was in Rome (more that 3 hours by car from my place) for some reasons so I convinced my parents to visit a local computer store that advertized TI99 stuff. I was interested in learning ASM so my aim was to by a 32K expansion to use Paolo Bagnaresi’s assembler for XB+32K (the source code was published in an italian magazine). At the shop I bought the ram expansion (a sidecar made by Essemmeci). Then the seller told me that I could use it to play games on tape. At the time I believed that the only software on tape were hobbistic programs in basic, and that the only possible support for cool (asm) games were cartridegs. So at first I didn’t believe that Big Foot & Fathom were asm games (never heard of them, again in Italy very few infos on software for TI). But boy, those tapes were really cheap compared to the cart (I think I payed 10000 lire each, more or less 5$). So it was a great discovery! I could enjoy cheap “copies” of commercial software, like all the C= kids did! wow! Unfortunately I had no more chance to visit Rome, so that was my only “experience” P-) Back home, I didn’t like Big Foot too much. It required a lot of time to load from tape, and after that I got a game that appeared a bit slow. The graphics were nothing special. I preferred Fathom, and 2049 miner (yeah, I bought that one too, on cart). Now I appreciate Big Foot much more, because, like others have said, it’s a mix of puzzle and action. So, enough writing for today (please forgive my bad English) it’s time for the score, that’s what I reached after the first gaming-session (real TI, 50hz) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 (edited) here's what I have for the leaderboard so far this month- Bigfoot has been really popular! globeron 24580 jedimatt42 24370 Count9929A 22830 digdugnate 22460 jwild 22170 mizapf 22090 arcadeshopper 21960 oldcs1 21390 rickneff68 21260 opry99er 3100 Let me know if I missed a score or one of them is inaccurate. Edited January 17, 2018 by digdugnate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Holy Shazbot... I fell that far in the rankings? Gotta get my game on, I guess. BTW, I could make available one of a few TI items I have here for the winner this month; maybe help spur a comeback of the whole prize thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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