Season 10 ~ Silver Medal Bracket

[TheActivisionary]

I do have a question Vocelli: What counts as rollage on Pac-Man?

[CapitanClassic]

Circus Atari. Looks like I am going to have to bust out my Flashback 5 and my real paddles.

[TheActivisionary]

Didn’t want the day to be a total loss so I played a bit more just to lay down a score.

Pac-Man: 16033

[keilbaca]

Is the rules for circus atari the same as the week we played it in?

[Vocelli]

4 hours ago, keilbaca said:

Is the rules for circus atari the same as the week we played it in?

Sorry Play the same game as in Regular Season....   Circus Atari  6 A/

[Vocelli]

16 hours ago, TheActivisionary said:

I do have a question Vocelli: What counts as rollage on Pac-Man?

Rollage is 95,000.

 

If both players roll.... Both players advance!

[TheActivisionary]

10 hours ago, Vocelli said:

Rollage is 95,000.

 

If both players roll.... Both players advance!

Ok, thanks for clarifying

[CapitanClassic]

The key to this game is to only lose a man when you are about to clear all rows again. If you do, you will get an ‘X’ life as a bonus. Your next death will remove the X rather than one of your 5 lives.

 

Going to attempt to roll, just to be safe.
3423 - Circus Atari G6(A/A)

9123 - attempt 4

PS. If you don’t die of boredom, you can also just go for 9999 trampoline hits.

Edited November 5, 2020 by CapitanClassic

[keilbaca]

19 hours ago, CapitanClassic said:

The key to this game is to only lose a man when you are about to clear all rows again. If you do, you will get an ‘X’ life as a bonus. Your next death will remove the X rather than one of your 5 lives.

 

Going to attempt to roll, just to be safe.
3423 - Circus Atari G6(A/A)

9123 - attempt 4

PS. If you don’t die of boredom, you can also just go for 9999 trampoline hits.

Nice! 

 

I keep getting hung up in the 5000 mark. Looks like I got my work cut out for me. 

[Jason_Atari]

18,337

 

Putting a score out there. Most probably i need to roll the score to advance, something i haven't done in over 35 years lol.

 

 

[CapitanClassic]

ROLLAGE not really - Circus Atari G6(B/B)

 

Since my first paddle controller is mushy, I decided to play on player 2. I made to sure to set the difficulty to (A/A), which isn’t documented on the Atari Flashback 5 in the manual.
 

I thought it was pushed in is A/Expert, but it seems that that is revered (Combat shows short missiles on button up). Vocelli, please disregard my previous score this round.

 

Frustrating.I actually thought I was doing well. I had 2500 points and hadn’t lost any man (and 9200 before I lost a non-bonus man on purpose). I died on purpose so I could get a pick and not accidentally go over 9999. (Each rack is worth about 500)

Back to the drawing board.

 

 

 

Edited November 6, 2020 by CapitanClassic

[CapitanClassic]

Circus Atari (A/A) (for real this time)

3731 - CapitanClassic 

[TheActivisionary]

2 hours ago, Jason_Atari said:

18,337

 

Putting a score out there. Most probably i need to roll the score to advance, something i haven't done in over 35 years lol.

 

 

Nice score. Looks like we’ll both have to roll it, I’m preparing myself mentally for the hours of Pac-Man to come.

[CapitanClassic]

5747 - CapitanClassic 

 

[CapitanClassic]

ROLLAGE - Circus Atari G6(A/A)

 

After about 5 more games, and 10 RageResets, I have rollage.

 

The key is to keep it near the right-hand platform. When the game starts going fast, hitting the platform slows it down (usually). You do have to get good at the quick button press and flip the see-saw. It also helps to time your big jumps/close to the edge when the first of the three green blocks are about to go by, as they can sometimes block a quick drop to the hard hard ground.

 

good luck, keilbeca.

[Atarian7]

On 11/5/2020 at 12:56 AM, CapitanClassic said:

PS. If you don’t die of boredom, you can also just go for 9999 trampoline hits.

[keilbaca]

I really hope you take this rollage. I really tried to get a death between the 9900 range.

 

I was in the 9700 score range, 5th life. I had no choice but to collect the last few balloons. As soon as I hit 9900, I killed the character. Sadly, the counter kept going to 0007.

[CapitanClassic]

2 hours ago, keilbaca said:

I really hope you take this rollage. I really tried to get a death between the 9900 range.

Quote

GAME 5 is similar to Breakout Circus, except the balloons do not "restore" after the full row is popped.  
All balloons on the screen must be popped before you receive three new rows of balloons.  
At this time you receive 170 bonus points and an extra clown.

GAME 6 is the same as GAME 5, but with the additional row of barriers added below the balloons.

 

Rollage for this game (especially this variation) is too high at 9900 points.

Since you score a bonus 170 points, the rollage score should at a minimum be 181 points less than 9999 (9818).

I would even give an additional ~50% of one rack (max points =170), and call it an even 9700.

 

You have to clear 29 racks (minus the number of see-saw hits), so the difference between 23 or 24 racks is negligible. 

Edited November 8, 2020 by CapitanClassic
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[CapitanClassic]

2 hours ago, keilbaca said:

I really hope you take this rollage. I really tried to get a death between the 9900 range.

 

I was in the 9700 score range, 5th life. I had no choice but to collect the last few balloons. As soon as I hit 9900, I killed the character. Sadly, the counter kept going to 0007.

Additionally,  it should be noted that your score is impossible WITHOUT rolling the score. You scorescored exactly 7 points with 1 blue balloon and 2 white balloons. But, each time your clown starts a new life, you score 1 point for bouncing off the black borders. So, with a minimum of 5 (or 4 points, since your 5th isnt dead yet) points, you can not have only 7 points without rollage and those 3 balloons popped.

Edited November 8, 2020 by CapitanClassic

[keilbaca]

I thought the math was correct. I was too tired to think right, so I opted to be safe. That works. Now I have a few days to play 1943 on the arcade for a score, until the finals start. 

[Vocelli]

Last Day for scores for this round!

 

@Keilbaca... Your rollage counts.

[Jason_Atari]

ROLLAGE!

 

I knew i could do it, just needed to set aside some time to do so (took me about 3 and a half hours) as i was being quite conservative at times.

 

 

 

[TheActivisionary]

Pac-Man:

ROLLAGE!

This was painful but rewarding, total time of run was 4:01

[Jason_Atari]

4 rollages in the semi finals means 4 people in the final, has that happened before?

[TheActivisionary]

9 minutes ago, Jason_Atari said:

4 rollages in the semi finals means 4 people in the final, has that happened before?

No idea, but it’s pretty crazy that we all did it, good job everyone. @Jason_Atari looks like it took you and I a similar amount of time to roll the score.