IntyFanMatt Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 17 minutes ago, mr_me said: Thin Ice 149170 Intellivision hardware Wow. Now that’s awesome!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakecortex Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 55 minutes ago, mr_me said: Thin Ice 149170 Intellivision hardware uuuuuh...take that seals! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 Slap Shot Update: Had a sweet game scoring-wise and my defense played a little better than last game too. My goalie was awful though, but the computer's was MUCH worse.....? My scoring per period was 16 - 11 - 16... ??? FINAL Score 43-11; Biggest Blowout Differential = 32 32 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntyFanMatt Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 26 minutes ago, Rickster8 said: Slap Shot Update: Had a sweet game scoring-wise and my defense played a little better than last game too. My goalie was awful though, but the computer's was MUCH worse.....? My scoring per period was 16 - 11 - 16... ??? FINAL Score 43-11; Biggest Blowout Differential = 32 32 Wow. That’s toys domination!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 (edited) My Ice Trek Update: Did a little better this time. I got to level 3. I managed to fully complete 2 ice bridges and came close to completing the 3rd one, but Vali froze and I was done. Building the ice bridge is pretty frustrating. I will never be able to video this game cuz it's a TOTAL swear-a-thon..... ? 7,350 Edited December 22, 2020 by Rickster8 Formatting 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 Winter Games Update: (Updated thru post #55) Christmas Carol: 961 - popsicle 726 - IntyFanMatt 431 - Rickster8 145 - jblenkle Thin Ice: 149,170 - mr_me 22,150 - IntyFanMatt 15,250 - Rickster8 10,100 - fakecortex 7,800 - popsicle 7,000 - Player One 5,920 - jblenkle 4,540 - Biffman Ice Trek: 7,350 - Rickster8 7,260 - popsicle 2,030 - jblenkle 970 - fakecortex Hockey Bonus Game: +32 - Rickster8 +27 - mr_me +17 - popsicle +1 - IntyFanMatt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gar0u Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Better get my best efforts up here in case I don't get any more time to play this year. I have to take a picture of the start screen of Christmas Carol every level, because I never know when it will crash. Too bad--this is a really fun game! Probably out for hockey. Tried one game and was very bad at it! Getting the hang of Thin Ice and I have a theory about how to get some really big scores, having trouble consistently pulling it off though. Merry Christmas everyone! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 (edited) With thin ice, the guy that got 440k did it in eight levels where it took me seventeen levels to get 149k. So there is a way to get big scores that I'm missing. Edited December 21, 2020 by mr_me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gar0u Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 That confirms my strategy. I'll share what I'm trying to do in the spirit of holiday giving. Ignore the penguins. Skate a big box around the seal. Once he's on your line, make smaller and smaller circles, never dunking him, until you have a very small box, then dunk him. You can actually stop skating, so do that. When the seal pops up out of the water frozen, skate around him again with a slightly bigger box to dunk him again. This keeps dunking him and you keep scoring 1,000 points. Eventually you run out of room or get penguins dunked on "accident" and move up a level. Use your freezes to stop the polar bears. If you can dunk them, great. But focus on the seal. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntyFanMatt Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Just now, gar0u said: That confirms my strategy. I'll share what I'm trying to do in the spirit of holiday giving. Ignore the penguins. Skate a big box around the seal. Once he's on your line, make smaller and smaller circles, never dunking him, until you have a very small box, then dunk him. You can actually stop skating, so do that. When the seal pops up out of the water frozen, skate around him again with a slightly bigger box to dunk him again. This keeps dunking him and you keep scoring 1,000 points. Eventually you run out of room or get penguins dunked on "accident" and move up a level. Use your freezes to stop the polar bears. If you can dunk them, great. But focus on the seal. That sounds interesting but still challenging to do...I may try it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 (edited) 23 minutes ago, IntyFanMatt said: That sounds interesting but still challenging to do...I may try it. Yeah sounds great but I'll never be able to pull it off. That damn seal is relentless and the only way for me to stop him when he's on my line is to go into water... If there's no water yet then I'm doomed.... I got 15k last week and haven't been close to that since.... Hard game.... Edited December 21, 2020 by Rickster8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 (edited) You can dunk the seal a few times in a row like that but then he decides to come up off to the side. He also gets really fast at some point in a level; not sure if it's from being dunked too many times or just taking too long on the level. At that point I find it best to just move on to the next level. I was then thinking maybe the secret is with the bears but I wasn't having much luck with them. Edited December 21, 2020 by mr_me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 My Christmas Carol Update: Some small improvement.... What's the deal with that ghost who farts on you and gives you more presents??? ? 512 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 Oh and for what it's worth I finally dunked the seal once playing Thin Ice.... ? To me that seal is like the 90k Shark, in Shark Shark! ?? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 Do the side buttons do anything beneficial in Christmas Carol? ?♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Ice Trek 10690 skill #1 mame, intellivision controller 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntyFanMatt Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Rickster8 said: Do the side buttons do anything beneficial in Christmas Carol? ?♂️ Nope. That’s a disc only game. Like Pac Man. Wish they had built something into the game though that utilized those buttons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 My Christmas Carol Update: Showing some more progression, but time is definitely running out for me to save Christmas.... ??? 705 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 On 12/11/2020 at 1:42 PM, JasonlikesINTV said: The highest score I could find for Carol vs Ghost was 16,955. https://web.archive.org/web/20161118202946/https://www.carolvsghost.com/cvw/2015/pg_leaderboard.html Edit: Actually, it might be 29,159. Actually, the world record is at 29,159 by @Fushek. https://carolvsghost.com/game/cvw/pg_winners.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 (edited) Man ... I can't believe I've missed this so far! ?? I'll try to put in some time for games this week ... it's been crazy! For all of you stumbling your way through Christmas Carol, below are some tips & tricks I've posted in the past challenges to help you: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/205725-cvw-tips-tricks-countdown/ https://atariage.com/forums/topic/246584-the-frosted-maze-solution/?tab=comments#comment-3388131 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/205725-cvw-tips-tricks-countdown/?tab=comments#comment-2881155 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/219214-2nd-annual-cvw-competition-december/?do=findComment&comment=2894996 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/219214-2nd-annual-cvw-competition-december/page/27/?tab=comments#comment-2894974 Also, if anybody is having problems with the game (I think someone mentioned that it crashes), please make sure you get the latest ROM from the webpage: https://www.carolvsghost.com/getrom Or just send me a PM and I'll try to figure out what's going on. -dZ. Edited December 23, 2020 by DZ-Jay 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 21 hours ago, Rickster8 said: Do the side buttons do anything beneficial in Christmas Carol? ?♂️ Nope, nothing. Only the disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 8 hours ago, Rickster8 said: My Christmas Carol Update: Showing some more progression, but time is definitely running out for me to save Christmas.... ??? 705 Check out the tips & tricks links I posted above, they should help. Or, if you are stuck on any specific level, just ask! The best hint I can give anybody is this: ignore the candy, use the snowflakes sparingly, and just focus on getting the presents. The game may seem hard, mostly because it runs at a very fast pace; but it has some very predictable behaviour that allows you to beat it easily ... at least the first time around. :) -dZ. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Ice Trek 12810 skill #1 mame, intellivision controller 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntyFanMatt Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 5 hours ago, DZ-Jay said: Man ... I can't believe I've missed this so far! ?? I'll try to put in some time for games this week ... it's been crazy! For all of you stumbling your way through Christmas Carol, below are some tips & tricks I've posted in the past challenges to help you: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/205725-cvw-tips-tricks-countdown/ https://atariage.com/forums/topic/246584-the-frosted-maze-solution/?tab=comments#comment-3388131 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/205725-cvw-tips-tricks-countdown/?tab=comments#comment-2881155 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/219214-2nd-annual-cvw-competition-december/?do=findComment&comment=2894996 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/219214-2nd-annual-cvw-competition-december/page/27/?tab=comments#comment-2894974 Also, if anybody is having problems with the game (I think someone mentioned that it crashes), please make sure you get the latest ROM from the webpage: https://www.carolvsghost.com/getrom Or just send me a PM and I'll try to figure out what's going on. -dZ. Thanks very much DZ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Ice Trek 16630 Skill #1 mame, intellivision controller 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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