ZX HSC Final Round - Green Beret / Motos / Manic Miner

[R-Tape]

There's something very wrong here. I've never had a problem with the Menagerie before.

[akeley]

Green Beret - 19,950
Motos - 53,200

Green Beret is a classic, but tbh it's one of these games I really like for a few minutes and then it gets rather boring. Quite regular occurence with me and side scrolling beat(stab?)'em ups. Left/right/left/right/left...yawn. ZX version is not too shabby and very playable, but also quite hard. Harder than the arcade in fact. Odd, though a bit more interesting because of that (in arcade not much happens in level one, here they are all a-jumpin and a-shootin' straight away).
It's also easy to cheese it by standing/lying in certain points and stabbing away ad infinitum. But, obviously, no ZX HSC player would ever think of doing anything like that

Motos is a revelation, haven't played it before and now I love this game as much as I hated Hunchback (so R-Tape is exonerated). How come it's not more revered and acclaimed? (or is it, and I just missed it?). If it was made by some Japanese company for the arc....oh, wait. I just looked it up a bit more in-depth. Of course it bloody was. And I was hoping for another Speccy hidden gem to brag about. Sigh.

[cmal]

Here are my first scores for the week.
Green Beret still holds up very well today but I did get frustrated playing and always dying in the same areas.
Got as far as Eugene's Lair in MM. I totally forgot about that Eugene dude blocking the doorway. Bummer! Will have to time it better next time.
Motos is a lot of fun. I think this version is easier than the arcade if I remember correctly.

Green Beret: 13,400
Manic Miner: 7,417
Motos: 46,600

[Juan F. Ramirez]

New scores:

Green Beret: 61,750
Manic Miner: 6,202 (No change and I don't think it will)
Motos: 19,000

[GreenCard]

More scores!

Green Beret: 41,700 (new)
Manic Miner: 24,199 (new)
Motos: 56,600 (new)

Furthest I've ever gotten in both Green Beret and Manic Miner. I've always liked those games, but never been all that great at them.

[clebin]

Green Beret - 85,300 (new)
Manic Miner - 28,053 (same)
Motos - 57,600 (new)

Green Beret - This should go in the "What you now know many years later" thread, but I finally realised you can shoot the landmines. Doh.

[akeley]

you can shoot the landmines

I have yet to play Manic Miner. Reluctant to do so because despite recognising its importance and appreciating the oddball vibes, I really don't like this type of unforgiving platformers. I did enjoy a bit of The Perils Of Willy recently though, so maybe there's hope after all...

[cmal]

Good to know that you can shoot the landmines in Green Beret. This is news to me too.

Here are my scores. Just had a chance to play GB again but seem to get killed in the same area each time. I also revisited Rainbow Islands from round 3 to try improve my horrible score but more importantly to try and enjoy a game that everyone else seems to enjoy except me. I finally got used to the rainbow/jumping mechanic and find myself enjoying the game a whole lot more.

Green Beret: 19,950
Manic Miner: 7,417 (unchanged)
Motos: 46,600 (unchanged)

Redemption round replay:
Rainbow Islands: 192,530

[Van_Dammesque]

I seem to be having problems witrh Green Beret, on the second level I can't climb the ladders! Anyone else had this problem?

[Juan F. Ramirez]

I seem to be having problems witrh Green Beret, on the second level I can't climb the ladders! Anyone else had this problem?

I remember I had a similar problem also with a ladder at the beggining of the second level, it was certain bug in a file. I tried another (the original tzx, IIRC) and no problems.

[Van_Dammesque]

Thanks Juan! Tried a different file and it worked!

Stupid question but what is the closing date of this competition?

[Morkin]

Thanks Juan! Tried a different file and it worked!

Stupid question but what is the closing date of this competition?

I haven't tried any of this weeks' games yet.

My assumption is that the deadline for submitting scores for ALL the games, which includes this round's 3 games, is Sun Oct 11 at 23:59.

[Van_Dammesque]

Motos 84700:


Green Beret 121700: (so close to completing it!)


Going to try MIKIE again and look at some of the others that I was good at when I was little. Manic Miner I could hardly get past 3rd screen!

[smurphboy]

Thanks Juan! Tried a different file and it worked!

Stupid question but what is the closing date of this competition?

I haven't tried any of this weeks' games yet.

My assumption is that the deadline for submitting scores for ALL the games, which includes this round's 3 games, is Sun Oct 11 at 23:59.

Same - I'll have a go tomorrow and publish a score update too going into the last week.

[akeley]

...indeed.

This round ends at midnight on Sunday 11th October.

And so does the whole compo. So y'all have 8 more days (well, 7+few hours, to be exact). Looking forward to [mention]smurphboy[/mention]'s update, so we can see where we all stand, and how many games do we have to replay to catch up with clebin

[Van_Dammesque]

Rainbow Islands: 438530


Commando: 84950


Deathchase: 13201

[smurphboy]

I've had a crack at this week's games. The update will come later this evening to set the scene for the final week...

Green Beret: 26450 - I got to level 2 but I know I can do better, I need to invest some time in this next week



Manic Miner: 7659 - still a great game. I got to Eugine's Lair but I know I can do better.



Motos: 44200 - I think I played the arcade BITD but not the speccy version. What a great conversion. Loving playing this.

[smurphboy]

Van_Dammesque up to 12th with those redemption round scores.... Full update later.

[smurphboy]

With one week to go, here are the Round 10 scores and the overall score picture. There is everything to play for in the final week.

Green Beret



Motos



Manic Miner



Overall scores

[cmal]

Here are some updated scores. I got to the Vat in MM for the first time but died because of a silly mistake.

Green Beret: 19,950 (unchanged)
Manic Miner: 11,650
Motos: 54,200

[smurphboy]

Today's scores from me.

Manic Miner: 14014



Pinball (Round 8): 9175

[Van_Dammesque]

Chuckie Egg: 23720


Manic Miner:8385


Gryzor: 40400


Penetrator: 6380 (a not a bad score considering I could only 'take off' twice out of ten at the very start!)


Bombjack: 276600 (could get millions as a kid because I memorized the bomb sequences in the later levels! Fun fact, this the was the game I learnt myself how to count in millions!)

Maybe revisit Mikie...

[akeley]

Manic Miner - 900
Green Beret - 33,000
Motos - 69,200

Snigger all you want at my MM score but I just can't with this game. It's not inherently bad (unlike that certain one with rope jumpin ), I just don't have the patience required for all these pixel-perfect shenanigans. Especially seeing as it's one of the really cruel ones, where you have to start from the scratch upon death.

[smurphboy]

Van_Dammesque up to 11th - akeley up to joint 2nd... All to play for...

[Juan F. Ramirez]

An updated score for Green Beret: 85,150
Manic miner: 6,202 (no change)
Motos: 13,700 (no change)