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High Score competition #38: Bomb Jack
bpark42:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on March 03, 2010, 04:44:06 pm ---I got a chance to view it. Nice. What I noticed from both players though, is that there were some levels where they didn't go for all the lit bombs for the bonus points on levels 11, 12, 13 and 14. I wonder why they do this. There has to be a strategic reason.
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I haven't watched any of the videos or recordings posted because I am stubborn about wanting to figure patterns and such out for myself, but I will say that I can understand not going for the bonuses on those levels. 11 and 12 are extremely difficult to get the bonuses on (I don't remember 13 or 14 all that well since I have only played them a few times.) I've gotten the full bonuses on 11 and 12 several times, but I learned that I had to be willing to abandon the lit bombs and just go for a fast clear if things turned bad.
12 can be difficult to complete without dying even if you don't go for the bonus. Really, it can end up being all about when you get the "P" coins during the level and how well you are able to use them. I have passed on the bonus on 11 many times because I wasn't set up to get the "P" near the beginning
CrazyKongFan:
Yeah, he definitely knows the boards, so on ones he isn't going after the firebomb bonus, I'm sure it's because it's too hard to do safely ;D I watched it all the way thru once before (turning off speed throttling) and he rolled the level meter several times (at 100)
CrazyKongFan:
Last day everyone, hope you're having fun :) bpark42 is currently in the lead with 664K, can anyone top him in the next 15 hours? I haven't played much, but I've never been very good at this one, so I doubt I can come anywhere near you guys getting over 500K.
DeLuSioNal29:
I can easily get over 300k, but then I realized that I didn't have the birds set to "hard" (rats!).
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Justin Z:
--- Quote from: CrazyKongFan on March 04, 2010, 11:18:44 am ---Last day everyone, hope you're having fun :) bpark42 is currently in the lead with 664K, can anyone top him in the next 15 hours?
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Workin' on it, 477k is my best so far
It's funny because until MAME I never played Bombjack, but I had played Mighty Bombjack on the NES when I was a kid. The NES game borrowed heavily from the arcade game sound and general-concept wise, but it was an adventure game where you travelled through rooms, not fixed to a single screen.
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