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Malenko:
So I have to go to a store, open their machine and mod the dial then try to beat your high score on a game I don't like?
What's in it for me?
Mike A:
whoopdee freakin' do on your score.
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: JDFan on October 26, 2018, 05:24:18 am ---
--- Quote from: negative1 on October 26, 2018, 02:44:18 am ---
Anyways, good luck if anyone does it, i'd be interested in knowing what you control
you used.
later
-1
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Try actually starting the game from the first level instead of using Tempests continue feature ! ( each time you get to a higher level on Tempest and die you can start another game from the level you completed and it gives you a very good bonus for completing the one level ) - Since all of your high scores are around the 150K mark it seems you are just playing the game over and over and completing a single level and getting the 100K + bonus for finishing that single level (ie. in the video at 0:13 you can see you start from a level that gives you 74K bonus for finishing a single level with all of your lives !) -- Let's see you actually reach that kind of score starting from the beginning on a single game play through Using that spinner - Not starting at a level you reached by playing several games and perhaps completing 1 level to build your starting bonus in the next game and try recording from an angle that the game play can actually be seen in the video !!
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negative1:
--- Quote from: JDFan on October 26, 2018, 05:24:18 am ---Try actually starting the game from the first level instead of using Tempests continue feature ! ( each time you get to a higher level on Tempest and die you can start another game from the level you completed and it gives you a very good bonus for completing the one level ) - Since all of your high scores are around the 150K mark it seems you are just playing the game over and over and completing a single level and getting the 100K + bonus for finishing that single level (ie. in the video at 0:13 you can see you start from a level that gives you 74K bonus for finishing a single level with all of your lives !) -- Let's see you actually reach that kind of score starting from the beginning on a single game play through Using that spinner - Not starting at a level you reached by playing several games and perhaps completing 1 level to build your starting bonus in the next game and try recording from an angle that the game play can actually be seen in the video !!
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Guess what, I did start from the beginning.
And I guess you don't know how to play tempest, because if you die, and you don't get past 3 levels, you get put back.
And if you die on that screen, you get put back even more.
The point is, the game is perfectly fine no matter what level you start on, even the expert levels.
The atari skillstep is revolutionary in its implementation.
Here's a scholarly paper on it:
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This interesting book about Tempest that also discusses the Atari Skill-Step system in great detail (it debuted on Tempest) :
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/idx/l/lvg/13030180.0001.001/1:4/--tempest-geometries-of-play?g=dculture;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1
Sure I can start at the beginning, and then every game will take a half hour or more, I don't have that
kind of time, and there's no point really.
I had to get through 4 red levels in a row just to get to level 20, and ran out of time and left.
Like I said, next time I'll try to get to the Yellow or Light Blue levels if I can.
And of course, people can feel free to continue also, there are no restrictions. Just beat that score.
Here's gameplay from the XBOX one console of Atari Flashback : Level 82- 910,000
https://bit.ly/2RfHkeE [MP4 video]
I am using the analog stick to play, I can also use the buttons. I do have a spinner
through Cronus Maxpro adapter, but I'm still tweaking the settings.
A lot of the later levels, you end up sitting in one place, and tapping fire a lot,
and then barely moving around.
later
-1
JDFan:
--- Quote from: negative1 on October 26, 2018, 12:14:51 pm ---Guess what, I did start from the beginning.
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Starting at the 74K bonus level is not starting from the beginning ( See screen that shows you selecting that level to start at attached below - and since the video is cut and pasted in several places who knows what level other games are started at since they are not shown - Besides not even being able to see the score increment during play due to the poor viewing angle and recording. ANd sure it will drop you bac a level or 2 if you do not finish a new level with a restart but after playing for as you said 30 minutes or so it's pretty easy to get a few more levels of bonus in to start at over 100K in bonus so even a bad quality controller can get past a single level with all the lives given in a game.
Also if you can get to 910K and level 81 on an Xbox one then why only 150K on the Arcade1up -- PERHAPS DUE TO THE POOR QUALITY OF THE SPINNER ??
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