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[Mister VCS]

Skillfully manoeuvre your race car through the bump and bouncing of a demolition derby. Force cars off the road for bonus points while avoiding other bumper cars. Jump to clear water hazards or dangerous centre islands.

Game Information

Game Name: Bump 'n' Jump

Released by: Coleco, 1984

Original arcade game by: Data East/Bally Midway, 1982

CV HSC High Score: 220,624 by duncantoml (click for game-tips)

TwinGalaxies High Score: 201,028 by Tom Duncan

Settings: Skill level 1 - 1 Player


Contest ends on

Saturday, 07-31-2010 at 1:00 AM eastern.


Quick-Start-Bonus Info and HSC rules

Current High Scores

1. ColecoDan 365,812 [+10]

2. duncantoml 225,152 [+9]

3. ed1475 155,328 [+8]

4. Ms. Do 106,416 [+6]

5. Mister VCS 81,356 [+4]

6. Yurkie 75,652 [+2]

7. patbb 72,640 [+1]
8. roadrunner 68,828 [+1]

9. RangerG 66,640 [+1]
10. purenenergy 39,332 [+1]




Leaderboard

1. duncantoml [24 points] (2) 2 1
2. ColecoDan [18] (2)
3. atariron82 [12] (2)
4. patbb [11] (2)
5. Yurkie [9] (1)
6. ed1475 [5] (2) 1
6. RangerG [5] (2)
7. roadrunner [3] (2)
8. purenergy [2] (1)
9. Mister VCS [1] (1)
9. JEFF31 [1] (1)
9. LaserHawk [1] (1)

Edited by Mister VCS, Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:17 PM.

[roadrunner]

I'll start things off with


18,624

[RangerG]

29114
Good game

[purenergy]

I need to learn the jumps better.
39,332

[ed1475]

31600

[patbb]

20416

I invite everybody to go to the Intellivision HSC an try the same game on a different console.

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[ed1475]

patbb, on Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:06 AM, said:

20416

I invite everybody to go to the Intellivision HSC an try the same game on a different console.

I've just downloaded the Intellivision rom and plan on trying it tonight.

[ColecoDan]

Actually when I was young I always played bump and jump on intellivision. I loved it, it was my favorite.

I actually like it a lot better on intellivision especially the collision detections because on colecovision if you nudge a car he goes flying into the wall and blowing up when intellivision seemed a little more realistic in that it wouldn't move very far if you didn't hit the car that hard.
Colecovision seems pretty impossible to finish the round without blowing up a car because they pretty much always fly into a wall when you nudge them.

[patbb]

30988

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[Ms. Do]

Here is my best so far. 47,228

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[Yurkie]

I beat my Girlfriend Ms. Do's score

55,340

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[Ms. Do]

A little better.

51,228

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[duncantoml]

225,152

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Edited by duncantoml, Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:49 PM.

[Mister VCS]

new personal highscore: 81,356

...but i want more!

Edited by Mister VCS, Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:16 PM.

[roadrunner]

Big improvement

53,856

[ed1475]

111828

[ed1475]

155328

I got the 50000 point 0 cars bounus on the 1st pattern and went on to get a new high score.

Edited by ed1475, Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:44 PM.

[ColecoDan]

365812

I had the game of my life Let me tell you after you work hard to get 50,000 the first few rounds it feels good in the later rounds just to bash into those suckers.
By the way you can die and still get the 50,000 bonus which is what I did to make sure I got it in some rounds. The guy who didn't get it must have hit a car and it crashed off screen so you didn't see it because that happened to me in one of my tries and I was pissed when I saw one car hit.

Whew I can't believe I was able to post a score higher than duncantoml even if it doesn't hold up I still can't believe it.

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[patbb]

Double post, sorry

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Edited by patbb, Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:30 PM.

[patbb]

Very impresive ColecoDan.

72640.

[RangerG]

I need to play a few more games -- any strategy help for me to break the 30,000 barrier?
Do you all just knock as many as possible in the early round and focus on trying to get 40+ cars bonus? How about the bridges - do you try to land on the islands (I'm terrible at it) or do you go for the skinny pieces of land?

[Yurkie]

75,652

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[ColecoDan]

Actually Ranger G the early rounds are the easiest to get 50,000 bonus for not hitting any cars.
After I started getting the hang of it I wouldn't even continue playing if I accidentally hit a car in the first level.
But I did get pretty good at it and only hit a car in the first round by accident so it made sense to just reset for me because 80 - 90 percent of the time I would get the 50,000 bonus.
After a while I even started resetting if I didn't get the 50,000 bonus on the first 2 levels. Pretty much after the 5th or 6th level it is pretty insane and very hard to not hit cars so I would just bash into as many of those suckers as I could to make up for all the early rounds where I was trying to avoid them


You don't want to waste the early rounds hitting cars because as the levels get harder it is harder to not hit cars and easier to just bash into them as you survive the crazy jumps. It is not worth losing lives by trying to hit the islands on purpose the later rounds will have you needing to hit islands in order to actually make the jump so you will get your points there.

Hope this helps a little.

Dan

[roadrunner]

68,828

I almost had another 50k point bonus, but 1 car crashed on pattern 2

[RangerG]

66,640

Big thanks to ColecoDan!

Roadrunner - I had one car crash on pattern 2 also -argh.