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[Jibbajaba]

Welcome to week 4 of the 6th season of the Atari Age NES High Score League!

This week's game is going to be Ice Climber.

Title: Ice Climber
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: October, 1985 (US)
Twin Galaxies High Score: 1,292,130 by Will W. Carlough



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Current Standings:

I'm adding a new stat to the standings. The number in parentheses next to your overall score is the number of rounds in which you have participated. This will serve as the tiebreaker. Therefore, even though 4 players have 9 points and are tied for first based on that metric, Sonic R sits in first because he's participated in 2 rounds instead of 1.

1. Sonic R - 9 pts. (2)
2. RJ - 9 pts. (1)
2. mihcael - 9 pts. (1)
2. patbb - 9 pts. (1)
5. roadrunner - 8 pts. (3)
6. pantherrob82 - 6 pts. (1)
7. ClassicGMR - 5 pts. (3)
8. darthkur - 3 pts. (1)
9. LarcenTyler - 2 pt. (2)
10. Tr3vor - 1 pts. (1)
10. atari1600land - 1 pt. (1)
10. Hitachi - 1 pt. (1)
10. wizardspade80 - 1 pt. (1)
10. Jibbajaba - 1 pt. (1)
10. HatefulGravey - 1 pt. (1)
10. dustfilledhobo - 1 pt. (1)

*9 points are awarded to first place, 6 to second, 3 to third, and everyone else receives 1.*

Chris

[pantherrob82]

Either I'm really bad at this game, or it's glitching.

[Tr3vor]

11680.

I cannot get the hang of the jumping...

[pantherrob82]

Tr3vor, on Thu Aug 5, 2010 8:18 PM, said:

11680.

I cannot get the hang of the jumping...

I keep falling through invisible holes.

[Tr3vor]

pantherrob82, on Thu Aug 5, 2010 8:34 PM, said:

Tr3vor, on Thu Aug 5, 2010 8:18 PM, said:

11680.

I cannot get the hang of the jumping...

I keep falling through invisible holes.

you mean the ends of platforms that you just fall through? those suck, how many times have I hit a platform and fell off?

[HatefulGravey]

25890

I got 3 games in tonight and this is me so far. I will surely be much better by weeks end.

And yes the jumping in this game is hell. Gets real hard when the level is all moving platforms.

[pantherrob82]

Tr3vor, on Thu Aug 5, 2010 8:43 PM, said:

pantherrob82, on Thu Aug 5, 2010 8:34 PM, said:

Tr3vor, on Thu Aug 5, 2010 8:18 PM, said:

11680.

I cannot get the hang of the jumping...

I keep falling through invisible holes.

you mean the ends of platforms that you just fall through? those suck, how many times have I hit a platform and fell off?

No, I can't see the floors sometimes when I am below them or on them

[Sonic R]

here's my first entry

38,740



ugh… the jumping in this game is frustrations indeed!

[dustfilledhobo]

19,660 pts.

The bonus sections kick my butt almost every time.

Dusty

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[HatefulGravey]

I'd call this improvement enough to post about. 43,060

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Edited by HatefulGravey, Fri Aug 6, 2010 6:39 PM.

[Tr3vor]

New score! I think I got the hang of the glitchy jumping.

50680

I have no idea whats going on with my Emulator (nestopia), but the screenshot looks sorta squashed.

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[Jibbajaba]

I think I've had that problem too, and I don't remember how or if I fixed it.

Chris

[dustfilledhobo]

Here is my best of 4 more attempts: 30510 pts.

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Edited by dustfilledhobo, Fri Aug 6, 2010 10:40 PM.

[dustfilledhobo]

one more for the night: 38250 pts.

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[HatefulGravey]

118,770

Takes a lot of time to get there for me at least. I'm not sure I want to try to get higher then that, but I know I will anyway. Stupid games being addictive.

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[roadrunner]

46,980

This game starts to get tough on mountain 6.

[pantherrob82]

29210. How did anyone ever get 1 million?

[pantherrob82]

38230

[ClassicGMR]

Finally got around to installing Nestopia... and I am never going back to FCE Ultra. Couldn't even run this early title full-speed on full-screen. Nestopia runs it like a champ with room to spare!

I'll be playing more but for now here's my initial score entry:

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[HatefulGravey]

pantherrob82, on Sat Aug 7, 2010 8:13 PM, said:

29210. How did anyone ever get 1 million?

I have found some ways to point press that get me in the range of 1 million, but that isn't the nature of this thread so I haven't posted those scores. Running right through the game I can only get just about 100000, but in the same time point pressing I can get about 850000.

Took yesterday off now I'm going to go see if I can get more then my 118k on a legit run.

Edited by HatefulGravey, Sun Aug 8, 2010 10:57 AM.

[dustfilledhobo]

I've been practicing and I finally got to the 9th mountain. Also, the 8th bonus stage (jack-o-lanterns) wasn't that hard, but it was worth 20,000 points!!!!!! Anyway, here is my score. Not the best in this thread, but the best I've done so far.

Score: 80330 pts.

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[pantherrob82]

Getting much better.

[dustfilledhobo]

95690 pts.

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Edited by dustfilledhobo, Mon Aug 9, 2010 10:14 PM.

[pantherrob82]

Feel like I could do much better...

[pantherrob82]

Still getting better...