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[Jibbajaba]

Welcome to week 5 of the 6th season of the Atari Age NES High Score League!

This week's game is going to be Elevator Action.

Title: Elevator Action
Developer: Taito
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: August, 1987 (US)
Twin Galaxies High Score: 101,300 by Brian Picchi



Tips:

None yet.

Current Standings:

1. Sonic R - 10 pts. (3)
2. dustfilledhobo - 10 pts. (2)
2. patbb - 10 pts. (2)
3. roadrunner - 9 pts. (4)
4. pantherrob82 - 9 pts. (2)
5. RJ - 9 pts. (1)
5. mihcael - 9 pts. (1)
6. HatefulGravey - 7 pts. (2)
7. ClassicGMR - 6 pts. (4)
8. darthkur - 3 pts. (1)
9. LarcenTyler - 2 pt. (2)
10. Tr3vor - 2 pts. (2)
10. atari1600land - 1 pt. (1)
10. Hitachi - 1 pt. (1)
10. wizardspade80 - 1 pt. (1)
10. Jibbajaba - 1 pt. (1)

*9 points are awarded to first place, 6 to second, 3 to third, and everyone else receives 1. The number in parentheses next to your overall score is the number of rounds in which you have participated, and serves as the tiebreaker. *

Chris

[ClassicGMR]

16,500

Starting the bidding with a paltry 16,500!

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[patbb]

20760

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[Sonic R]

my best so far…

26,150

[HatefulGravey]

12,400

I'm missing something here. How is the bonus calculated? That might help me a lot.

Also, I get to the bottom and it takes me back to a red door. I'm guessing this is a red door I did not get on the way down and so I have to start there and get them all to move on? I have played 2 games so far and haven't tried getting them all in one pass yet to prove my theory, I'm sure I will by the time this gets read by anyone, but I am at work, so I might actaually have to work soon too. Who knows.

[Jibbajaba]

Yes, you have to go into every red door. That's the point of the game - collect the secret files from behind all of the red doors while fighting off the bad guys.

BTW, for anyone who enjoys this game, you owe it to yourself to check out "Elevator Action Returns", which was released for the Saturn in Japan but is also conveniently included on the "Taito Legends 2" disc for Playstation 2 (which is about $7 at GameStop.)

Chris

[Sonic R]

it's not only required, but of best interest to enter the red doors, as it's 500 points for each one. The end of stage bonus is in 1000 point increments: 1000 for stage 1, 2000 for stage 2, 3000 for stage 3, et cetera…

I also recommend Elevator Action Returns - a very good game indeed! Great that it was included in Taito Legends 2 for the USA PlayStation 2 -a very solid collection of games at a great value!

[roadrunner]

8,600

I'm not good at this game.

Edited by roadrunner, Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:45 PM.

[HatefulGravey]

21,900

I'll post a pic of my best score at the end of the week. Seems better then posting a picture every time I up my score. That and I don't have a computer available to post pics right now. Doing all tis on my phone kinda sucks.

[Sonic R]

I've had some improvement…

30,850



this game can get very frustrating! the enemies are cheap!

[roadrunner]

18,750


I almost made it to the end of the second level and i got shot.

[LarcenTyler]

8,900

[ClassicGMR]

19,900

Well... it's better.

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[patbb]

30650

Tips: To get more points shoot a lamp to get the room dark and then shoot the ennemies. You will get 150 points instead of 100.
If the lamp falls directlly on the ennemy you will get 300 points. If you shoot an enemy while is in the elevator you get 300 points (room lighted or dark).

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Edited by patbb, Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:51 AM.

[dustfilledhobo]

Here's my best so far: 20850

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Edited by dustfilledhobo, Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:05 AM.

[HatefulGravey]

24,750

Not in the 30s yet, but I'm working on it again. Had to improve some, folks getting too close to putting me down another spot.

[Sonic R]

just got this!

38,800

[HatefulGravey]

27,450

Thought I was going to break 30,000 but I got hit by a freak shot at the last possible sec before I was on the ground. I said more then a few bad words.

[roadrunner]

Today is the last day we play this game right?

[Jibbajaba]

Crap, yes it is! Thanks for reminding me.

NEW GAME TOMORROW!

Chris

[HatefulGravey]

<WORMS ANNOUNCER VOICE>Five days later, the action was still lame.</WORMS ANNOUNCER VOICE>

Something going on here that I'm not aware of. I hope everything is ok.

[Jibbajaba]

Sorry, I've had the flu. I'll try to get the new game up as soon as I can.

Chris

[HatefulGravey]

Jibbajaba, on Thu Sep 9, 2010 5:37 PM, said:

Sorry, I've had the flu. I'll try to get the new game up as soon as I can.

Chris

So that is the something I didn't know about that was going on...

Its all good man, I was just wondering if I had missed something.

[Jibbajaba]

Here are this week's results.

Sonic R         38,800   +9   +1
patbb           30,650   +6   +1
HatefulGravey   27,450   +3   +1
dustfilledhobo  20,850   +1   +1
ClassicGMR      19,900   +1   +1
roadrunner      18,750   +1   +1
LarcenTyler      8,900   +1   +1

Chris