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[therealbountybob]

IXION

Game closes Sun 10th October 10am BST

At last a chance to shoot and erm bounce a ball... that kills baddies and repairs the floor, you need the floor! Did I mention collecting the letters I X I O N and the time limit? No! and what about the evil ball Not sure what the story was so you can make that up for yourselves. Ok there's an 1 bonus point for the best Ixion story. [edit check this out ]

Other bonus points:
highest score on first screen (one life) 1pt (hold Option to pause at the start of round 2)
most baddies killed 1pt

There are at least three different prototype versions out there, I put some comments on atarimania (as gwobby) for this a while back so check them out. Any version is ok to play as they score similarly. Any version played must have 5 lives! The best version has the nice sound effects when you start each level and the tripple shot with no corrupted graphics. If I find a better copy I'll post it soon. USE THIS VERSION

atarimania rating 7.4


I'm really looking forward to playing this one. Have fun and don't even think about going for the hat-trick atariksi

[atariksi]

therealbountybob, on Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:54 AM, said:

I'm really looking forward to playing this one. Have fun and don't even think about going for the hat-trick atariksi

I'm new to this game; just had a look at it for a few minutes and I get this ">?>" in the scoreboard so the high score doesn't work. I guess it does work but it's treating the ">?>" as a number so the score must be really high. I guess I may be spending more time on Moon Patrol than this game.

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[Deteacher]

My first attempt: 224,260!
Enemies killed: 103!

Fun game!

[therealbountybob]

The "best version" I have seen says "cracked by the happy hero in 2 hours in 1986"

I've just hacked the lives back from 50 to 5 using a sector editor and will be posting this version and some other goodies on the main forum later on. Will update here when I'm done. Maybe this version is missing from the on-line world and I've saved an atari treasure [EDIT SEE NEW LINK IN 1st POST.]

Level 1 - 18,110

Score 268,450 (148 ememies killed)

[Fres]

94870

Edited by Fres, Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:48 AM.

[bluecat]

89,650. Got 8640 on screen 1 & think I killed 81 enemies but forgot to write it down & it doesn't show on final screen.

[therealbountybob]

bluecat, on Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:16 PM, said:

89,650. Got 8640 on screen 1 & think I killed 81 enemies but forgot to write it down & it doesn't show on final screen.

Killing yourself doesn't count for this contest

317,010

[Divya16]

therealbountybob, on Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:08 PM, said:

bluecat, on Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:16 PM, said:

89,650. Got 8640 on screen 1 & think I killed 81 enemies but forgot to write it down & it doesn't show on final screen.

Killing yourself doesn't count for this contest

317,010

The controls of this remind me of Zone Ranger; hard to turn where you want to go.

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[roadrunner]

213,360

112 enemies killed

[Divya16]

roadrunner, on Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:37 PM, said:

213,360

112 enemies killed


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I got 75 enemies killed.

Looks like I don't kill as many enemies but I just go for the letters and if the enemies come in the way they get killed. I got a superbonus once but don't know how as I was just shooting in all directions.

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[therealbountybob]

Divya16, on Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:03 PM, said:

I got a superbonus once but don't know how as I was just shooting in all directions.

On the bonus screens use the orange balls to 'heal' all the tiles if you get them all you get the 15,000 super bonus, if you heal 117+ tiles you get 10K. Extra men every 100K

[therealbountybob]

A cool feature is if the end of go bonus rolls over 100K you get brought back to life!

Level 1 - 18,300

343,120

[atariksi]

therealbountybob, on Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:10 PM, said:

A cool feature is if the end of go bonus rolls over 100K you get brought back to life!

Level 1 - 18,300
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343,120
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Did you try running that COM file on real machine and get that garbage that I got?

I tried the ATR version you posted and it works fine.

[Deteacher]

therealbountybob, on Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:10 PM, said:

A cool feature is if the end of go bonus rolls over 100K you get brought back to life!

Level 1 - 18,300
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343,120
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This is true, but your "enemies killed" counter resets to 0. So, for the purposes of the "most killed" bonus, you're screwed.

[Divya16]

therealbountybob, on Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:10 PM, said:

A cool feature is if the end of go bonus rolls over 100K you get brought back to life!

Level 1 - 18,300
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343,120
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Here's my updated score total and for first level. I got 99 enemies killed. I didn't think you can die on the bonus screen, but you can with that red ball. So I guess it's not a true bonus screen like in Boulderdash.

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[therealbountybob]

Divya16, on Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:37 AM, said:

I didn't think you can die on the bonus screen, but you can with that red ball. So I guess it's not a true bonus screen like in Boulderdash.

I told you it was an evil ball


[edit 347,109 I'm hitting the wall!]

[Deteacher]

Here are my stats:

Score: 288,880!

Enemies killed: 114!

1st round score: 18,590!

[Divya16]

Here's my update:

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[doctorclu]

My score... 142,580

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[MrFish]

Score: 264,720





First Level: 18,750





Enemies Killed: 158

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[MrFish]

Score: 272,630





Enemies Killed: 169

Edited by MrFish, Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:39 AM.

[atariksi]

MrFish, on Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:38 AM, said:

Score: 272,630

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Enemies Killed: 169

Hey, pretty good at killing enemies. I got 153 killed, 18580 on 1st screen, and score:

[atariksi]

atariksi, on Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:36 AM, said:

MrFish, on Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:38 AM, said:

Score: 272,630

HPIM0458.JPG



Enemies Killed: 169

Hey, pretty good at killing enemies. I got 153 killed, 18580 on 1st screen, and score:

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[MrFish]

atariksi, on Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:36 AM, said:

MrFish, on Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:38 AM, said:

Score: 272,630

HPIM0458.JPG



Enemies Killed: 169

Hey, pretty good at killing enemies. I got 153 killed, 18580 on 1st screen, and score:

Yea... they keep getting in my way.

[therealbountybob]

Getting into the zone now, did much better with a more relaxed play style, until I got over 400K and stated going crazy!
New p.b. 489,370 with 236 killed