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[Ze_ro]

Important Note: This weeks competition is over and no further scores will be accepted.

Oh no! Brutus has kidnapped your one and only Olive Oyl, and he's not giving her back without a fight! You'd better grab yourself a joystick and a can of spinach, because this week's game is Popeye!

(Note: The "115,120 point" bug is against the rules. Do not use it.)

Game Information

Game Name: Popeye Released By: Parker Bros, 1983 Left Difficulty: N/A Right Difficulty: N/A Game Mode: Default Post your scores right here in this thread, and I will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone elses. The deadline for posting scores is Wednesday November 24th at 1:00 AM (Central Time, UTC-6).

Challenges

Theme Avatar - Change your avatar to something Popeye related (or Olive Oyl, or Brutus, or whatever), and you get 2 bonus points. Mingy Jongo [+2] Scrabbler15 [+2] Deteacher [+2] Miss 2600 [+2] roadrunner [+2] lastkill3r [+2] JacobZu7zu7 [+2] toymailman [+2] Comic Challenge - Take a Popeye comic strip, and rewrite it to be something video game related to get 5 bonus points. Mingy Jongo [+5] Scrabbler15 [+5] Deteacher [+5] Miss 2600 [+5] roadrunner [+5] lastkill3r [+5] JacobZu7zu7 [+5] toymailman [+5]

Current High Scores 102,200 (Deteacher) [+11] 63,000 (toymailman) [+10] 56,650 (JacobZu7zu7) [+9] 54,300 (Scrabbler15) [+8] 48,650 (oyamafamily) [+7] 30,100 (Miss 2600) [+6] 29,800 (lastkill3r) [+5] 24,350 (roadrunner) [+4] 17,600 (LarcenTyler) [+3] 16,900 (Mingy Jongo) [+2] 16,350 (Mangia-Boy) [+1] Best Tips Deteacher TwinGalaxies Top 3 (Game 1, Difficulty B) 805,750 (Todd Rogers) 125,100 (Christian L Keilback) 122,820 (David R Archey) (Emulator)

Current Standings toymailman [184] JacobZu7zu7 [162] Scrabber15 [152] Deteacher [147] oyamafamily [144] roadrunner [68] zylon [61] Miss 2600 [57] Jifremok [54] Zoyx [53] Chuck D. Head [52] LarcenTyler [36] SeaGtGruff [33] keilbaca [30] ClassicGMR [29] Mingy Jongo [22] pis [21] HatefulGravey [17] doctorclu [13] Pioneer4x4 [12] Mangia-Boy [10] MrJimbo [8] Mister VCS [7] satan165 [7] rmaerz [5] 4Ks [4] madbutscher [4] dooglehead [3] ed1475 [2] littleman jack [2] pacmanplayer [2] Austin [1] MIKE5200 [1] SpaceDice2010 [1]

Scoring Points in Popeye

Catching a note, heart, or X on... Platform #1 - 500 points Platform #2 - 300 points Platform #3 - 100 points Platform #4 - 50 points While in Water - 50 points Punching a Bottle - 100 points Knocking Brutus Overboard - 3000 points You will receive an extra life if you reach 20,000 points. Only one extra life can be earned. You will receive double points for collecting a note, heart, or X while the "Popeye Theme" is playing (ie, after eating the spinach)

Hints and Tips

The Manual

As always, you really should read the manual. In case you don't have the manual, AtariAge has a typed copy available online. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide any specific hints.

We played this game once before in the High Score Club, you might want to check out that thread for more hints.

Deteacher

You can sort of "freeze" Bluto in his tracks for a short time. If you're on one side and you want to keep him on the other side a little longer, you can bait him to throw bottles at you. Just stand on the same level as him and wait until he starts throwing. He won't move until he throws all 3. Use that time to gather hearts/notes/x's on your side of the screen.

In level 1, you can use the middle ladder to lure Bluto onto the 2nd level...just don't go all the way down the ladder. Go down all but the last step. Once he drops down and starts throwing bottles, shoot back up the ladder and resume your collecting.

In level 2, you rarely have to leave the top floor. Using the "freeze Bluto" technique, you can keep going from one side to the other, collecting 500 point notes. Once you get the hang of this, the only time you'll need to drop down is to grab the spinach.

In level 3, This is a lot like level 2. You should rarely ever have to leave the top level, except to get the spinach. Just keep sliding across and grab the 500 point x's.

Overall, Bluto is not a very large threat. The bottles from the Seahag are the real enemy in this game. Once you learn to control Bluto, you should be able to rack up some serious points.

--Zero

[Mingy Jongo]

<- My avatar

My score: 16900


My comic:

Edited by Mingy Jongo, Wed Nov 17, 2010 12:36 AM.

[Miss 2600]

Nice comic, Mingy Jongo! Did you create the dialogue? It was funny!

[Mingy Jongo]

Miss 2600, on Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:37 AM, said:

Nice comic, Mingy Jongo! Did you create the dialogue? It was funny!

Yep. Took me forever to come up with something

[oyamafamily]

PARTICIPATION POINTS - 37,750

Edited by oyamafamily, Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:37 PM.

[Scrabbler15]

Clearly, I need more spinich.

9150

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[Deteacher]

<--- My avatar

And my bonus cartoon (no offense intended to those that like E.T.)



First submission: 46,900!

Edited by Deteacher, Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:15 PM.

[Scrabbler15]

Feeling a little better since I had the spinich.

17,450

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[Scrabbler15]

In honor of all the guys who've been there...

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[Miss 2600]

Here's my bonus:

[roadrunner]

<----- avatar changed


15,350 for now


My comic has to wait. I got writer's block.

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[LarcenTyler]

17,600

[LarcenTyler]

I'll try to think of a comic idea soon.

Edited by LarcenTyler, Thu Nov 18, 2010 11:12 AM.

[lastkill3r]

<---------------------------------Avatar

Comic

http://img207.images...0604popeye.jpg/

Score is only 9800 and i forgot to take a picture.

[Deteacher]

New high score for me: 60,600!



I have to try this out on real hardware. I know I can improve on this score.

Edited by Deteacher, Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:51 PM.

[Scrabbler15]

Got to Level 3 and really had no idea what was going on. So I ran to the spinich to make sure I got the extra 3,000 for knocking out Brutus. The spinich disappeared and Brutus was bearing down on me. My Popeye is standing there, punching the air, hoping the spinich would be back. Brutus would have whacked my last Popeye, but he stopped and jumped in the air (just in case Popeye was on two levels at the same time, I guess). It gave me just enough time to get the spinich and I got to knock out Brutus on each of the first three levels.

It was all kind of comical, so to speak.

24,700

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Edited by Scrabbler15, Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:18 PM.

[Deteacher]

Ok, time for some tips:

You can sort of "freeze" Bluto in his tracks for a short time. If you're on one side and you want to keep him on the other side a little longer, you can bait him to throw bottles at you. Just stand on the same level as him and wait until he starts throwing. He won't move until he throws all 3. Use that time to gather hearts/notes/x's on your side of the screen.

In level 1, you can use the middle ladder to lure Bluto onto the 2nd level...just don't go all the way down the ladder. Go down all but the last step. Once he drops down and starts throwing bottles, shoot back up the ladder and resume your collecting.

In level 2, you rarely have to leave the top floor. Using the "freeze Bluto" technique, you can keep going from one side to the other, collecting 500 point notes. Once you get the hang of this, the only time you'll need to drop down is to grab the spinach.

In level 3, This is a lot like level 2. You should rarely ever have to leave the top level, except to get the spinach. Just keep sliding across and grab the 500 point x's.

Overall, Bluto is not a very large threat. The bottles from the Seahag are the real enemy in this game. Once you learn to control Bluto, you should be able to rack up some serious points.

BTW, this is an excellent port of the arcade classic, IMO.

[lastkill3r]

Score

I had 21000 pts, but forgot to take a picture.

[roadrunner]

24,350 My comic, and my new high score.

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Edited by roadrunner, Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:24 AM.

[Scrabbler15]

Still climbing.

33,500

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[lastkill3r]

New Score

[Scrabbler15]

41,050

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[Miss 2600]

22,450

[Scrabbler15]

45,550

One heart away from finishing the level (bah) and getting to another can of spinich.

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[Mangia-Boy]

Here is my score: 16.350
I play this game for the first time.
Twice my Popeye was killed randomly without being hit by Brutus or by a flying bottle. Were these deaths caused by the seahag?
How can Popeye protect himself against the seahag?