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[tank]

44,260

[sdamon]

Nice score, tank! Welcome aboard!

Here's some tips for the rest of you.

1. Avoid the flashing martini glass on level 5.
2. Avoid going left right away on level 7 ... a mutant will appear rignt on top of you!
3. Hit the # key to activate the lift on level 8.
4. To practice a paticular level that's giving you trouble, hold down Fire and press 2, 1, 3, 7, 8, 2, 6, 8, 6, 1 (Big Five's old phone #) Then, press the # of the level you want to warp to (0 = level 10) (This tip found here .)

I'll post some scores soon when my smartphone finally gets back from the repair shop!

[JacobZu7zu7]

Lots of scores suddenly ... since I been here, great to see most the gang is here again...!

I'lll be firing this game up again soon...

[tank]

93,435 Thanks Sdamon for the tips! I had a 5200 when i was young also had a 800xl with this game...good memorys!

[sdamon]

Wow, way to double your score in a few hours! Looks like the rest of us need to pick up our game!

[sdamon]

I'm still getting warmed up, but since my phone is back, I'll post a score... 37,340

[zylon]

Don't forget the Round 2 poll is open. Zero views or votes so far, but the week is young yet.

[JacobZu7zu7]

zylon, on Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:47 PM, said:

Don't forget the Round 2 poll is open. Zero views or votes so far, but the week is young yet.

I checked it yesterday and there was 1 vote, and I put mine in, that added a 2nd...
how could it be zero?

[zylon]

JacobZu7zu7, on Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:23 PM, said:

zylon, on Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:47 PM, said:

Don't forget the Round 2 poll is open. Zero views or votes so far, but the week is young yet.

I checked it yesterday and there was 1 vote, and I put mine in, that added a 2nd...
how could it be zero?

It was showing Zero when I looked before posting.

[Cafeman]

On the name high score screen, what do you press to complete it?

[sdamon]

Cafeman, on Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:59 AM, said:

On the name high score screen, what do you press to complete it?

I think it's the secondary (non-jump) button. That's also the button used to trigger the warp in the tip I gave above.

[Cafeman]

^{Yeah, thats the problem with playing via emulator, I don't know where all the buttons and keys are mapped.}

[sdamon]

Doing better... 80,705



It was brought to my attention that my tip about how to jump to different stations was a bit unclear. Here it is again, in a bit easier-to-follow format:

1. Start the game.
2. Climb up the first ladder halfway (or just go any safe place where the mutants can't get you.)
3. Hold down the jump button and enter the phone number on the keypad (2, 1, 3, 7, 8, 2, 6, 8, 6, 1)
4. Release the jump button.
5. Hold down the secondary (non-jump button.)
6. Hit the number of the button of the station you want to jump to.

Once you've done this, you can do it again whenever you want until you shut the system down. It probably goes without saying that you shouldn't post any scores you get using this trick... it's for practice only.

Edited by sdamon, Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:27 PM.

[Cafeman]

Not my best. 31,945.

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[tank]

103,445 Nothin better than playing atari on saturday night!

[sdamon]

Just had easily my best run ever at this game... 134,920



Got to Zone 3, Station 7, where I lost three lives at once. Station 7 is always rough, but my pattern on it was interrupted by the faster mutant near teleporter #2 ... have to learn to compensate for that!

Tank, you've really been pushing me to up my game at this old favorite! Thank you for that!

[zylon]

Last day to play Round 1

[tank]

Awesome score Sdamon! It was fun to play miner again after many years-Im gonna have to find me a real 5200

[JacobZu7zu7]

I don't like these types of games, where it's mostly learning what to do...

26,505

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[BydoEmpire]

Got a few more games this morning. Almost beat level 5 - I had two small platforms on the left and missed a jump.

[peedenmark7]

28,795

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[atariron82]

I upped my game a bit and had a pretty nice run of it

76,880

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Edited by atariron82, Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:57 PM.

[zylon]

This round is over. Congrats to sdamon for holding off a tough challenge.

FINAL scores:

134,920 sdamon +11
103,445 tank +10
76,880 atariron82 +9
31,945 Cafeman +8
31,730 BydoEmpire +7
28,795 peedenmark7 +6
26,505 JacobZu7zu7 +5
24,715 skosh +4
21,950 jblenkle +3
20,405 roadrunner +2
16,750 ahuffman +1
7,970 zylon +1