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I think I'm starting to get this game figured out.
198,400
- Justin, Sabertooth, RickR and 1 other
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Finally broke 2000:
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Something I hadn't noticed before before is how the change in direction of the ball works. I had always assumed when the ball moved faster horizontally, it was because I had hit it on the very edge of the paddle. Instead, it happens automatically after you hit the ball the first 8 times with a new paddle, and resumes normal movement after another 8 hits. The arcade game seems to work the same way. Kind of disappointing, honestly. The player really doesn't have that much control over the ball. Still, I remember playing a DOS clone of Breakout where you had no control of the ball's direction at all, so it's better than that, at least!
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It's a bitter pill to swallow, but I see I may not be able to win this one.
- RickR, Justin and Atari Creep
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26 minutes ago, RickR said:
PS - I am done for now. Good job @kamakazi20012 and @RadioPoultry and @greenween and everyone else. These are some incredible scores! This game is so much fun. If my arm wasn't killing me, I'd definitely give it another go. I like that blue maze in my picture above a lot more than the brown one that precedes it. It has a lot less tight corners to get stuck in (and I think that's where the lag comes in).
Wow, I'm impressed by you guys! I haven't even reached the fourth maze. I've been just trying to maximize my score on earlier levels because I can't get that far. (I got so close last time, though!)
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75,610! Almost certainly my best score ever on this game!
I didn't notice any control delay issues to speak of. Here is the controller I am using. It's not perfect, but it is very clicky, so I know when I should actually be changing direction. Maybe that helps? Or maybe I'm just not as observant as you guys!
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21 hours ago, kamakazi20012 said:
Holy crap! You have Secret of NIHM! I love that one. I played the heck out of that one on CED growing up. I actually played that one so much that it got to where it wouldn't play well anymore and I never found another. Love Don Bluth animation and Dom's voice works perfect for the crow character.
It's a great movie, isn't it? I first saw it when I was maybe 5, and I only remembered fragments until I saw it again many years later. Some of the best animation I've seen. I don't know if they did something special with the VHS, but the soundtrack in particular came across really well.
That's so cool that you had a CED player! I wasn't even familiar with CEDs until a few years ago, but I find it a really interesting technology.
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4 minutes ago, Justin said:
That's a cool story! Looks like you made out like a bandit. This seems like the inspiration for a great thread in the TV and Movies forum. I'm wondering about those "Adventures of Sherlock Homes" VHS movies, are those intended for kids or is that something more adult?
They are from the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series from the 30s and 40s (targeted for adults). I actually had "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" on DVD already, but I totally forgot until I started watching it. For one of the later films in the series, "The House of Fear" was pretty good! There was one other tape in the series I thought I bought not in the photo, but I think it turned out to have "Destination Tokyo" inside the case instead. Also, that reminds me, I picked up "The Great Mouse Detective", too. That one is targeted for kids. I hadn't seen it before, but I enjoyed that one too.
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15 hours ago, kamakazi20012 said:
Whoa! A TV/VCR combo!! I haven't seen one of those in a looong time. I had to repair the VCR in one of those once for my cousin. The all black version of the one in that picture. Pain in the butt to get to but I fixed it for them. I guess one of their kids decided the VCR was hungry and fed it a bunch of toy plastic silverware...like those from a tea set or something. It didn't damage anything but took forever to get those all out. I found a single pack of salt, too. That one would not have been good. Nice to see one of these still functioning.
My workplace was getting rid of that TV last year (until recently they still did training videos on VHS), so they let me have it before they threw it away. I had a CRT TV already, but no VCR. (Also, this one has composite input.) I picked up a bunch of VHS tapes at thrift stores. (They are so cheap now!) Here are some of them. I still need to watch a few of these... I certainly have the time right now.
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16 hours ago, Justin said:We celebrate National Pac-Man Day annually with a different Pac-Man game every year. There's only so many Pac-Man games to go through without repeating, so we're saving 2600 Ms. Pac-Man for another year
If all else fails, there's always National K.C. Munchkin Day.
There IS one, right?
- RickR, Justin and Atari Creep
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On 3/26/2020 at 11:42 PM, kamakazi20012 said:
Here's the other one. This one is the sole reason why I wanted a LaserDisc player. Wal-Mart in Branson, Missouri had a Pioneer LD setup and playing a demo disc. This clip from The Mind's Eye was playing when I discovered the setup in the store one visit my Mother and I made. I repeated that clip about 4 times on the machine. Something about was just mesmerizing to me. I loved the music especially and I thought the animation did a very good job of getting the story across without any dialog. See what you think?
On a side note, I had this on Radio Shack's version of the Mind's Eye on VHS. I never got the LD or the LD version of the Mind's Eye which I wish I could find now that I have a LD player. I absolutely LOVE the music in The Mind's Eye and Beyond The Mind's Eye videos. I would sometimes just put these in to go to sleep on.
I remember taking a trip to Portland because my dad had some kind of business meeting in the downtown area, and my brother and I walked over to the local Radio Shack, and they had that video playing. I remember seeing that very clip! I kept watching, hoping it would repeat so I could that one with the bird and fish again, but the video was longer than expected. That one really stuck with me.
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WINNER: RadioPoultry
Ms. Pac-Man
Atari 7800
March 27, 2020
ROUND 1: @RadioPoultry
ROUND 2: @Justin
ROUND 3: @RadioPoultryIt took us a little while to find a game we both had available, but we settled on Ms. Pac-Man, which might be my favorite game for the 7800. The top score of the battle was 55,310 on the final round. Thank you Justin, let's do this again soon! And if anyone else would like to challenge me to a game, just send me a message!
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On 3/18/2020 at 2:29 PM, chas10e said:
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wow a shark came outta nowhere while I was trapped between 2 long fishes ... I was a pretty tasty treat for him
I have been starting with the difficulty on "B" or beginner as a tiny fish .... I dunno what Default is on Stella but curious to know
To answer your question, it seems to be set to beginner by default. I definitely started as the tiniest fish.
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Memorable T.V. show themes we love
in Television & Movies
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The Prisoner