Good lord. I guess I just suck at this. I'm beating 200,000 so I can call this "beat' and then I'm calling it for the week
Getting well over 100k in this game is tough and quite a bit of luck is involved. Does anyone here score high consistently? I usually get crap scores and it's a rare thing to get a decent score that is worth posting. But that's pinball for you.
When I got over 200k, I had all the cards flipped over and the bumper between the bottom flippers so I could keep the ball in play for a long time once the flippers disappeared. It's best to have the bumper and the two side things for protection when the flippers disappear or you're probably toast, but even that requires a fair amount of luck to happen.
I wondered why sometimes the flippers hit the ball lightly and sometimes it's full force. I thought that it may have to do with how I'm pressing the button but I wasn't sure. I just found this in the FAQ: "Flippers can be flipped in two ways. If you press the button normally they will fully flip, but if you just tap the button they will only flip halfway."
I can consistently get 100-200k. But for every 100K ball I have, I have 1 or 2 that take a direct route to a hole, nothing I can do. Pinball games NEED a nudge ability
I can consistently get 100-200k. But for every 100K ball I have, I have 1 or 2 that take a direct route to a hole, nothing I can do. Pinball games NEED a nudge ability
Agreed. It needed the nudge as a way to counter ball losses that you have no control over otherwise. It's a pretty decent pinball game except for that.
I do like this game, but the luck factor is a drag. Your luck can turn from good to bad at any moment. You can never count on a good run continuing. You can be doing great and racking up a bunch of points on your first ball, and then the game decides to screw you over with a bunch of crap that you have no control over. It's frustrating
Also, I've noticed that the more that you need the ball to be somewhere, the harder it is to get it there. The last card is always the toughest to flip. Losing a ball when you only have to flip one more card to get the big bonus and the bumper is painful.
Awesome! Love this game. I'll have to see if I can get the flippers to disappear and reappear. We didn't really do all that well on the IONGAMING episode for NES Pinball.
Cool channel. I subscribed. I enjoyed the Ninja Gaiden let's play. Much more competent than most on Youtube, especially the final boss fights.
Awesome! Love this game. I'll have to see if I can get the flippers to disappear and reappear. We didn't really do all that well on the IONGAMING episode for NES Pinball.
Cool channel. I subscribed. I enjoyed the Ninja Gaiden let's play. Much more competent than most on Youtube, especially the final boss fights.
Morseus will be happy to hear that! He worked hard to get good enough at the game so the playthrough was high quality.
Awesome! Love this game. I'll have to see if I can get the flippers to disappear and reappear. We didn't really do all that well on the IONGAMING episode for NES Pinball.
Cool channel. I subscribed. I enjoyed the Ninja Gaiden let's play. Much more competent than most on Youtube, especially the final boss fights.
Morseus will be happy to hear that! He worked hard to get good enough at the game so the playthrough was high quality.
Yeah he did a good job. With a little more practice he should be able to 1cc or even no-death the game no problem. He already has the tough stuff figured out. Maybe he already has.
He demonstrated how laughably easy that infamous jump from 6-2 is once you know the solution. For me it's one of the easiest parts of act 6. The worst is the jetpack ninjas. No matter how good you are, you can still succumb to a cheap death from the 6-2 jetpack ninjas.
I just can't string together a super high score. I've had runs where I had over 160k with three balls left, and still managed to blow it. Your luck can run out at any time in this game.
Oh shit Pinball! I can get on board with this, I actually really wanted to play Lunar Pool and just never got around to it.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Oh shit Pinball! I can get on board with this, I actually really wanted to play Lunar Pool and just never got around to it.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Oh shit Pinball! I can get on board with this, I actually really wanted to play Lunar Pool and just never got around to it.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Good luck to you guys this week.
The Mexican Runner beat the entire game with a score of around 62k. I got 48k and I think that I only made it to stage 21. That was actually a pretty good score although it should have been higher. Instead of trying to beat the game, I focused on practicing individual stages and trying to get perfects.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Good luck to you guys this week.
The Mexican Runner beat the entire game with a score of around 62k. I got 48k and I think that I only made it to stage 21. That was actually a pretty good score although it should have been higher. Instead of trying to beat the game, I focused on practicing individual stages and trying to get perfects.
48K is a pretty good score there, yeah.
You might make less than that if you beat the game without hitting consecutive shots, even.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Good luck to you guys this week.
The Mexican Runner beat the entire game with a score of around 62k. I got 48k and I think that I only made it to stage 21. That was actually a pretty good score although it should have been higher. Instead of trying to beat the game, I focused on practicing individual stages and trying to get perfects.
48K is a pretty good score there, yeah.
You might make less than that if you beat the game without hitting consecutive shots, even.
Lunar Pool is one of those games that's an absolute perfect candidate for a TAS.
Well, I'm nowhere near the high end of these scores, but I can at least get my first participation. It seems like every time I got a lucky streak going, there'd be a really bad run on the lower table in store for me.
I can definitely see how that dude scored 1.6 million. You can more or less go indefinitely once you have the safeguards in place and you know the patterns to keep the ball safe. I screwed up my run by somehow letting the ball go under my flipper even with the post in place.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
I can definitely see how that dude scored 1.6 million. You can more or less go indefinitely once you have the safeguards in place and you know the patterns to keep the ball safe. I screwed up my run by somehow letting the ball go under my flipper even with the post in place.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
You still have to luck out even with all the safeguards in place. All you have to do is lose one of the side thingies which can easily happen any time you're on the lower board and you're vulnerable again.
I can definitely see how that dude scored 1.6 million. You can more or less go indefinitely once you have the safeguards in place and you know the patterns to keep the ball safe. I screwed up my run by somehow letting the ball go under my flipper even with the post in place.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
You still have to luck out even with all the safeguards in place. All you have to do is lose one of the side thingies which can easily happen any time you're on the lower board and you're vulnerable again.
I can definitely see how that dude scored 1.6 million. You can more or less go indefinitely once you have the safeguards in place and you know the patterns to keep the ball safe. I screwed up my run by somehow letting the ball go under my flipper even with the post in place.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
You still have to luck out even with all the safeguards in place. All you have to do is lose one of the side thingies which can easily happen any time you're on the lower board and you're vulnerable again.
There are ways to mitigate that risk
I hope to figure them out, but my current score isn't too shabby.
How good are you at the Mario bonus game? If I'm lucky, I can rescue two princesses in a row, and that's the best I've done at it.
I dig this game. I'm not a pinball wizard or anything and have hardly ever played on a real one. I used to play the Windows space-themed pinball game a lot as a kid. Nostalgic for that this week.
I'm curious about what the B mode is all about; worth a Google, I guess.
You might make top 3 this week, man. Nice score.
Ha, hopefully. I never get complacent, in the rare event of my posting a decent score. Too many bonafied NES sorcerors on this forum. But it's all fun. Last night, I just turned the radio on and had a nice time playing and listening to my local alt rock station.
I want to keep pushing, but in response to your other post, I think a lot of it is definitely randomness. I mean, I've had balls completely escape me a bunch of times. It's disheartening. My latest score was almost entirely achieved on my last ball; it's so tempting to rage quit when I lose a ball with something low like ~3k, but I try to resist.
It sucks for the flippers to go invisible (that was so disorienting), but they come back at 150k, thankfully.
Check out the scores from the 2012 contest.
PINBALL HIGH SCORES
1st: 1,648,580 – MCMROSE +10 points
2nd: 633,170 – 2Legit28Bit +8 points
3rd: 600,140 – guillavoie +6 points
4th: 544,370 – Lincoln +4 points
5th: 370,470 – lospunchados +2 points
PARTICIPATION
364,480 – Krunch +1 point
297,350 – aleckermit +1 point
262,610 – CLAYB1RD +1 point
257,910 – Dr.Pepper +1 point
247,270 – bimmy_lee +1 point
203,690 – rokubungi +1 point
181,610 – bearcat-doug +1 point
158,060 – Jono1874 +1 point
135,600 – eric430 +1 point
128,650 – Rengozu +1 point
125,500 – laserman81 +1 point
125,430 – otterpop +1 point
102,990 – duncan +1 point
37,650 – Luigi_Master +1 point
How did I ever get that score? Must have been some other Krunch
I dig this game. I'm not a pinball wizard or anything and have hardly ever played on a real one. I used to play the Windows space-themed pinball game a lot as a kid. Nostalgic for that this week.
I'm curious about what the B mode is all about; worth a Google, I guess.
You might make top 3 this week, man. Nice score.
Ha, hopefully. I never get complacent, in the rare event of my posting a decent score. Too many bonafied NES sorcerors on this forum. But it's all fun. Last night, I just turned the radio on and had a nice time playing and listening to my local alt rock station.
I want to keep pushing, but in response to your other post, I think a lot of it is definitely randomness. I mean, I've had balls completely escape me a bunch of times. It's disheartening. My latest score was almost entirely achieved on my last ball; it's so tempting to rage quit when I lose a ball with something low like ~3k, but I try to resist.
It sucks for the flippers to go invisible (that was so disorienting), but they come back at 150k, thankfully.
Check out the scores from the 2012 contest.
PINBALL HIGH SCORES
1st: 1,648,580 – MCMROSE +10 points
2nd: 633,170 – 2Legit28Bit +8 points
3rd: 600,140 – guillavoie +6 points
4th: 544,370 – Lincoln +4 points
5th: 370,470 – lospunchados +2 points
PARTICIPATION
364,480 – Krunch +1 point
297,350 – aleckermit +1 point
262,610 – CLAYB1RD +1 point
257,910 – Dr.Pepper +1 point
247,270 – bimmy_lee +1 point
203,690 – rokubungi +1 point
181,610 – bearcat-doug +1 point
158,060 – Jono1874 +1 point
135,600 – eric430 +1 point
128,650 – Rengozu +1 point
125,500 – laserman81 +1 point
125,430 – otterpop +1 point
102,990 – duncan +1 point
37,650 – Luigi_Master +1 point
How did I ever get that score? Must have been some other Krunch
And it only got you participation points. Top 5 cutoff for participation. Ouch.
I dig this game. I'm not a pinball wizard or anything and have hardly ever played on a real one. I used to play the Windows space-themed pinball game a lot as a kid. Nostalgic for that this week.
I'm curious about what the B mode is all about; worth a Google, I guess.
You might make top 3 this week, man. Nice score.
Ha, hopefully. I never get complacent, in the rare event of my posting a decent score. Too many bonafied NES sorcerors on this forum. But it's all fun. Last night, I just turned the radio on and had a nice time playing and listening to my local alt rock station.
I want to keep pushing, but in response to your other post, I think a lot of it is definitely randomness. I mean, I've had balls completely escape me a bunch of times. It's disheartening. My latest score was almost entirely achieved on my last ball; it's so tempting to rage quit when I lose a ball with something low like ~3k, but I try to resist.
It sucks for the flippers to go invisible (that was so disorienting), but they come back at 150k, thankfully.
Check out the scores from the 2012 contest.
PINBALL HIGH SCORES
1st: 1,648,580 – MCMROSE +10 points
2nd: 633,170 – 2Legit28Bit +8 points
3rd: 600,140 – guillavoie +6 points
4th: 544,370 – Lincoln +4 points
5th: 370,470 – lospunchados +2 points
PARTICIPATION
364,480 – Krunch +1 point
297,350 – aleckermit +1 point
262,610 – CLAYB1RD +1 point
257,910 – Dr.Pepper +1 point
247,270 – bimmy_lee +1 point
203,690 – rokubungi +1 point
181,610 – bearcat-doug +1 point
158,060 – Jono1874 +1 point
135,600 – eric430 +1 point
128,650 – Rengozu +1 point
125,500 – laserman81 +1 point
125,430 – otterpop +1 point
102,990 – duncan +1 point
37,650 – Luigi_Master +1 point
How did I ever get that score? Must have been some other Krunch
And it only got you participation points. Top 5 cutoff for participation. Ouch.
And even worse yet, I only needed a neglibile amount of points to get 5th. Oh well. I had a lot of 6th place scores back in those days
I haven't had much time for these contests lately, but I really like pinball, so I made sure to get in a few games this week. I'd like to see if I could loop the score, so hopefully I'll have a chance to play a bit more later this week.
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Good lord. I guess I just suck at this. I'm beating 200,000 so I can call this "beat' and then I'm calling it for the week
Getting well over 100k in this game is tough and quite a bit of luck is involved. Does anyone here score high consistently? I usually get crap scores and it's a rare thing to get a decent score that is worth posting. But that's pinball for you.
When I got over 200k, I had all the cards flipped over and the bumper between the bottom flippers so I could keep the ball in play for a long time once the flippers disappeared. It's best to have the bumper and the two side things for protection when the flippers disappear or you're probably toast, but even that requires a fair amount of luck to happen.
I wondered why sometimes the flippers hit the ball lightly and sometimes it's full force. I thought that it may have to do with how I'm pressing the button but I wasn't sure. I just found this in the FAQ: "Flippers can be flipped in two ways. If you press the button normally they will fully flip, but if you just tap the button they will only flip halfway."
I can consistently get 100-200k. But for every 100K ball I have, I have 1 or 2 that take a direct route to a hole, nothing I can do. Pinball games NEED a nudge ability
Agreed. It needed the nudge as a way to counter ball losses that you have no control over otherwise. It's a pretty decent pinball game except for that.
Also, I've noticed that the more that you need the ball to be somewhere, the harder it is to get it there. The last card is always the toughest to flip. Losing a ball when you only have to flip one more card to get the big bonus and the bumper is painful.
Awesome! Love this game. I'll have to see if I can get the flippers to disappear and reappear. We didn't really do all that well on the IONGAMING episode for NES Pinball.
Cool channel. I subscribed. I enjoyed the Ninja Gaiden let's play. Much more competent than most on Youtube, especially the final boss fights.
Awesome! Love this game. I'll have to see if I can get the flippers to disappear and reappear. We didn't really do all that well on the IONGAMING episode for NES Pinball.
Cool channel. I subscribed. I enjoyed the Ninja Gaiden let's play. Much more competent than most on Youtube, especially the final boss fights.
Morseus will be happy to hear that! He worked hard to get good enough at the game so the playthrough was high quality.
Awesome! Love this game. I'll have to see if I can get the flippers to disappear and reappear. We didn't really do all that well on the IONGAMING episode for NES Pinball.
Cool channel. I subscribed. I enjoyed the Ninja Gaiden let's play. Much more competent than most on Youtube, especially the final boss fights.
Morseus will be happy to hear that! He worked hard to get good enough at the game so the playthrough was high quality.
Yeah he did a good job. With a little more practice he should be able to 1cc or even no-death the game no problem. He already has the tough stuff figured out. Maybe he already has.
He demonstrated how laughably easy that infamous jump from 6-2 is once you know the solution. For me it's one of the easiest parts of act 6. The worst is the jetpack ninjas. No matter how good you are, you can still succumb to a cheap death from the 6-2 jetpack ninjas.
Check out the scores from the 2012 contest.
PINBALL HIGH SCORES
1st: 1,648,580 – MCMROSE +10 points
2nd: 633,170 – 2Legit28Bit +8 points
3rd: 600,140 – guillavoie +6 points
4th: 544,370 – Lincoln +4 points
5th: 370,470 – lospunchados +2 points
PARTICIPATION
364,480 – Krunch +1 point
297,350 – aleckermit +1 point
262,610 – CLAYB1RD +1 point
257,910 – Dr.Pepper +1 point
247,270 – bimmy_lee +1 point
203,690 – rokubungi +1 point
181,610 – bearcat-doug +1 point
158,060 – Jono1874 +1 point
135,600 – eric430 +1 point
128,650 – Rengozu +1 point
125,500 – laserman81 +1 point
125,430 – otterpop +1 point
102,990 – duncan +1 point
37,650 – Luigi_Master +1 point
Ha, I remember playing this at length, but I didn't post a score. Probably didn't get anything good and thought "screw it"
Update:
563,700
I'm done. Good luck everyone!
595,310
Oh shit Pinball! I can get on board with this, I actually really wanted to play Lunar Pool and just never got around to it.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Oh shit Pinball! I can get on board with this, I actually really wanted to play Lunar Pool and just never got around to it.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Good luck to you guys this week.
Oh shit Pinball! I can get on board with this, I actually really wanted to play Lunar Pool and just never got around to it.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Good luck to you guys this week.
The Mexican Runner beat the entire game with a score of around 62k. I got 48k and I think that I only made it to stage 21. That was actually a pretty good score although it should have been higher. Instead of trying to beat the game, I focused on practicing individual stages and trying to get perfects.
262,580
By far my best run of NES Pinball ever. Even if I don't place this week it's good enough for me!
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Good luck to you guys this week.
The Mexican Runner beat the entire game with a score of around 62k. I got 48k and I think that I only made it to stage 21. That was actually a pretty good score although it should have been higher. Instead of trying to beat the game, I focused on practicing individual stages and trying to get perfects.
48K is a pretty good score there, yeah.
You might make less than that if you beat the game without hitting consecutive shots, even.
Oh man, Lunar Pool was a tough one that kicked almost everyone's ass. You only get the bonus points if you can successfully pocket one ball after another without missing a shot. Otherwise you get barely any points for pocketing a ball. You can progress far into the game level-wise and still have a low score if you're blowing your shots. I had to grind the hell out of it to get second place. Brock and skinny could barely stand to play it. I liked it much better than Baseball and Golf.
Lunar Pool was ridiculous.
I managed to crack it open badly, but since then I didn't have the stomach to put another full run on it to record on video, because doing so takes well over 3 hours and it grows old after a while.
The scoring system on it is just broken. If you miss a shot, you will be only scoring 10 x ball number for the next ball you drop.
I will still do that recording and post here, along with the Paperboy one (Guil got to see a "failed" test run where I only scored 194K points on Paperboy, at least. ), but that will take a while.
I will be far less active in the future games as well, because as of this week, I enrolled in belly dance and pole dance classes, so my evenings are full now. Not much free time for videogames.
Good luck to you guys this week.
The Mexican Runner beat the entire game with a score of around 62k. I got 48k and I think that I only made it to stage 21. That was actually a pretty good score although it should have been higher. Instead of trying to beat the game, I focused on practicing individual stages and trying to get perfects.
48K is a pretty good score there, yeah.
You might make less than that if you beat the game without hitting consecutive shots, even.
Lunar Pool is one of those games that's an absolute perfect candidate for a TAS.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
I can definitely see how that dude scored 1.6 million. You can more or less go indefinitely once you have the safeguards in place and you know the patterns to keep the ball safe. I screwed up my run by somehow letting the ball go under my flipper even with the post in place.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
You still have to luck out even with all the safeguards in place. All you have to do is lose one of the side thingies which can easily happen any time you're on the lower board and you're vulnerable again.
I can definitely see how that dude scored 1.6 million. You can more or less go indefinitely once you have the safeguards in place and you know the patterns to keep the ball safe. I screwed up my run by somehow letting the ball go under my flipper even with the post in place.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
You still have to luck out even with all the safeguards in place. All you have to do is lose one of the side thingies which can easily happen any time you're on the lower board and you're vulnerable again.
There are ways to mitigate that risk
I can definitely see how that dude scored 1.6 million. You can more or less go indefinitely once you have the safeguards in place and you know the patterns to keep the ball safe. I screwed up my run by somehow letting the ball go under my flipper even with the post in place.
The maddening part is I don't think I ever once got one of the slot machine bonuses
You still have to luck out even with all the safeguards in place. All you have to do is lose one of the side thingies which can easily happen any time you're on the lower board and you're vulnerable again.
There are ways to mitigate that risk
I hope to figure them out, but my current score isn't too shabby.
How good are you at the Mario bonus game? If I'm lucky, I can rescue two princesses in a row, and that's the best I've done at it.
I dig this game. I'm not a pinball wizard or anything and have hardly ever played on a real one. I used to play the Windows space-themed pinball game a lot as a kid. Nostalgic for that this week.
I'm curious about what the B mode is all about; worth a Google, I guess.
You might make top 3 this week, man. Nice score.
Ha, hopefully. I never get complacent, in the rare event of my posting a decent score. Too many bonafied NES sorcerors on this forum. But it's all fun. Last night, I just turned the radio on and had a nice time playing and listening to my local alt rock station.
I want to keep pushing, but in response to your other post, I think a lot of it is definitely randomness. I mean, I've had balls completely escape me a bunch of times. It's disheartening. My latest score was almost entirely achieved on my last ball; it's so tempting to rage quit when I lose a ball with something low like ~3k, but I try to resist.
It sucks for the flippers to go invisible (that was so disorienting), but they come back at 150k, thankfully.
Check out the scores from the 2012 contest.
PINBALL HIGH SCORES
1st: 1,648,580 – MCMROSE +10 points
2nd: 633,170 – 2Legit28Bit +8 points
3rd: 600,140 – guillavoie +6 points
4th: 544,370 – Lincoln +4 points
5th: 370,470 – lospunchados +2 points
PARTICIPATION
364,480 – Krunch +1 point
297,350 – aleckermit +1 point
262,610 – CLAYB1RD +1 point
257,910 – Dr.Pepper +1 point
247,270 – bimmy_lee +1 point
203,690 – rokubungi +1 point
181,610 – bearcat-doug +1 point
158,060 – Jono1874 +1 point
135,600 – eric430 +1 point
128,650 – Rengozu +1 point
125,500 – laserman81 +1 point
125,430 – otterpop +1 point
102,990 – duncan +1 point
37,650 – Luigi_Master +1 point
How did I ever get that score? Must have been some other Krunch
I dig this game. I'm not a pinball wizard or anything and have hardly ever played on a real one. I used to play the Windows space-themed pinball game a lot as a kid. Nostalgic for that this week.
I'm curious about what the B mode is all about; worth a Google, I guess.
You might make top 3 this week, man. Nice score.
Ha, hopefully. I never get complacent, in the rare event of my posting a decent score. Too many bonafied NES sorcerors on this forum. But it's all fun. Last night, I just turned the radio on and had a nice time playing and listening to my local alt rock station.
I want to keep pushing, but in response to your other post, I think a lot of it is definitely randomness. I mean, I've had balls completely escape me a bunch of times. It's disheartening. My latest score was almost entirely achieved on my last ball; it's so tempting to rage quit when I lose a ball with something low like ~3k, but I try to resist.
It sucks for the flippers to go invisible (that was so disorienting), but they come back at 150k, thankfully.
Check out the scores from the 2012 contest.
PINBALL HIGH SCORES
1st: 1,648,580 – MCMROSE +10 points
2nd: 633,170 – 2Legit28Bit +8 points
3rd: 600,140 – guillavoie +6 points
4th: 544,370 – Lincoln +4 points
5th: 370,470 – lospunchados +2 points
PARTICIPATION
364,480 – Krunch +1 point
297,350 – aleckermit +1 point
262,610 – CLAYB1RD +1 point
257,910 – Dr.Pepper +1 point
247,270 – bimmy_lee +1 point
203,690 – rokubungi +1 point
181,610 – bearcat-doug +1 point
158,060 – Jono1874 +1 point
135,600 – eric430 +1 point
128,650 – Rengozu +1 point
125,500 – laserman81 +1 point
125,430 – otterpop +1 point
102,990 – duncan +1 point
37,650 – Luigi_Master +1 point
How did I ever get that score? Must have been some other Krunch
And it only got you participation points. Top 5 cutoff for participation. Ouch.
I dig this game. I'm not a pinball wizard or anything and have hardly ever played on a real one. I used to play the Windows space-themed pinball game a lot as a kid. Nostalgic for that this week.
I'm curious about what the B mode is all about; worth a Google, I guess.
You might make top 3 this week, man. Nice score.
Ha, hopefully. I never get complacent, in the rare event of my posting a decent score. Too many bonafied NES sorcerors on this forum. But it's all fun. Last night, I just turned the radio on and had a nice time playing and listening to my local alt rock station.
I want to keep pushing, but in response to your other post, I think a lot of it is definitely randomness. I mean, I've had balls completely escape me a bunch of times. It's disheartening. My latest score was almost entirely achieved on my last ball; it's so tempting to rage quit when I lose a ball with something low like ~3k, but I try to resist.
It sucks for the flippers to go invisible (that was so disorienting), but they come back at 150k, thankfully.
Check out the scores from the 2012 contest.
PINBALL HIGH SCORES
1st: 1,648,580 – MCMROSE +10 points
2nd: 633,170 – 2Legit28Bit +8 points
3rd: 600,140 – guillavoie +6 points
4th: 544,370 – Lincoln +4 points
5th: 370,470 – lospunchados +2 points
PARTICIPATION
364,480 – Krunch +1 point
297,350 – aleckermit +1 point
262,610 – CLAYB1RD +1 point
257,910 – Dr.Pepper +1 point
247,270 – bimmy_lee +1 point
203,690 – rokubungi +1 point
181,610 – bearcat-doug +1 point
158,060 – Jono1874 +1 point
135,600 – eric430 +1 point
128,650 – Rengozu +1 point
125,500 – laserman81 +1 point
125,430 – otterpop +1 point
102,990 – duncan +1 point
37,650 – Luigi_Master +1 point
How did I ever get that score? Must have been some other Krunch
And it only got you participation points. Top 5 cutoff for participation. Ouch.
And even worse yet, I only needed a neglibile amount of points to get 5th. Oh well. I had a lot of 6th place scores back in those days
I haven't had much time for these contests lately, but I really like pinball, so I made sure to get in a few games this week. I'd like to see if I could loop the score, so hopefully I'll have a chance to play a bit more later this week.
Edit: Looped the score!
Before the loop:
After the loop:
Later on: