High Score Challenge Season 15 - Rd 5 - Tempest

[KarateEd]

Stardot high score challenge
Season Fifteen: Round Five
Tempest by Chrisn

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RULES
Round One starts at 9pm on Monday the 22nd of February and ends at 9pm on Monday the 8th of March
The aim is to score as many points as possible
Post scores and screenshots/photographs in this thread
The rules are here
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DISK IMAGE
http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=179
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INSTRUCTIONS


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SCORING
Points will be awarded using the following formula.
points = (YS / BS * 50) + ((NOP - YP + 1) * (50 / NOP))
YS = Your Score
BS = Best Score
NOP = Number of Players
YP = Your Position
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HIGH SCORE TABLE



Link to Overall High Score Table...http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=21057

Thanks to Galax for the Mode 7 fonts.

This could be a real world wind of a game I'm thinking!!!.........

[MartinH]

I'll get the ball rolling: 4970

A word to the wise: you've gotta be quick on the screen capture!

[KarateEd]

My paltry score.....

[Venger]

I'm ashamed to say that I've never played this before! It's nice to see a bit of a change from the platform genre though. I'll have a crack tomorrow after work as it's getting late now.

[Venger]

Okay, I had a few goes before bed. This one takes quite a bit of getting used to and I bet there'll be some seasoned pros at playing this.

[chrisn]

I always thought this was a good arcade conversion, but does it stand the test of time? I used to play this quite a bit... 29,900

[Rod C]

Well, this is a bit frenetic! I don't really understand what happened, but somehow I got what seemed a very generous bonus!

[Rod C]

Still a bit confused by this but I seem to be improving.

[klintworth]

This is new to me, too! Just read about it - very manic!

[FourthStone]

Whoa, talk about fast, will take some getting used to.

Score: 13360

[KarateEd]

Well I guess I'll have to play this through about a million times to understand how it works.....sigh......

[KarateEd]

ok, I kind of see how it works but for old eyes, this is going to be tricky. Cool shooter.

[KarateEd]

High Score Tables Updated......

[MartinH]

Getting into the swing of things: 33210

[MartinH]

And a nice big bump: 82080

[Rod C]

Got into level 18.

[MatthewThompson]

My best score so far, a great little blaster, remember it back in the day - never really played it much .

[Venger]

Not really getting the hang of things with this one so far . It's not a bad game though, even if it is difficult to see what's going on some of the time and dodging the bullets is hit and miss.

[Venger]

Bit of a jump in score but still quite a difficult game. Starting to grow on me a bit now.

[MatthewThompson]

Score improvement.

[MartinH]

115640!

I do like me a bit of Tempest! (and also Tempest 2000 and Typhoon2001 - if you've never played Typhoon it's worth tracking down. It's a completely free version of Tempest 2000 for PC with lots of tweaks. I believe some copyright holder - or other bean counting type - forced the developer to pull it, but it's still around if you look).

This would be a perfect beeb zone game for me... but unfortunately when you get to level 20 you can't really see what's going on, what's coming at you, where you need to be, or what you need to avoid, so it becomes a matter of luck more than anything else. I think I'd have preferred a bit more resolution and fewer colours.

[M_Ron]

Two weeks of this might be sustainable.

6560

[KarateEd]

A little bit of a boost....

[fwibbler]

Hmmm, never played this one before.
Not entirely sure I know what I'm doing (just shoot everything?)
Anyway, I got this...

[MartinH]

159020!

The other problem with these levels is the frame rate (which isn't great anyway) starts to drop a lot. I can only imagine what it's like on level 60... 1 frame per week, perhaps?

[KarateEd]

A bit better.....starting to like this, almost therapeutic.....

[Venger]

A slight improvement. Very hectic.

[MatthewThompson]

Another improvement

[Rod C]

Within a moment of beating level 25. Just a moment...

[KarateEd]

A little bit better......only 100k behind Martin......