hiya gang!
are you still in the mood for some gaming?
here we go again with round three of the Lemon games compo.
rules are still simple:

--> games compo starts now as we speak and ends sunday 6th of april 2003 24h00 PM
--> download Buggy Boy here, it's the LURID+TRICYCLE version at Dohi's site.
--> post screenshots with your highest score in this thread.
--> don't cheat! (be fair alright?)
--> please take this in mind, it's important!

Boçù wrote:

Be careful with the screen grabs: if you make more than 100,000 points, take it *before* the game ends adding the points on the post-game grey screen

short FAQ:
1. how do I take a screenshot of my highest score? (ccs64)
--> when you achieved a score which is worth being mentioned 8) , there's two options:
- press ALT+F1 to save a 16 color bitmap, or
- press ALT+F2 to save a 256 color bitmap.
the screenshots are saved into your ccs64 directory, in both cases you better save the screenshots as a .GIF image, as it takes less space.

2. I'm not able to post any screenshots over here, what'd I do?
--> don't panic, there's always an option to send them towards my email address (below). once I got the screenshots, I'll post them as soon as possible.

3. Okay, I ended up being the true Lemon games-champion, what do I win?
--> well, nothing, zip, nada. but you will be threated as a champion, make no mistake!

4. Who will choose the games we play?
--> you! the games are chosen by voting. each games-voting will last for a week (first or second week of the month) and it's entirely up to you which games will be played in the future.

5. How long does one specific games-compo last?
--> one week of voting and three weeks of playing makes that each games-compo will last for exactly one month.

6. How long does the entire competition last?
--> the competition started junauary 2003 and will end december 2003. that makes 12 different games compos. all in order to find out who is the true Lemon Games champion of 2003. hopefully we can start all over again in 2004. but that's for later.

hereby I want to thank the people at the Llamasoft-forum for a lot of good advice and plenty of inspiration, you rule!

--> this compo got mentioned at THE SCORELORD pages. that's great! thanks Gordon, thanks Boçù!

(more FAQ's are coming up later)

'till now, game on lads!
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Current standings in the Lemon games competition (after two rounds)

01. (02) Robert Yaw 75 points

02. (01) Studly 70 points
03. (13) Paul EMoz 55 points

04. (03) Boçu 50 points
05. (NE) Lafey 40 points

06. (10) Antares 35 points
07. (11) Genrex 35 points
08. (06) Thunderer 32 points
09. (04) Peepo 30 points
10. (05) Shane 25 points
11. (07) FunkScientist 25 points
12. (08) Firefox 23 points
13. (09) Wonderboy 16 points
14. (12) Queen Frostine 10 points
15. (14) Mr. L 10 points
16. (15) VcJim 5 points
17. (16) Lando 5 points
18. (17) Vegeta 5 points
19. (NE) Roberto 5 points
20. (NE) Adam Huemer (Rough) 5 points
21. (NE) O.Virell 5 points
22. (NE) Matt 5 points

happy gaming!!

cheers,
-Matt
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Game on! Just one quick question though: Are there any restrictions on the course to be used?

I never played this game before either... I'll do my best. At least, I think it's pretty similar to Live and let die, and it was fairly good at that one, so...
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Shame on both Matt and Antares: Buggy Boy is an absolute classic (witness the Zzap!64 Gold Medal Award back in december 1987 and it still ranks as one of Paul Glancey alltime top 5 and Gordon top 20).

I guess no restrictions on the courses should be put: just we try and get the highest score possible (I really don't know which is the best race to score on, but I think that Offroad and West are the easiest).

Be careful with the screen grabs: if you make more than 100,000 points, take it *before* the game ends adding the points on the post-game grey screen.

Game on!

Did you notice it's the third coin-op conversion in a row? Three classy jobs they did if you ask me.
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I don't think I'll get that far, but I'll try my best.. I'm with you this round

Okeydokey, here is an easy start for you:


I've had some problem uploading, does this image show up?

Here's my first attempt on OFFROAD course....



...this was always my best scoring course, but I'm gonna try for all the others too!

(90540 - FSP)
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Here's my first, yet poor result:



b.t.w. I confounded Buggy Boy with Burnin'Rubber. Buggy Boy wasn't an Arcade-release, was it??
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Ya! Buggy Boy was in the arcades, though I only remember a 3 monitor version - so it probably wasn't *everywhere*. In fact I seem to remember Zzap! saying something about how good it was that the programmers squeezed the 3 screens into 1 in the conversion.
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First attempt.


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Here is my first attempt (highest so far I believe? ).



I'm playing it via an emulator, because I am at work 12 hours a day. I'll have to wait until the weekend to play it on a real C64 .
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OK, here's my first attempt. My score is 96,320.

To see the picture, you MUST copy and paste the link into your browser. It won't work otherwise.

http://www33.brinkster.com/pau...score1.jpg

Oops, I forgot to save a screenshot before it counted over 100,000. Here's what I did get:



That score down the bottom of 00330 with a little crashed sprite or something was my score as it hit 100,000, whith still another 2,000 or so to go on .

Oh well, back to the drawing board.
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OK. Here is my last score I'll submit for a while. Or until someone beats it .



So all up: 101,250
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@Firefox: take a look at the cover of the game in the games section.

@Funkscientist: I never saw a three screen thingy, nor do I remember the Zzap! crew mentioning it, but I may have a memory failure...

@Skyrider: I can't see your image.

@ Mar and everybody else: congrats, this is bound to be a tough challenge, with many people reachin around 100,000 in the first day!
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Hey, a game I played before
I'll post a screenshot in the weekend.

Huh...when I was playing offroad the screen messed up in all kind of weird colors suddenly.
I could still play normal, but the background went purple and evrything else green and yellow.
Anyone encountered this also ?
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I've encountered a number of bugs (haha, buggy boy get it!! ). One being weird arse colours and graphic glitches like you mentioned. Another is the very dodgy sprite collision. As well as the centre of the track slowly moving left or right!
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@Bocu: ok,

If this link does not work either(http://www.geocities.com/a_lar...oy.jpg.txt), I'll submitt it to Matt t post...

btw, my score is 37400, nothing to boast about (yet )...

@Firefox: No, it's not emulated. If it were, it would be in the mame.dk database afterall...

I didn't ever encounter the bugs listed by mar and sirkidd.

@skyrider: now it works fine.
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k, i got a score of 73290, guess thats pretty good for only playing for about 30 mins. A few things though about this game, what does it mean when all those flags flash at the top and what r those stupid eggs on the road u hit?