Round 5 - BEACH HEAD













RULES
Round 5 starts Monday 3rd May and ends Sunday 23rd May @ 23:59 GMT
Start on Level 1
Post screenshots in this thread.
Please ensure that you own a legal copy of this game to compete.
Don't cheat! - We know where you live!!!

OFFICIAL COMPETITION VERSION
... is the Remember version

GAME INFO & COMMENTS
Beach Head@Lemon64

QUESTIONS
Please check the Lemon Games Compo FAQ

ROUND 5 SCORETABLE
...coming soon!

OVERALL STANDINGS
Here they are!

EXTRAS
Check out the Games Competition at Lemon64's sister site, Lemon Amiga!
The Scorelord keeps a watchful eye on the top c64 scores on the net here.
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110,200


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Good old times...
99800




Awww boo, played again, lost less ships and tanks and got less points.

Are we playing Level 1 guys?
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I am so far... shteev, can we get the official position on this?
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I played level 1 as well.

Are we playing version from GB?
I have some flickering in WinVIce on screen...
LIke this:

My version:


For comparison:


That line randomly changes from what i suppose to see to this garbage....
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61,800


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Suppose I'd better post my score...

108800



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It looks like the game has a maximum score - looks like saehn must've almost hit it. You don't get any extra points for leftover tanks so you could always commit suicide with a few before taking out the big gun, knocking out a couple of enemies to scrape a couple of extra points together.

Anyone ever seen a game before (an arcade game) that gives you the option of changing the border colour, like this one?

I hope we're playing level 1. I just tried it and didn't evn get on shore. I've played Beachhead 2 but not this one.

"You can't hurt me. ugh ugh ugh ugh ahhhhhhhh"
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130800

thats a personal best for me!

139800

Its all coming flooding back to me now!

My mistake.

Looks like the tank section gives you quite a bit more than a "few extra points" if you can refrain from taking the fortress out until you're down to your last tanks.

101,600

111400

168400

Guys, there's a scoring exploit here. You can score multiple times off a hit target once you reach the beach head with the tanks.

If you get one tank through to Kuhn-Lin, on the 2nd run you can get a tank through to the first obstacle, a tank. When you hit it, a 1000 point banner pops up, which you can hit multiple times before it disappears. It's quite easy to do as the 1000 point banner displays diagonally. See below:



In this way I racked up my top score and didn't even bother doing the run to Kuhn-Lin:



You can actually do this with any point banner on the beach, it's just particularly easy with the one I've mentioned above. I think we'll need a competition edition for this one. Basically stop scoring off points banners.

Oh, and on another note, by the end of the 3 weeks, we're all pretty much going to finish this game, right? How about submitting a score for each difficulty level (1-4)? This game is fairly easy, but a lot of fun. We'd need people to post scores from the game screen to verify this, as opposed to the high score table.
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I must admit thats how ive been achieving high scores but youll have no problem from me tackling a competition version that removes this exploit, i always thought it was common knowledge (im even quite sure its mentioned somewhere in the instructions)