Lemon games compo #10 - Gyruss

FrenkieB · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:00 am Post subject: Lemon games compo #10 - Gyruss

Welcome to round 10 of the competition!

Twisted Evil

Gyruss

I don't have all the details on Gyruss so somebody post it please. And make this one sticky thank you.

I downloaded the version from www.c64.com here is my first score:

452600 Points

I went twice to Earth and then came to 2 warps from Uranus.
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Apollyon · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:42 pm Post subject:

Hm, played it for the first time today and got past Jupiter. Does it get harder once you played through it? Game gets a bit dull after a few warps, *sigh*

Speaking of weird shoot em ups, is there a good version of Tempest on the C64?

FrenkieB · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject:

Apollyon wrote:

Hm, played it for the first time today and got past Jupiter. Does it get harder once you played through it? Game gets a bit dull after a few warps, *sigh*

Hmm..it doesn't really get harder. When I got this highscore I played about 52 warps (to earth is 24 warps) but I just lost concentration cause it took so long. I don't see myself playing this game a lot when every game takes a half hour.
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Squonk · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject:

I juste played it a couple of time, downloaded from Gamebase... and there are no spacship-spaceship collision... is it normal ? I mean I can be killed by ennmy weapon but not by touching ennemy spaceship...so ?
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FrenkieB · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject:

Squonk wrote:

I juste played it a couple of time, downloaded from Gamebase... and there are no spacship-spaceship collision... is it normal ? I mean I can be killed by ennmy weapon but not by touching ennemy spaceship...so ?

If the enemy ships go in the screen you can't hit them. But when the leave the screen you can hit them...that's what I noticed.
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merman · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:10 am Post subject:

Apollyon wrote:

Speaking of weird shoot em ups, is there a good version of Tempest on the C64?

There's no official version of Tempest, but check out AXIS ASSASINS
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FrenkieB · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:21 am Post subject:

Let's post some scores everybody!
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Squonk · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:24 am Post subject:

I'm practicing... it's a new game for me... and I'm very very far from your score and from earth.....

But maybe wednesday... maybe

Good luck everybody
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jt-3d · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 3:28 pm Post subject:

So is this the official compo? What were they thinking? Why not have only left and right controls? This is silly, l/r/u/d, what the hell for? Damn, oh well, it's on I guess.
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NYCeguy24 · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject:

I have 2 versions of this game. The cracked one from c64.com and the uncracked parker brothers version that I downloaded from somewhere a while ago. Does it matter which one we use? I ask because I have noticed that the cracked one by RLA seems to be harder then the original. (Ships fire at you more often in earlier stages in the cracked version.)

Apollyon · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject:

Using the Remember version here and i havent noticed the problems mentioned above. And yes, ship collisions are supposed to destroy you.

Made it to earth twice as well with somewhat more than 400k points but i forgot to bring the screenshot...
Game is pretty easy imo. Only some erratic enemy movement and the weird control method cost me lifes. Would be better with a clockwise/counterclockwise movement. Maybe they just wanted to use all four directions of a joystick instead of just two? Smile

Thunderer · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject:

This game is best played with a joystick, although it can be played leisurely with number pad.

When entering a screen in swarms the ships don't kill you but they do when they hover towards you while exiting.

Still haven't played it seriously though but I am going to in the next couple a days.
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Antares · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:26 pm Post subject:

Another game I've never played before... This seems a rather entertaining shmup to me, but I don't think it's my cup of tea... Anyway, here we go:

66,800

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MTR1975/FSP · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:46 pm Post subject:

I played a lot of this in the arcades... I've not played it so much on the C64... time to play tonight!!! Does the Remember version have HiScore saver? I guess I'll check myself, anyway! Smile

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QN · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:07 am Post subject:

I think I'll only be playing this the once. First game, 173,150. I remember playing this a bit years ago, but it got boring fast this time around. I died for the most part being greedy, going for the bonus points instead of taking it easy. If someone has the patience they could score quite high I think...I'll leave that to those people.

DenoxiS · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:01 am Post subject:

155550
This game definitly needs a joystick. Circular motion with the cursor keys are too hard.
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Squonk · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:09 am Post subject:

QN wrote:

I think I'll only be playing this the once. First game, 173,150. I remember playing this a bit years ago, but it got boring fast this time around. I died for the most part being greedy, going for the bonus points instead of taking it easy. If someone has the patience they could score quite high I think...I'll leave that to those people.

Yes I agree to your comment, that's what I've observed as well, if you take risk to have points bonus it's far more dangerous... then the funny part of this game, the only way to have it not boring us is to take risk to have the bonus and to avoid being killed.... this is enough challenging I think to have fun
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Thunderer · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

Well only for starters.

In any case the game is a superb conversion from the coin-op.

Squonk · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject:

Ok, here is my first real good score.... gone twice to earth with a lot of bonus killing stuff...

493'550 points

I hope that somebody will beat it, so I'll find motivation to play it again Wink

Joystick is for sur the best way to play this game

Good luck guys
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Thunderer · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:00 am Post subject:

Last night, on my second try, I got approx. 175,000.

Squonk, Nice score.

FrenkieB · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:05 am Post subject:

Squonk wrote:

I hope that somebody will beat it, so I'll find motivation to play it again Wink

Joystick is for sur the best way to play this game
Good luck guys

I'll try..haven't played the game since posting my score. The game is getting boring when you have to play it for half an hour....
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TommyE · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:03 am Post subject:

I'll post something when I get over 50 000 points. I could not achive it in my first three attempts and looking at all other scores I guess I will be last in the competition this time Rolling Eyes

SLF · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

TommyE wrote:

I'll post something when I get over 50 000 points. I could not achive it in my first three attempts and looking at all other scores I guess I will be last in the competition this time Rolling Eyes

I don't think so.
My current best is 42,400...

(I hope to improve but for now I'm stuck as my home PC is K.O.)
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Kusarigama · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:08 am Post subject:

OK, this is my first score. Not a good one to start with, but I'm looking forward to some real improvement

P.S. my host is giving me some problems. Being not sure the picture will appear, I'm writing down my score: 156,300
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NYCeguy24 · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:30 pm Post subject:

I'll have to get a screenshot up later but my current high is 81,560.