High Score Challenge - S20 - R-Champ - Mouse Trap

[KarateEd]

Stardot high score challenge
Season Twenty: Round Champ
Mouse Trap chosen by Venger

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RULES
Round Champ starts at 9pm on Monday the 24th of July and ends at 9pm on Monday the 7th of August
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=641
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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=26514

Thanks to Galax for the Mode 7 fonts.

This was also a board game but you got.....bored...not with this one......Ed ...........
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[klintworth]

First go - tricky controls!

[klintworth]

First go - tricky controls!

[FourthStone]

The controls are very twitchy and the jumps are brutally precise but a little buggy, to me anyway, made it to level 2 but couldn't progress any further.

Score: 640

[Rod C]

Yep, those controls are difficult. This score was from repeated attempts at level 1 but now that I can sometimes get to level 2 my score is much worse. I think I have seen how to do it but may have to wait until I'm back from holiday near the end of the round.

[Venger]

Here's my first few goes today. It is a little bit fiddly, especially on the rope swings, but it's still a solid platformer, just as I remember from my Electron days. I haven't played for probably approaching 35 years or so but I do remember completing the game in my youth

[Venger]

A screen further on my next go and that's probably it for today.

[KarateEd]

I seem to remember being able to do the first few screens fluently the last time we played this.....oh how times have changed.

[KarateEd]

Still working on level 2.....used to be decent at this.....that's all gone downhill now....

[KarateEd]

Well, now we're up to level 5, it's slowly starting to come back to me.

[Tetlee]

I cannot get on with this game at all so will happily post this up and accept my last place. Brutally sensitive game, not one for me.

[KarateEd]

Up to level 6 now, new personal high score for me.....

[FourthStone]

Slowly making a bit of progress.

Score: 920

[Venger]

I cannot get on with this game at all so will happily post this up and accept my last place. Brutally sensitive game, not one for me.

I do agree that it's a pretty sensitive game and may not be for the faint-hearted. All I can say though is thank God you haven't played a REALLY brutally sensitive game like Elementum. Not that the game isn't brilliant, with great, responsive controls, but that one certainly separates the men from the boys.

[Venger]

Another few goes in my lunch break. Now up to level 13.

[Venger]

Up to level 16 now, shouldn't take me long to finish it now

[KarateEd]

Still working on the 6th level......the score is better because I haven't gotten of the 6th level yet and had 5 lives when I arrived there.

[FourthStone]

Inching along, I classify each screen with either brutal or punishingly brutal.

It is a good game with decent animation and a perfect trigger mechanism for getting me to whisper obscenities under my breath

Score: 1280

[Venger]

Completed it once, and not far off completing it the 2nd time around. To be fair, there are some really fiendish levels on this game and I don't think the game gets the credit it deserves. I'll try to get a walkthrough on YouTube, but not before the end of the round; I wouldn't want to be giving any secrets away

[KarateEd]

Just a note folks,

I've created the nomination thread for next season. Please be timely about this one as I'll be travelling on the Sunday before season's start and would like to have your game ready for the Monday so Friday 9 PM UK time will be the cutoff. That gives us a week, hopefully it will be long enough.

Thanks very much,

[maniacminer]

Quite a frustrating game that really, really punishes players for lack of consistency definitely some fun levels later that require working carefully through before committing. As per usual I ran out of time, I was getting close to completion, I'm not sure how many levels, I am assuming 16? Oddly, I tried to post my score but kept getting a MySQL "I've run out of space" error I'll look forward to Venger's walk-through, just to see how the rest of the game should be played (I don't think I'll be playing this one again though)

[Venger]

Quite a frustrating game that really, really punishes players for lack of consistency definitely some fun levels later that require working carefully through before committing. As per usual I ran out of time, I was getting close to completion, I'm not sure how many levels, I am assuming 16? Oddly, I tried to post my score but kept getting a MySQL "I've run out of space" error I'll look forward to Venger's walk-through, just to see how the rest of the game should be played (I don't think I'll be playing this one again though)

I've got the run on video (only up to, and including, the final level), I'm just waiting until the round's finished before posting it on YouTube. There are 22 levels in all, by the way .

[lovebug]

played 11 games, cant even get anywhere on the first level

got the same score in each game ZERO

thats enough of that

[KarateEd]

played 11 games and got the same score in each ZERO

thats enough of that

It may be an acquired taste LoveBug......

[lovebug]

played 11 games and got the same score in each ZERO

thats enough of that

It may be an acquired taste LoveBug......

I cant even figure out how to get to the platforms

[lovebug]

I set beebem speed to 0.25 just to see if I could figure it out but i still cant get anywhere, I give up

[lovebug]

I searched youtube for gameplay to see if im missing something, this reviewers reactions parallel mine, at least he got further

[KarateEd]

I searched youtube for gameplay to see if im missing something, this reviewers reactions parallel mine, at least he got further

You shouldn't be having this difficulty of not getting at least a starter score. The keys are just z, x, * (up) or jump. Even if you're failing to get the level finished you should be able to get enough to get on the score board........I use only those 3 keys (because that's how the game is set up). The game is a bit finicky if you're not consistent with jumping but still you should be able, with 4 lives, to get a starter score. Also, John Gage is not a great gamer in most of his games so you're a better gamer from what I've seen, that's not to slight John, that's part of what makes his videos entertaining but I've seen you do well on difficult games. This is one of those 'difficult', pixel perfect type games.....

[Venger]

I searched youtube for gameplay to see if im missing something, this reviewers reactions parallel mine, at least he got further

I like John Gage's videos (because he gets wound up so easily and swears a lot!) but he's definitely not the person to watch if you want to get good at games, or even take tips. As an entertainer he's good fun to watch, but as a gamer, he's absolutely awful! I'm going to put a video up with a walkthrough of the game (all 22 levels) after the round has finished. In the meantime, I'll do a video of the first level, just for you. It really isn't that hard, but it is quite fast so you need pretty decent reflexes.

[Venger]

Here you go, Lovebug. It really isn't that hard, so keep on trying!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4mM7kESAw8