blackcornflake’s Pretty Good at Amiga Arcade Games Quiz

blackcornflake · 10 August 2002, 16:28

OK. Spotting a gap in the EAB market for a quiz not involving naming a game via a teeny portion of a screen grab, or one based around knowledge of adventure games (with ‘elves’, ‘dragons’, ‘horses’ and other make-believe creatures in them), I hereby give you, without procrastination, cunctation or, for that matter, much consideration, a little quiz about Amiga arcade games.

Here be no RPGs. All that is required is for you to be not bad at some games I happen to have played recently.

If you find any of the questions too obscure, just fire up the relevant game and play to find the answer. It’ll only take five minutes. If you are good enough, muwahahaha.

I’ve even given you multiple choice. Here are 5 fabulous things…

1. Slamtilt
Ace of Space table. Alien Attack multiball mode. What is the value of the Super Jackpot, available after killing all the aliens?

a) 25 million
b) 50 million
c) 30 million

2. Sensible Golf
What does the commentator shout when a hole is completed 3 shots under par? (Discounting a hole-in-one on a Par 4). Sequence: -1= ‘Birdie!’, -2= ‘Eagle!!’, -3=…

a) ‘Albatross!!!’
b) ‘At last!!!’
c) Nothing but polite applause from the crowd

3. Kingpin
What is the name given to the 10th consecutive strike in a game?

a) Turkey
b) 10-bagger
c) No special name: Strike

4. Guardian
Level 100 is completed.* What happens?

a) Nice outro and credits
b) Start Level 1 again
c) Start Level 101, obviously

5. Deluxe Pacman**
What happens when a screen is cleared of pills, then the power pills are consumed?

a) Jump to bonus screen
b) Extra life awarded
c) Nothing special

*OK, this will take slightly more than five minutes.

**Author's homepage, Amiga section: http://www.warblade.as/amiga.asp Remember to register!

Amiga1992 · 10 August 2002, 17:36

Let's try my luck

I'll underline my choices.

1. Slamtilt
Ace of Space table. Alien Attack multiball mode. What is the value of the Super Jackpot, available after killing all the aliens?

a) 25 million
b) 50 million [dunno man, never played this one

]
c) 30 million

2. Sensible Golf
What does the commentator shout when a hole is completed 3 shots under par? (Discounting a hole-in-one on a Par 4). Sequence: -1= ‘Birdie!’, -2= ‘Eagle!!’, -3=…

a) ‘Albatross!!!’
b) ‘At last!!!’
c) Nothing but polite applause from the crowd

3. Kingpin
What is the name given to the 10th consecutive strike in a game?

a) Turkey
b) 10-bagger
c) No special name: Strike [eh?

]

4. Guardian
Level 100 is completed.* What happens?

a) Nice outro and credits
b) Start Level 1 again
c) Start Level 101, obviously [can you tell I never played these games

]

5. Deluxe Pacman**
What happens when a screen is cleared of pills, then the power pills are consumed?

a) Jump to bonus screen
b) Extra life awarded
c) Nothing special [OK, in the SMS version somethng happened, but i dont know here]

RetroMan · 10 August 2002, 17:52

I won´t take part here

You would be shocked

and I don´t want to blame you

only jokin´ of course

Drake1009 · 10 August 2002, 19:03

Ok so I'm not sure about this, but I'm going to try anyway.

1. 50 million seems sensible. Sounds special and I got 25 mill before on other tables.

2. Sensible software haven't always been that serious, just look at the credits of cannon fodder. I'm going to guess on C

3. B? turkey is 3 strikes consecutive.

4. have no idea what game this is, but 100 levels sound like a darn lot. Guess it's level 1. Most games with 100 levels don't have a NICE outro.

5. I've tried different pacman versions without anything but a pain in the ass to have to get the power pills. I'm guessing a C.

blackcornflake · 11 August 2002, 02:38

Akira! Bzzzzz! No points!

@Drake: You are correct with two of your answers. But as all five answers were guesses, I'm not going to tell you which ones you got right. The point of this thing is to play the games.

Shatterhand · 11 August 2002, 05:56

1. A (Never played Slamtilt

)
2. B (If my memory is right)
3. B (Going with Drake's answer, never played this one too much)
4. B (Never played this one too, would kill to play it)
5. A (Never managed to do that, but it's the kind of thing to expect from the creator of Deluxe Galaga

)

blackcornflake · 11 August 2002, 12:01

@Shatterhand: You are also correct on 2 out of 5.

@Akira: That's weird. I was sure you had underlined all 3 answers for Q4, but now only one is underlined. Is that your final answer?

I will give everyone who wants a try a bit more time, then I will reveal the truth.

CPC464 · 11 August 2002, 13:16

OK here are my Guesses:

1. 25 Million

2. C (Nothing but polite applause from the crowd )

3. B) 10-bagger

4. B) Start Level 1 again

5. A) Jump to bonus screen

Well there we are Finger crossed for good luck

Drake1009 · 11 August 2002, 13:20

I could play the games and find out. but there are a couple of things which prevent me.

1. I'd have to find all games but Slam tilt
2. I'm not quite sure how you'd squeeze 100 levels into 5 minutes as per note so it'd take much longer
3. I suck at games generally.

blackcornflake · 11 August 2002, 13:45

@Drake:

OK, I take your answers. But you still only got 2 right.

Don't worry. To 'suck' at a game is a relative thing. For example, even peeps who think they are great at Sensi suck at it in comparison to me.

Oh, yeah. See my disclaimer:

Quote:

Originally posted by blackcornflake
4. Guardian
Level 100 is completed.* What happens?

*OK, this will take slightly more than five minutes.

More like a day. I think everyone is going to have to guess that one...

@CPC464: 3 out of 5.

Twistin'Ghost · 11 August 2002, 22:46

Quote:

Originally posted by blackcornflake
@Akira: That's weird. I was sure you had underlined all 3 answers for Q4, but now only one is underlined. Is that your final answer?

That is correct, but it looked like a typo and I'm pretty sure it was (the underlined choice began with the closing [/U] tag, rather than opening. I edited and removed that one slash character and the message looked normal.

If I was wrong, I apologize and will revert it back like it was.

Drake1009 · 11 August 2002, 23:26

Quote:

Originally posted by blackcornflake
[BDon't worry. To 'suck' at a game is a relative thing. For example, even peeps who think they are great at Sensi suck at it in comparison to me.

[/B]

Ahh but I suck compared to even the computer.

blackcornflake · 13 August 2002, 01:47

Anybody else want a go? Better hurry up. I will reveal the answers Tuesday am.

Surely somebody can score 5/5?

Amiga1992 · 13 August 2002, 05:19

Quote:

Originally posted by Twistin'Ghost

That is correct, but it looked like a typo and I'm pretty sure it was (the underlined choice began with the closing [/U] tag, rather than opening. I edited and removed that one slash character and the message looked normal.

If I was wrong, I apologize and will revert it back like it was.

Thanks for fixing it Twist!

Those are my answers and I bet I scored 0/5

blackcornflake · 13 August 2002, 13:03

OK. Here are the answers, with bonus free blackcornflake comments.

1. Slamtilt
Ace of Space table. Alien Attack multiball mode. What is the value of the Super Jackpot, available after killing all the aliens?

c) 30 million

My favourite Slamtilt table is Mean Machines. Great fun, as it is busy as hell and just throws points at you.

2. Sensible Golf
What does the commentator shout when a hole is completed 3 shots under par? (Discounting a hole-in-one on a Par 4). Sequence: -1= ‘Birdie!’, -2= ‘Eagle!!’, -3=…

c) Nothing but polite applause from the crowd

I don’t know why they didn’t include a sample for an albatross, as there are samples for eagle, birdie, par, bogey, double bogey, triple bogey, +4 and up, out of bounds and water hazard. There isn’t one for a hole-in-one, either.

3. Kingpin
What is the name given to the 10th consecutive strike in a game?

b) 10-bagger

The one weak link in my otherwise sneakproof quiz, this could be looked up as a piece of real 10-pin bowling terminology. Bizarre naming convention, btw. They start off all different, (i.e. strike, double, turkey), then sort of run out of names halfway along, and just stick a number in front of ‘bagger’. Crazee!

4. Guardian
Level 100 is completed. What happens?

c) Start Level 101, obviously

Akira - you are the only geezer to get this right!

Lucky guess!

Yep, you battle through 100 levels of a really demanding game, and what do you get? Level 101. Hey ho. But I still love the game.

5. Deluxe Pacman
What happens when a screen is cleared of pills, then the power pills are consumed?

a) Jump to bonus screen

Bit of a gamble, this strategy. Best left to a level that suits it. You could lose a life attempting it, but 50,000 points (exactly the amount required to gain an extra life) are awarded for completing the resulting bonus screen. A little bit of luck helps – the bonus screen is randomly picked; some are easy, some are nasty.

Final Table of Pretty Good Players/Guessers

1. CPC464: 3/5 - King of the Jungle
=2. Drake1009: 2/5 - King of the Hill
=2. Shatterhand: 2/5 - King of the Castle
4. Akira: 1/5 - King of the Swingers

Everybody else: 0/5 - King Prawns

Amiga1992 · 13 August 2002, 20:26

Quote:

Originally posted by blackcornflake
4. Guardian
Level 100 is completed. What happens?

c) Start Level 101, obviously

Akira - you are the only geezer to get this right! Lucky guess!

Yadda yadda!

Shatterhand · 14 August 2002, 03:12

@blackcornflake

Did u ever managed to make a hole-in-one in sensi golf???

I never did it, and I played it alot..

Talking about Sensible golf, anyone ever played the PC version?

That shit got be a joke of Sensible Software. I bet they released the PC version and laughed at PC users, it sux BAD. SWOS was already bad enough, but Sensi Golf is just pure crap. The ball physicis is HORRIBLE.

Amiga1992 · 14 August 2002, 05:20

Quote:

Originally posted by Shatterhand
@blackcornflake
Did u ever managed to make a hole-in-one in sensi golf???

I did! I think there was a hole in the Tokyo course where you could score a hole in one.

BTW I love the Neogeo Pocket's neo Turf masters. It's very similar to Sensi Golf in some aspects!

PC SWOS is ok.. It's a PC, what else do ya expect?

Twistin'Ghost · 14 August 2002, 05:37

Quote:

Originally posted by Akira
BTW I love the Neogeo Pocket's neo Turf masters. It's very similar to Sensi Golf in some aspects!

Yeah, it's cool, but the NeoGeo version is even better, IMHO.

blackcornflake · 14 August 2002, 10:28

Quote:

Originally posted by Shatterhand
@blackcornflake

Did u ever managed to make a hole-in-one in sensi golf???

I'm disappointed to play a tournament and not get one...

Quote:

Talking about Sensible golf, anyone ever played the PC version?

That shit got be a joke of Sensible Software. I bet they released the PC version and laughed at PC users, it sux BAD. SWOS was already bad enough, but Sensi Golf is just pure crap. The ball physicis is HORRIBLE.

Absolutely, Shatterhand. I could not agree more. The thing looks similar, but... ugh. It plays terribly. It matters not whether you use a nine iron or a three wood - the ball acts in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. Ridiculous. And the computer players can hit it further than you possibly can. Pah!

I also dislike PC Sensi. It is a pale imitation of the GREAT Amiga version.

10 August 2002, 16:28	#1
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 794	blackcornflake’s Pretty Good at Amiga Arcade Games Quiz OK. Spotting a gap in the EAB market for a quiz not involving naming a game via a teeny portion of a screen grab, or one based around knowledge of adventure games (with ‘elves’, ‘dragons’, ‘horses’ and other make-believe creatures in them), I hereby give you, without procrastination, cunctation or, for that matter, much consideration, a little quiz about Amiga arcade games. Here be no RPGs. All that is required is for you to be not bad at some games I happen to have played recently. If you find any of the questions too obscure, just fire up the relevant game and play to find the answer. It’ll only take five minutes. If you are good enough, muwahahaha. I’ve even given you multiple choice. Here are 5 fabulous things… 1. Slamtilt Ace of Space table. Alien Attack multiball mode. What is the value of the Super Jackpot, available after killing all the aliens? a) 25 million b) 50 million c) 30 million 2. Sensible Golf What does the commentator shout when a hole is completed 3 shots under par? (Discounting a hole-in-one on a Par 4). Sequence: -1= ‘Birdie!’, -2= ‘Eagle!!’, -3=… a) ‘Albatross!!!’ b) ‘At last!!!’ c) Nothing but polite applause from the crowd 3. Kingpin What is the name given to the 10th consecutive strike in a game? a) Turkey b) 10-bagger c) No special name: Strike 4. Guardian Level 100 is completed.* What happens? a) Nice outro and credits b) Start Level 1 again c) Start Level 101, obviously 5. Deluxe Pacman** What happens when a screen is cleared of pills, then the power pills are consumed? a) Jump to bonus screen b) Extra life awarded c) Nothing special OK, this will take slightly more than five minutes. *Author's homepage, Amiga section: http://www.warblade.as/amiga.asp Remember to register!

10 August 2002, 17:36	#2
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Re: blackcornflake’s Pretty Good at Amiga Arcade Games Quiz Let's try my luck I'll underline my choices. 1. Slamtilt Ace of Space table. Alien Attack multiball mode. What is the value of the Super Jackpot, available after killing all the aliens? a) 25 million b) 50 million [dunno man, never played this one ] c) 30 million 2. Sensible Golf What does the commentator shout when a hole is completed 3 shots under par? (Discounting a hole-in-one on a Par 4). Sequence: -1= ‘Birdie!’, -2= ‘Eagle!!’, -3=… a) ‘Albatross!!!’ b) ‘At last!!!’ c) Nothing but polite applause from the crowd 3. Kingpin What is the name given to the 10th consecutive strike in a game? a) Turkey b) 10-bagger c) No special name: Strike [eh? ] 4. Guardian Level 100 is completed.* What happens? a) Nice outro and credits b) Start Level 1 again c) Start Level 101, obviously [can you tell I never played these games ] 5. Deluxe Pacman** What happens when a screen is cleared of pills, then the power pills are consumed? a) Jump to bonus screen b) Extra life awarded c) Nothing special [OK, in the SMS version somethng happened, but i dont know here]

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10 August 2002, 17:52	#3
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	I won´t take part here You would be shocked and I don´t want to blame you only jokin´ of course

10 August 2002, 19:03	#4
Drake1009 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,284	Ok so I'm not sure about this, but I'm going to try anyway. 1. 50 million seems sensible. Sounds special and I got 25 mill before on other tables. 2. Sensible software haven't always been that serious, just look at the credits of cannon fodder. I'm going to guess on C 3. B? turkey is 3 strikes consecutive. 4. have no idea what game this is, but 100 levels sound like a darn lot. Guess it's level 1. Most games with 100 levels don't have a NICE outro. 5. I've tried different pacman versions without anything but a pain in the ass to have to get the power pills. I'm guessing a C.

11 August 2002, 02:38	#5
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 794	Akira! Bzzzzz! No points! @Drake: You are correct with two of your answers. But as all five answers were guesses, I'm not going to tell you which ones you got right. The point of this thing is to play the games.

11 August 2002, 05:56	#6
Shatterhand Warhasneverbeensomuchfun Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro / Brazil Age: 41 Posts: 3,450	1. A (Never played Slamtilt ) 2. B (If my memory is right) 3. B (Going with Drake's answer, never played this one too much) 4. B (Never played this one too, would kill to play it) 5. A (Never managed to do that, but it's the kind of thing to expect from the creator of Deluxe Galaga )

11 August 2002, 12:01	#7
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 794	@Shatterhand: You are also correct on 2 out of 5. @Akira: That's weird. I was sure you had underlined all 3 answers for Q4, but now only one is underlined. Is that your final answer? I will give everyone who wants a try a bit more time, then I will reveal the truth.

11 August 2002, 13:16	#8
CPC464 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: York Age: 54 Posts: 393	OK here are my Guesses: 1. 25 Million 2. C (Nothing but polite applause from the crowd ) 3. B) 10-bagger 4. B) Start Level 1 again 5. A) Jump to bonus screen Well there we are Finger crossed for good luck

11 August 2002, 13:20	#9
Drake1009 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,284	I could play the games and find out. but there are a couple of things which prevent me. 1. I'd have to find all games but Slam tilt 2. I'm not quite sure how you'd squeeze 100 levels into 5 minutes as per note so it'd take much longer 3. I suck at games generally.

13 August 2002, 01:47	#13
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 794	Anybody else want a go? Better hurry up. I will reveal the answers Tuesday am. Surely somebody can score 5/5?

13 August 2002, 13:03	#15
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 794	OK. Here are the answers, with bonus free blackcornflake comments. 1. Slamtilt Ace of Space table. Alien Attack multiball mode. What is the value of the Super Jackpot, available after killing all the aliens? c) 30 million My favourite Slamtilt table is Mean Machines. Great fun, as it is busy as hell and just throws points at you. 2. Sensible Golf What does the commentator shout when a hole is completed 3 shots under par? (Discounting a hole-in-one on a Par 4). Sequence: -1= ‘Birdie!’, -2= ‘Eagle!!’, -3=… c) Nothing but polite applause from the crowd I don’t know why they didn’t include a sample for an albatross, as there are samples for eagle, birdie, par, bogey, double bogey, triple bogey, +4 and up, out of bounds and water hazard. There isn’t one for a hole-in-one, either. 3. Kingpin What is the name given to the 10th consecutive strike in a game? b) 10-bagger The one weak link in my otherwise sneakproof quiz, this could be looked up as a piece of real 10-pin bowling terminology. Bizarre naming convention, btw. They start off all different, (i.e. strike, double, turkey), then sort of run out of names halfway along, and just stick a number in front of ‘bagger’. Crazee! 4. Guardian Level 100 is completed. What happens? c) Start Level 101, obviously Akira - you are the only geezer to get this right! Lucky guess! Yep, you battle through 100 levels of a really demanding game, and what do you get? Level 101. Hey ho. But I still love the game. 5. Deluxe Pacman What happens when a screen is cleared of pills, then the power pills are consumed? a) Jump to bonus screen Bit of a gamble, this strategy. Best left to a level that suits it. You could lose a life attempting it, but 50,000 points (exactly the amount required to gain an extra life) are awarded for completing the resulting bonus screen. A little bit of luck helps – the bonus screen is randomly picked; some are easy, some are nasty. Final Table of Pretty Good Players/Guessers 1. CPC464: 3/5 - King of the Jungle =2. Drake1009: 2/5 - King of the Hill =2. Shatterhand: 2/5 - King of the Castle 4. Akira: 1/5 - King of the Swingers Everybody else: 0/5 - King Prawns

14 August 2002, 03:12	#17
Shatterhand Warhasneverbeensomuchfun Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro / Brazil Age: 41 Posts: 3,450	@blackcornflake Did u ever managed to make a hole-in-one in sensi golf??? I never did it, and I played it alot.. Talking about Sensible golf, anyone ever played the PC version? That shit got be a joke of Sensible Software. I bet they released the PC version and laughed at PC users, it sux BAD. SWOS was already bad enough, but Sensi Golf is just pure crap. The ball physicis is HORRIBLE.

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