Super League 2024: Round 1 - Pipe Mania

[lifeschool]

Pipe Mania / Pipe Dream [lemon] [hol]

Round Ends: 23:59 (UK Time) on Saturday 27th January 2024

Rules:
Get the best score you can, during this round.
Post screenshots of your score in this thread, and write the score nearby.
Scores to be achieved without save-states, trainers, passwords, and cheats.
No continues or infinite score leeching.
Full rules and info are HERE.

Beat 100k (the top score) to get the completion star.
End your game at level 36, and take a screen grab there to get 100K super bonus
Play BASIC mode.

Note: The winner of this round will choose the letter for the Alphabet round. I will contact (PM) the top players before the end of the round, to let you know the available letters.

Get the Game:
ADF - (needs stock A500 KS1.3, 000)
WHDLoad (direct link)



Extras:
Lemon's Round 1 thread is HERE.
Super League Live Ladder.
Check out the C64 Games Competition at our sister site Lemon64.

Live League Table:

All new players are welcome at any time. Join us!

[lifeschool]

Welcome to round 1 everybody. This time we start with a puzzle game, but one which still requires lightning reflexes and nerves of steel.

I was unable to find out how many levels there are in this game, but up to level 13 only takes 30mins or so, and the game gets fairly impossible by then anyway. So I havent set a level limit yet in case players can finish the whole game. I'll look at the scores by the end of week 1, and work out a good way to get the star award.

The new rules for 2024 are now up on Lemon, along with the season schedule. No rule changes this year, everything remains as normal. I'll post these to EAB hopefully soon.

I had to put a token score on the leaderboard, to make the 2024 league table appear. That's why there is a zero score on there.

Further help and tips can be found on the MobyGames web site.

[el_pasi]

22,400

First few attempts resulted 3k scores and finally this, which is tolerable

[lifeschool]

^ A good first try, just warming up!

edit: Just added a rule to say that we are playing Basic mode.

[Jma80]

11400

[lifeschool]

Originally Posted by Jma80

11400

Thanks for dropping by!


We have only a week and a half remaining to play this classic game!

The graphics were created by LucasFilm, and the game is listed as part of their publishing collection in between the Last Crusade games.

It is a popular choice. If we can get a few more players on EAB, we can start to get some all-time attendance records!

[lifeschool]

I added a rule about level 36, as the game looping seems to be broken on all the versions we have played so far. So anyone reaching level 36 now gets a super bonus. Rules updated.

[lifeschool]

Just six more days to register your scores for Pipe Mania, before we move on to Banshee.

[Trapshot]

308800

[lifeschool]

Nice to see you again TrapShot! Just in time for a high score!


This round is over!

Pipe Mania:
1st - Bubba n Stix 2
2nd - Blizzard
3rd - volvomatt

Well played everyone! That's the first game of the season done, and we still have plenty more to go!

The winner, Bubba, also gets to choose the letter we will use for Round 3. I've sent him a PM, and will hopefully update add the new voting thread tomorrow.

Well done to the top players for putting on a master class for us. Now lets see if anyone can beat ACA's high score in Banshee!