EAB/Lemon Super League 2008: Round 6 - Turrican

[TCD]

Originally Posted by blade002

Cheers Druid !!.. but no, you are definately worthy!! ... its actually possible to get roughly 18 lives from the first 2 levels on the first world Having that little backlog of lives should see you through the Jetpack levels ( there are 2 of them don't forget! .. lol )

I am sure someone is going to topple my score very soon though!

I know there are two of them : First score -> died in the first, second score -> died in the second
Thank you for cheering me up mate, I needed that now
It's the first day of the round and there are two big scores. As I said this round will be really wicked! I hope I can at least do better than the 12th place last round

[Graham Humphrey]

What a fantastic score Blade.

But please can you start using multi-quote, I'm working overtime just merging all your posts

[blade002]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

I know there are two of them : First score -> died in the first, second score -> died in the second
Thank you for cheering me up mate, I needed that now
It's the first day of the round and there are two big scores. As I said this round will be really wicked! I hope I can at least do better than the 12th place last round

Don't stress mate, you will absolutely kill it in this round!, your top score is actually quite good from this early in the round!, so if its that good now, then i am pretty sure you are going to finish it before you know it.

I think the reason why i finished it this quickly though, is because i had Turrican on the C64 and probably finished it about 40 times in 1990, and then when i got my Amiga in the same year, i probably repeated that again! So even though its been a long time since i have really sat down and played it, the layout of the game has seemed to have stuck in my mind! When i was playing it tonight i could remember small bits of the map here and there which REALLY did help to get me through it!.

Good Luck my friend!

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

What a fantastic score Blade.

But please can you start using multi-quote, I'm working overtime just merging all your posts

Thanks Graham and real sorry about not using multi-quote. I guess its just force of habit.

[TCD]

1. john4p - 1,918,450


Okay, well, that's just... well... OMG! I think when I finished it the last time without using a continue I got around 1.300.000, so I thought 1.600.000 was really good, but THAT is a big, fat, hairy score!
Congrats john!
So TodaysForgotten really got a huge problem

[Graham Humphrey]

Indeed, it is an excellent score so well done John!

I made my comment about Blade's score before I saw the Lemon thread so it's still fantastic but not quite as much

[TCD]

To see how the Lemon guys are doing, click here.

Could you update the link Graham? I think I'll print out the screenshot with johns score and hang it over my bed

[blade002]

Shit!

Back to the drawing board.

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Could you update the link Graham? I think I'll print out the screenshot with johns score and hang it over my bed

Ah, so you spotted my deliberate mistake...

Link now put in, thanks for reminding me.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Ah, so you spotted my deliberate mistake...

Link now put in, thanks for reminding me.

No problem and thank you! The screenshot got the right poster format Now I feel a bit stupid about giving tips on playing Turrican

[john4p]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

I think when I finished it the last time without using a continue I got around 1.300.000, so I thought 1.600.000 was really good, but THAT is a big, fat, hairy score!
Congrats john!

Thanks! 1.3 million points IS quite good, actually. I'm much more proud having achieved this here (a couple of months ago) than my score from today:



It's much more important to me to finish with as many lives left as possible than reaching a high score. As you see my record is finishing with 68 lives (69, to be exact: one in play, 68 in reserve). In the end I just had a score of 1.3 million.

Today, when I made 1.9 million points I only finished with 47 lives left. I had to sacrifice some lives to timeouts because for points you have to go everywhere in the levels. I hate playing for points in Turrican. I much rather would play for "who finished the game with most lives left".
At least the lives at the end are worth additional points, too.

[Graham Humphrey]

The big problem with playing for who finished with the most lives, of course, is that not everyone can finish it

[adolescent]

A little better.

379,100

[Graham Humphrey]

Dammit, now I need to pull my finger out if I'm to avoid the wooden spoon...

[john4p]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

The big problem with playing for who finished with the most lives, of course, is that not everyone can finish it

Of course lol.

But you could use the score as tie-breaker. So if two people end the game with 50 lives the one with the better score wins. And if two people
die before the end they "finish" the game without any lives - so that only their score would be tie-breaker...

But now it's too late to change the rules anyway...

[blade002]

@john4p: Awesome job on your score! And Awesome job on the Chaos Engine as well !! I will see if i can find time today to try and beat in you Turrican, but i know its going to take a bit more caring and a bit more careful planning on my part to do it!. I actually lost most of my lives in the "Aliens" style levels towards the end of the game.


Update: I just played half way through again, but made some absolute blunders so i turned it off. lol.. I could have scored higher than my previous score but not as much as John4p if i had of kept going, so i will try another time but next time will be different!

[bLAZER]

Better score from me:
318700

That boss wasn't very nice, lost 4 lives and didn't kill him...

[john4p]

@blade: Thanks. I also find the alien-levels the hardest: those blood-drops are especially annoying if you try to collect most of the diamonds.

I don't mind losing to you. I just hope you also finish better than TF...

Good luck, m8!

[CHook/OTT]

631,100

The jetpack levels cost me around 12 lives and then got finished of by the big square rock boss facey thing on level 4-1 even though i shot the 4 skulls and stood in the gap???

[blade002]

Originally Posted by john4p

@blade: Thanks. I also find the alien-levels the hardest: those blood-drops are especially annoying if you try to collect most of the diamonds.

I don't mind losing to you. I just hope you also finish better than TF...

Good luck, m8!

Yeah those blood drops are a massive pain!

When it comes to winning and losing though, as you know, i am of the same sentiment, like with the Chaos Engine when i was knocked down to 4th spot, but when i realised it was you that came out on top in 1st place, then it was all ok

Actually Turrican is really good for me right now, because it takes alot of things off my mind while i am playing because right now i am under extreme stress and pressure!. Gotta love the Amiga & Turrican for that, they transport me to a world ( and a happier time ) that not even GTA4 could!

[Graham Humphrey]

A bit better, still not very good though and there are far too many leaps of faith for my liking.



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