Let's Play (2021) Who? Anyone and everyone, especially you! What? Let's Play is a fun Plus/4 World initiative. Each weekend, play just one round with the selected game (and optionally submit your score). Don't have a real C16 or Plus/4 anymore? Just fire up an emulator, or even play it online here on our site. When? Every weekend. Where? In the comfort of your own home (or anywhere you like, really). Why? To show your support to this community. Each time you participate, your message is: "I'm here, I care about this old stuff, I care about this site, I'm one of us."
Re: Let's Play (2021) I suppose I couldn't reach an acceptable score, but I encourage everybody with some skills to participate in this game, because it is a huge fun!
Re: Let's Play (2021) The "rules" of Let's Play are pretty lax, but after some feedback, we decided to make it even more so:
For the purposes of keeping track of participation, you can simply comment in this thread or message me in a PM that you played, without the need to submit a score (in case you didn't take a photo or screenshot, or you deemed the score to be too low).
Re: Let's Play (2021) Important PSA: I just noticed that all the PRG versions of Punchy had buggy graphics! You can see it in the top line. I put up a correct PRG taken from our TAP files.
Re: Let's Play (2021) This weekend, Let's Play Dudaorrú Patric!
The guys who are behind this game are the pride of the Hungarian old-school scene: the Muffbusters.
Important PSA: the built-in high score in the game ends with 200 points, therefore you have to do more than that to be able to enter your name. There's a new "Highscore reset" crack available, this is 100% the same as the original, but the high score list has been "reset", so any score will make it. This makes taking screenshots etc easier. Use it!
If you're seriously going to ignore this, and not play one round with this game over the weekend... I'm printing the "Official Lamer" certificates already, all I need to do is fill in the names!
Re: Let's Play (2021) There's tons of games to get into, and if you get really good at one of them, you can even claim the #1 spot on the Hall of Fame boards. (Who wants to beat me at Zolyx? Come at me, bros!)
That said, let's try to keep this thread for "Let's Play!"
Otherwise glad to see you're playing, that's the spirit seff
Re: Let's Play (2021) Dudaorru can be played from the keyboard And once again, I'd like to reiterate that all you have to do is just post a message here or PM me and say "I played one round" to participate.
Hey guys, there's still time to play one round this week! MMS, Atisoft, Rüdiger, everyone else reading this who haven't played - come on, you have 5 minutes, don't you?
Looks like Brazil took the top spot for now (he holds the record for Arthur Noid too!), can anyone unseat him?
Re: Let's Play (2021) Not a requirement but I enjoy making the videos anyway
I’ve been retroscener elsewhere for a while now. Sixteen Plus began feeling a bit creepy for a middle-aged guy, lol. I also don’t concentrate solely on the C16/Plus4 on my YouTube page now as I have a few other systems I enjoy too, and prefer to have a more single universal username for all my gaming accounts, even for new systems, they’ll become retro one day too anyway. Thanks for the name change. It is likely to be the final name change now, phew. You may all continue to call me Baz though. I want to change my avatar again soon once I create a new one I’m really happy with, but I forget how. I’ll just PM you a link to it if you can do it for me.
Gutted I missed Punchy & Big Mac. I would likely have won those rounds, lol.
Re: Let's Play (2021) Thank you for participating in this game and for the videos, too.
Chronos, I'd like to ask you something.
You mentioned in some of your Let's Play videos, that you had played through several games with cheats.
Would you be so kind as to record them and make them available for all of us in the future if it is possible?
I don't have the chance to play through any of the games, but I would like to see later levels, game ends, too.
It doesn't matter if it is with cheats or not because I think many of these games will never have been played through without cheats in the future (because some of them are so difficult), so I think it is a good idea.
Your weekly reviews and some of your playthroughs could complete well each other.
And if anybody else played through a game, please share it with us.
Re: Let's Play (2021) That's some really deft playing Roe When the water appeared I could see you going "Oh sh*t, those two are gone"
I picked this up again after I dunno how many years. First try 14250. Then I tried on level 2; 18200. Then on level 3; 22800. If you can make it out, the added bonus at the end counts a lot, so maybe you should try the same thing on higher levels for an even better score.
Oh and Mark J Moore is a freaking genius. No flickering, no color clashes, everything is superbly animated and colorful, and above all, fun gameplay. Everyone, if you haven't voted for this game be sure to do so! IMHO it's a solid 9.
Re: Let's Play (2021) It took me a minute to familiarise myself with the controlling again. Not a great score but it’s been years since I last took a quick bosh at it.
I think MIK would have crushed this round, but I haven't heard from him in a long time. We have a video of him easily doing 77K, and then just stopping the video o_O It was just made to show off how to clear one level, not to get the maximum possible high score.
Re: Let's Play (2021) This weekend we put a gem on let's play! It's RoePipi's >>The Librarian!<< Join us by playing and submitting your high score to the Hall Of Fame on www.plus4world.com!
Re: Let's Play (2021) After some feedback from forum members, we're trying something new: there's a little "promo" feature at the top, introducing the current game.
I hope most of you will give it a try! (If you do, just let us know, submitting a score to the HOF is not mandatory.)
Would it be too much to ask picking games that don't make people jumping through hoops just to make a screenshot? Patric was already half a nightmare and Librarian proved to be even worse.
Something closely related to you, too. Could you somehow incorporate the score into the game over screen? It would've been so much easier to me. And, I guess, for others would be too. I had to record a video of my gameplay and extract the last frame my score was displayed in.
Re: Let's Play (2021) Well, yeah, the game unforgivably erases your score from History if you're not a good enough librarian...
So, for this occasion, I made a special Let's Play edition of the game. If you lose, you'll be presented the meaningful "WELL... SEE YOU NEXT DAY!" message instead of destroying everything (right away), so you can screenshot your score
Re: Let's Play (2021) First, many-many thanks to Chronos for being the guinea pig and trying out some of my better games! Second, I translate my YouTube comment here, because tubes come and go - but Plus/4 World is eternal:
RoePipi here... Nagyon köszönöm a videót, megkönnyeztem Na meg ez óriási segítség abban, hogy mit nem csinálok jól a (egyébként kísérleti, igyekszek nem egyszerűen besorolhatóakat írni) játékaimban: nem adok elég infót a lehetőségekről, tennivalókról. Pl.: - A Foxishban később már bevallja a program, hogy a SHIFTet fele időben lent kell tartani, fele időben fent a haladáshoz, de hogyan jutsz el odáig, ha ezt nem tudod? - A Castle Matcher-ben a kinti kakas látja ugyan a tárgyakat, de túl hülye hozzá, hogy megnevezze őket (mert focista, de bocsánatot kérek a sztereotípiáért), így kinézet alapján kell random berugdosni őket. - A Felcsút Tycoon-ban semmi nem mutatja, hogy a vasútvonalakon konkrétan vonatoknak kell menniük (N betűvel lehet összerakni őket, meg beállítani a menetrendjüket a települések között). - Végül a The Librarian véletlenül se említi meg, hogy több könyvet is fel tudsz kapkodni egyszerre, ha a helyzet úgy kívánja, és akár random bevagdoshatod őket polcokra, ha figyelsz arra, hogy a pontod ne menjen 0-ra... Még egyszer köszönöm a foglalkozást! XD
RoePipi here... Thank you very much for the video, I got tears in my eyes And it's a huge help for me to see what I do wrong in my (otherwise experimental, I try to make non-categorizable ones) games: I don't give the player enough information about the tasks and possibilities. For example: - Foxish confesses at a later point in the game that SHIFT must be held down half the time and released the other half to progress, but how do you get to this info if you don't know about it already? - In Castle Matcher the rooster outside can see the objects but he's too stupid to name them (because he's a football player, I apologize for the stereotype), so you must kick them in based on their outlook. - In Felcsút Tycoon nothing is indicating that the railways must have actual trains running on them. You can assemble them pressing letter 'N', also you can set their timetable between settlements. - Finally, The Librarian doesn't mention at all that you can pick up more books *in one go* if the situation is like that, you can even drop them at any shelf if you make sure your score doesn't go to zero... Again, thank you for your time!
Re: Let's Play (2021) Hello guys! It's weekend again, so by George's request we play the ultra mega classic by Shaun Southern: >> KIKSTART < You can download the game here.
Re: Let's Play (2021) This game has arcade-quality. I got old. I will never come even close to my record of the 80's. Thank you for considering my suggestion! Was great fun to play
Re: Let's Play (2021) A Kikstartot senkinek sem kell bemutatni, egyértelműen a C16 egyik legjobban sikerült játéka ever. Vérbeli árkád motocross akciót kapunk 16 pályán, kellemes zenével. Respect to Shaun Southern!
enjoy!
Re: Let's Play (2021) Kikstart needs no introduction, it is clearly one of the best C16 games ever. Real arcade motocross action on 16 tracks with pleasant music. Respect to Shaun Southern!
Re: Let's Play (2021) Csabo, ok then, I will watch their videos, too. (Soon?) Vajaskenyér... Not so sure, but there will be other surprises, there is someone who is very angry, because I forget about "him". Hey! No words about the new look?
Re: Let's Play (2021) Sadly, YAPE (even the x64 version) overwrote my uncompressed video when reached 4GB (at 13 minutes), so here's my (better) last 2 minutes. TWO HUSBANDS!! I've never even...
Re: Let's Play (2021) Attention players! I spent some spare time in order to join the challenge. After the first round has been completed, the opponent runs faster; after this second round, there are two opponents per screen and the game gets slower. At that point, the game has crashed to me, probably due a bad managing of the two foes' sprites during the screen solved session. Dunno if it has happen due bad luck, or if it's a claimed bug that will appear sooner or later in those conditions, but now you've been warned.
EDIT: did some tests cheating on the emulator, no crash at all; bad luck probably, what a pity...
Re: Let's Play (2021) Well done, Luca!! Looks like I had to reach a top score to aid a real competition It's relatively easy to figure out the AI, it's just that I die because I don't stand at the correct position or I don't expect a jump from a husband
I'm also sorry for your bad luck: SIX lives left and crash while hitting the top score, it's not a pleasant experience. It makes my case with video file overwriting much smaller - at least I could play to the last life!
At the end, don't forget the game's fun factor!! Great music, flying letters, many elevators, much slide!!
Re: Let's Play (2021) Ok, this is a bug confirmation: the crash happens randomly in that particular screen, when there are 3 sprites on the screen and one sprite crosses that lower slice of the level once the screen has been solved. Sometimes it doesn't occur, sometimes it does: I've lost a score of 98000 ca. due the double pressing of the fire button, 'cause the game doesn't save any score, but I was absolutely after the infamous screen. This time it has happened on emulation (and that means: congrats Gaia, this witnesses the high quality of YAPE's reliability )
Re: Let's Play (2021). Some pretty nice scores. I haven’t played Bongo in a while. I’m currently away again until Tuesday at the latest. Will add my contribution when I get home then.
Edit: Okay, I’m struggling to remember the controls here. The fire button doesn’t function in one port, it just immediately quits the game in the other and back to the title screen. It means that I can’t use the teleport so I will die straight away. I am using a joystick adapter. I’m hoping nothing is wrong with my C16 itself.
Re: Let's Play (2021) In the year 2184, after years of constant bombardment, the planet Earth has been taken over by Cobrons who have now departed but left the government of the country in the hands of its super intelligent command module. The defenders of the command module base are formidable. It requires a steady hand and accurate control to guide the fighter plane that has undertaken the suicidal mission of destroying the base. Yes, this weekend is about "Skramble"! join us, and submit your best score to www.plus4world.com!
Re: Let's Play (2021) Verona, I assume that when you purchased your copy of this game in the 80s, somehow the cover - on which the story was printed - was illegible
Re: Let's Play (2021) OK Guys, one thing I do not understand: how I could reach 38480 points, if I did not reach the city? Really strange, I was also surprised by my rank.
Re: Let's Play (2021) Score: 27,520 Not great. I’m out of practice as you may tell from my longplay video I did some years back. I haven’t played this in a while.
Re: Let's Play (2021) @Luca They should've just let them fly, not sit like afraid ducks on the ground I didn't even understand it when I was a child. Maybe I'll hack it further to make them explode when they hit the ceiling or the fireballs! Fireworks ahead!
Re: Let's Play (2021) This weekend we play the role of Robin of Loxley in Solar Software's "Robin to the Rescue"! Our task is to save Marian.. um. several times
Re: Let's Play (2021) Please remember me the rules, 'coz last week I entered a score and did leave a text here, but hasn't been enough to be included So, I probably did a mistake in the requested chain of events.
EDIT: oook, I spent my hour playing Robin To The Rescue and updated my previous score too.
EDIT 2: case solved, it seems I didn't correctly change the score's date though announced here, foiling my entry :) On to the next, then!
Re: Let's Play (2021) I concur, MMS, it is a frustrating game. How does scoring work in it? HI seems to be uninitialised at the start and somehow coming from the BONUS countdown. So if it is higher than the first level bonus it probably will not change until you either reach level 2 or have SCORE higher than that. If it is initially lower than the starting value of BONUS than it means when you were killed. The sooner killed the higher the HI. Yet, SCORE doesn't change. Must you be reaching level 2 to get any SCORE? Confusing.
Re: Let's Play (2021) Robin to Rescue, had a copy of it on tape, never tried to play it seriously. This time I did, what a difficult game. Bad sound, but good concept. Are there really only four screens in total? And even MIK did not manage the 4th screen? Although my score is low, I managed to get in the 3rd screen, to be killed soon by an arrow....
WTF: MIK, founder of Plus4world >>>> NOT ACTIVE, what a shame!!
Re: Let's Play (2021) gerliczer I read the weekly announce on several Facebook's groups (not on the Plus/4 World's group which I use as a mere showcase for this site), so don't worry, the game's title will be posted here too very soon Ready for a new challenge on a big classic?
Re: Let's Play (2021) Sorry guys I don't want to disappoint you Sooo, this weekend by Gaia's request we play another cool Shaun Southern game: Pacmania! Please join us by playing and submitting your high score!
Re: Let's Play (2021) I think it's a well done game as well. I played a couple of rounds but I can't beat my previous high-score though! If this applies to you, or you played but haven't submitted a score, just PM me (or add a comment here), so we can include you in the weekly total.
Hi! This week we're paddle in calmer waters with a classic Firebird game: Booty! So, please play with us, and don't forget to submit your best score to plus4world!
Re: Let's Play (2021) This weekend we play Timeslip! The game that everybody played and nobody understand Please, please submit your best score to Plus/4 World!
Re: Let's Play (2021) Again, you can see my try to complete the game. I'm surprised that I shot out all the clocks at first try after so many years, but still got beaten by that timeslip
Re: Let's Play (2021) Out of curiosity and being lazy, what is the difference between the difficulty levels in Timeslip? I may have done my attempt at expert level if I may believe what I see in my attached screenshot.
Re: Let's Play (2021) @gerliczer As far as I remember, on novice level you lose 15 minutes per death, on normal 30 minutes, on expert 45 minutes.
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If someone is interested, I added a no-teleporters cheat to Pacmania featuring here 2 weeks earlier! :) I must say it's so much more SEAMLESS this way! :)
Had a little trouble posting here due to a forum glitch last couple of days. Anyway, this is not even close to my best top leaderboard position score by far. I feel that there is an element of luck with the timeslip which often randomly adds on more time, which sometimes makes it impossible to beat.
Re: Let's Play (2021) This weekend we play Auto Zone by Players! Software. Please join us! There is a recent remake by Rajcsányi László to Gameboy Color --> https://lacoste42.itch.io/auto-zone
Re: Let's Play (2021) Nice video Verona! Harvey Headbanger is not a bad game either, but finally i dumped because in my opinion Let's Play is about group activity / submit your score to hall of fame and this game among with some other great ones is not fullfill this purpose...
Re: Let's Play (2021) Is Let's play taking a few days off? Or people without fb presence aren't people at all? Don't they deserve some information? Are we playing Torpedo Alley? I saw new scores for it by Luca and Plus4Punk.
Re: Let's Play (2021) Well... Ok, it's 1988, and the (Plus/4) world is in great need of knockout games. Here comes our hero, putting together some fluid animations and - TWO PADDLES! And it's all I can say about this game. The ball's bouncing is quite random. The graphics/sound are simple and functional, the level design is... minimal. Also, you'd think that when the "BONUS" is out, you'd get no bonus - but you die instead! At level 3, where every brick is a multi-hit one, and you can't aim precisely with the paddles, practically a timer runs out. My session lasted ten minutes, thinking about playing Arthur Noid instead.
Re: Let's Play (2021) Sadly i cannot do like your post RoePipi, but one day, we got a newer engine .. in my dreams.. so, basically i got the same feelings about the game :D
Re: Let's Play (2021) Chronos: You want some advice? :) #1: Get some GOOD games! Reflex, Booty... Bah. If I play some C16/Plus4 games, I want some fun, not rage. #2: Vajszínű fos? The C64 fans are on the way to you... :D
Re: Let's Play (2021) Csabo: The GOOD with the bad? Then, I will be with RoePipi, so next week, maybe let's play with Tutti Frutti. I like that game, too!
Arena 3000 while on the surface is a nice little Robotron clone... sadly it gets to a point where the difficulty becomes capped and the game loops at this setting. If your good enough to reach the difficulty cap your find your self playing the game forever. It's not that challenging to be honest with a little more practice. You would be better off playing Tazz for high scores. Btw Arena 3000 also support 2 joysticks, one for movement the 2nd for fire.
Tutti Frutti I find the game glitches on the moveable pink block stage to the point the level can not be completed. If I remember correct the blocks stop killing the bad guys. The game is normally ok for a few plays but after a while this glitch comes into action. If you ever do play this one keep an eye out for it.
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