Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Game And Watch Gallery Game Lesson "Patience"

This is a fun game packet to play, but I've learned a very important lesson in those games. Yeah, you need to earn stars to unlock the games and cool features, but remember that you only get one star for every 200 points you score. However If you've already earned 3 stars, you get more stars when you score 800 points. The Max is 1,000 points and scoring ranges from 1-2 points for some basic things, and at the most 10-15 points as a bonus for finishing a level. And the level in most of the games like "Rainshower" end when you score 100 points 1 point at at time. So you need patience when playing the classic games as it could take 10-15 minutes or more to score hundreds of points.
The only thing helpful is the "SuperScoring Mode." If you manage to score 300 points in some games or 200 points in other games without missing once, your score will flash temporaily and scoring is doubled. It took me awhile, but I managed to get 150 stars and I have unlocked a new game in the gallery of "Boat Rescue" All it is is that the people are jumping off the boat and you controll a guy who pulls the boat to shore. Just make sure you catch the falling people in the boat and then safely get them to shore. The boat only holds up to 4 people, after that the boat is crowded and the next person you rescue in the boat falls out and is gobbled up by the shark. It's a fun game to play, and to make it more challenging, it's a two screen game and watch game. So in game A, you have one rescue boat for two sides, and game B, you have two boats, one on each end to rescue the falling people.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Classic Arcade Games Venture

I remember this game well, as we had it for Colecovision. I also remember the arcade version, but didn't play it as it wasn't seen much in the arcades. Vaguely, I saw the game in the back row of arcade games at the old indoor flea market in Smithtown ny. The only problem with this machines was that the joystick controller couldn't go right. Then there was the arcade in one of the ferry boats in Port Jefferson Village, as afterwards it was placed into a nearby restaurant next to the ferry dock.
Overall, I must say that the home version for Colecovision was very easy for me to beat the game, as it was repetitive. But the arcade version was more challenging. One time, I did encounter the game again in a stationary store in Centereach N.Y. It was the simplicity of the game's concept that made it fun and memorable, but those deadly hallmonsters still haunt my memory to this day. If you spent more than 10 seconds in a room, a large hallmonster will materialzie and enter and make a strait beedive for you, and he was indestructable. I do miss playing this game, however I did have one other opportunity to play this game, but I had mixed feelings afterwards. Basically, it was from a multi-game cabinet called Gammer-Tek 2K that I saw in a basement video arcade called fun city. Although I was amazed at the ability to play it, the downside is that the game was emulated with Mame. I just found out in 2006 I think that a software company called "Mean Hamster" had purchased the legal rights to all the games made by Exidy. So since Venture was made by Exidy, I will soon be able to play this game again.
Other times I found re-makes of this game, like Venture 2 from My Yosemetie Sam.com. It's a graphic update to the game with more levels, rooms, and monsters to defeat. The plus side is that when the large hallmonster enters the room, you can shoot him down within a few arrow shots. But he reenters seconds later and many large hallmosters come at your really fast. You can still shoot him, but good luck in surviving. It was memorable, but just a stupid knockoff as I heard the Colecovision music of the get ready player one screen. And a really stupid retro remake I found once was called Venture into adventure. this is dumb and stupid version of the game. I'll just wait for the game to be released by Mean Hamster Software.