Jolt Country

5190 on 5/14/2006.

Where is it.

Is it a DOOR?

OK, lemme send it to you. It's not a door. I am MAMEing it. And I am better at it than you.

That's so cute.

Okay, Ben got to 10,410 with four guys left when he quit. I have some work to do.

I just don't understand why you pick arguably the one thing that I am best at in life to challenge me on.

There's so much I suck at to choose from.

http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/m32-061.zip if anyone wants the emulator.

http://www.joltcountry.com/downloads/asteroid.zip for the game we're playing.

pinback wrote:There's so much I suck at to choose from.

Of course, he's already beaten you at finding love and happiness in his life.

Knock it off, Dayna.

pinback wrote:Knock it off, Dayna.

I'm a naggy bitch; I wouldn't have written that :)

Update: I have not been able to beat my own high score of 5,000!

I need to see how you are playing it. Are you doing something wrong? Even small children and Canadians can get past 10,000.

Do you thrust, or just sit-n-spin?

What's going on over there?

I want an answer to this. These were not rhetorical questions.

I demand an answer.



I DEMAND IT!

Whoops, didn't see this.

pinback wrote:I need to see how you are playing it. Are you doing something wrong? Even small children and Canadians can get past 10,000.

Do you thrust, or just sit-n-spin?

What's going on over there?

No, no... I am thrusting. Believe me, buddy. Thrusting.

I think I am getting hung up on the alien ships. They are killing me 90% of the time. But they're just so fucking smug. I really want to blast the shit out of those aliens. Have I told you how serious I am about killing them? Because it's sort of a running theme with me.

Oh, I am also playing with a gamepad.

Don't play with a gamepad.

Play with the keyboard. Z and X for left and right, comma (,) for thrust, period (.) for fire.

(Space for hyperspace, but if you're using hyperspace, well... you know... best of luck.)

Leave the alien ships alone until you've learned to handle the inanimate objects. (And by "leave them alone", I do not mean "ignore them". I mean, "actively move over to the other side of the screen unless you've got a clear shot and have learned how to aim.")

Do these things that I said, and you will be getting a free guy any time now.

6,130.

My problem is that I cannot hit the last two asteroids, which are always tiny, reliably.

So the small alien ship makes an appearance and does not get smacked by an asteroid.

So then it kills me.

Your point about avoiding them is well taken.

My keyboard encoder should be coming tomorrow. Dare I arrange buttons, of which I have a total of 9, into an Asteroids pattern? For Asteroids?!?! (Onto a block of wood, with a joystick and spinner, I mean.)

Shit, I need a close-up of an Asteroids cab.

OK. Rotate left is on the left. Rotate right is to the right of it.

Hyperspace is in the middle.

On the right side of the panel is Thrust and then Fire.

Maybe I should break up a USB gamepad if I am only making something with five buttons.

An important thing to realize about the alien ships is that, like you, their shots travel a limited distance, and unlike you, they do not realize that the screen wraps around.

That is all I will say about that for now.

pinback wrote:An important thing to realize about the alien ships is that, like you, their shots travel a limited distance, and unlike you, they do not realize that the screen wraps around.

That is all I will say about that for now.

You're telling me I should avoid them until I am better? Or that I should get better by not avoiding them?

I just want to say that the bullet paths are much more predictable in Mine Storm.

I am saying both of those things. Part of getting better is learning how to avoid the spaceships, particularly the small one. Once you improve at that, you will have some time to improve your shooting of them. Once you improve your shooting of them, you can start avoiding them less.

But you can never completely stop avoiding them, if you want to roll that bitch over.