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Metalface Mark · 11 Jul 2025 at 13:33

51160 - was doing so well then lost 3 lives at the start of level 3.

Tealc · 11 Jul 2025 at 19:50

52,400. Managed to struggle to level 3 this time.

Metalface Mark · 12 Jul 2025 at 13:09

Improvement to 68110

Tealc · 12 Jul 2025 at 13:27

81,270. Level 4 but got hit by a wasp and lost my weapon and skateboard and that was it for that run.

Metalface Mark · 13 Jul 2025 at 15:58

111670 - onto round 2 for the first time!

Tealc · 13 Jul 2025 at 20:54

85,190. Died after killing the level 4 boss.

Metalface Mark · 14 Jul 2025 at 11:02

113110 - i keep dying at the same bit start of level 2 where you have to jump quickly up moving clouds but my momentum by the time ive slowed down drags me under.

Zatoichi.uK · 14 Jul 2025 at 11:10

That is a little tricky eh. The frogs can also be pretty annoying.

Metalface Mark · 14 Jul 2025 at 14:26

Zatoichi.uK said:
That is a little tricky eh. The frogs can also be pretty annoying.

The frogs you get used to - i wanna know how you deal with the guy that comes from the left while youre on the skateboard - i was on a great run last game and this guy takes it every time, can you time a jump as they come from behind?

Zatoichi.uK · 14 Jul 2025 at 14:44

Hmm I'm not sure. Can't you just hold left and jump late?

Tealc · 14 Jul 2025 at 21:16

107,980. Made it through the 1st boss this time and then picked up a shroom for a load of fruit in the next level.

In the end I died to a stupid frog and as there was no hatchet to grab when I respawned I just died again and again.

mcwildcard · 15 Jul 2025 at 12:39

Wow, some crazy muscle memory kicking in from when I played this as a kid!
60,070 on second attempt

Zatoichi.uK · 15 Jul 2025 at 12:59

262'390. got to 3-1.

Tealc · 15 Jul 2025 at 19:40

137,300.

Metalface Mark · 17 Jul 2025 at 09:42

171440 got to near end of 2-3 - the damn frogs that had given me no problem before you come across 2, one that jumps then the second one doesnt which is a head scrambler.

Zatoichi.uK · 17 Jul 2025 at 10:06

Metalface Mark said:
171440 got to near end of 2-3 - the damn frogs that had given me no problem before you come across 2, one that jumps then the second one doesnt which is a head scrambler.

Yeah pretty much the whole game is a memory test. Which frogs jump and which don't. Which platforms drop etc. I think it was level 2-4 that had the guys coming from the left but in pairs this time. Still a great game though.

Metalface Mark · 17 Jul 2025 at 10:10

i went down a bit of a rabbit hole on mister yesterday trying all of the wonderboy ports - I dont know if my commodore 64 rom was corrupted, spectrum one was hard to see with colour clash, the best version i could find was the CD32 version that got remade not that long ago, it was quite fun.

The gamegear/master system one was probably the most fun from the older versions outside the arcade one.

m4cc45 · 17 Jul 2025 at 12:01

247,990 at the moment - the jumps on 3/1 were a killer managed to get to the next level but didn't have any lives. Hoping to improve but it is evil!

M.

Metalface Mark · 17 Jul 2025 at 13:38

Youre kinda damned if you do and dont, you go slow on the jumps the platform might disappear - so you have to just kinda go for it the first time and try and remember .

m4cc45 · 17 Jul 2025 at 14:02

Yeah and some drop and some don't and the dolls sometimes appear under the drop so you're never entirely sure - memory is a big thing for this game. It's the furtherest I've ever got on one credit though on any format.

M.