STOT #5/2023 - Action Fighter

[ThorN]

Game: Action Fighter
Mode: Use the version with 10 lives at the beginning!. Press fire to start
Duration September 2023
Rules: Score and post a picture of your score in this thread
Advises: Cool players don't use save states

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þorN's Ranking Service:
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Final scores

1. þorN 88'050 (10 Lifes) 25'700 (3 Lifes)
2. RiverPirate 55630 (10 Lifes) 22'850 (3 Lifes)
2. SSB 18'050 (3 Lifes)
3. MetalSnake 17'250 (3 Lifes)


Tips & Tricks:
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Ride in moderate speed to avoid bumbing into vehicles suddenly appearing from the top. But be fast enough, to see vehicles from the bottom early enough.
Get A,B,C,D items as soon as possible since then the bike turns into a car and is better protected. Stay in the middle.

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More infos & tips on Atarimania.com
Somebody scored 22.500 on the Amiga (Emulated) at Highscore.com

[ThorN]

6350 my first score

[ThorN]

I reached the Fly part of the first level. Still saw now sub marines, but at least ships.

14250

[MetalSnake]

took me a lot of tries but finally reached the water, but there I barely got any points anymore. Do I need to do something different when flying over water?

My score so far 17250

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Also why do I have a much bigger blue border?

[ThorN]

took me a lot of tries but finally reached the water, but there I barely got any points anymore. Do I need to do something different when flying over water?

Same situation here. Where are the submarines.

The big blue border is controlled in the Hatari settings Atari Screen & Hatari Screen.

[ThorN]

I found out, that there are different version of the game in known libraries (for example Marcers). In one version there are 10 lives at the beginning. Even I'm do not like cheating or making ST games easier then the intention was back in the day, in this case it's still not easy but makes much more fun to have 10 lives.

[simonsunnyboy]

When In doubt, try a PASTI image from AtariMania.

I still need to play this game in the next week.

[ThorN]

36250
very close to the end of level 1: one submarine already destroyed, but failed on the remaining 2.
key to get that far was a zero lives lost bike round.

[ThorN]

I now got it to Level 2!

88050

[simonsunnyboy]

No way to get near that kind of score. It took me some patience to get to the car and flying part at all. On the other hand I think, before I never managed to leave the bike stage behind me....

18050

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I am using the Firebird UK PASTI from Atarimania btw, 3 lives.

[RiverPirate]

22850

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[ThorN]

For the competition with the ones who play the 3 player version that does not work with the gotek on my real hardware, I played it on the emulator and reached 25700 points

[RiverPirate]

55630 (10 lives version)

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[ThorN]

Great score RiverPirate!

Thanks to all participants, and thanks to SSB for puting the game on the wishlist. I did not know it before, and I made to level 2 because of the STOT and I enjoyed it and it expanded my Atari Games horizon. What else to exprect. So far my most prefered Spy Hunter like ST game was Major Motion because it was the very first game I played when I got my 520STFM back in the eighties. Action Fighter adds some more gameplay to the plot, so It's now the Spy Hunter clone number one.