Golden Era Game of the Week 5/1/04: Crazy Climber

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:17 pm

Golden Era Game of the Week

See introduction here

The Game: Crazy Climber

romname: cclimber

Reward: $50 (usd)

Deadline for submission to MARP: May 7, 2004 2359 hours GMT

Further Bounty: $250 (usd) for exceeding 482,650 points by August 1, 2004

Comments: The beauty of this game, like Joust's, lies in it's uniqueness. It was like nothing that had come before, nor was it followed by many similar games. In MAME I have discovered Rock Climber, very similar in gameplay, but a pretty crappy piece of work.

I think this was the first CRT video game I got really good at, though you may not be able to tell by my play this week. Farthest I ever got in the old days was dying on the 6th building. For MAME I use a Sony Playstation controller. Somebody coming up with a better system ought to let us know.

And I'll try again to coax someone to beat the 22 year old TG arcade machine record, 482,650 by William Lee.

Use WolfMAME .81

Again, gamefaqs has a good one:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/coinop/arcade/game/4041.html

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:05 pm

138k. Good score on start Weehawk

SJK · Post by **SJK** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:59 pm

me never been able to control well on this game..

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Sat May 01, 2004 9:24 am

Control this game = catastrophe

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Yeaaaaaah. I found excellent control method with keyboard

I will beat the world record in speed

SJK · Post by **SJK** » Thu May 06, 2004 2:54 pm

congrats Des? and nice to see inps not just at the end

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:43 pm

CLIMB FOOL!

Could Japanese supremacy on this game be threatened?

Looking good.

JoustGod · Post by **JoustGod** » Thu May 06, 2004 7:08 pm

Des, is there a reason that your inp is dated 5-6-2000? Excellent movement in avoiding falling girders. I see where you could have done much better tho'.

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Thu May 06, 2004 7:20 pm

JoustGod wrote:Des, is there a reason that your inp is dated 5-6-2000?

He lets his wife play with the date on his computer.

viewtopic.php?p=26457&highlight=#26457

Doesn't really matter here though. As long as it's recorded with the right MAME version I don't care about the date.

JoustGod · Post by **JoustGod** » Thu May 06, 2004 7:23 pm

Funny stuff, John. Hadn't seen that before.

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Fri May 07, 2004 6:32 am

Whaaaat? FUCK! Again! Date changed?! FUCK again. It is true. My wife play on my computer (on MAME) yesterday. I must kill wife

OK. Now about cclimber:
This is not hard game for me now. But I drink yesterday and today I probably don't beat 1st. But maybe...
I prepare megaFAQ for cclimber.

The TJT · Post by **The TJT** » Fri May 07, 2004 8:27 am

destructor wrote:Whaaaat? FUCK! Again! Date changed?! FUCK again. It is true. My wife play on my computer (on MAME) yesterday. I must kill wife

...Problem solved

dbh · Post by **dbh** » Fri May 07, 2004 5:34 pm

I never played this game back in the 80's and have only played a few times at Funspot. I was happy to reach the top of the second building today

OK. Now about cclimber:
This is not hard game for me now. But I drink yesterday and today I probably don't beat 1st. But maybe...
I prepare megaFAQ for cclimber.

I would definitely like to see an FAQ from you on this game!

I must kill wife

Wait...you have a wife who lets you play games on MAME for hours every day. And you want to kill her?? Do you realize how hard it is to find a wife who would let play games as much as you want?

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Fri May 07, 2004 5:43 pm

dbh wrote:I would definitely like to see an FAQ from you on this game!

1.1) How do I keep my wife from bothering me while I play?

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Fri May 07, 2004 7:47 pm

I prepare FAQ in Polish language. But I search (probalby I will find in HotTeam) person for translate to English.

The TJT · Post by **The TJT** » Fri May 07, 2004 8:11 pm

Weehawk wrote:
dbh wrote:I would definitely like to see an FAQ from you on this game!
1.1) How do I keep my wife from bothering me while I play?

And now something for the ladies. This odd-looking and almost laughable computer was released in 1965 by Honeywell under the official name H316 Pedestal Model, but was featured on the cover of a Nieman-Marcus catalog under its more commonly-known name, the "Kitchen Computer".

The Kitchen Computer is most likely where the classic recipe storage cliché originated, as this was the primary use advertised for the Kitchen Computer. In fact, storing recipes was about all the Kitchen Computer was capable of doing. The recipes were programmed into the computer and it would store them for you. In other words, it was an electronic recipe storage box, nothing more.

When one thinks of computer hardware, they often think of a monitor or a keyboard or a printer. Well, the Kitchen Computer has perhaps the oddest piece of "hardware" we have ever heard of -- a cutting board. Yes, a cutting board! This oddity was most likely added so the food could be prepared right there without having to walk away from the recipe display, considering the Kitchen Computer isn't as portable as a good old-fashioned cookbook (It weighed a staggering 150 pounds).

The Kitchen Computer was obviously geared towards housewives who loved to cook. However any housewives who wanted one of these had to shell out A LOT of green, considering the Kitchen Computer sold for $10,600 when it was first introduced (You could buy about four new cars for that much money in 1965!). This price tag included the built-in recipes, and also included a cookbook and an apron !!