Summer 2022 Arcade Contest: PENGO

[brain galacki]

Wow, ready for a lot of traffic on the forum again for: our
SUMMER 2022 ARCADE CONTEST: PENGO

All you people asking about the Family Video tees get ONE MORE SHOT! But there can only be TWELVE OF YOU!

(PENGO IS ON THE GALAGA MACHINE) WE HAD A SEPARATE THREAD GOING FOR IT AT ONE POINT IN THE *NON-PINBALL ARCADE GAMES* FORUM GROUPING

[dumbot]

7/21/22 (DAY #2) END OF THE DAY CONTEST UPDATE:

TOP SCORES:
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STAFF SCORES: 

[dumbot]

7/25/22 (DAY #2) END OF THE DAY CONTEST UPDATE:

TOP SCORES:
1. KYLE H - 11,020
2. JIM W - 10,460
3. LANNY D - 9,320
4. KOLTON R - 5,690
5. MITCH B - 5,040
6. SARAH D - 3,030
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STAFF SCORES:
BRIAN G - 14,130

[brain galacki]

Okay, EIGHT days into this contest and we have MORE T-SHIRTS than we do COMPETITORS, which is SAD TO SEE, as always, but that's fine.

Time to dive into some PENGO TRIPS AND TICKS!?

1. Okay let us start off by saying the way to play this game is to KILL the PENGUIN BALL GUYS (I think they are different colors on different levels?) by KICKING THE ICE BLOCKS ON THEM. Yeah, this is HARD.
2. The BIG WAY to RACK UP POINTS is by hitting those THREE BLOCKS WITH THE DIAMONDS ON THEM so that they are LINED UP IN A ROW. This will automatically give you a bunch of points depending on how fast you do it.

Here's a video of PENGO:

[bumpyoufor3]

Once I figured out how many points you got for lining up the diamond blocks that became my only goal. Got me a good enough score to get my initials in the leader board. This game is frustrating so I didn't try to go for 1st place, but I might be downtown on Saturday and if so I'll try for the top spot.

[bumpyoufor3]

Oh and a little tip, it's worth like twice as much points if you line up the diamond blocks but they ARE NOT touching the sides

[brain galacki]

Jul 28, 2022 11:36:52 GMT -6 bumpyoufor3 said:

Oh and a little tip, it's worth like twice as much points if you line up the diamond blocks but they ARE NOT touching the sides

I did not know this!!! I noticed that I had gotten 5,000 points for lining them up once and then 10,000 for another time and thought that it was because I did it in a faster time!!! This makes sense!

[brain galacki]

GoOOD MORNING FORUM!

PENGO POINTER OF THE DAY:

Just found out that you can really rack up the points by killing more than one "SNO-BEE" with one ice block!
(yes, I guess the bad guys in this game are called "sno-bees")

"The point award for crushing Sno-Bees depends on the number crushed in one push of an ice block:

400 for 1 Sno-Bee
1,600 for 2 Sno-Bees
3,200 for 3 Sno-Bees
6,400 for 4 Sno-Bees"

Also I found out there are 16 levels in this game. (After you complete all 16, it resets and goes back to Level 1)

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7/30/22 (DAY #10) MIDDLE OF THE DAY CONTEST UPDATE:

TOP SCORES:
1. NICK - 19,940
2. KYLE H - 11,020
3. JIM W - 10,460
4. LANNY D - 9,320
5. KOLTON R - 5,690
6. MITCH B - 5,040
7. SARAH D - 3,030
8. MIKE N - 1,200
9. ZELDA - 490
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STAFF SCORES:
BRIAN G - 14,130
JEFF B - 6,960

[brain galacki]

What's the highest score EVER on PENGO you might be wondering?

According to Twin Galaxies, Rodney Day of Canberra, Australia has held the world record Pengo score of 1,110,370 points since August 13, 1983. Day's performance has been commemorated by both the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records and Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition.

okay I am seeing elsewhere though that a high score of 1,306,410 - Paul Hornitzky
and elsewhere that Pengo Unofficial World Record 1,905,430 - 17 August 2015

[dumbot]

Here is an overdo update to our ongoing PENGO ARCADE CONTEST. We have a full list of top 12 competitors right now:
1. NICK - 33,200
2. JOE C - 18,500
3. KYLE H - 17,300
4. MEGAN - 11,420
5. JIM W - 10,460
6. HENRY N - 9,630
7. LANNY D - 9,320
8. MIKE N - 9,040
9. DUNCAN H - 8,160
10. CHRIS O - 8,000
11. KOLTON R - 5,690
12. MITCH B - 5,040
Staff Scores:
Brian - 14,130
Jeff - 6,969

This contest is ongoing until the 20th, so SATURDAY is the last day to enter! Anyone is welcome to enter and submit your highest scores for Pengo! ALL 12 of the highest scores will receive a FREE exclusive one of a kind Dumb Records t-shirt!

[newhousebailey]

I need to swing by to check the final leaderboard to see if the family and I won any shirts. I thought Pengo was a lot of fun, but very difficult.

[jeffradon2000]

I wish I had pengo'd more than I did, I definitely could have put up a better score. Just too busy sorting through moldy vhs tapes and fixing machines