How hard is this game? Scene 11 is so tough, I have patterns which work up to 11 but then it appears to be down to luck. The only way to do it is to stop once on the 3rd ladder, let one car go, stop on the 5th ladder and let one car go then move to the 7th. If we are lucky the next car will be early and we can let it pass before the horse hits us from the left. Then speed up to the next ladder (the one beneath the goal). If the timing of the cars is okay and we don't get hit from above then we should be able to gradually make it around to the goal. However it seems that this is only possible if we are lucky and the car timing is in our favour, which isn't very often. Has anyone else worked out a better strategy for this scene?

-- Dith (dith@europress.co.uk), July 12, 1999

Answers

Dith, I actually found a Mr. Do's Wild Ride Arcade machine this weekend, and watched someone get to Level 13. In talking with him, he said that game was almost impossible to score rather well on a regular basis, do to the fact of slight variations of the enemy movement in each life/level. Dith, the way you described is the way he did it, and he lost a life before getting the correct pattern of the cars. One difference, though, he went 6th, 8th, then 9th. For me personally, I'm still stucked at the lower ladder on Level 7, can't time the car correctly to avoid being hit by the low level ball....

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), July 12, 1999.

I think you know but Scene 12 is harder than 11 but both are very unpredictable because there is little space between cars. I proly shouldn't give you this hint:) (and maybe you already know this) is to not stop at all at the 1rst and 2nd ladders, you can just barely make it under the horse if you book directly too the 3rd ladder, you'll have to stop to wait for the second horse but you can save some time by doing this. The key to the 11th is getting the letters fast, since after a few cars come out they start coming with little space betwen them, but you can get out early enough to make use of the big begining spaces.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), July 13, 1999.