-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ü Üß Ü ßÜ Ü ÜÛßßßßßßÛÜÜÜÜ þ Û ÛÝßßÜ ÛÛÝ Üß þÛßÛþ ßÜ ÞÛÛ ÜßßÞÛ Û þ ÜÜÜÜÛßßßßßßÛÜ ÛÝÜÜ þß ßßßÜ ÞÛß ßÜÛÛÜ Ü ÛÜ ÜÜþÜÜ ÜÛ Ü ÜÛÛÜß ßÛÝ Üßßß ßþ ÜÜÞÛ ÞÛÛÛÛ ÜÛÛÜÛÛÛÜÛÜÛÛ ÛßÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÛÛßÜÛÜßÛÛÜÛÛÛÛÛÛßÛ ÛÛÜÛÜÛÛÛÜÛÛÜ ÛÛÛÛÝ ßÛÛß ÛÛßß ßßßßÛÜÜÜÜßßß ßßß ÞÛÝ ßßß ßßßßÜÜÜÛßßßß ßßÛÛ ßÛÛß ß ÞßßßÛÛÛÛßßßß ßÛß ßßßßßÛÛÛÛßßÝ ß ÜÜÜ ÜÜÜ ÜÜÜßß Û Þ ßßÜÜÜ ÜÜßß ÜÜÜÛßß ßßÛÜÜ ßßÜÜ Üßß ÜÜÜÛßß ßßßÛÜ ßßÜÜ Üßß ÜÛÛßß ßßÛÜ ßßÜ Üß ÜÛßß ßÛÜ ßÜ ² ÜÛß ßÜ Û Þ Ûß Shufflepuck Cafe Û Û Ý ÞÛ ÞÝ Û Þ Û Þ Û Û ÛÜ Üß ÛÝ ßÜ ßÜ ÜÜÜÜßßßßÜÜ ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜ ÜÜßßßßÜÜÜ Üß ÜÛß ßÛ ßÜÜßßß ÜÜ ßÜ ÜÜßß ßßÜßß ßßÜÜ Üß ÜÜ ßßßÜÜß ÜÛ ÛÝ ÜÜÛÛßßßßßßßÜ ÛÜß ÜÜÜÛÛß ÛÛÛÜÜ ßßÜß ÜÛßßßßßßßÛÜÜ ÞÛß FAQ NES 1990 Version: 1.0 released on 21st August 2006 Author: odino This guide is EXCLUSIVELY available at GameFAQs. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TABLE OF CONTENTS ============================================================================== 01.) Introduction | G0100 | 02.) Overview & Controls | G0200 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 03.) Shuffleboard | G0300 | Opponents | G0310 | Passwords | G0320 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 04.) Review | G0400 | 05.) Credits & Thanks | G0500 | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ============================================================================== 01.) INTRODUCTION G0100 ============================================================================== Welcome to Shuffleboard Cafe for the NES, a shuffleboard arcade game by Domark released in 1990. If you spot any errors or have suggestions please feel free to e-mail me about it. Enjoy! ============================================================================== 02.) OVERVIEW & CONTROLS G0200 ============================================================================== Introduction from the game: (including typos) "You are the galaxy's most succesful Krypon-3 salesman. On the way to close the biggest sale of your life, your brand new Nash Sombrero has blown a capacitor in the reactor valve. You exit the gravway and coast down into the wrong side of town. Now all you need to do is find a phone and a repair sled will be on its way. The only signs of life seem to be coming from a shoddy strucutre three doors down and across the street. Opening the door you make your way down a flight of debris-covered stairs. Something loathsome scampers over your feet on its way to the activities below. A shout of recognition is heard as whatever it was enters the smoke-filled room. You stumble into the room and suddenly it's as silent as the depths of space. Several pairs of hostile eyes, and a few sets of three, challenge you to enter. The only thing that stands between you and the phone is eight galactic misfits, an obsolete droid and a few "friendly" games of shufflepuck. Relax. If you lose you'll earn their contempt. Win, and you'll their resentment." If you have never played shuffleboard AKA air hockey, here is a short description: The aim of the game is, like in the arcade game, to hit the puck past the opponent's paddle and smash the glass. The first player to get 15 points wins the game. The small squares on the board don't really mean anything, but note that you can only move your puck inside the lower fourth area, whereas the opponent can only move within the top fourth. Controls: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Move the cursor and paddle with the D-Pad. Hold down the B button to move faster. Each player takes turn at serving. You start out, however. Press ENTER while playing to get to the options. CONTINUE: Continue playing the current game. NEW GAME: Restart against this opponent. PADDLE CONTROL: Paddle Size: Between 13 and 100. The size of your paddle. Paddle Speed: Between 13 and 100. Speed of your paddle. On Friction: Between 13 and 100. On Reflection: Between 13 and 100. Off Friction: Between 13 and 100. Off Reflection: Between 13 and 80. Paddle Set Up: Return to the default values. BLOCKER CONTROL: Blocker Size: Between 13 and 100. Size of the blocker. Blocker Speed: Between 13 and 100. It only starts moving once it is hit once. On/Off: Set the blocker or not. NEW OPPONENT: Return to the bar screen. Playing against DC3 has an extra option: ROBOT CONTROLS: Paddle Size: Between 13 and 100, size of paddle. Friction: Between 13 and 100. Reflection: Between 13 and 100. Idle Speed: Resize the square to desired speed. Serve Speed: Resize the square to desired speed. Return Speed: Resize the square to desired speed. Block Speed: Resize the square to desired speed. ============================================================================== 03.) SHUFFLEBOARD G0300 ============================================================================== The main screen features all the opponents waiting to be tackled as well as the championship mode at the top right. Practice against opponents or go through them one by one from easiest to hardest in Championship mode. If you lose at any point of the tournament you get a passwords to restart from this opponent. Bar Screen: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ____________________________________________________________________________ | ________ | | DC3 |Champion|| | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ | | Biff Bejin | | Vinnie | | | | General | | Nerual | | | | Lexan Skip | | | | ________ | | / Visine \ | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Select an opponents to play against him, her or it, or choose "Champion" to start a tournament. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OPPONENTS G0310 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DC3: ¯¯¯ DC3 is a practice robot you can customized to be as easy or as difficult as the you wish. Therefore it does not appear in the tournament. Check the options in the previous section. Skip Feeney: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ It does not get any easier. He is perfect for getting used to the game's controls and try out some of the different settings. Requires no strategy as he never hits the puck back hard and often misses the easiest of returns. He does, however, have a rather large paddle yet moves it around at random. Once you get better you will hate him for wasting time on these low serves more than his skills at playing. Visine Orb: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ This little guy is crazy and just erratically moves his paddle around. He does have the most annoying sever behind Bejin though, as he hits from wall to wall all the way into your area. You can easily score against him by going around sides but be aware that if he does catch the puck by accident it will be returns extremely fast. Expect to score at nearly all of your serves. This is the last time you should be bouncing the puck off the side, as later opponents will make life harder for you with those unpredictable returns off the wall as well. Vinnie the Dweeb: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ This guy has an average paddle speed. His serve isn't a threat at all, but he will return nearly every one of your hits at the same speed. A good step up from the first two opponents and perhaps your first real game. Weak against cross shots, that is if you did not fall asleep from before his serve arrived at your side... Lexan Smythe-Worthington: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ A green-coloured alien with huge eyes, who is only about 1.5 metres tall. He is probably the most average player and even has a normal size paddle for that reason. Try to return the puck via the wall as straight shots will get super fast replies you may not be able to handle. He himself is not the greatest at responding to the shots into the corners, so a good hard shot across his face will smash his glass, don't bother with the walls. The General: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ He is an average player who will most likely give you long back and forth hits. Fun to play with, good for practicing against without having becoming frustrated. Overall he is not much better than Lexan, but supports a much better serve which if you stay in the middle you should still reach easily. His returns are mild, but once in a wile might surprise you with a smash down the line. His average paddle speed still makes for a good outmaneuver on the sides. The General is still surprisingly easy to beat. Nerual Ttoille: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Slow returns but positions his paddle very quickly. Gets frustrating but endurance pays off as he simply relies on your mistakes. Make none and he probably won't score, but it is much easier said than done. Nerual is probably the hardest opponent in the game, but not impossible to beat. As long as you keep your defense up he won't run away with points, but as you are required to take risks this won't always be possible. By now, however, you should be a good player and not bounce the puck off walls like a newbie. Aiming at those tight corners is a must to beat him. Even though it looks like he will always get there in time, he won't. Like I said, endurance is the key and this will be a long bout for sure. Princess Bejin: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Well known for her serves throughout the galaxy. She will raise her hand and teleport the puck to your side of the table, then smash it into one of the corners. Your best bet here is to just choose one side and stay there, hoping she will pick that one, too. Defeating her to-nil is extremely hard but other than her server she is just a very good player with a small paddle, nothing compared to Biff. One tactic that often works on your serve: serve straight up and keep returning the puck in a straight line. It will pick up speed soon and then it is your chance to angle that puck into a corner, it doesn't even have to be a superb shot at this speed. Fail, however, and she'll return it with hardly no chance for you to get there. By now you should have learned that bouncing the puck on the sides just makes it harder for you in return, so try to aim straight into corners. Biff Raunch: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Biff only has a tiny paddle, but he knows how to use it. His hits are the fastest in the entire game but fortunately that also means you can reflect them into his glass at ease if you manage to block them. Be vary of the awesome force that is his serve, this game is over quick either way, hopefully you have score 15 first. There is a slightly cheap and repetitive tactic I have used one him a lot: Serve right into the wall exactly half way at a moderate speed. The puck will go to the top left side the screen. He will smash the puck down this side. Position your paddle on the 3rd from the left which should return his smash straight into his glass on the right side. It works nearly all the time. You can also do this tactic in reverse of course, i.e. serve towards the left. If you have learned this skill then that should guarantee you fifteen points before he can reach it on his serve, not to mention some points you could have scored on those with any luck. The previous tactics are pretty much thrown out of the window. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PASSWORDS G0310 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Input the password on the Tournament screen to skip to the desired opponent. Of course for Skip you could just start a new game. /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~\ |Opponent|Password|____| |-----------------| |Skip | 442396 | |Visine | 198427 | |Vinnie | 613189 | |Lexan | 932743 | |General | 512994 | |Nerual | 284501 | |Bejin | 801632 | |Biff | 963208 | /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ | \______________\__/ ============================================================================== 04.) REVIEW G0400 ============================================================================== Gameplay: 6/10 Unfortunately the gameplay is made harsh by the slow moving puck. The fast mode requires holding down the button at all times, which is extremely annoying. Some enemies plain down cheat in their gaming style, obviously a feature rather than give you a challenge. In single games the player has many options to tweak the paddle and set up a blocker, making it easier to defeat opponents or even make it more challenging if desired. These options also enhance gameplay slightly as there are more ways to play the only eight players. The problem lies with the tournament mode which does not offer these options and the player is stuck with the default paddle and its slow speed. Graphics: 7/10 The story is a a little cheap but the game still feature nice characters. Each player has an introduction of their own, but the shuffleboard screen is always identical and the paddle could have had a few skins, as well as the opponents only have very few expressions. And how about more opponents? Eight is not nearly enough, they are not hard to draw and slapped together within minutes, even back in 1990. Seeing that we can tweak the bot to "create" new enemies, they could have done so as well, just with new graphics. Sound: 6/10 The introduction sound is not too great and the bar sound gets boring. During the games there is nothing but the puck sounds and it does get as boring as playing pong. Every character has an introduction with different music, so you cannot say they did not try to make the music fun. Smashing glass and screeching scoring makes it less fun, however. Overall: 6/10 It is a fun game and most players will want to try and beat the set of opponents, or get frustrated trying at some stage. It is very difficult, too difficult for many, and more game modes could have made this last longer as well. If you like the game you may want to try and find the PC DOS version with mouse support, much much better for controlling the paddle. ============================================================================== 05.) CREDITS & THANKS G0500 ============================================================================== GameFAQs for hosting this file. Domark and Pony Canyon Inc. for this game. ¯¯¯¯¯¯ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ This guide may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=