NEW ZOO KEEPER PLAY help!

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Ever since I've installed my JROK ZooQ board in my Elevator Action I've been playing it like nuts, 1hr or more per night, straight threw, every night. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, and I can't remember what my dreams was about, but it had to do with zoo keeper.

At twin Galaxy settings the best I can do is around 879,000.

I'm stuck at the second wave of lions, after 3rd-4th bonus wave.

Ive watched so many YouTube videos before bed of game play, but non of the videos explain strategy.

I'm discovering how to guide the animals by leaving open areas, and trying my best to get that, down. I'm almost to the point of counting the amount of bricks you can jump on any given level.

But that changes based on the speed of the level.

Am I correct that the speeds ramp up and down depending on level, because I know after the 4 leaf clover level is the watermelons. I know where there going to pop up and when. But I can tell that zeek is way faster moving on that level.

Also, if you don't blast up to the top fast, on the bonus round of dodge the coconuts, the more coconuts on the screen seems to bog down the CPU!! It makes it so that that the jump button almost doesn't even work lol.

So tell me what you know, tell me the hints, feel free to make a video of your play and post it, for gods sake, somebody please help me.

I'm at the point where I'm going to be eternally in love with this game or I'm gonna take the board out and Snapit across my knee.

I was set up for the big time just now, and then blew all, all at once, and came so close to punching the shit out of the marquee, when I realized, dude, take it easy... Relax... It's just a game and it's spose to be fun, but I've been playing my fingers raw some nights....

We always talk about fixing games, buying games, selling parts...

Let's talk about game play... Somebody please help me? It's ether that, or I have to hang it up.. I'm stuck in a rut and I can't get threw it...

The first 2 waves and bonus rounds piece of cake, I'm even hitting 250,000, some times 500,000 point jumps, but after the first wave of lions, I blow it big time!
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If you can wait a month Kalan and or my employee will teach you at Grinkfest.
 
I kinda watched kalan make it look easy... I need instruction. I don't remember a zoo keeper at grinkers, is there ?
 
What aspect of the game is giving you the most trouble currently?

Animals always exit the cage away from you (ie: toward the way you are facing) so use that to try and get them all going the same direction when you leave the top or bottom hole. They behave the same way on the other x-axis as well so if you are above the exiting animal(s) they also exit the cage the same way.
 
Zoo Keeper is one of my favorite games of all time. Mine has been down for almost a year now I think (these PCBs are a nightmare), but I finally bit the bullet and bought the AS shit to hopefully get it back up and running. I can't wait.
 
What aspect of the game is giving you the most trouble currently?

Animals always exit the cage away from you (ie: toward the way you are facing) so use that to try and get them all going the same direction when you leave the top or bottom hole. They behave the same way on the other x-axis as well so if you are above the exiting animal(s) they also exit the cage the same way.

This, easier to work when they are running the same direction.
 
This, easier to work when they are running the same direction.



I figured that out as much after 2 months of solid everyday play, looking at your video there I became clear I'm missing a few opportunities for points on the slower early levels and I also notice that when you take you big point jumps, a lot of times your holding the net, which is a safety incase you don't make it. If you don't make it, instead of dying, you get what ever points for the animals you did clear, and then put back in the cage what ever animal you landed on.
 
Zoo Keeper is one of my favorite games of all time. Mine has been down for almost a year now I think (these PCBs are a nightmare), but I finally bit the bullet and bought the AS shit to hopefully get it back up and running. I can't wait.



I'm very happy with that set up.
 
Zoo Keeper is one of my favorite games of all time. Mine has been down for almost a year now I think (these PCBs are a nightmare), but I finally bit the bullet and bought the AS shit to hopefully get it back up and running. I can't wait.

You haven't sent me your board yet... :)
 
Oh the perfect timing of this thread! I was playing ZooKeeper for an hour or so last night after deciding I needed to get good at it. I played it a bunch as a kid in the 80s but have neglected it on MAME (my only option thus far to play it). I'll be studying the vid but I have been blown away by what I've seen some people pull off in that game! Such a seriously fun game...
 
The biggest piece of advice I can give is don't loose your lives early on trying to stretch out 15k, 30k even 60k jumps. Also, I don't find it very effective to point press on the coconut levels. Again, it's not worth loosing a life for such small amounts of points. Once you get to levels 7, 8, 9 or further, if you can control the animals all moving in the same direction you will get some massive point amounts due to nets at the beginning of the levels as well as the amount of animals on the screen bunching up.

Anyways, that's just my advice. I find that if I'm too risky on the lower levels I'll end up loosing a life or two, and make it to the more difficult levels with only one life to spare. In those types of games where I'm too risky I'll usually end up with a game around 1 million, and if I play it safe and then go for the big jumps later on I usually wind up getting 2 or 3 million games. But by no means am I a master of this game compared to the scores most other people can get. It's a mental game though because it's tough to not want to go for the big jumps when you see them forming.

Also, you can make it from corner to corner vertically on a jump. I'm not positive about the earlier levels because of the slower speed, as mentioned in other posts, but it's not really necessary in the early levels as they're so easy. I tend to spend most of the game in the bottom corners.
 
I sucked big time tonight! Then my neighbor came over and distracted me, but maybe I needed that...

Something I noticed about kalans bonus level play on the animal jumps you always stop I the crack of the bricks, and face away from the animals and then jump as close as possible to there approach? Care to talk about your strategy, are you doing it on purpose or is it just instinct because true players do things they don't even realize there doing, but if this is your style and your doing it for a reason I'm interested in know why? I do know you have some balls on the 3 level bonus round there at the end lol
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Your always standing on
The crack there looking away..,
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And this is just scary to me...
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Zoo Keeper is the best Taito ever. I still haven't got up to at least a million points yet. I need to practice/play a lot more lol.
 
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