Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999

 Hello Jezz-Guys,

I bought some diskettes one day, and there was a 'bonus disk' with some Microsoft games including JezzBall, I played some on my computer a little.

A few months ago I went to a new computer project in my work, and I needed some kind of 'distraction' while some computer processes were running, so I take this 'bonus disk' and copy JezzBall to the computer. A guy that also used the same computer found the game and started to play, soon we were in some kind of competition.

Both of us were JezzBall amateurs, but we were committed to beat each other; I practice a little and I beat him, but when he told me to visit www.jezzball.com, I saw the top 20 records, and I was surprised with the huge records I found there. I read some tips from the webpage and practice more and more, reaching 4 million games.

The last year I visited the doctor, and she said to me that it's necessary a nose surgery, so this year I took advantage of holidays and got the nose surgery. In the following days I couldn't use the computer but as soon as I could use it, I started to play some JezzBall.

It was 1 week of intensive playing, I started in the morning and pause the game late in the night. After finishing some times level 49, I started to capture all the screens using a special commercial-software to capture only a screen region (snag-it) and I now I have the last 104 pictures of my game. First I thought I could stand for a place in the top 45 list, but I played harder and harder to find a place in the top 20 list, so I wrote down all the records in a piece of paper, and started to put a line over each record I have reached.

My highest bonus point were 637,328 with 43 lives remaining in level 49. I wanted to get the perfect game but I couldn't, so now I have my own record: 50,257,913

To new Jezz-friends: patience is the key!

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