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Hustle
Console icon Arcade

Game icon

Developer

Gremlin

Publisher

Gremlin

Genre

Arcade

Released

May 1977

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Achievements

Author: Hexadigital (6)

There are 6 achievements worth 25 (29) points.

This set has 1 missable achievement.

Sort: Normal ^ - Won By - Points - Title - Type 

  • Finish a single-player game with at least 2000 points!

    174 (153) of 176 – 98.86%

    86.93% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    98.86% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Finish a single-player game with at least 5000 points!

    174 (153) of 176 – 98.86%

    86.93% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    98.86% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Finish a single-player game with at least 10000 points!

    171 (150) of 176 – 97.16%

    85.23% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    97.16% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Score 10000 points without a penalty in a single-player game!

    174 (152) of 176 – 98.86%

    86.36% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    98.86% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Finish a single-player game with at least 15000 points!

    150 (132) of 176 – 85.23%

    75.00% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    85.23% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Finish a single-player game with at least 19000 points!

    87 (70) of 176 – 49.43%

    39.77% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    49.43% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

Recent Players

teenretrogamer teenretrogamer

19 Jan 2025, 2:32pm

Preparing to hustle...

raph391976 raph391976

18 Jan 2025, 6:27pm

Playing single-player • Score: 5500 • Penalty: 0 • Time: 37

Eugeania Eugeania

18 Jan 2025, 6:18pm

⚠️ Playing Hustle
Sutarion Sutarion

18 Jan 2025, 3:57am

Playing single-player • Score: 18600 • Penalty: 0 • Time: 1

MrPepe13579 MrPepe13579

17 Jan 2025, 10:05pm

Playing single-player • Score: 1700 • Penalty: 0 • Time: 83

VGLongplays2 VGLongplays2

15 Jan 2025, 3:59pm

Playing Hustle

LukeDude200 LukeDude200

14 Jan 2025, 4:40am

Playing single-player • Score: 14800 • Penalty: 0 • Time: 31

cannonwillow cannonwillow

12 Jan 2025, 3:40pm

Playing single-player • Score: 0 • Penalty: 0 • Time: 6

GoodRom GoodRom

10 Jan 2025, 5:10pm

Playing Hustle

Jinxter Jinxter

09 Jan 2025, 6:35pm

Preparing to hustle...

Comments:
RevJohn 31 Aug 2024 02:59
For anyone not aware of it, you know that deeper sound you sometimes get on the ??? blocks... That is the sound of your score going DOWN. Beware!
PasokonDeacon 31 Aug 2024 05:31
Mastered. Getting 19000 is basically an RNGfest, but I didn't have too hard a time so long as I focused on rolling for the highest early box combos.
ivanretroachieve 31 Aug 2024 19:52
yea 19000 is just luck. Take every ??? block and pray it's not a Minus Block
Jungon 2 Sep 2024 07:31
Mastered this RNG hell, bad game with really good controls, .... isn't this a Snake type of game? Or it's exactly what Judy Hopps would say it is
tuffghost 4 Sep 2024 08:04
not even close to good enough RNG after an hour(!!) of playing this garbage. if you're contemplating this one for an easy mastery, here's my advice: do literally anything else instead. you don't have to be this way. you're more valuable than this
AybabtuJPF 9 Sep 2024 21:04
Mastered ! It took way too long due to bad RNG and stress of wasting good runs. With just a few changes this game could have been pretty fun, but as it is it is just very frustrating
Yauriki 20 Sep 2024 14:07
As others mentioned it's really just a matter of RNG, and how much time you want to waste into it to get the good bricks with lotta points... Unless I'm missing something (I spent 2 hours trying). The game idea isn't bad but way too much relying on random to win
IzaNamiZX 26 Sep 2024 19:14
Mastered! The RNG is BEYOND frustrating. There's not nearly as much skill involved as there is luck, but I'll do my best to help out with some things I noticed:

-Stay near the center of the field; this minimizes the time you'll need to spend to run over and grab a box. At the center of the field, they would all be roughly equal in terms of how far away they are from you
-A maximum of only 2 boxes can appear on the field at once. This means that even if the box is only worth 100-200 points, it's still worth picking up because it frees up that "slot" for a box that's worth more points to spawn
-The manner in which you reset the game seems to have a different effect on the RNG...
--If you reset the game via emulator (i.e. pressing H in RetroArch), it seems to keep the RNG "seed" mostly intact... certain inputs from you will cause certain boxes to appear more consistently, at least for the first 30 seconds or so
--If you reset the game by inserting a coin, it appears to reroll the RNG "seed" and change box spawn patterns much more drastically
-If you can get about 9,000 points by 45 seconds, you have a much higher chance of hitting 19k by the end, and it may be best to avoid the ??? blocks in this case because they are unnecessarily risky
-If you're getting frustrated, it may be best to walk away and come back a few hours or even the next day. I found that I got much closer in my first few attempts in a day, and tended to score worse the longer I tried in that same day

Best of luck!
MrArchives 1 Oct 2024 06:16
Okay, we only just beaten it in about an hour and 20 minutes on stream today aaaaand... I like the concept! It also wasn't the hardest game to beat. Only 6 achievements, and 5 of
them just require you to get 15000 score, which if you're good at adapting into game concepts and rules, you can get to that score within 15 minutes.

It's just this last one where the Retro Achievements is stretching you with you're abilities, as getting 19000 score seems to be very reliant on RNG. I originally posted about me thinking there could be some consistency in the spawns based off your movement, but I recently debunked it. it's sadly not as consistent as I thought. That said, this is veeeery RNG based. Careful how much of your time you end up spending on this game.
MrArchives 1 Oct 2024 16:04
Mastered it today! Okay... it's not as consistent as I originally thought. It does somehow seem to follow some kind of seed system where a pool of seeds gets rouletted from, but essentially this makes it too random to reliantly memorize it. With that said one thing you DO want to do is NOT reset after each failure, as that remains you in the same pool of seeds, ultimately looping you in a purgatory of failed attempts. Once you learn that, you can actually get a score over 19K within 7 attempts if you just play without too many flaws. Even not have that many negative ??? blocks. It wasn't unfun, but I'm still glad we mastered this game so we can move on!
Shagasek 15 Oct 2024 15:53
Mastery #15 YouTube video https://youtu.be/ZltUzPMdLAw
JustANormalGamer 21 Oct 2024 09:28
Mastered! =)
Pretty easy set, just need a little luck with the spawn.
eltodoa100 24 Oct 2024 08:45
I've been trying for 3 days the 19k and I can't with the RNG. Curious game and nice set, but that last cheevo made this miserable
marmara12 5 Nov 2024 19:43
M#7, the chronology continues! (I have learned the difference between Mastery and Completion.)

Wow, I didn't know loot boxes existed all the way back in 1977! There seems to be a mix on if the amount of RNG required to get 19k is fine or too much, and personally I think it's the latter, given it took me about 4 hours when getting 15k was about 12 minutes. I did like the game though, perhaps more than Snake, and may get around to casually trying to get scores, but I think the achievement did kind of sour me on it overall.

My general guide for getting through is to reset until you start with about 2k points after the first 10 seconds, and try to at least get 9k by the time you reach 45 seconds, mixing PasokonDeacon's advice with IzaNamiZX's. Don't know what they're saying with avoiding the ??? blocks though, you kind of need them unless you reach about 15k with a good few seconds left.

Overall, I'd recommend getting the 15k achievement and not seriously trying to go for the 19k, but if you have some free time to try and don't mind RNG, feel free to aim for Mastery.
VenHur 9 Nov 2024 05:16
Mastered.
MushyPlaysStuff 26 Nov 2024 06:45
Mastery 6. This game is REALLY luck based. good luck for whoever attempts this set!
CrazyHandedMole 25 Dec 2024 10:26
Mastery #6
This game has some RNG, but it is pretty tolerable imo. There are far worse RNG games... It was a fun experience.
HeroMaster 7 Jan 2025 00:25
Mastery #34
A bit of a pain to get the 19k cheevo. You're at the mercy of the RNG for it. Pretty much followed the advice of everyone here. Really need to be over 9k by the 45 second mark to have any chance of getting the 19k, although the game has a tendency to screw you over in the back half.

I found avoiding the ??? squares to be best, as more often than not they're negative scores. I go for them early on as it's a quick reset if it's a negative (I use the game's reset, not RetroArch's reset, which I have mapped to Select on my PS4 controller.)