Dope Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Super Cobra: 26000 miles 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 5000 miles I seem to find that bit between 4000 and 5000 the trickiest. Had a few goes and managed to complete the first round - made it another 4000 so 14000 total 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrasteve Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Well, that was a lot of fun! Just spent a good hour on it. Twitch gaming at its finest in some of the later caverns! I managed to clear 7000 miles. Are we counting 500s if you make it to the colour-change break in each level? If so, I got to 7500! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) 2000 miles and 6950 at first attempt. Man, are these caves tight. I can't remember the first legs of Scramble to be that tight. Always missed Scramble on the Atari, so I have to play it on the 7800 now Air Strike I/II: very choppy scrolling, maybe character wise in Air Strike I, feels a bit better in II. Enemy animation not very smooth either and bombing requires coordinated trigger-UP movement resulting in jerky upward movement of own craft. Not a serious contender although it was reviewed to be an OK scramble clone according to Atarimania. 440pts on II. Edited February 22, 2017 by slx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Well, that was a lot of fun! Just spent a good hour on it. Twitch gaming at its finest in some of the later caverns! I managed to clear 7000 miles. Are we counting 500s if you make it to the colour-change break in each level? If so, I got to 7500! That's not a bad idea - for the first run only (<10,000 miles) players can post the 500s too 2000 miles and 6950 at first attempt. Man, are these caves tight. I can't remember the first legs of Scramble to be that tight. Always missed Scramble on the Atari, so I have to play it on the 7800 now Air Strike I/II: very choppy scrolling, maybe character wise in Air Strike I, feels a bit better in II. Enemy animation not very smooth either and bombing requires coordinated trigger-UP movement resulting in jerky upward movement of own craft. Not a serious contender although it was reviewed to be an OK scramble clone according to Atarimania. 440pts on II. Wonder why we never had Scramble itself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 First Tables (players under 10,000 miles can post +500 miles if they make the 2nd part of the level where the colour changes) Super Cobra (miles) 1st Dope 26,000 12pts 2nd Deteacher 15,000 11pts 3rd therealbountybob 14,000 10pts 4th Gury 9,000 9pts 5th McKong 8,000 8pts 6th ultrasteve 7,500 7pts 7th RedThunder 7,000 6pts 8th jfetzer 5,000 5pts 9th carlsson 3,000 4pts 10th slx 2,000 3pts 11th jblenkle 2,000 2pts Bonus Scouting Missions 1pt each player (see posts above for their comments on the games - based on these I've made an approximate score out of 10 to be used for the HSC Ratings & Records) deteacher - "Earth 2500" Score 1,690 6/10 RedThunder "Airstrike" Score 20 4/10 carlsson - "Copter Cave" 6/10 slx - "Airstrike II" Score 440 6/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) Super Cobra - 8,100 (3,000 miles cleared) Edited February 22, 2017 by jblenkle 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 18000 miles completed. 1 run through plus 7000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfetzer Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 (edited) I played bellum for my bonus game very good game.I found that there is v1,v2,v3 one and two are the same but v3 is very different and not as good in my opinion. Edited February 25, 2017 by jfetzer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 I played bellum for my bonus game very good game.I found that there is v1,v2,v3 one and two are the same but v3 is very different and not as good in my opinion.DSC_0385.JPG What are the differences? Very good game, one of the early efforts from the guy who created the impressive Electraglide Super Cobra 23000 Miles (80,550) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfetzer Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 What are the differences? Very good game, one of the early efforts from the guy who created the impressive Electraglide Super Cobra 23000 Miles (80,550) It's basically a different game entirely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 4000 miles cleared. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 It's basically a different game entirely. Ahh, I see on atarionline.pl the "h the Pirat" version has a different layout! I'll give it a play Bellum (1983)(APX)(US).atr Bellum (1983)(APX)(US)[cr The Shadow].atr Bellum (1983)(APX)(US).dcm Bellum (1983)(APX)(US)[h The Pirat].atr Reminder folks, the next HSC round will be Rally Speedway - details are here http://atariage.com/forums/topic/261815-john-andersons-rally-speedway-thoughts-for-a-hsc-round-offering/ Then we'll return to normal for the round 5 poll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I don't know how you guys are doing it, but after a lot of struggle and nearly 2.5 hours of playing, I managed to clear 4000 miles (and 11600 pts). Usually I'm a guy who tries to reduce the use of curse words and filthy language to an absolute minimum, but the number of times I've yelled F**K and C**T while playing Super Cobra far exceeds my normal usage... :-/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 I don't know how you guys are doing it, but after a lot of struggle and nearly 2.5 hours of playing, I managed to clear 4000 miles (and 11600 pts). Usually I'm a guy who tries to reduce the use of curse words and filthy language to an absolute minimum, but the number of times I've yelled F**K and C**T while playing Super Cobra far exceeds my normal usage... :-/ fork and cart? After about 50 goes you improve! Concentrate on the gun things, patience, positioning, good control of the stick - try another type if too loose, stay under the chickens is working for me! And above all keep firing! The 4000-5000 points long down tunnel is the hard bit: get full right and fire a couple over the mountain top, you can usually hit the bottom gun. The stages are all short and the same so keep trying guys 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 15,000 Miles 36,860 The mine are the hardest bit IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrasteve Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 (edited) Just managed to make it to 9000 miles! Edited February 26, 2017 by ultrasteve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 (edited) 31,000 Miles Keep dying on stupid moves. Frustratingly hard game. Collision detection not great. Expecting a bullet and get a bomb and crash into something :-( Edited February 28, 2017 by RedThunder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) Red Thunder takes the lead! I've been playing a lot but not improved. I also had a play on Bellum - lovely visuals and fairly good gameplay but much harder than I remembered (the gravity/controls) but saying that I think it does end so has to be tough. I think the v3 version may have stage 5 at the start [has a jet plane instead of bi-plane], will play it soon [looking at the DOS disk directory looks like v2 and v3 only have 4 stages so may be early versions]. Again the scoring is flawed in Bellum so play for level reached IF you do check it out - Select on the title screen shows various info. So far up to Stage 5 - read there are only 6 to do. The title screen says "Scenario 1" but I can't see that this can be changed? OK I think I hacked my copy of Bellum for extra lives so I'll image it and post it here in a minute or two... [here] Latest Tables (players under 10,000 miles can post +500 miles if you reach the 2nd part of the level where the colour changes) Super Cobra (miles) 1st RedThunder 31,000 12pts 2nd Dope 26,000 11pts 3rd therealbountybob 23,000 10pts 4th McKong 18,000 9pts 5th Deteacher 15,000 8pts 6th Gury 9,000 7pts 7th ultrasteve 9,000 6pts 8th jfetzer 5,000 5pts 9th carlsson 4,000 4pts 10th Sikor 4,000 3pts 11th jblenkle 3,000 2pts 12th skr 2,000 2pts Bonus Scouting Missions 1pt each player (see posts above for their comments on the games - based on these I've made an approximate score out of 10 to be used for the HSC Ratings & Records) deteacher - "Earth 2500" Score 1,690 6/10 RedThunder "Airstrike" Score 20 4/10 carlsson - "Copter Cave" 6/10 slx - "Airstrike II" Score 440 6/10 jfetzer - "Bellum" trbb "Bellum" Edited March 2, 2017 by therealbountybob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dope Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Super Cobra: 31000 As for bonus, Robix: 759 Pros: - Quite nice graphic - Could be a challenge Cons: - Longer you play, more boring it is - Respawns are REALLY annoying 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) Dont forget the....HSC Grand Prix Round First sketch of a poster :-) Edited March 1, 2017 by RedThunder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fres Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 6550 on Caverns of Mars II (first try ... I know it's not impressive). Can't remember what I scored on Super Cobra, but I will try to play it a few more times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Robix is cool, and completable. We played it a couple of years ago Super Cobra: 31000 As for bonus, Robix: 759 Pros: - Quite nice graphic - Could be a challenge Cons: - Longer you play, more boring it is - Respawns are REALLY annoying 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 Reminder this round closes in the morning: Sunday 10am UK time / 4pm EST and remember you can post +500 miles if you reach the 2nd part of the stage (colour change) for less than 10,000 miles. I've had a lot of goes but not improved, but I'm playing again now! RedThunder if you want to post the next round in the morning I'll pin it, looking forward to some racing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 The alternate shooting in this game always spoilt it for me, not my favourite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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