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[JacobZu7zu7]

2600 Knockout Game 7:

+ 2600 HIGH SCORE CHALLENGE 2012

Our seventh HSC + Elimination round is Ataris racer POLE POSITION



SETTING: PASTEL FAMILY (DEFAULT GAME)

DIFFICULTY: N/A


DEADLINE TO PLAY: This round has now begun, it will run a week or until
Sunday, Feburary 19th 11:59PM EST (EASTERN TIME)
Play with Atari 2600 Console, or Emulation.
Any joystick or keyboard is fine!

Pics are encoraged here, however I WILL accept a no pic score.

Anyone can jump in and play for a High Score and Ranking, if they like...
Every score will be counted for the High Score Challenge also, even if you're not entered
in the Winter 2600 Knockout.

Everyone starts each game with a score of ZERO, one goal is to get above 0... or get a high score,
if you don't you will be eliminated and the lowest score earned of the active KO players, is safe!
A KING status will be awarded at the end of every round winner, as well as rankings and
points. First place gets +15 points! From there on, 1+ less...

For the K.O., you need not win, just not finish LAST! Let the battle begin...

THIS GAME IS ALSO OPEN FOR HIGH SCORE CLUB POINTS AND RANKING!
Red font indicates out of the knockout but playing for ranking and score.

Knockout players & High Score Challengers
15+ - 60,910 - Deteacher 1st
15+ - 60,910 - Gorfy 1st
15+ - 60,910 - toymailman 1st
14+ - 60,760 - cparsley 2nd
13+ - 60,710 - oyamafamily 3rd
13+ - 60,710 - JacobZu7zu7 3rd
12+ - 60,660 - Zoyx 4th
12+ - 60,660 - Scrabbler15 4th
11+ - 60,560 - Jifremok 5th
11+ - 60,560 - Fallout_002 5th
10+ - 60,510 - Cortat G 6th
09+ - 60,460 - Vocelli 7th
08+ - 60,110 - classicgamer_27330 8th
07+ - 60,060 - Mister VCS
07+ - 60,060 - LarcenTyler 9th
06+ - 60,010 - DT Kofoed 10th
05+ - 59,510 - roadrunner 11th
04+ - 38,190 - jblenke



Rankings after 6 rounds.

Rank/Points/Player
1 (86) toymailman
2 (79) oyamafamily
3 (76) Deteacher
4 (70) Gorfy
5 (67) Vocelli
6 (64) Cortat G
7 (63) Jifremok
8 (55) DT Kofoed
9 (54) Scrabbler15
10 (53) JacobZu7zu7
11 (43) classicgamer_27330
12 (42) Zoyx
13 (38) cparsley
14 (35) bigbee99
15 (33) roadrunner
16 (30) LarcenTyler
17 (28) Fallout_002
18 (17) Stan
19 (17) Metal Jesus
20 (15) pis
21 (7) jblenke
22 (5) HatNJ
23 (0) phaxda



Eliminated players
1st round: H.E.R.O. - phaxda
2nd round: Raft Rider - Metal Jesus
3rd round: Yars' Revenge - pis
4th round: Kool-Aid Man - HatNJ
5th round: River Raid - Stan
6th round: Rampage - bigbee99

King players
1st round: H.E.R.O - oyamafamily
2nd round: Raft Rider - oyamafamily/Deteacher/toymailman/Cortat G/DT Kofoed/Scrabbler15
3rd round: Yars' Revenge - Zoyx/oyamafamily/Gorfy/Cortat G/toymailman/DT Kofoed
4th round: Kool-Aid Man - toymailman
5th round: River Raid - Jifremok
6th round: Rampage - Jifremok/Cortat G/Gorfy/oyamafamily/DT Kofoed/Deteacher


Someone will be eliminated from K.O. every Monday at 12:00AM EST)
(Anyone without a score by the deadline, will be eliminated!)

Scrabbler has been chosen out of the hat to select Round 8.
He picked C-5 which is... Adventures of Tron phaxda's game.
"C-5" is X checked off the game list"

A - X/2/3/4/X
B - 1/2/3/X/5
C - 1/2/X/4/X
D - 1/2/3/X/5
E - 1/X/3/X/5

Game List: Games played on Default, unless a setting is selected by K.O. player.

Frogger (Diff. A)
H.E.R.O
Buck Rogers
Crazy Climber
Pressure Cooker
Moon Patrol
Rampage
Escape from the Mindmaster
Kaboom!
Enduro
Laser Gates
Seaquest
Astroblast
Reactor
Raft Rider
Kung-Fu Master
Adventures of Tron
Ms. Pacman
Kool-Aid Man
Pole Position
Yars Revenge (6B)
River Raid
Wild Card A
Wild Card B
Wild Card C

Edited by JacobZu7zu7, Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:40 PM.

[classicgamer_27330]

[cparsley]

Let me toss in up front...

Qualifying lap in the pole position..

Completion of the entire game (even getting the time bonus at the end)

Completion time



And score...



59,310

[jblenkle]

Pole Position - 38,190

[Vocelli]

Good Ol' Pole Position.
The arcade version was GREAT! The Atari XL computer version, the one I had, was GREAT!
The Atari 2600 version was OK but very limited.

Anyway here where I predict the lowest score.
Last week the Rampage scores were a bit higher than I thought, excluding the zero score and the score that couldn't get knocked out. I thought more people would play once or twice and give up. So I was a bit low (45K) when the next lowest score that would have been bumped would have been 73K.  I guess we are getting to the active players left in the competition. It is getting very interesting. So this week I predict the lowest Pole Position score will be 55K. That's right 55K. I believe that is two crashes.
Should be a RACE to the top this week.
My starting score:  55350

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Edited by Vocelli, Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:07 AM.

[cparsley]

Unofficial Leaderboard:

• Deteacher 60,660
  
• cparsley 59,310
  
• Gorfy 59,110
  
• classicgamer_27330 58,310
  
• Vocelli 55,350
  
• LarcenTyler 46,990
  
• jblenkle 38,190 (NOT on the KO (hsc ranking))
  
  
  **Updated thru post 10**

Edited by cparsley, Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:50 PM.

[Gorfy]

59,110  Not too bad for an automatic transmission kind of guy

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[LarcenTyler]

46,990

Ran out of time near the end of the third lap.

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[Deteacher]

60,660!  213" 97

I can shave more time off, but here's a little hint:

If you're in one lane and the oncoming car is changing lanes...if you don't have time to swich lanes, drive off the track "into the grass."  You'll slow down a considerable amount, but you'll pass the car and get back up to speed quick enough.  You'll waste less time that way, rather than crashing into a car.

In that run, I think I drove into the grass 4 or 5 times, but no crashes!  





Oh, and for the record, I had 14 seconds remaining when I finished the race.  I'm sure I can get that up to 15 or 16 if I don't drive off the track as much.

Edited by Deteacher, Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:20 PM.

[classicgamer_27330]

[Zoyx]

60510 - 214'55"

[cparsley]

Jacob, I'm ahead of Gorfy lol

[oyamafamily]

On the board with 35,270

[oyamafamily]

NEW ATTEMPT - 46,870

[Scrabbler15]

58,860

I'm a qualifying lap expert; 14,000 - crash - reset - 14,000 - crash - reset - 14,000 - crash - reset
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[Zoyx]

Scrabbler15, on Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:05 PM, said:

I'm a qualifying lap expert; 14,000 - crash - reset - 14,000 - crash - reset - 14,000 - crash - reset

That's the point I'm at. No way you can beat your high score with a crash. For the all-time high score 60960, you probably can't touch the side of the road.

[cparsley]

I believe a max out on this game is probably going to be at about a 62,000 point range.

[JacobZu7zu7]

cparsley, on Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:35 PM, said:

Jacob, I'm ahead of Gorfy lol

Yup, I now see that, will fix that this update now...

Since were on the mistake topic, the rankings for last rounds, INTV Blockade Runner, went 10/8/6/4/2/1...
Did you change it, because normally it's 10-9-8-6-4-2-1.

[Gorfy]

cparsley, on Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:15 PM, said:

I believe a max out on this game is probably going to be at about a 62,000 point range.

As Zoyx mentioned, the all-time high is 60,960, which is also probably the maximum possible score.

[Gorfy]

60,110

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[Scrabbler15]

59,310

This score included one crash, so I know I can do better.
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[Scrabbler15]

60,160

Like I said...
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[roadrunner]

59,460

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[cparsley]

JacobZu7zu7, on Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:38 PM, said:

cparsley, on Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:35 PM, said:

Jacob, I'm ahead of Gorfy lol

Yup, I now see that, will fix that this update now...

Since were on the mistake topic, the rankings for last rounds, INTV Blockade Runner, went 10/8/6/4/2/1...
Did you change it, because normally it's 10-9-8-6-4-2-1.

Actually it was scored the 10-9-8-6-4-2-1, a non KO player "goldenband" got the 9.

[DT Kofoed]

This is actually a personal best for me, and no where near competitive! I think I had a surplus of a measly 5 seconds, but that's all I'm playing tonight.