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[JacobZu7zu7]

2600 Knockout Game 8:

+ 2600 HIGH SCORE CHALLENGE 2012

Our eighth HSC + Elimination round is Mattels movie game ADVENTURES OF TRON



SETTING: GAME 1 (DEFAULT GAME)

DIFFICULTY: B/B (NO CHANGES)


DEADLINE TO PLAY: This round has now begun, it will run a week or until
Sunday, Feburary 26th 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+ - 93,000 - cparsley 1st
14+ - 90,000 - toymailman 2nd
13+ - 84,200 - Deteacher 3rd
12+ - 78,800 - oyamafamily 4th
11+ - 78,600 - JacobZu7zu7 5th
10+ - 65,000 - Gorfy 6th
09+ - 64,900 - Vocelli 7th
08+ - 61,600 - Scrabbler15 8th
07+ - 55,400 - classicgamer_27330 9th
06+ - 52,400 - LarcenTyler 10th
05+ - 51,600 - Fallout_002 11th
04+ - 41,900 - Jifremok 12th
03+ - 37,800 - DT Kofoed 13th
02+ - 33,200 - Cortat G 14th
01+ - 24,000 - roadrunner
01+ - 6,700 - jblenkle
0 - Zoyx 15th (Quit playing in K.O.)





Rankings after 7 rounds.

Rank/Points/Player
1 (101) toymailman
2 (92) oyamafamily
3 (91) Deteacher
4 (85) Gorfy
5 (76) Vocelli
6 (74) Cortat G
6 (74) Jifremok
8 (66) Scrabbler15
8 (66) JacobZu7zu7
10 (61) DT Kofoed
11 (54) Zoyx
12 (52) cparsley
13 (51) classicgamer_27330
14 (39) Fallout_002
15 (38) roadrunner
16 (37) LarcenTyler
17 (35) bigbee99
18 (17) Stan
19 (17) Metal Jesus
20 (15) pis
21 (11) jblenkle
22 (7) Mister VCS
23 (5) HatNJ
24 (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
7th round: Pole Position - roadrunner

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
7th round: Pole Position - Deteacher/Gorfy/toymailman

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

Jifremok has been chosen out of the hat to select Round 9.
He picked E-1 which is... Moon Patrol Larcen Tyler's game.
"E-1" 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 - X/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

Adventures of Tron HTML Manual link,
http://www.atariage....ftwareLabelID=2

Attached Files

•  Adventures of Tron (1983) (Mattel).a26   4K   43 downloads

Edited by JacobZu7zu7, Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:35 PM.

[classicgamer_27330]

37,800

[Scrabbler15]

28,000
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[cparsley]

 tron34000.bmp   697.24K   51 downloads

[classicgamer_27330]

This game is hard during a practice run yesterday, I scored near 50,000 and haven't been able to come near it since.

Edited by classicgamer_27330, Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:51 AM.

[Scrabbler15]

37,400

I'm glad I'm off work tomorrow, which is already today.
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[oyamafamily]

On the board with 47,800



Note that I'm submitting this score early, because today and tomorrow are holidays called Brazilian Carnival.

[Deteacher]

66,200!  Beat my personal best from the last time we played this in the HSC!



My big tip for this game is to learn how to zig-zag up and down floors to avoid the enemies and have patience.  There's no time limit to catching the bits and you can exit the screen from any floor, so take your time on the faster levels.

My goal is to break 100K on this game this week.

[Vocelli]

WOW! That Pole Position competiton was CRAZY! We should see Sunda as being an intense day for posting scores from now on.
I would say I was not close on the Pole Position predicted score. I didn't think everyone would score so high and so close.
Ok. Advertures of Tron. This game is a game that I have always wanted to get good at but never sat down long enough to get a decent score. At first the game is confusing but turns into an outstanding game that never gets boring. Once you play and understand what the heck is going on you will enjoy it.
If you have played this game in the past you will have an early advantage. But if you spend enough time with it this week you will catch up quickly. To the newbies, one day of play will not get you a great score. As a kid I broke 45K but could have gotten better with time. So I predict the low score of the week will be 52K. That might be high but I have confidence in everyone to score well. There might be a slacker out there who gives up quickly but since we have very active players left, I am not counting on it.
My first score:
Vocelli: 33200

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[oyamafamily]

Woo Hooo! I beat my personal score (57,000 - 2600 HSC, Season 8 / Round 17): 61,600



Adventures of Tron - Round 8.17 (2600 HSC) - Best 5 scores:
1) 70,000 - JacobZu7zu7
2) 69,600 - toymailman
3) 65,100 - keilbaca
4) 65,000 - Deteacher
5) 57,000 - oyamafamily

[cparsley]

My big tip for this game is to learn how to zig-zag up and down floors to avoid the enemies and have patience. There's no time limit to catching the bits and you can exit the screen from any floor, so take your time on the faster levels.


--- Ah, I knew I had to be missing something, was playing where you had to be at an up door to go down

[oyamafamily]

PRO-TIP: Position both Difficulty Switches to A / Expert, in order to practice the highest levels. Then, press reset game.

And here's an Easter Egg Screen (Programmer Credits - G.Hightower is Glenn Hightower):



To do this, I pressed "Select Game" and "Reset Game" together when this game was opened.

Edited by oyamafamily, Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:49 AM.

[Gorfy]

This is a pretty tough game.

42,200

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[JacobZu7zu7]

47,000 ... this is tougher then I thought.

[classicgamer_27330]

I think this will be safe, but if it's not more power to you all. I think this game would be impossible to roll even with save states judging by how fast it got over 50,000

Edited by classicgamer_27330, Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:02 PM.

[Scrabbler15]

37,800

Bumped up a little bit.

Went back and looked at my score from the last time we played this one in the HSC.  It was only 24,000.  That would have clearly missed the cut this week.
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[cparsley]

Im still stuck at the place I'm at right now... (playing via website emulation atm).. GRRRRRRR good simple game on the VCS (but positive points for the Intellivision running man making an appearance on the VCS)

Edited by cparsley, Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:38 AM.

[oyamafamily]

NEW ATTEMPT - 66,200!
Looks like I reached Deteacher's first score!!

[LarcenTyler]

20,200

Just warming up.

[cparsley]

A new term I came up with tonight while playing... TANK NUTS!!!

57k



Nice to see while INTV didn't rely much on cheap death, when a BSR got to write a VCS title, it was perfectly fair game lol...

[Deteacher]

74,200!  All time personal best!



I thought the difficulty maxed out around 50 or 60K, but that's not the case.  I find myself ducking and weaving more and more, trying to get those bits at the top, with each passing level.  It's quite challenging (and rather addicting too!)  

What sucks is having to start all over at the super slow level each time.  Once I get to about 30K, the game starts to get fun again.  

Here's another little tip:  If you're feeling overwhelmed with all the enemies and you need a few seconds to collect your thoughts and form a strategy, slide down the I/O beam in the middle, but hold up on the controller as you slide down.  You'll slide down very slowly.  This is especially effective when you're at the top of the screen and you are invincible while sliding down the I/O beam.

Edited by Deteacher, Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:45 AM.

[oyamafamily]

Woo Hoooo! Woo Hoooo!
I passed JacobZu7zu7's score (Season 8 / Round 17 - 2600 TRON) - 78,800



Since my score is more difficult to beat, here's my FInal Attempt.
My goal for this game is to reach 75K, or beat JacobZu7zu7's score (70K). I reached this objective!!

Edited by oyamafamily, Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:18 AM.

[Deteacher]

oyamafamily, on Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:16 AM, said:

Woo Hoooo! Woo Hoooo!
I passed JacobZu7zu7's score (Season 8 / Round 17 - 2600 TRON) - 78,800

Adventures of TRON (1982) (M Network)_7.png

Since my score is more difficult to beat, here's my FInal Attempt.
My goal for this game is to reach 75K, or beat JacobZu7zu7's score (70K). I reached this objective!!

I thought you were on holiday or something...grrrr...  

[cparsley]

Unofficial Update (as of 11:48 am 2/21) (Jacob - suggestion, post when the leaderboard is updated when you do an update on post 1 so we can see how old the board is, just a suggestion)

• 
  oyamafamily - 78,800
  
• 
  Deteacher - 74,200
  
• 
  cparsley - 57,000
  
• 
  classicgamer - 55,400
  
• 
  JacobZu7 - 47,000
  
• 
  Gorfy - 42,200
  
• 
  Scrabbler - 37,800
  
• 
  Vocelli - 33,200
  
• 
  LarcenTyler - 20,200

[classicgamer_27330]

you know I wonder if Tron is able to have kids after sliding up and down that pole. I think I'd rather be shot by a tank