JacobZu7zu7 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 (edited) 2600 Knockout Game 12: + 2600 HIGH SCORE CHALLENGE 2012 Our thirteeth HSC + Elimination round is Mattels Astroblast SETTING: GAME 1 (DEFAULT GAME) LEFT DIFFICULTY: Your Choice (B/Novice is for manual fire, A/Expert engages autofire) RIGHT DIFFICULTY: B JOYSTICK / MOUSE / KEYBOARD / OR PADDLE, paddle has (much faster controls!!!) DEADLINE TO PLAY: This round has now begun, it will run a week or until Sunday, March 25th 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+ - 1,000,000 - Jifremok 1st 14+ - 408,760 - Gorfy 2nd 13+ - 164,650 - JacobZu7zu7 3rd 12+ - 159,970 - Vocelli 4th 11+ - 133,930 - Liduario 10+ - 117,785 - oyamafamily 5th 09+ - 84,960 - toymailman 6th 08+ - 60,410 - Deteacher 7th 07+ - 34,475 - cparsley 8th 06+ - 32,950 - Scrabbler15 9th 05+ - 30,870 - DTKofoed 10th 04+ - 26,975 - classicgamer_27330 11th 03+ - 22,205 - bigbee99 02 + - 2,630 - Cortat G 01+ - 1,850 - LarcenTyler 01+ - 815 - jblenkle Rankings after 11 rounds. Rank/Points/Player 1 (151) toymailman 2 (139) oyamafamily 3 (137) Gorfy 4 (134) Deteacher 5 (112) Jifremok 6 (109) Vocelli 7 (106) JacobZu7zu7 8 (95) cparsley 9 (94) Scrabbler15 10 (84) DT Kofoed 11 (79) Cortat G 12 (69) classicgamer_27330 13 (54) Zoyx 14 (53) LarcenTyler 15 (49) Fallout_002 16 (39) roadrunner 17 (35) bigbee99 18 (17) jblenkle 18 (17) Stan 18 (17) Metal Jesus 21 (15) pis 21 (15) KevinMos3 23 (12) Liduario 24 (7) Mister VCS 25 (5) HatNJ 26 (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 8th round: Adventures of Tron - Zoyx 9th round: Moon Patrol - Cortat G 10th round: Kung Fu Master - Fallout_002 11th round: Fantastic Voyage - LarcenTyler 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 8th round: Adventures of Tron - cparsley 9th round: Moon Patrol - Gorfy 10th round: Kung Fu Master - KevinMos3 11th round: Fantastic Voyage - toymailman Someone will be eliminated from K.O. every Monday at 12:00AM EST) (Anyone without a score by the deadline, will be eliminated!) oyamafamily has been chosen out of the hat to select Round 12. He picked E-5 and it's the game Astroblast (bigbee99's game choice). E-5 is X checked off the game list. A - X/2/3/4/X B - 1/2/3/X/X C - 1/2/X/4/X D - 1/2/3/X/X E - X/X/3/X/X 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 Fantastic Voyage Wild Card C Astroblast (1982) (Mattel) !.a26 Edited March 26, 2012 by JacobZu7zu7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 (edited) Question, does the highest score count, or does the score the second we lose our last life count before the game shows the highest score 11,115 after my last man 11,655 highest score Edited March 19, 2012 by classicgamer_27330 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Question, does the highest score count, or does the score the second we lose our last life count before the game shows the highest score 11,115 after my last man 11,655 highest score The final score is the one that counts, which means, your peak score.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 with the keyboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Important Note: I strongly recommend paddle... much faster and easier controls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Astroblast - 815 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 (edited) My top scores: 1) 22,700 keyboard as joystick 2) 28,495 3) 71,435 4) 103,515 5) 133,930 Edited March 25, 2012 by Liduario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 (edited) I'm going to try the analog stick from D pad to use as paddles. I couldn't associate a key for the analog stick within the stella. Keybord as joystick can't cross the screen before those screaming bombs. Never saw real paddles, only pictures from internet. Don't even know what's the meaning of paddles in English... Does it come from pad? I had the black atari wich came with two joysticks and missile commando. None of my friends in Brazil had paddles. I suspect the paddles weren't sold in Brazil. Edited March 19, 2012 by Liduario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Don't worry, I never played this game w/Paddles either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 1,850 I can't believe it... I'm eliminated for now... but when I'm back in the official competition, I'm gonna get whoever eliminated me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 4,175! Question. Can emulation be used with the mouse? It's not as good as paddles, but for those who have to use emulation, it's certainly better than keyboard controls. If mouse is not allowed, please disregard this score. I'll break out my paddles tonight. One of my modded A7800s is on it's way home. Just in time to play on real hardware/paddles! W00t w00t! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stephena Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Question. Can emulation be used with the mouse? It's not as good as paddles, but for those who have to use emulation, it's certainly better than keyboard controls. If mouse is not allowed, please disregard this score. I'll break out my paddles tonight. This same question came up in another thread. You're right in that in Stella, the mouse is better that joystick for emulating paddles. But nothing beats real paddles with a Stelladaptor/2600-daptor (or a real console) of course. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vocelli Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Hey, it is a new week. Which means a new game for the Knockout Tourney! I assume the final will be in June. Wow! But first... Fantastic Voyage: Everyone competed and everyone did well. But my prediction was off slighlty. I predicted 210K as the lowest so if these players would have saved one more patient then they would have been saved as well. Nice to see everyone but in a good score! 05+ - 197,286 - DT Kofoed 10th 04+ - 188,286 - classicgamer_27330 11th 03+ - 182,650 - LarcenTyler 12th These players... 15+ - 397,144 - toymailman 1st 14+ - 395,960 - oyamafamily 2nd 13+ - 362,378 - Gorfy 3rd ...did GREAT! We seem to see the same names near the top everyweek BUT... one bad game and anyone can be Knocked-out! Everyone has one bad game on the list, RIGHT? Now onward: Astroblast I use to play this game with a joystick until I read that you can use paddles! Wow, this changed my game. I think I am pretty good at this game but not great. Someone out there will be using a keyboard, not good. They will have trouble.But I predict anyone who uses paddles will break 40K easily. Once over 40K the game gets a lot faster and at 50K WOW! My low score prediction will be 25K. I know that is low but with a keyboard this game is tough. Someone will, no doubt, will break 100K and maybe 200K. Once you can keep up after 50K then the endurance effect kicks in. How long can you last? Good Luck with this game. Paddles are the key to victory. Vocelli: 52020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Then Im toasted lol as I dont have this cart for my physical 2600 (Nor do I own a set of paddles), I know the horror! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 79,710 Gotta build up my endurance for this one..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I suck at paddle games, I'm better with a stick or d-pad, or keyboard than I am with paddles. If I make it to kaboom, that will be my downfall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I've never played this one with paddles. I just always used a stick. 22,205 B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 As for Kaboom I agree (never played as a kid) but the reason I love these competitions is to get outside of your confort zone, to play what you normally wouldn't play... Love the challenge (even thought more than likely I'll get my rear handed to me in Kaboom!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 22,950 I don't really like paddle games much. It's harder for me to control things. Maybe I'll get better at it this week. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 You can add me to the Kaboom fear list -- never got very far with that game, but I do like it nonetheless. The game I most dread on the list, however, is Ms Pacman. It seems like no matter how much I try, I just can't get the hang of pacman games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Did anyone try a trackball? Tonight I'm going to use a mouse, but I'm wondering if a trackball would be a better solution. Always wanted to try a trackball, peharps it's the time to buy one. Another interesting solution would be a 3d mouse. It rotates like the paddles, but probably it would require some tweaks in stella... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Did anyone try a trackball? Tonight I'm going to use a mouse, but I'm wondering if a trackball would be a better solution. Always wanted to try a trackball, peharps it's the time to buy one. Another interesting solution would be a 3d mouse. It rotates like the paddles, but probably it would require some tweaks in stella... Do your research before investing in a trak-ball controller. The two that I have always seemed sluggish, although I bought them used. I've read that some trak-ball models are better than others. There may be thread on it on this website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Just hooked up my paddles with the Stelladaptor and made the necessary adjustments for Astroblast. I learned something....my paddles need a good cleaning. They're shaking worse than Lindsay Lohan in rehab... Too soon? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I'll be the first (of many, no doubt) to crack the 100k mark........ 154,875 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Just hooked up my paddles with the Stelladaptor and made the necessary adjustments for Astroblast. I learned something....my paddles need a good cleaning. They're shaking worse than Lindsay Lohan in rehab... Too soon? A quick fix (albeit temporary) for jittery paddles: keep turning the knob all the way back and forth for a few minutes. It actually works in most cases! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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