Season 4 - The New HSC - Week 13-14 = Sci-Fi Movie Weeks

[JacobZu7zu7]

Sci-Fi Movie Weeks (3 Pack)

~ TWO WEEKS ~

CLARIFICATION: No use of CHEATS, emulation advantages, bugs, cart frying or other variables that gives you an unfair advantage in this HSC. Please assume you have to follow the game difficulty and mode for the playing week/s. No game enhancements or special favorite settings to play in the 2600 HSC, unless you are given authorization to do so by your humble yet strict MODERATOR! Jacob/BAZ.

 

 

Star Wars: (The Arcade Game)

Released By: Parker Brothers 1983

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1

 

E.T.

Released By: Atari 1982

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1 (Only ONE complete run / No Marathons)

 

Alien

Released By: 20th Century Fox 1982

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1

 

 

The HSC High Score for Star Wars -- rolled by the 5th ghost, StanJr & SpiceWare (2005) = rollage bonus!

 

The HSC High Score for E.T. -- this is a new rule setting = we will have a brand-new record (no bonus)

 

The HSC High Score for Alien -- 110,212 by sku_u (2005)

 

 

 

 

Post your scores right here in this thread, and we will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone else. And remember, as always, to READ THE MANUAL.

The deadline for posting scores is Midnight (EST) the evening of April 26th, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonus: No Bonus, just play!

 

 

 

 

 

Star Wars (1 B/B) - High Scores

1,000,000 StanJr (+23) (+1) ROLLAGE!

955,464 Hyperboy (+22)

170,474 Northcoastgamer (+21)

157,401 MoomUnit (+20)

126,505 SpiceWare (+19)

122,568 voodoo_chilly (+18)

88,985 KaeruYojimbo (+17)

62,106 darthkur (+16)

45,478 S.BAZ (+15)

43,542 keilbaca (+14)

34,876 Spacey Invader (+13)

30,688 LidLikesIntellivision (+12)

23,785 Gorfy (+11)

18,489 ReflectionAngle (+10)

16,122 Zeptari1 (+9)

16,001 LarcenTyler (+8 )

11,980 roadrunner (+7)

10,057 Scrabbler15 (+6)

6,795 Dauber (+5)

6,085 JacobZu7zu7 (+4)

5,709 karokoenig (+3)

4,865 jblenkle (+2)

1,544 Wickeycolumbus (+1)

 

 

 

 

 

E.T. (1 B/B) - High Scores

(Record your score after rescuing E.T., or after game over)

 

23,718 Northcoastgamer (+23)

23,096 Random Terrain (+22)

20,126 StanJr (+21)

19,432 MoomUnit (+20)

17,679 voodoo_chilly (+19)

17,445 darthkur (+18)

16,997 RJ (+17)

16,627 ReflectionAngle (+16)

15,992 JacobZu7zu7 (+15)

13,363 S.BAZ (+14)

13,021 Hyperboy (+13)

13,020 Gorfy (+12)

12,372 classicgamer_27330 (+11)

11,967 Tony The 2600 (+10)

11,763 roadrunner (+9)

11,713 Dauber (+8 )

10,943 LidLikesIntellivision (+7)

10,016 keilbaca (+6)

9,604 KaeruYojimbo (+5)

8,658 karokoenig (+4)

3,853 jblenkle (+3)

1,830 Wickeycolumbus (+2)

493 Scrabbler15 (+1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alien (1 B/B) - High Scores

 

104,082 Northcoastgamer (+26)

96,002 MoomUnit (+25)

93,511 Hyperboy (+24)

88,150 voodoo_chilly (+23)

85,879 SpiceWare (+22)

85,770 StanJr (+21)

76,930 S.BAZ (+20)

74,539 oyamafamily (+19)

67,168 KaeruYojimbo (+18)

63,788 Dauber (+17)

62,148 darthkur (+16)

38,517 LidLikesIntellivision (+15)

37,305 Gorfy (+14)

36,756 roadrunner (+13)

36,216 Tony The 2600 (+12)

32,796 keilbaca (+11)

32,415 JacobZu7zu7 (+10)

30,126 Spacey Invader (+9)

29,324 ReflectionAngle (+8 )

26,094 Scrabbler15 (+7)

20,784 karokoenig (+6)

13,202 GornThrifting (+5)

12,651 Wickeycolumbus (+4)

7,003 jblenkle (+3)

3,541 Zeptari1 (+2)

3,521 LarcenTyler (+1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

CUMULATIVE:

1. NorthCoastGamer 21 + 23 + 26 = 70

2. StanJr 24 + 21 + 21 = 66

3. MoomUnit 20 + 20 + 25 = 65

4. voodoo_chilly 18 +19 + 23 = 60

5. Hyperboy 22 + 13 + 24 = 59

6. darthkur 16 + 18 + 16 = 50

7. S.BAZ 15 + 14 + 20 = 49

8. SpiceWare 19 + 0 + 22 = 41

9. KaeruYojimbo 17 + 5 + 18 = 40

10. Gorfy 11 + 12 + 14 = 37

11. LidLikesIntellivision 12 + 7 + 15 = 34

ReflectionAngle 10 + 16 + 8 = 34

13. keilbaca 14 + 6 + 11 = 31

14. Dauber 5 + 8 + 17 = 30

15. roadrunner 7 + 9 + 13 = 29

JacobZu7zu7 4 + 15 + 10 = 29

17. Spacey Invader 13 + 0 + 9 = 22

Tony The 2600 0 + 10 + 12 = 22

19. Random Terrain 0 + 22 + 0 = 20

20. oyamafamily 0 + 0 + 19 = 19

21. RJ 0 + 17 + 0 = 17

22. Scrabbler15 6 + 1 + 7 = 14

23. karokoenig 3 + 4 + 6 = 13

24. classicgamer_27330 0 + 11 + 0 = 11

Zeptari1 9 + 0 + 2 = 11

26. LarcenTyler 8 + 0 + 1 = 9

27. jblenkle 2 + 3 + 3 = 8

28. Wickeycolumbus 1 + 2 + 4 = 7

29. GornThrifting 0 + 0 + 5 = 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall Standings Through Round 12 (Ikari Warriors)

Top 24 make the Bracket Challenge at the end of the season!

The bracket winners get to choose games for next season

1. Northcoastgamer 377

2. StanJr 346

3. S.BAZ 340

4. voodoo_chilly 337

5. oyamafamily 290

6. JacobZu7zu7 256

7. KaeruYojimbo 251

8. Gorfy 248

9. darthkur 242

10. Dauber 235

11. karokoenig 225

12. Nathan Strum 194

13. Hyperboy 190

14. SpiceWare 187

15. Spacey Invader 163

16. Scrabbler15 158

17. LidLikesIntellivision 146

18. keilbaca 137

19. ReflectionAngle 126

20. CaptainClassic 121

21. DT Kofoed 120

22. classicgamer_27330 116

23. skosh 113

24. adri_o 111

25. Mister-VCS 110

26. GornThrifting 108

Tony The 2600 108

28. SIO2 100

29. Zeptari1 82

30. RJ 79

Fallout_002 79

32. NIKON 77

33. roadrunner 74

34. Cafeman 68

35. MoomUnit 58

36. Wickeycolumbus 56

37. LarcenTyler 54

38. centiqueen81 52

39. Botbird208 50

40. jblenkle 45

41. gamerguy99 20

42. Private Eye 16

43. Brian C 15

44. lodger 12

45. Retrogamer81081 11 newcomer!

46. flammingcowz 10

47. StarThief 7

48. Ry guy 6

SuperFreddie 6

50. Dan Iacovelli 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW SEASON ~ The NEW High Score Club Season 4:

# number symbol represents total games for each week/s theme.

 

up next:

 

(2) Moderator Picks
(2) Player Picks
(2) Homebrews!
(2) ?
(2) Paddle Weeks
(3) Never Been Played!
(3) ?
(2) Moderator Picks
(2) Player Picks
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(3) Double Points - Beat the Leader Weeks

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(After Season) Bracket Tourney [4 Weeks]

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEASON 4: EXTRA INFO

There CAN be special weeks ! That will include several games.

Overall the NEW High Score Club Season 4 will last (LIKELY) THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2015.

Bracket Challenge to follow. TOP 24 make the Bracket Challenge!

Edited May 19, 2015 by S.BAZ
update!

[JacobZu7zu7]

MODERATOR NOTE:

 

Here is (Movie Weeks) made from your suggestions. A TWO WEEK playing session, and three games total. I have a nice variety for you, first a Shooter (STAR WARS) a quest (E.T.) also a maze game (ALIEN)

 

ALL GAME SETTINGS: Novice / Default, Game 1 B/B

 

SPECIAL E.T. SCORING:

Remember to play ONLY ONE RUN with E.T., let the end score caculate and then record your final score. Don't hit fire to continue play... we're only saving E.T. once at best!

 

No Bonus during these Movie Weeks (perhaps a broken record bonus?)

 

Manuals/ROMS will be post here soon.

 

One last thing.... Get Playing!!!

Star Wars - The Arcade Game.bin

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.bin

Alien.bin

Edited April 11, 2015 by JacobZu7zu7

[StanJr]

I am LOVING that E.T. is finally getting some love.

 

Also been a LONG time since I've played SW:TAG!

 

These should be two really great weeks!

[Gorfy]

Yay, E.T. One of my favorites

 

 

Never played the other two, but looking forward to trying them out

[jblenkle]

I'm watching a documentary on Netflix called Atari - Game Over. It is mostly about the legend of the E.T. carts being buried in that landfill. Some guy is digging up the site...I know there is a thread someplace here on AtariAge about the E.T. game. I never recall hearing how the dig turned out though.

[MoomUnit]

I like E.T. well enough, but I always play Game #3, the one without the annoying humans.

Aliens is a better Pac-Man than Pac-Man is.

 

Star Wars just doesn't feel right without the arcade cabinet controls.

[Dauber]

I tried ET...I just CANNOT SOLVE IT. AT ALL. The damn FBI agent keeps knocking the phone away. arrghhh...and more often than not the power to call the rescue ship is located on that screen with the Greek buildings (whatever it's called) and because usually the FBI agent or the scientist is there, you can't call the rescue ship!!! arrghhh....

 

Posted scores for Alien and Star Wars. (Just can't get a handle on the up and down moving in the opposite direction while the left and right move in the correct direction...yeah, the arcade controller is much more intuitive.)

 

Alien: 37905

 

Star Wars: 6795 (yeah, I know...pathetic!)

Edited April 12, 2015 by Dauber

[voodoo_chilly]

Alien: 55,168

 

[Northcoastgamer]

E.T. - 18,359 B/B One run.

[Hyperboy]

93,511

I like aliens, of course it's a pac-man clone but with a few tricks up its sleeve like flame throwers and moving power pods. It gets pretty frantic and just as in pac-man the aliens in later levels don't give you a chance to destroy them before they turn deadly again. I looked at things through the eyes of the story teller and that made it more enjoyable than just playing it as a clone game. My mind/imagination is just as active now as it was as a kid and that adds so much to these games, It's like reading a book and playing it out in your head. I really feel bad for kids today that have games that literally leave nothing to the imagination.

 

Have a great 2 weeks of sci-fi gaming my friends!

[+KaeruYojimbo]

Has anyone ever tried playing Star Wars with the Flight Commander or the Cosmic Command? I wonder if the controls would feel better with either of those?

[+TwentySixHundred]

Nice selection of games, especially E.T as it brings back that nostalgia feeling. Played it alot as a child yet i was never that good, now it's time to complete it with a decent score.

[S.BAZ]

I need to throw a revenge-whooping on E.T. too

 

it always frustrated me even though I kept trying to like it & beat it, to no avail.

[+KaeruYojimbo]

Alien - 45,147

Star Wars - 31,371

 

Far and away my best game of Star Wars ever. Either I turned a corner or got real lucky.

[voodoo_chilly]

I'm new to the STar Wars Arcade Game. Is this a final score of 12,986?

 

what are the numbers below that mean? 060 and 08?

 

[S.BAZ]

Star Wars: 18,206

 

 

no idea about those numbers... my screen looked like this after game over. (not too familiar with this one yet.)

 

this was immediately my favorite 2600 Star Wars game though, soon as I got it! doesn't quite stand up to the controls of the Arcade but considering the limitations i think Parker Bros actually pulled it off nicely.

Edited April 15, 2015 by S.BAZ

[+Zeptari]

I think the 08 is how many tower tops you had left to shoot off to get bonus points.

[MoomUnit]

I'm new to the STar Wars Arcade Game. Is this a final score of 12,986?

 

what are the numbers below that mean? 060 and 08?

 

The six-digit number is always your score (12,986).

 

The other two numbers only appear during the middle scene where you shoot the white tops off of the towers.

The second number starts at 10 and counts down to zero as you shoot towers--it's the number of towers remaining.

The first number starts at 20 and counts up by 20--it's the number of points you would get for the next tower.

(The most points you can get is 20 + 40 + 60 + 80 +100 + 120 + 140 + 160 + 180 + 200 = 1100)

 

Somebody rolled this game to a million? D - A - M - N.

Edited April 14, 2015 by MoomUnit

[MoomUnit]

Monday night update:

Alien - 27,865
I feel I can improve on this considerably.
Is there any point to the flamethrower? It seems pretty worthless.

E.T. - 12,421
I think this is the first time I actually beat Game #1.

If that scientist grabs me two seconds before the spaceship comes again, I'm gonna throw something.

Star Wars - 43,925
Is there a pattern to the trench gates? I feel they come too fast to navigate by reaction alone, especially when they get to be double-wide.
Somebody rolled this game to a million points? Damn.

[StanJr]

I've rolled SW: TAG, years ago. Once you learn the gate patterns, it gets MUCH easier. The space battle and death start towers are easy once you know what line to set your crosshairs on. I'm still amazed at how good this game is. Can I roll it again? Who can tell? I have two weeks.

 

Here are my opening volleys:

 

SW:TAG

 

077049

 

E.T.

I'm not used to one save on this one, I'm used to marathon, so this is a great challenge. What is the right balance of getting it done fast and giving Elliot Reese's Pieces? That's the trick.

 

16694

 

Alien

This thing is a beast. A great game that gets vicious. My personal best is 72K, so I have a long way to go.

 

30335

 

 

Great, great week!

 

 

 

[+TwentySixHundred]

Alien

Game: 1BB

Score: 36,216

 

Had a bit of a lucky run, was struggling to hit the 20,000 mark prior.

 

 

 

[Gorfy]

My first time playing these two games. I like them both, but I'm partial to the shooter, of course

 

Some very impressive scores up already, especially on Alien!!

 

My scores.....

Star Wars 1BB: 23,785

 

Alien 1BB: 14,242

[MoomUnit]

Tony The 2600:

I'm expecting good things from you in E.T.

Edited April 14, 2015 by MoomUnit

[+TwentySixHundred]

Tony The 2600:

 

I'm expecting good things from you in E.T. ET anim gif.gif

 

 

I am not going to lie when i seen the line up for the fortnight kinda cr@pped myself

 

Definitely one my favorite games however i was never that good.

 

Working on a score but nothing i feel worthy to post yet, the scientist and FBI agent are not playing in my favor.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Tony The 2600

[+Random Terrain]

Related thread from 2006 if anyone is interested:

atariage.com/forums/topic/88347-hsc-season-4-week-5-et/

I tried ET...I just CANNOT SOLVE IT. AT ALL. The damn FBI agent keeps knocking the phone away. arrghhh...and more often than not the power to call the rescue ship is located on that screen with the Greek buildings (whatever it's called) and because usually the FBI agent or the scientist is there, you can't call the rescue ship!!! arrghhh....

I wonder if this page would help:

randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-et-tips.html

That page also has videos that might be helpful.

E.T.
I'm not used to one save on this one, I'm used to marathon, so this is a great challenge. What is the right balance of getting it done fast and giving Elliot Reese's Pieces? That's the trick.

 

I also never really cared about the score in a single round since I can finish countless rounds. I can't seem to get more than 15 or 16 pieces of candy in every round I've played so far today and I run instead of walking (which eats up energy), so my high score for one round is only 14884: