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TI-99/4A High Score Challenge

Month: June 2017

Game: Defender

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One of my favorite games of all time, although I never played the TI version until recently. It is a pretty good version.

 

I don't mean to inflict any damage on anyone's shooting thumb, but this game might test your rapid fire fingers.

 

Good Luck everyone!!

 











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Defender Challenge Prize

 

TI-99/4a Trivia Data Base

Including case, cassette, and manual!

 

Shows database programming examples. There are foldout flow charts at the back of the book. A good programming tutorial.

 

Requires Extended BASIC.

 

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I will pay all shipping to locales on planet earth within reason.

 

You know you want to brush up your database programming skills.... get your joystick out and save planet earth from the approaching landers, baiters, bombers, and pods! Don't let the humans be turned into mutants!

 

 

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Awesome prize!!!

Hi Opry99er I am just thinking out loud. Maybe you can send the prize of Henhouse to jwild? (I am in Asia and it is too expensive to ship around up and down) also I do not have so much TI-stuff here, kind of bare minimum (and limited space to store) I bought some equipment from US with expensive shipment costs. Next 3 weeks I am travelling/flying to Europe so have to 'defend' myself in the air and do not have the Sony PSP TI 99 Sim with me...will try once in a while on a laptop with classic99
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Remember to save your overkill bombs (Space key) for situations with many enemies on the screen, don't shoot the people, pick them up when falling. Apart from that, I was just playing with a joystick, and I think it was about 6 waves. :)

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Did you know?

 

Large asteroids, an element from Asteroids, were added to the Defender game world, but were later removed because the staff felt it lacked enjoyment.

 

This reminds me of another TI classic...

 

10, 9, 8, 7......

 

 

 

 

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I have a goal to have at least 10 people post their high scores this month! Do not feel like you have to beat the current high score... just post your personal best as you play through the month.

 

 

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Williams was preparing for the AMOA show. They put many programmers on the project to be ready for the show. The display model featured five levels, which the team felt was more than enough because of the game's difficulty. Most Williams employees could not progress past the third level and Jarvis's score of 60,000 points seemed unbeatable to them.

 

 

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I have a goal to have at least 10 people post their high scores this month! Do not feel like you have to beat the current high score... just post your personal best as you play through the month.

 

Nice. I gave it a spin previously, but only got somewhere between 11,000 and 12,000. Will give it another go later. It was actually more fun playing than I remembered. :thumbsup:

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Defender eventually became Williams' best selling arcade game, with over 55,000 units sold worldwide. By 2004, the game was a popular collector's item; the upright cabinets were common, while the cocktail models were more rare. Since its release, it has become one of the highest grossing arcade games ever, earning over US$1 billion

 

 

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Awesome scores! Breaking 100k!

 

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Atarisoft was a brand name used by Atari, Inc in 1983 and 1984 to market video games they published for home systems made by their competitors. Each platform had a specific color attributed by Atarisoft for its game packages. For example, video games sold for the Commodore 64 came up in green packages, games for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A in yellow, games for the IBM PC in blue, and so on. Despite being in existence for less than two years, Atarisoft had a huge video game library with dozens of game versions being released for various home computers and consoles. Almost all of the Atarisoft titles were produced by third-party software companies, as Atari only developed for their own systems.

 

 

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A video of the game play! That's awesome!

 

I had to try it. Playing with an emulator (Classic99), and recording with the Xbox app built into Windows 10. Uploaded to YouTube.

 

I hope this works!

 

 

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Competitive scoring for Defender first began when Mario Suarez from Atlantic City played Defender for over 21 and half hours in 1982 at the Claridge Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. The game later became the focus of the first Twin Galaxies video game contest in which players in 32 cities simultaneously competed on the weekend of April 3–4, 1982. Rick Smith won the contest with a score of 33,013,200 which took 38 hours.

 

Has to make you wonder how the basic necessities were taken care of during that 38 hours.....

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Competitive scoring for Defender first began when Mario Suarez from Atlantic City played Defender for over 21 and half hours in 1982 at the Claridge Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. The game later became the focus of the first Twin Galaxies video game contest in which players in 32 cities simultaneously competed on the weekend of April 3–4, 1982. Rick Smith won the contest with a score of 33,013,200 which took 38 hours.

 

Has to make you wonder how the basic necessities were taken care of during that 38 hours.....

coffee can? ;)

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