HSC13 Welcome and Games List

[+therealbountybob]

Welcome to Season 13 of the Atari 8-bit High Score Club!

 

You know the drill by now... Everyone welcome to play, just post a score and that's it! Screenshots optional. We usually play a game over a 2 week period starting on a Sunday. Emulator users welcome. Checkout the beginners' guide for more details, or post if you need any help at all.

 

Though this is the High Score Club you don't need to be high nor good at the games to play, it's more about exploring the games and seeing if we can find anything interesting. I like to squeeze in a few new ones to support the current programmers. However if you want some competition then you can be sure there will be someone who can beat you at your favourite game

 

You can also read about the high score club in the first couple of issues of Pro© Magazine which I would encourage you all to support. I'm a contributor but it's atariage's powersoft (Markus) who produces the only paper based Atari 8-bit Magazine... in the world! Plus it's cheap too (available in English or German)

 

So let's get things started - suggest 5 games you would like to play, if they are the same as other peoples choices that is ok as it helps me see what is what. There will be a poll for each round. Scoring will be similar to last season:12pts for a win down to 1pt for 12th place, with extra scoring positions for more players.

 

I'll handle everything so just play and enjoy your Atari, don't be shy, join in, speak out, discuss the game picked, suggest any bonus games or special rounds or post any related links to the current game.

 

Have fun

trbb

Edited January 14, 2016 by therealbountybob

[+orpheuswaking]

Schreckenstein (although not as fun as 1 player)

Rainbow Walker

Ixion

Zone Patrol

Lone Raider

[Sikor]

Some classic for start:

1. River raid (and Kuba Husak version as bonus game)

2. Warhawk

3. Zybex

4.Nadral

5. Neptune's Daughters

[Yautja]

1. Space Harrier
2. DeathChase XE

3. Toy Swap

4. Screaming Wings

5. Wilmunder's Star Raiders II

[Deteacher]

I'll jump back in now that it's starting over. Here are my picks:

 

Arex

Cosmic Tunnels

Fort Apocalypse

Juice!

Miner 2049er

[jk40001]

1. Draconus

2. River Raid

3. Moon Patrol

4. Screaming Wings

5. Fort Apocalypse

[McKong]

RGB

Moon Patrol

Montezuma's Revenge

River Raid

Desmond's Dungeon

Cosmic Tunnels

 

Excluded River Raid cos it's been played now, added Cosmic Tunnels!

Edited February 29, 2016 by McKong

[+therealbountybob]

Some great picks, keep them coming

 

with only 5 to choose it's tricky but I'm going for

 

Whistler's Brother

Bug Attack (not played here before)

Ixion

Trolls & Tribulations

Gumball

[roadrunner]

It's been awhile since i last suggested Ulf's Berzerk

Ulf's Berzerk
Pengo
Robotron
Spy Hunter
Mario Bros

[Gury]

I am going with:

 

Rainbow Walker (great game alone and for high scores)

Moon Patrol

Super Pacman

Sea Bandit
Zybex

 

Greetings

[+therealbountybob]

Ok we have enough to get the first poll on, but keep the suggestions coming, remember it's 5 games from each player and they can be the same as other peoples selections

[roadrunner]

5 games?

I made a edit to post #9

[+slx]

Shamus
Rainbow Walker
Spelunker (not a quick one to blast through though)
Qix

Actually I'd prefer to use this as an occasion to try games I don't know yet!


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[luckybuck]

Star Raiders

The Last Starfighter

Rescue on Fractalus!

Galahad and The Holy Grail

Hacker

[ballyalley]

My five game suggestions this round:

1. Drelbs (1983) (Synapse Software)
2. Moon Shuttle (1983) (Datamost)
3. Protector II (1982) (Synapse Software)
4. Survivor (1982) (Synapse Software)
5. Cloudburst (1982) (DANA)

Plus, one more suggestion-- maybe as a bonus game one round this season...

1. Salmon Run (1982) (APX, Bill Williams)

I always enjoy the new games that are created by homebrewers. Sprinkle those in as needed-- even if most of them tend not to work great on NTSC machines. Luckily, the Atari 8-Bit may very well have one of the best emulators ("Altirra") available for any computer platform!

 

As always, please throw in some BASIC type-in games if they seem interesting. Or weird. Or even plain terrible.

 

 

[sargie]

Some games I've never really played but like the look of are:

 

Flip and Flop

Super Cobra

Orc Attack

Henry's House

Choplifter

Edited January 20, 2016 by sargie

[McKong]

So many games I've not played before!

[RJ]

Moon patrol

Pengo

Star Raiders II (retail release)

Rescue on Fractalus

Mr DO! DataSoft)

NINJA (Mastertronic)

[+therealbountybob]

Hey you guys, it's 5 games each

 

Some great titles, several picks for River Raid and Moon Patrol. Protector II I had my eye on for one that we haven't played before

[Rybags]

Not in favourites order but games I'd like to see HSC on:

 

1. Spelunker

2. Bruce Lee

3. Shamus

4. Donkey Kong

5. Jungle Hunt

[NIKON]

Here are my 5 games for your consideration

 

1. Satans Hollow

2. Dropzone

3. Laser Hawk

4. Juno First

5. Flip Flop

[Dope]

1. Bruce Lee

2. Draconus

3. Satans Hollow

4. The Lone Raider

5. Mr. M

[a8isa1]

I'm back!

 

I missed the first poll and HSC13 has already begun but I'd like to make a request.

 

I lost interest in HSC because we seemed to be playing the same games year after year. There are probably a couple of thousand A8 games that I've never played. I might have fired most of them up to take a look but that is all. I need motivation to play some of them.

 

Here's my suggestion. Keep the pool of games going but instead of an election make it a drawing. Each player puts in 5 games they would like to play into the pool (all 5 picks for the same game allowed if the player desires). For each contest one game (and a bonus game?) is drawn out of the pool.

 

Leave all the picks in the pool for the next drawing.

 

The odds are against me but I would have a chance of getting one of my picks played

 

At the very least I'd be motivated to fire up and try some games before casting my votes.

 

-A8isA1

[ballyalley]

I lost interest in HSC because we seemed to be playing the same games year after year. There are probably a couple of thousand A8 games that I've never played. I might have fired most of them up to take a look but that is all. I need motivation to play some of them.

 

I sympathize with you. I don't play new games without motivation. When I say "new" games, I'm referring to games that are new to me. I've only played in the Atari 8-Bit HSC for the last couple of years, and this past season was the first time I played every game and every round. I've looked at the games played over the years, and they do seem to be cycled through on a semi-regular basis. There's a good reason for this: good games are a known quantity. We enjoy playing them. Just like re-watching a favorite movie, there is something very comforting about re-playing a favorite game. It takes effort to discover (well, to play) new games.

 

Whether a game is from 1982 or 2016-- if you've never played it before, then it's new. Part of the joy that I've discovered in the HSC is that even games that we think we know, we don't really know well until we dig into them. Such was the case with "Donkey Kong Junior" this last season. I've always been fond of that game... but playing it again and again (and never actually getting better at it, sad to say!) made me see deeper into it's mechanics. I could actually see more. "Donkey Kong Junior" is certainly not a new game to me-- I even have fairly fond memories of playing the game in the early 80s. However, the game became new when I dived into it and really tried to play it to the best of my ability.

 

That's the genius of playing for a high score. It's not about the score; it's about the goal of attaining a score. Any score. Your best score. Throughout the High Score Club season I've discovered that previously-played games and new games all merge into one category: a fun way to share a passion for classic gaming with other like-minded players.

 

New or old, good or bad, poor graphics or amazing effects, the results are the same when we're all sharing the experience. So, forget about the score and focus on the playing, for the fun lies deep within us.

 

 

[+orpheuswaking]

I wanted to add another game that I always forget

 

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