NoahsMyBro

16,800 Between the quality of this game, and the length of time it takes to restart after the previous Game Over, I can't tolerate more than 3 or 4 attempts in a sitting. Sunday night, after taking as much Zaxxon as I could stomach, I started up Berzerk and had some FUN. I'm SO looking forward to next round.

13,200 And in my opinion this is definitely one of the bottom-tier games on the 5200. If you guys are right about this being one of the better ports, the other ports must have been dreadful.

OK, now this is just pathetic. A few nights ago I scored 10,000. Tonight? 10,050. I notice the altitude gauge on the left side of the screen, but it seems to me to be just for show. Are any of you actually able to determine the height of on-screen objects - walls, planes, force fields, etc... - compared to the gauge, so you can know whether or not you are going to hit whatever it is? Everytime I encounter a force-field it's complete guess-work whether I go under/over it or run into it. For that matter, when I do luck out and manage to fly underneath the forcefield, it looks to me like I'm flying right through the thing.

I remembered not ever really liking Zaxxon, and thinking the game was overrated. But tonight I decided my memory was probably exaggerated, and the game probably wasn't all that bad. That may be for the arcade game, but this rendition of Zaxxon is worse than I'd have imagined. It looks like some pitiful half-assed shareware game for the C64. Our own Cafeman or Thomas Jentsch could probably have done something respectable with this even if I don't really care for the original game much to begin with, but this version of the game is truly a waste of cartridge shells that could be put to much better use. ICK. Now, with that out of the way, I scored 10,000.

My final score for the night - 21,765

OK, Improving - 13,975 Sorry about the less-than-optimal photo. My wife left our camera at work this morning, and all I have is my webcam. The webcam is too slow, and shows the scanline rolling through the image. I took 6 shots before I managed to get one that showed the score.

Just started playing this evening. Best so far - 6960 Not very good, but I'm going to try more later, once my hand feels better. I'm usually one of the loudest cheerleaders/boosters of the 5200 AND the controllers, but this game is killing my left hand, where my thumb meets the palm (the joint used when pressing the fire button)! I want to keep playing, but have to stop just to let my hand recover. Hopefully I'll pot an improved score later.

To support Darthkur's point, I recall demolishing the competition when we played Space Dungeon a while back. As I recall, nobody came even close to me on that one. Rather than gracefully bowing out, I enjoyed the exceedingly rare opportunity to win one for a change. Enjoy your accomplishment! (Now I'll need to go dig up the old thread, and see if my memory matches reality.....) Request denied. It counts. I am very proficient at some games, Defender for the 5200 for one, and that didn't stop me from submitting a score last year. I'm certain there are others out there that have the same situation and I wouldn't expect them to withhold anything on account of there skill level. I was really hoping that Bob would've joined us for Jr. Pac-Man in the 7800 HSC and wouldn't have thought twice about including his score. If you're still concerned then think of it as a small token of appreciation for making such an awesome game.

@#$%&$(@)(&*@##&*%)($#^%)($)_!!!!! Shoot! I was having a great game, almost 12,000 with 3 or 4 men left, when all of a sudden my computer turned off the screen to save power! By the time I found the mouse and brought the screen back to life I'd lost all but one ship, and my rhythym was shot to hell. Seeing as there's only 10 minutes left, I'm done. 14,660 was my best. RangerG, I don't think I'm ever going to catch you in this thing.

11,250 Man this is tough, and the joystick is killing my hand (CX-40). EDIT: 14,660 -- too lazy for a screenshot. This is easier with a gamepad. I wish I could play this on real hardware though. I'll bet the 5200 stick is great for this.

I wish I could hook up my 5200 right now to give this a go with the real controllers, but my wife's got the TV. Still, I managed a score of 75,200, no auto-fire as per the rules.

I understood my ship moves clockwise, but I was moving left & right. I'll have to revisit the game, now that I know I should try moving up and down as well as left and right. With that illuminated for me, who knows how far I might go?

99,100 I played this in an emulator, and used an auto-fire setting. That made things much easier. I'll try to give the game a shot on authentic hardware later during the round. I'm curious whether or not the autofire provides a substantial advantage. As for the game itself, I was never a huge fan and probably only played it once or twice, in the arcade back when it was new. I'm confused about the control mechanics. While playing, I notice my ship will stop at either horizontal compass point, only allowing me to travel around one hemisphere at a time. When that happens, the correlation between which side of the joystick sends me in which direction around the screen reverses. More than one this momentary distraction has caused me to die. Is this control scheme by design, and that's how the game works? Or am I running into some unintended quirk due to the emulator, the Stelladaptor, the autofire, or some other monkeywrench that I inserted?

Man, no time to play this round! 35,193 after 3 games. Gotta go....

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Ah. OK, I feel stupid! I'll meekly return to work now......

I seldom hang out in the Jaguar forum, and rarely (never?) post here, but either I've misunderstood your post, or else I completely, strongly, disagree. People elsewhere don't pay for homebrews? I've purchased a ton of homebrews on other systems: 5200 - * Adventure 2 * Koffi * Castle Crisis * Castle Blast * Boulderdash 2 VCS - * This Planet Sucks * Mental Kombat * QB * Alfred Challenge * Marble Craze * Thrust+ * Star Fire * SCSIcide * Vault Assault Colecovision - * Space Invaders Deluxe Lynx - * One or two from Songbird/Carl F. And probably several others I've forgotten. I've been buying homebrews since 1998, as have many other people all over the world. Many folks have online businesses selling homebrews. To say nobody except Jaguar fans are willing to buy homebrew releases, and releases for other systems are usually free has no connection to reality.

That happened to me too, so I tried another ROM of it, and that one worked. Try this one: Sadly, my multicart predates USB, and isn't upgradeable.

23,920 By the way - I just tried to play the game on the 5200 using my multicart, but the game crashes at boot. Is there any solution to that? Maybe run it on a two-port insted of a 4-port?

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Pingvin, the above is only your opinion, NOT AT ALL a "simple fact". I disagree. In my opinion, 5200 games look better, sound better, and most importantly, PLAY better on a 5200. I find the Colecovision controllers awkward and clumsy, imprecise, and worst-of-all, slow to respond, and I just don't like the look of the Colecovision graphics. The 5200 graphics look sharper and more vibrant to me, while the cv looks sloppy and cartoony. I dislike the NES graphics for the same reason. For that matter I dislike the standard font on the CV and NES, but I dislike the 5200 font as well, and just accept the fonts as limitations of the era. You may make some valid points, but you simply can't say "the simple fact is...", followed by subjective opinion. That's no different than me stating "The simple fact is that The Beatles were the best musical group ever." I believe it, but it isn't necessarily a FACT.

In my opinion, the 5200 is a much more enjoyable game system than the Colecovision, but I can accept that others may disagree. That aside, it seems a few folks in this thread have begun to get personal about this. While I think everybody should take a breath and back off, it seems to me to be especially blatant bad taste to trash-talk the Atari proponents here, on an Atari-centered forum. It should be expected that people here will be passionate about Atari systems and will strenuously argue their merits.