I didn't even know that there was an Atari emulator that supported state saves. For real proof I would love to make .avi files of me playing. PCAEWin can do this but the mouse control in it sucks. And third party recording programs that I've tried either crash or record a blank screen. Can anyone help me here?
I have no trouble with the mouse moving up and down. Only thing is that there is a bit of latency between when you move the mouse and when the buckets move. Also I have an old Logitech Mouseman+. They're real heavy so it makes it hard to do small flick movements.
Definitely harder to do emulated.
On the topic of reflexes getting better with age. My best score when I was young must have been around 8000 at about 7 years old. But I got my best score (123K) when I was 20 years old. OK, so maybe I'm not *that* old, but still