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I have to agree with Steve... Get to round 8+ and then we'll talk about how simple the game is... Here's a link to the Twin Galaxies scoreboard for DFire. Only Todd has smoked this title... http://www.twingalaxies.com/cgi-perl/searc...platformSelect=

My step-dad and I would play lots of Pong. In the beginning, he'd win alot until I figured out the angles and behaviours. Later, we would play Pacman, Defender and Yar's on the VCS.

Well, it's nice the folks at Atari decided to redeem themselves with the 5200/8-bit port. Granted, the controller for the 5200 sucked, but Pacman was re-done very nicely.

Could you provide your source of confirmation? It would help lend credibility since many individuals/sites are looking for this same information.

For the most part, this is true. In the very early VCS days, the development "team" was a one man (or woman) show. However, later in Atari's lifecycle, there were several VCS titles that had a development "team" consisting of coders & graphics artists. Granted, that is nothing compared to todays 100-200 member dev teams for games. Watch Stella at 20 and you will see where several "teams" discuss the games they created and their roles.

I think for the sake of historical accuracy this is a great idea. With the vast knowledge and resources available in the AA (and others) community, one would think this is highly do-able. I'll continue to dig thru the docs and such that I have and research these. Anyone else willing/able to help?

Scott: I've had no luck with locating the other 4. Anyone else have any light they'd like to shed on these?

A possibility... Name: Circus Atari Company: Atari Model #: CX-2630 Programmer: Mike Lorenzen Year: 1978 Released? Yes Notes: Based of the Exidy arcade game Circus http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/c...circusatari.htm

I have not been able to find any solid info on any of these titles. However, when you consider who was at Atari at the time, it's a very short list... Nolan Bushnell - Founder of Atari Al Alcorn - Co-Founder of Atari Joe Decuir - Atari 2600 designer Steve Mayer - Atari 2600 designer Ron Milner - Atari 2600 designer Jay Miner (archival footage) - Atari 2600 designer David Crane - Pitfall, Freeway Larry Wagner - Initial programming team leader Larry Kaplan - Air-Sea Battle, Bowling --- Al Miller - Surround, Basketball, Starmaster David Crane - Canyon Bomber, Dragster, Pitfall, Pitfall II Larry Kaplan - Air-Sea battle, Kaboom Carol Shaw - Polo, River Raid Larry Wagner - Video Chess Bob Smith - Riddle of the Sphinx, Dragonfire Dennis Koble - Comments about Easter Eggs Tod Frye - Pac-Man, Save Mary Rick Maurer - Space Invaders Rob Fulop - Night Driver, Missile Command, Demon Attack Steve DeFrisco - Secret Quest, Motorodeo, Klax (excerpt above taken from Cyberpunks website (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698/cyberpunks/). Used without permission) --- for all you copyright people out there...

I have a 16 yr. old daughter. While she's not a HUGE Atari fan (other than Unreal Tournament 2003 & Area 51), she does enjoy spending time with dear ol' dad and does play VCS games with me now and then.

At long last, the Intellivision Emulator Compatability List is complete!!! Head over to: http://www.snipercade.com/intellivision/ to grab your copy. Or... Click here: http://www.snipercade.com/intellivision/in...mpatability.pdf If you see any glaring mistakes or if you have ROMs I have not tested, contact me and let me know. Also, if you have tested any emulators not listed, please let me know. Enjoy!

1 100.000% 1,000,000 David Yancey PH 1 100.000% 1,000,000 Todd Rogers R 2 69.935% 699,350 Robert Mruczek V 3 26.139% 261,390 John Dunne R 4 11.786% 117,860 Ron Corcoran R 5 11.680% 116,805 Alan Hewston R 6 9.311% 93,115 Robert Macauley R 7 6.857% 68,570 Stephen Knox R 8 3.915% 39,155 Brien King R Here are the top scores at Twin Galaxies. Or, http://www.twingalaxies.com/cgi-perl/searc...otalResults=111 If you want to get into the Book of Records (which get's published this Feb.), send me a tape of your game along with a TG submission form which can be found here: http://www.snipercade.com/twingal/bin/TG%2...Form%20v1.2.pdf ...and send them both in. Once reviewed, your score will be published in the TG dBase and then the Book of Records. Take care and great score!

My problem with the game is two-fold. When you defeat any of the knife throwers, you get NO POINTS! add to that the controls for the game are less than ideal... besides those two complaints, I just plain suck at the game (as is indicated by my miserable score of 41,900).

Happy B-Day Todd! You will forever beat me on this title by ONE point.

I've had my time at 5.81 for some time now (thanks for the cert Todd).

Yes, until Todd moves to Austin, TX. Then he'll be a west coaster with me. That is until my daughter graduates from HS next year and I move back east.

Other certs I have (that I can think of anyways): 3rd Place - MAME Robotron Championship (2002) 2nd Place - Atari 2600 Racing Days Dragster Competition (2002) 1st Place - Atari 7800 World Championship (2001) 3rd Place - Space Duel World Championship (Brien King partner)(2001) Lifetime Videogame Achievement Award (2000) 1st Place - Atari 2600 World Championship (2000) 1st Place - Atari/Coleco World Championship (2000) 1st Place - Atari World Championship (1999) Activision World Class Dragster Club (5.81) (1982) To this point, we have not formed teams to compete against other teams. We do have private challenges against each other in addition to open tournaments. In fact, Todd and I have been going back and forth on Ms. Pacman (all platforms) for a couple of years now. I have finally beaten him on all platforms (as he mentioned above). Back in the mid 80's, Twin Galaxies had a competition that was "East-vs-West", or more accurately, "California vs. North Carolina" on coin-op games. Perhaps we should put together an "East vs. West" competition for the VCS... ? Although, we would need to consider non-North America gamers too.

I also have another version of Space Invaders that I made specifically for a programming group I belong to (Dark Unicorn Productions). You can find it here: http://www.snipercade.com/dup/a2600/ or, take a look at the DUP site here: http://www.darkunicornproductions.com/

I for one do not just give up. If you look at the results from the Atari 7800 World Championship last year, Todd came in 2nd place... Yes, that 1st Place cert looks great on my gameroom wall...

If you can find a way to come to CGE or Fun Spot, you will be able to not only witness his gameplay but you can also play side-by-side with him. One of the great things about Todd is, while playing side-by-side, he'll share techniques and tips with you. I was able to improve my Dragster time from 6.5x secs to 5.81 secs in a matter of hours using his tips and techniques.

Todd actually does many different things. He called me two nights ago from Austin, TX (casting call) to tell me he may end up moving to TX from FLA very soon. Great news for me since I'm only a few hours away in Phoenix, AZ. To answer your question, yes, he spends LOTS of time playing games when not at work, etc.

Actually, after investigating the score more closely, it was discovered Todd accomplished his score using a promo cart the folks from Activision brought to the Chicago CES in 1982. It was for that reason I removed the score from the dBase and posted a more current, legit score using a commercial cart.

Scott: I'll dig into my tome of information and see if I can get some info for you on some (or all) of these.

Joy: Todd was very well known way back when. Like most people after the crash of '84, they went on to other things. While we have never given up on playing Atari, Inty, Coleco, Commodore, etc., there was no way for our achievements to get recognized since the media no longer cared and arcades were closing left and right. Once the "retrogaming" scene started back up around 92'ish, some of us resurfaced. Todd had some things going on in his life that kept him from resurfacing until about 2 years ago. In fact, Todd has recently been on TechTV, G-4, and in several newspapers across the country. We at Twin Galaxies did a big write-up on his return to the videogame scene last year and are very happy he decided to get involved and join TG as a Referee for live events. I really can't explain why people don't remember him from days gone by. Folks like myself, David Yancey, Robert Mruczek and so on, remember him from the 80's as we were all trying to catch him on the games of the day like Dragster, Skiing, etc. Sorry for rambling on like that... Thanks for the kind words about my current state of health. It's actually not as bad as the Bronchitis. The coughing fits are going to be the end of me it seems.

Yep, you're right. I have been under the weather lately (Bronchitis & Flu) and feel miserable. I'll try not to make the same mistake again...