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No, they definitely get harder as you go. I just made it to part 3. No clue what I'm supposed to do!

3,770 A weak start... will do better when I get time.

So does that mean that these are also available for the VIC-20? I have never seen or even heard of it for the VIC-20. Sorry I'm not interested in the stuff you're offering, but consider this a free bump.

Dude, that's 130%. Did they cut the funding to your school or something? Well obviously the 40% from ebay is a subset of the 90% from "online sources". For me, the common stuff is almost all from the wild. The rare-ish stuff is a mix of trades and eBay, mostly trades. I'd say less than 5% of my Atarri 2600 collection is from eBay.

48,460 Yay! I earned my patch! I'm happy now, I think I'll sit out the rest of the week. Sorry Rob, but Spider Fighter isn't really my thing. :wink:

The bonus is actually (100 + 10 x sector) x lives remaining. Pretty complicated, eh? My last game for this week, but I was able to almost double my previous score. I knew I was doing well when I passed my old high score and still had 6 extra lives remaining. (The most extra lives I had at one time was 8.) New score: 44,180

Wow! I take a few days off and everyone blows me away! That's what I get for bragging. :wink: Played a bit today and made substantial improvements. Still no match for Stan though! Congrats! My new score: 23,914

Nice! I saw that post on DP and thought I missed it. I could use everything in the Grand Prize except the 2600 and games and the 7800 games (could use a working system though). I'd be happy with just the runner up prize if it comes in small though.

10,020 Great game choice! And thanks for choosing Expert. Much more fun that way, and better for people like me who don't have lots of time. I promise I'll post a picture next time. I didn't realise I was so much better than everyone else.

Well, I was able to improve my score over the weekend. From 419.8 to 421. That's it for me I guess.

I haven't played a lot of homebrews/hacks, but I'll put in a few votes: 1. Qb 2. Thrust 3. Marble Craze

Thanks for the offers people, but I'm not looking to buy (unless you're selling real cheap :wink: ). Updated list.

First try: Day 3, 419.8

I have an extra Communist Mutants from Space box and these spare manuals: Adventure (B&W) Air-Sea Battle Asteroids (with info card) Basketball Battlezone Bowling Combat Defender Frogger Kaboom! Missile Command Pac-Man (Atari) Pac-Man (Sears) Sky Diver Solaris Space Invaders Star Raiders Venture Warlords

Damn! and Congratulations! I was just playing this game over the weekend (actually I was just testing a spare cart I picked up and couldn't stop playing :wink: ). We should play Entombed in the HSC soon.

This what you're looking for?

I just got a Joust cart with "P" on the end label and it works fine on my NTSC TV.

All this sounds great. I think the season should be longer than 12 weeks, because a lot of people can't (or don't want to) play every week. Also, I am one of the people who never got to pick a game. I would like to have that opportunity but I won't complain if everyone else wants to scrap the old member list. I would, however, like to offer another suggestion that combines both methods. 1. Keep the list as it is. 2. The next five people on the list each pick a game (and difficulty setting). 3. The HSC as a whole votes on what the next game will be. 4. The following week, the 4 people whose games lost the vote plus the next person on the list pick another 5 games. 5. The person whose game won the vote, and anyone who was supposed to pick a game to be voted on but didn't, are moved to the end of the list. Sorry if that is too complicated, but I tried to incorporate all the good ideas that have been suggested. One thing that hasn't been discussed much that was a problem in the last HSC is how to deal with "deadbeat" players, so I tried to include that too.

Honestly I would probably stop participating. When people start taking it so seriously that other people are excluded because they are deemed to be “too good”, it’s no longer fun. I simply can’t fathom the concept of not wanting to play just because you know you can’t win. I hope that the people who feel this way don’t carry that logic into other parts of their lives because that’s just sad.

So we're keeping Supercharger games seperate? OK, I didn't realise that. Seems odd, but I'll play along. Please make changes as shown below. New list with Supercharger games seperated: 1 Pitfall II 2 Frogger 3 Mountain King 4 Cosmic Ark 5 Demon Attack 6 Adventure (was #7) 7 Q*Bert (was # 8 Quick Step (was #9) 9 H.E.R.O. (was #10) 10 Pressure Cooker (new to list) Top 5 Supercharger games: 1 The Official Frogger 2 Escape from the Mindmaster (was #6 on main list) 3 Dragonstomper 4 Rabbit Transit 5 Fireball

I'm in favor of just 1 pt. difference. I beat Todd on The Official Frogger! (Mind you, that was during Hurricane Francis.)

I agree. I don’t have a problem with resetting the HSC, but I don’t like how Adv. of Tron was retroactively changed to week 1. The first HSC should be allowed to continue for a couple weeks and end at a predetermined date when the new HSC will start. Implementing a new scoring system that awards 1 point for participation is probably the best reason for resetting the HSC, since I think it would encourage a lot more people to play. I don’t really like the idea of random stop times. Anyway, it’s been fun and I hope no matter what happens we can keep the HSC going in some form or another.

Updated list with some new stuff for trade. I can't believe that I've only acquired 1 of these since my last update in July! (It was Dishaster.) I have got a few of higher rarity however, as well as some label/box upgrades, so it hasn't been a complete bust. :wink:

It's easy to come up with 10 games, but putting them in order is difficult so I would tend to agree with Manuel. People should just list their top 10 in no particular order. However, for now here are mine in order of preference as best as I can figure: 1 Pitfall II 2 Frogger 3 Mountain King 4 Cosmic Ark 5 Demon Attack 6 Escape from the Mindmaster 7 Adventure 8 Q*Bert 9 Quick Step 10 H.E.R.O.

Same here! Easily on of my favorites. My high score: 24,570