DamonicFury

Poll closes Sunday, April 28th, 2024 @11pm EST

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Welcome to the eighth round of the 18th 5200 HSC season. Defender won the poll by a single vote. Use the Hard difficulty. (I feel like Easy and Normal make this game into a grueling marathon for good players.) Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The record was set by yours truly with 1,224,325 points. Beat this if you can for a bonus point. The ROM can be found here: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-defender_s11729.html Round ends Sunday, April 28th, 2024 @11pm EST Standings: oyamafamily -1,711,700 - RECORD BREAKER NE146 - 236,175 RB5200 - 71,525 jblenkle - 18,600

Congratulations to NE146 for fending off the most alien invaders! Ya'll can't stop with the classic space shooters! Defender is up next. Final standings: NE146 - 18,398 +11 RB5200 - 13,890 +10 Micheloni2600 - 11,659 +9 Cafeman - 7,530 +8 Ryan Witmer - 7,330 +7 UnRedeemed - 7,289 +6 Mikey50 - 2,452 +5 jeremiahjt - 1,582 +4 bemis - 1,448 +3 jblenkle - 158 +2

Defender wins the poll by a single vote.

Sure, here you go...

Poll closes Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @11pm EST

Great score! Yeah, that’s exactly why we’re not playing the default variation… five ships just feels like too many for this game.

My apologies for missing your latest score update. The standings have been corrected.

Congratulations to phuzaxeman on once again showing off Galaxian supremacy against tough competition. Great participation this round! Always nice to see. Clearly y’all aren’t tired of fending off alien fleets - Space Invaders won the poll and is up next. Final standings: phuzaxeman - 27,440 +11 RB5200 - 24,640 +10 Micheloni2600 - 24,540 +9 Cafeman - 23,590 +8 mikey50 - 23,500 +7 RyanWitmer - 21,910 +6 NE146 - 10,440 +5 bemis - 10,340 +4 jeremiahjt - 7,450 +3

Welcome to the seventh round of the 18th 5200 HSC season. Space Invaders won the poll by two votes. Let’s use Game 4 - same as the default game but with three ships instead of five. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. No record exists for game 4 so somebody will be setting one. The ROM can be found here: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-space-invaders_14917.html Round ends Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @11pm EST Standings: NE146 - 18,398 RB5200 - 13,890 Micheloni2600 - 11,659 Cafeman - 7,530 Ryan Witmer - 7,330 UnRedeemed - 7,289 Mikey50 - 2,452 jeremiahjt - 1,582 bemis - 1,448 jblenkle - 158

Space Invaders wins the poll.

170,275

Even after loosening the screws, going right is a real problem for this stick. Playing the games with the AtariVCS stick is acceptable. But it’s a real problem that the pack-in stick is so wonky.

New poll is up:

Poll closes Sunday, March 31st, 2024 @11pm EST

Awesome, thank you!

Hi, Micheloni2600! One of our eagle-eyed players noted that the 0 in the left corner of your screen appears to be green (instead of the usual blue.) A green zero would signify the game is in easy mode (using the bottom left button of the keypad to start.) Could you please play again with the default setting (game zero)? If you were playing the default setting, could you perhaps play again and take a photo that more clearly shows the blue zero? Sorry for any inconvenience... please don't let this sour you on playing!

Welcome to the sixth round of the 18th 5200 HSC season. Galaxian tied the poll but won the coin toss. Play using the default settings (Game 0). Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. Phuzaxeman set the current record of 37,550 points. Beat it if you can for a bonus point. The ROM can be found here: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-galaxian_13599.html Round ends Sunday, March 31st, 2024 @11pm EST Standings: phuzaxeman - 27,440 RB5200 - 24,640 Micheloni2600 - 24,540 mikey50 - 23,500 RyanWitmer - 21,910 Cafeman - 15,800 NE146 - 10,440 bemis - 10,340 jeremiahjt - 7,450

Congratulations to RB5200 for setting the first record for this challenging game. Galaxian is up next. Final standings: RB5200 - 77,300 +11 Ryan Witmer - 33,700 +10 Cafeman - 26,300 +9 Mikey50 - 13,060 +8 bemis - 9,260 +7 rubeon - 7,940 +6

Another tie. Galaxian won the coin toss and will be up next.

New poll is up:

Poll closes Sunday, March 17th, 2024 @11pm EST

No, game authors are quite welcome to participate! Cafeman regularly participates when Koffi is selected. Show us how it’s done! 🙂

Welcome to the fifth round of the 18th 5200 HSC season. Rob ‘n’ Banks tied the poll but won the coin toss. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. There is no current record, so someone will be setting a new one. The ROM can be found here: https://phasercat.com/rob-n-banks/ Round ends Sunday, March 17th, 2024 @11pm EST Standings: RB5200 - 77,300 Ryan Witmer - 33,700 Cafeman - 26,300 Mikey50 - 13,060 bemis - 9,260 rubeon - 7,940