DamonicFury

Poll closes Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @9pm EST

I think youre in luck. It looks like a version of Omega Race was recently released under the name Delta Space Arena: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/285168-delta-space-arena-now-available-for-the-atari-5200/?fromsearch=1

I don't think anyone was using this, but, just to be sure, please don't use the "Extra Balls" option! This is the thing where you can press 1 on the keypad during the game to get 5 extra balls. Just stick with the 5 balls you were originally given. Thanks!

I'd encourage you to at least post a low-scoring emulation attempt. Also try eegt97's tips above for better controller emulation (thanks eegt97!) Has anyone else found a good combination of emulators and settings that works well for them?

Not a rule, really. Just a request to make it easier to track the current scores. :-)

Standings updated accordingly. Please create new posts for updated scores in the future to make things easier on the moderator. 🙂

Welcome to round nine of this 5200 HSC season! Sinistar and Super Breakout were tied in the poll, so I ended up picking the original pack-in game, Super Breakout. We will be playing in Cavity Mode. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. Do NOT use the "Extra Balls" option! This is the thing where you can press 1 on the keypad during the game to get 5 extra balls. The current HSC record for Super Breakout in Cavity Mode was set by zylon - 1,500 points. Bust it if you can for a bonus point! A link to the ROM and manual can be found here: http://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=668 Round ends Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @9pm EST Standings: jnice - 2,499 - RECORD BREAKER! eegt97 - 2,349 - RECORD BREAKER! Nuclear Pacman - 720 Cafeman - 545 bemis - 496 Mangia-Boy - 209 Abel MVada - 38

Congratulations to jnice on blasting the most bats and rescuing the most miners! Super Breakout is up next. Final standings: jnice - 170,995 - +11 Cafeman - 152,395 - +10 Nuclear Pacman - 128,220 - +9 jbkenkle - 84,980 - +8 eegt97 - 71,020 - +7 bemis - 48,030 - +6 jetset - 34,300 - +5 Mangia-Boy - 30,325 - +4 roadrunner - 29,270 - +3

Looks like a tie between Sinistar and Super Breakout. So, Ill have to choose. Lets say... Super Breakout. Sinistar will return in the next poll.

Admittedly, it's a little strange that Atari Corp. re-branded the 1979 Atari computer hardware as a game machine in 1987! It wasn't a huge hit, of course, but it probably did accomplish the goal of allowing them to sell off some of their excess inventory of Atari computer carts. It's nice for users that that some of the very best computer games got cart re-releases, making owning and maintaining a disk drive somewhat less necessary.

Poll closes Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @9pm EST

My apologies to bemis whose score I accidentally overlooked. The final standings have been corrected.

Sure, as far as I know its identical code-wise to the 5200 version.

Welcome to round eight of this 5200 HSC season! H.E.R.O. won the poll by two votes. We will be playing on the default setting. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The current HSC record for H.E.R.O. was set by Northcoastgamer - 330,635 points. Bust it if you can for a bonus point! A link to the ROM can be found here: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-hero_s11741.html A link to the manual can be found here: http://atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=626 Round ends Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @9pm EST Standings: jnice - 170,995 Cafeman - 152,395 Nuclear Pacman - 128,220 jbkenkle - 84,980 eegt97 - 71,020 bemis - 48,030 Mangia-Boy - 30,325 roadrunner - 29,270 jetset - 30,095

Congratulations to jnice for passing the most cars and speeding through the most laps to win this round! H.E.R.O. coming up next Final standings: jnice - 59,400 - RECORD BREAKER - 11 +1 = +12 Cafeman - 58,250 - +10 eegt97 - 56,650 - +9 zylon - 56,450 - +8 Nuclear Pacman - 55,800 - +7 jetset - 54,100 - +6 roadrunner - 53,400 - +5 bemis - 44,350 - +4 jblenkle - 41,650 - +3 Abel M'Vada - 32,700 - +2 Mangia-Boy - 28,650 - +1 Fastest qualifying round: Cafeman - 57.43 +3 eegt97 - 57.86 +2 zylon - 58.18 +1 Nuclear Pacman - 59.45 Abel M'Vada - 59.47 bemis - 60.50 jblenkle - 66.19

Sorry that the phone call cost you a point. :-( But glad you at least already had another good score in so it was only a point.

H.E.R.O. wins!

Just FYI, I wont be able to close this round and open the next one until tomorrow. Round still ends at 9pm as announced.

The modern criticism of this game is completely fair. There absolutely ARE many 2600 games that are more fun to play now than this one. But the game really was a revelation to those of us who played it in 1982. Up until this point, the 2600 had generally been giving us good (If rarely great) copies of games and play styles we’d already experienced via arcade games, board games, card games, etc. But it hadn’t yet given us something new we hadn’t yet tried elsewhere. But with Pitfall! we now had something we hadn’t played before... a graphically excellent action adventure game across a huge environment. Yes, in a real way, Adventure had done something similar earlier, and I would never want to take anything away from that outstanding achievement. But instead of icons that mostly only vaguely looked like what they should, nearly everything in Pitfall! was actually easily identifiable and animated. Pitfall Harry himself was amazingly well represented compared to previous game characters, and unlike Adventure’s square, he could run, jump, climb and swing on vines - yawn-inducing now perhaps, but amazing in 1982. No criticism of this review is intended... it’s looking-back approach to an admittedly now-dated game is right on target. Just wanted to give a back-in-the-day perspective to why this game was so popular and groundbreaking back then and remembered fondly by us old folks today, despite gameplay that doesn’t stand up quite as well as many of its contemporaries.

I have found the cart slot to be shockingly hit-or-miss... seems to ignore about half of the games I try it with for no perceptible reason as the games run fine on a regular Genesis. So its not a good reason to prefer the Genesis unit, unfortunately.

I couldnt agree more! I have long thought that was a truly unfortunate oversight. It would have been far better than adding Arkanoid games to a machine with no spinner.

If you can find one, this Taito bartop from 2005 is very cool and has a CRT. ❤️ https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=336636

Poll closes Sunday, April 28th, 2019 @9PM EST

38,170 with original controller

I'm just not enough into the late 80's/early 90's arcade stuff myself for this product, but I am glad to see a deluxe product like this come out. If it's successful, I'd love to see their competitors imitate it. Particularly the holder of the Midway/Williams games could make a VERY attractive product... a dual stick deluxe unit for playing Robotron and Joust (and I guess Mortal Kombat for the younguns) would be very nice indeed!