The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 31~ Double Points 1 ~ Solar Fox

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 31~ Double Points 1 ~ Solar Fox]

Thank you all for the tips, but I seriously don't get this game. I absolutely can't do it...

 

New score: 61,400.

 

I don't know how many times I have reset in rack 1. In >30 attempts, I managed to do the challenge rack just once. This game is kicking my ass.

 

I'm in the same boat. I can't even get to the score I previously posted. What I don't understand is how to avoid getting hit by enemies coming at you from the edges. You don't see them, they just hit you out of the blue. How are the edges being cleared out rack after rack without being hit? Are you guys noticing enemy flying patterns?

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 31~ Double Points 1 ~ Solar Fox]

 

There seems to be a certain incubation period necessary for this game, during which it seems impossible to make improvements. But when you stick with it, suddenly you'll have a breakthrough game and then it gets easier. Even then it seems to be one step forward and two steps back, but at least it no longer feels impossible

 

Thanks for the pep talk! I'll give it another try. I wanted to try for 100K, but was so far from it with no improvement in sight.

 

I thought this game was the last Atari 2600 cartridge I purchased in the wild (after I stopped collecting). Turns out, it was Star Fox.

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 31~ Double Points 1 ~ Solar Fox]

Probably participation points. Not good at this at all.

 

38,600

 

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 30 ~ Never Played 2 ~ M*A*S*H* (3B/B)]

Small improvements:

 

Game 3: 999-753 = 246

 

 

 

Game 7: 999-645 = 354

 

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 30 ~ Never Played 2 ~ M*A*S*H* (3B/B)]

Mash is one of those games where it really feels the Atari is playing favorites...

 

 

 

Yes! I've been yelling at the screen (I'll admit it) because my helicopter is getting shot all the time and Frank Burns's helicopter hardly ever gets shot!

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 30 ~ Never Played 2 ~ M*A*S*H* (3B/B)]

Interesting game.

 

Game 3:

 

999-782 = 217

 

 

Game 7:

 

999-657 = 342

 

 

 

This game was frustrating until I realized I could grab the shrapnel with any part of the tweezers (or whatever it is).

 

My camera is so slow, I have to snap the photo when it has the M.A.S.H. logo on the screen.

 

 

 

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

Thank you, keilbaca!

 

I've been playing this game trying to reach the 1100 club and I can't even repeat my 1200 score! Oh well. I'll leave it at that. I've got two days of 12-hour work shifts ahead of me (boooo).

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

 

 

If someone gets 1150... I will eat your boxers, or panties if female.

 

Hey, I've heard of men wearing panties...strictly for comfort reasons, of course.

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Shatner is a star trek guy right?

What you guys have with him?

 

A photo of him was used as the avatar of a former AA member who was a scammer and is now a legend.

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

Well, I'm almost at the 1100 club. Can't quite get there, though. I think I'm just not handling the ladders well enough. Thanks Northcoastgamer for the new pattern!

 

1200

 

 

 

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

Here's a tip, forget the kisses on the second screen.

 

From the screenshots, it still looks like you're knocking them out, though.

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

Yay! I'm in the 1200 club!

 

1270

 

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

 

 

anyone looking to kill some time in Portland, Oregon check out Smut Vintage! It's a cool shop

 

Gives me another reason to visit again besides the Voodoo Doughnuts.

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

 

It's rated R5 on AA, but does anyone know if these ratings are still good, or have they become outdated?

 

For some odd reason, I have two copies of this -- probably got at least one of them in a lot. Both of them have some label damage, so I doubt they're worth much, but if anyone's interested I could sell one cheap-like

 

I remember a thread where someone intentionally destroyed a "I Want My Mommy" cartridge and posted videos or pics of it (destroying game cartridges on YouTube was kind of popular at the time, for some reason). After posting it, a number of members commented that they needed that cartridge for their collections. The OP replied, "Was that cartridge really that rare?" LOL.

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

Sorry Miss2600. Only ONE point can be given to someone this week.

 

I understand now. Thanks!

 

I'd like to give my bonus point to LarcenTyler who has been a longtime participant in the HSC and always has a great attitude.

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

1330

 

I like this score, plus two knock-outs!

 

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

Thank you, Botbird208!

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

You only can give one point to someone. I capped it because many people could give one person many bonus points.

 

So you can give 1 point to 5 different people, right?

[The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 29 ~ Never Played 1 ~ I Want My Mommy]

Thank you so much for the bonus points Liduario and Scrabbler15! You are both excellent competitors but also very gracious and helpful to others.

[The NEW Hign Score Club S2 ~ Week 28 ~ Cosmic Ark]

17,570

 

Finally got to see the little Pac-Men

 

I had to go four rounds before getting the two robots before that. The first two rounds I couldn't get any of them because my guy kept getting hit. That was frustrating. All the numbers in my scores lately have been less than 2 and more than 4, so I don't think I have a chance at any bonus.

 

 

 

 

[The NEW Hign Score Club S2 ~ Week 28 ~ Cosmic Ark]

New, and probably last score I will post this week: 13,420.

 

I am definetly too slow for higher scores. This one here was one in about 20 attempts, all of which ended very very quickly - and regularly like a clockwork between 10,000 and 10,500 points. I reach this score easily, with full energy - and then die. Seems to be a threshold I can only cross with extreme luck. Which is why I'm content with this score here and hope that no one reaches the magic number 3.

 

But your score has a 3.

[The NEW Hign Score Club S2 ~ Week 28 ~ Cosmic Ark]

Small improvement...

 

16,580

 

[The NEW Hign Score Club S2 ~ Week 28 ~ Cosmic Ark]

Playing this game, I had an idea that might reconcile the extinction of the dinosaurs with the Bible. Dinosaurs probably only appear in very late levels, and Noah just couldn't make it there before his ark blew up.

 

[The NEW Hign Score Club S2 ~ Week 28 ~ Cosmic Ark]

I had this game when I was a kid. My father bought it for me. I guess he thought it looked interesting as I had never heard of the game or the company that made it. I think it was the only Imagic title I ever had back in the day.

 

15,880

 

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Well, a game can't get much more underrated than E.T. I think it's very unique and challenging, plus it always changes where the phone parts and Reese's Pieces are so it's not the same game everytime. I like the graphics, too.