Season 3 5200 HSC Round 1 *Beef Drop Plus*

[Season 3 5200 HSC Round 1 *Beef Drop Plus*]

Starting to do production(at the Diner):

42,950

[Colecovision HSC3/Round 18-Lady Bug]

Hooray for the Harvest!

138,530

[Colecovision HSC3/Round 18-Lady Bug]

This is one of my favourite coleco carts:

71,210

[Season 3 5200 HSC Round 1 *Beef Drop Plus*]

Breaking 50,000 is pretty impressive for this game. I've never made it past the 3rd wave in this version. I need a lot more Pepper :

27,800

[Colecovision HSC3/Round 17-Wing War]

Well, I may have cracked the Dragon's Code, Steep learning curve, notwithstanding. Once I accumulated 25 Super Crystals, including at least 5 Diamonds, 99 fireballs, and 99 life points, my Dragon was(is) virtually invincible . I might very well topple Twin Galaxy's HSC, but that would take awhile.

Here's my status after cashing in my latest Diamond Crystal:

 

127,850; 40 super crystals; 3 eggs(xtra lives)

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 27 *Berzerk*]

5,340, my final score for the Season

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 27 *Berzerk*]

My best attempt so far:

4,840

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 27 *Berzerk*]

Zapping a few more robots:

4,250

[Colecovision HSC3/Round 17-Wing War]

Man,...I had the Diamond Crystal and was on my way out, but the Rock Demon stopped me in my tracks! I wasn't expecting him to show up again He was hard as heck to to kill the first time! I'll be better prepared for the rematch:

9,975

[Colecovision HSC3/Round 17-Wing War]

Getting the hang of flying:

5,675

[HSC Season 7 Game 4: Atari Invaders]

4,050

[Colecovision HSC3/Round 17-Wing War]

Just got the cart in the mail today! This game is nearly unplayable in emulation w/keyboard.

It takes a while to learn your way around the realm initially. Once I learned how to make my way back to the den, it was time to collect the crystals...which is easier said than done! You must collect an air crystal 2nd, in between retrieval of both fire and water crystals. This is very difficult since air crystals disintegrate when they hit the ground. Flying without hitting anything is a real trick. So far I've only did this once and that's because a bat was in the den! This is a pretty original title, but will require a lot of practice to play well. I was glad to at least assemble a first super crystal:

2,900

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 27 *Berzerk*]

I'm not too hot at this game either. The computer taunts give it a nice arcade feel though :

3,130

[HSC Season 7 Game 3: Tail of Beta Lyrae]

One of the better games I never heard of. A little hard though with just keyboard controls.

I was pretty happy to break 5,000 and make it to the city. The steep incline/decline in the cave is where I lose most of my ships. The screen scrolls too fast to clear it most of the time:

5,483

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 26 *Kangaroo*]

Despite being pummeled from all directions by apples,

I was able to punch ahead to screen 6:

42,000

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 26 *Kangaroo*]

Still fine-tuning a strategy. Things start to get exciting if you make it to screen five. Those chest high apples will keep you on your toes for sure:

31,100

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 26 *Kangaroo*]

Starting to punch some monkey-face:

19,900

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 26 *Kangaroo*]

So far:

11,000

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 25 *Pac-Man*]

One small leap for Pac-mankind:

30,130

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 25 *Pac-Man*]

This version seems a slight bit harder than both the 800 and the Arcade, right from the start. My only pattern at this point is survival:

25,890

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 25 *Pac-Man*]

Beware the Red Ghost, he's crafty:

20,440

[HSC Season 7 Game 1: Arkanoid]

First off, I'm the proud owner(saviour) of a decades forgotten 800XL, found in a barn under a pile of ANTIC magazines, which were under about 2 inches of dust, hay and cobwebs. Other goodies in the cache were a 1050 drive, a 410 tape drive, orig. "ingot" power supply, asst. cables, joysticks, a Wizard of Wor cart, and some Dynacomp literature.

The odyssey I undertook to bring these Atari artifacts back to life would not have been possible without the information provided by the dedicated people in this community. It's hard to describe the feeling when that Wiz-Of-Wor game powered up on the TV screen!

 

As a long-time devotee to the Atari 5200, it seems only logical that the XL is the place to go if you want to play all the other countless 8-bit games which will likely never make it to the console.

 

I've never been a fan of those 'break-out' style games, but I find Arkanoid to be suprisingly fun and addictive! It appears I'm just in time to join in the new HS season, and judging by the competition, I better hone my chops :

70,530

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 24 *Frogger*]

Another hop:

13,705

[Season 2 5200 HSC Round 24 *Frogger*]

The Great Leap Forward:

12,570

[Colecovision HSC3/Round 14-Antarctic Adventure]

A little better:

33,800