Season 1 Game 18 *Tron Deadly Discs*

[Season 1 Game 18 *Tron Deadly Discs*]

2,221,500

 

Great. Now I have to figure out how to explain to the wife why I have to spend all my free time in front of the Intellivision this weekend.

 

The recognizer shows up at every corner but (under/below) so, stay in the middle again so you don't get smashed by it... also try to memorize where the height of your standing position. I stand on the black line or just barely below it when the recognizer shows up (on the right side).

When it comes from above or west... I stay about 2 steps above the black line, I knock out the recognizer about 80% of the time now.

 

I find that if I don't hit the Recognizer with the first or second shot and have to dodge the paralyzer I have a hard time getting in the right spot. Once I get higher scores I tend to leave one warrior on the screen at all times just so I can keep the doors open.

[Intellivision stories and memories]

My first Intellivision memory is that my cousin got the original wood-panel beast for Christmas one year (probably 1979). As soon as I walked into their house for Christmas dinner I saw my cousin playing Astrosmash; I blew off my aunts, uncles and grandmother and sat about 6 inches from the TV for about three hours straight.

 

I had the family record in Lock 'N' Chase until my brother apparently found a glitch and broke my score. But without any pictures or proof other than my mother saying so, I refused to acknowledge it.

 

And somewhere in a photo album in my parents' old house is a Polaroid of me sitting in front of what seemed like a really high Astrosmash score at the time. I think I flipped the screen back to black (what's that, 200K?), and at 8 years old that was an accomplishment.

[Intellivision Controllers Are Not Ergonomic]

Here's a brain teaser: Can anyone suggest how to hold an Inty II controller so the sharp edge of the back does not hit the finger? I played the dang thing for half an hour with the stupid sharp plastic edge on the back kept hitting my finger and it hurt while I did it.

 

I'm thinking that some sort of rubber gasket around the indent. Or maybe I'll repurpose one of my wife's ponytail holders - it seems to be the right thickness.

[Season 1 Game 18 *Tron Deadly Discs*]

Danged orange guards!

[Season 1 Game 18 *Tron Deadly Discs*]

My first game of T:DD in about 25 years - just got an Intellivision II last week.

 

My second game of T:DD? 800 points. There will be no photo.