karokoenig

Atari 2600 Air Sea Battle: 9 min Fatal Run: 3 min Marauder: 3 min Mission 3,000: 2 min Space Invaders: 5 min Toyshop Trouble: 15 min Played Toyshop Trouble for the finals, and some other games together with my son.

Not really getting into the groove in Toyshop Trouble. 8,676.

If your condition doesn't allow any decent attempts, that'd be bummer. Hope you improve, and can give all games a try. Even Frogger. Once you get through that one hard traffic level (which happens around 3.5 or 4k (roughly), traffic resets to starting level and only the river parts get slightly harder. If you make it there with one or two lives left and keep focused, there's quite a few points to be made for relatively little danger.

Atari 2600 Frogger: 34 min Real life keeps interfering with the lure of my Atari console, which is a bit of bad news for my performance in the Bronze Medal competition. But there are quite a few days left, so I'm confident that I will get a few good attempts in. Very happy with my Frogger score for now. The other games are Toyshop Trouble and Infiltrate, one of which is great fun to play.

I second "Circus Atari" for paddle games, because it's so much fun to play, I wouldn't even care about my score :-). For Paddle weeks: also "G.I. Joe" (or "Action Force" in our regions).

Let's get this started with Frogger Game A: 6,533. New personal best for me. Topped my old Highscore for Game A by 1.5k.

We shall see. I might have beaten you in two of the games during the season, but I also know you are a persistent customer with great skills. The scores were close in both games, and I was at the end of my line with those as well. The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings... :-).

And good luck to you as well, Jin. I'm probably even more nervous about the draw of the games. There are not all that many in which I would have any hope of competing with you. But try I will :-).

Seems to become a slow week on the tracker, and I am no exception. No gameplay logged this week for me. I was crazy busy in real life. In the coming week, there will be times logged for me. Either from the Bronze Medal tournament or from the Losers' round :-).

There are a few tips in the Dragonfire thread from the beginning of the season. For me, changing to another, stiffer joystick made all the difference.

Darthkur, you playing?

Atari 2600 Dragonfire: 28 min Frogger: 3 min Missile Command: 5 min NES Swamp Thing: 14 min Tiny Toon Adventures 2: 10 min Sega Mega Drive King’s Bounty: 65 min PC (DOS) Silent Hunter: 55 min

Significant improvement: 33,010. Got rather lucky with items on that attempt. New personal best as well, as far as I can remember.

I've dug through my collection and may have found something that might be interesting as a prize: Winner of this Paper Medal Bracket can choose any two of the games depicted above. All are US NTSC games, and all are sealed, except for Bump 'n Jump, which is just CIB. The shrink wrap on Crossbow has become brittle and is broken. None of the boxes is without small dents, but overall, they are in fairly good condition for their age. If the winner is not interested in any of these, I would ask Albert to hand out a $ 15 AA store gift card on my bill instead. The games were part of a HUGE lot of stuff I got from a large-scale German collector a while ago. I paid a ridiculously low price for that lot, so I think it's only fair to give something of that generous gift back to the community.

Let's start round 2 with 17,470

Atari 2600 Bank Heist: 54 min NES Boulder Dash: 12 min Chip ‘n Dale 1: 3 min Duck Tales: 5 min Super Mario Bros: 5 min Sega Mega Drive Bio Hazard Battle: 8 min The Flintstones: 3 min Wolverine Adamantium Rage: 5 min Tried out some new Mega Drive games I found on a recent flea market, played some NES with my son, and finally worked out how Bank Heist works. We will see tomorrow if my score was good enough :-)

I'm not sure yet, Vocelli. I could think of many things. Atari games, maybe a joystick, maybe even a Sega or NES controller. Maybe I could just chip in a $15 gift certificate for the AA store myself. Give me a few days to rummage through my stuff and see what I got. We are not in an extreme hurry, considering how long the tournament still goes. I just think that a real prize might be a bit of an incentive to participate.

Maybe I just ask here... Question 1: Since Spriggy has donated AA store gift certificates to those who made it to the bracket challenges - when will that drawing be? Question 2: Would it be desirable if I donate a little prize for the winner of the Paper Medal? Something physical from my collection. All players in here would be eligible for the prize (I would give it to myself, be happy and save some shipping costs if I'd end up to be the one.), provided he/she hasn't already drawn a gift certificate. See question 1.

That sounds painful... and wrong.

Barely made it across the 6.6 k. New score: 6,973. Your hand rested, Redmiller? Taking into account how early in the week you reached 6k, I would think you should give it another go. You have two days to beat my new score. I definetly won't have any more time to play before Sunday.

Just for the record: Bank Heist: 5,032. I might have one more try in me to beat 6.6 k - if I find the time later today. On Saturday and Sunday, I won't have time :-(.

3,897. I think I get it. Sort of...

Atari 2600 Bank Heist: 6 min Crazy busy last week. And a bad draw for me in this matchup for the first round of the Bronze Medal Challenge at the end of the HSC. I would guess anyone of you could beat me in Bank Heist with a hand tied to the back - and blindfolded...

Bank Heist Game 1: 1,220. Paper Medal Tournament, here I come...?

Cool idea. But paper? Couldn't it be tin, brass, or wood? :-).