Ignorama

Does Elektronite still exist? I think it was said at one point in the past that they close the doors?

So its Sharp Shot and Congo Bongo moves on to the next voting.

Did you ever got any response?

300k is pretty sick

Its twitter and you have almost the account for 24 hours. Dude, the tweet-counter should be around 1k! Your followers want to know EVERYTHING. What do you eat? When do you eat? Why do you it it? How did it taste? Would you eat it again? You should do more eat and tweet (this time bad english by purpose to make a even worse pun)

I think the bridge is not consistent, you its hard to do that by just skill. I once ran a stage just by rushing towards the dude, when I entered the same stage in another run it didnt work. Fun-fact time: 1. Did you noticed the clams between the lava? I really wonder if they are supposed to be there, or if they just are there by accident. Poor clams, must be hot there: 2. Does anyone else notice, that after killing the guy the girl just walks away from our hero, seemingly scared? No hug, no kiss, the just wants to sneak away. I am not sure what kind of character we actually control, may the story is a lot differen than we all think at the first look

Well, to go slight off topic: I run into the Intellivision completely by accident. I was a hoarder back then and just wanted as many consoles as possible, so I not even looked for anything specific and typed "Retro Console" in on Ebay, where I found a Intellivision. I had no idea what it was and bought it. But than I was pretty fascinated by its history and its marketchanging abilities. First 16 bit console, first download games and many more. So while I sold a lot of systems in the meantime (like Gamecube, Saturn, Jaguar, Atari 7800, WonderSwan and many more) I kept the Intellivision. Than, another accident made me to go for the complete collection. I bought a lot of new old stock from Venezuela, because the games were cheap and of course in a decent condition. But I stopped at a point when I almost had every common title. Then I discovered a Ebay-auction which contained Tutankham, as far as I knew back then a Ultra Rare game, which is the rating in many guides. So I bought this auction and thought "why stop here". Well, maybe because I had thousands of dollars to spend if I move on, but young people often do not plan very well for the future But hey, I had a goal, I had a job and so I went on and on. As some may remember it was very fast in the first place, but of course it slowed down a lot when I walked through the just "rare" games and came to the REAL ultra rare and also ultra expensive ones. So right now I am missing Learning Fun II as my last game to complete this journey. It was a fun one and even if the market broke a bit down (man, when I bought SMB it was around 400... ) I dont regret it. Money is there to be wasted. And in concern of the games: I like to break the mechanics. I am not really a good player in my opinion, but I try to see how the game works and how I can abuse its mechanic to get a good score. Like in Star Strike, in which I never flew left or right, because its a better strategy to just move up and down. Or in Tropical Trouble, our actual round, in which I dont even try to follow the path anymore, because its much safer to just move on and jump through the areas. Its maybe skill, but in a different way. More the skill to recognize these possibilities.

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May we should delete all threads, pretend this shit never happened and give all 2017 games the title "game of the year". In fact the voting is pointless anyways, because people just vote, even if they dont know every game.* And in fact in such a small market I really dont see the benefit from saying "hey, this is better than that". Its just a slap in the face for the losing developers. We had hurt feelings in these votings in the past as well, so may just draw a line under this. Valter is not here anymore (at least it seems so at the moment) and it was his voting every year. So let it be his voting and move on. No hurt feelings, no drama. * - Fun-Fact: I did this myself for Piggy Bank, just because I wanted not Elektronite to win back then. I never thought its a good game, it was okayisch at its best. Most Elektronite games are a lot better in almost any point. But William was tilting and insulting again and again and so people just voted to make him lose. Its a perfect example why these votings do not really benefit anyone. Today we saw another example.

I wont chose any side, I will stay the lone wolf I always was. That makes life here a lot easier, since I dont have to watch out who I might or might not hurt with my opinions. As for Revs explanations: The timing makes it more than unlikely. I also dont think Rev is involved in this one here, so I distance myself from blaming him here. But this here did not happened just by accident, I mean please...

Since there is no authority in this mess, do we now get a game of the year and a retro-version game of the year?

Its undeniable a pretty dump move of Tarzilla. If people wont like the other thread its okay, but I think it should at least be talked about it and then, as a community descision, restarted. Maybe m-crew should have also first talked about his plans in a discussion-thread, I would agree on that one. BUT at least he just wanted to make something happened the community my desires. If it wasnt perfect, well, what about Tarzilla mentioning his plans and generate a reasonable base. No, he did not even tried that, instead he dick moved in just opening a 3rd thread and proclaiming that this is the real shit. I missed the past between these guys and so I do not want to pick a side, I start to judge the actions from what I see and what I saw so far was pretty embarassing for many people I thought that would be better than that. So in this special case I have to agree with m-crew: That the fuck just happened here? Edit: If that is the so called INTV Brotherhood, man I was never so happy to not have joined this mess as I am right now.

Well, I still have no clue what the fuck happened here. But I have to agree that is completely weird of Tarzilla to open a thread just minutes after there was a thread opened for this. I could actually see Revs Problem with the first one, but it was fixed so the second one was fine. If this here was planned, which sounds like it was, why not mentioning it in the thread of mr-intv already? Just one single post there and everyone would have known about this schedule. And Tarzilla can not have missed that one, because he posted there. It looks honestly just like a childish move and I dont get it anymore.

At least its comforting to see, that I am not the only reason for bitching Seriously, I often thought it would be peaceful here without my ranting but damn... No matter where, no matter what topic, the shit is burning.

I am confused. But its the Retro-Version so: Desert Bus.

Fun fact: Moonblast is a move, one of the best fairy type moves, in the Pokemon franchise. It has a base Power of 95 and a 30% to lower the special attack stat of the target by one stage. Pretty strong, especially against Dragon, Dark and Fighting-Type Pokemon. It doesnt belong in any way to this topic, and it probably doesnt interests anybody here, but god damn, its a FUN-fact!

Its not in the voting (because it was a 2016 release), but my heart goes with Desert Bus.

@freewheel You mentioned a special screen if you complete the 33 days journey. Even I will not try to do this, so I wonder if you could share this screen with us, because I really would like to see it

By the way, I want to ask you if we should remove the points-clause in the scoring? The original scoring said if two players share the same stage the lower score wins, I just took it from the last competition. But now I am not sure if there is any sense. Camping isnt giving you any advantage, so if you want to stay hours in Stage 0.1 feel free for doing it. Unfortunatly I was too focused, so I have not paid attention when I won the bridge with 6 lifes. Since there is no 7th life to gain you maybe rewarded with points. As I said: Its just a possibility, I have really not paid attention to that. But if its like that in fact the better score will maybe the better run, because you lost fewer lifes early on. In short: I am not sure if its fair to put the score in consideration for the ranking. But I made the rules at the beginning and so I wont change them if you think it would be wrong. If we would remove the scoring-clause two players with the game progress will get the same rank and same points.

And to remove that slight gap in the rules: When you deliver the best score in one game, but do not post any score for the other games, your average of course wont be 1,0. You will be calculated with the worst ranking for each game you dont post a score. That means the place right behind the lowest entry.

So, if anyone wants to play this beauty with others: Go on and vote it (but it would be nice to participate as well, not just vote) http://atariage.com/forums/topic/274556-hsc-9-choose-your-game-for-round-6/?p=3940362

Since all for "loser" games hat 0 votes they are tied, even without any love and so moved to the next voting. The free slot was filled with Sharp Shot, because the Sharp Shot Topic mentioned a HSC contest. The Voting ends on 27th of January 23:59 EST. But since its a collection of several mini games we need special scoring there, I'll try to explain it. Feel free to ask questions if you have problems to understand what I want to say. Sharp Shot would be a special scoring game. We would play all mini games and in every game there would be a ranking. The final score will be the average rank. For example: If you placed 2nd, 2nd, 2nd and 2nd your average place is 2,0. If another player was 1st, 3rd, 3rd, 4th his average place would be 2,75. The first player would be better in the final ranking. Another example: If you placed 1st, 1st, 3rd and 3rd your average would be 2,0. If another player ends in 2nd position in every game he would also have a average of 2,0. In this special case the first player would be higher in the final ranking. If the average is the same, the best position in a single game is the tie breaker. Last example: If you get 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd and another player ends 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 2nd both players would be completely tied and end in the same rank and get the same points. Hopefully its understandable. If not please ask. Special Scoring is no multi scoring. The points for the HSC are given for the combined final ranking.

Thank you, but when I look at your screenshots you probably will never see a red mountain. It will me more orange ^^ Good luck for that.

We also played a multiple scoring game (a classical cparsley when he was behind ) some years ago for all the games. So not just football. I will put the game in the next voting... again (actually it was there in the first or second voting this season). All games, but no multiple scoring.

As I said, we will see a red mountain. I guess its unfair to complain, because I had a lot of luck to get so far, but I am still a bit sad about not hitting two red mountains, because I entered 19.7 with 5 lifes left (6 is the maximum). So close, so close But well, I beat my own record of 18.7, so its at least something.