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    TI-99/4A High Score Challenge

    Month: August 2017

    Game: Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom

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    Colonel Deering is ordering each and every one of you to play this game and post your high scores. Do not let her down!





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    I've played this game a few times this week. It is fun and I am learning the mazes.

     

    I haven't made it to the Shadow's Lair yet, but I have made to to the red level. The number of spiral droned, robo droids, and especially those nasty snap jumpers is overwhelming.

     

    I tried this game out on the Commodore 64 this week also. That version seems impossible. Not that it is easy on the TI-99/4A, but I do think it is possible....

     

    Attached is a video of my most recent quest to find the Shadow's Lair. This time in emulation on Classic 99 with a Logitech F310 controller.

     

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    TI-99/4A High Score Challenge

    Month: July 2017

    Game: Shamus

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    I have never played this game until 5 minutes ago. I found it on my FlashROM99, and it looks cool, so here we go!

    Good Luck everyone!!


    Oh wait..a prize! Same prize as last month since it is still available! Scroll back a few messages to the beginning of June for details.

    I will ship it anywhere in the world. Have fun playing!








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  12. Posted · Edited by jwild

    Defender Challenge Final Results:

     

    Here is where we stand:

    Mizapf 266550

    Globeron 87050
    Sometimes99er 57000
    Digdugnate 22500
    Sinphaltimus 6500

    Thank you all for playing and posting. It has been fun doing a "deep dive" into one game for 30 days. Defender was attractive to me because you flew a cool-looking spaceship and defended the planet. It was very challenging, but rewarded you for practice. Plus it has lots of cool buttons on the control panel and wicked sounds. I really enjoyed listening to Eugene Jarvis talk about the creation of the game and his other work on the podcast mentioned earlier in this thread. If you haven't listened yet, it is worth checking out. 30 plus years later, i am still amazed at how smoothly the arcade defender game plays.

     

    Also, I want to thank Globeron for the tip and video on how to use a classic controller with emulation. I ordered a joystick-usb device yesterday and should have it in the near future. Next video I take should be in emulation instead of over my shoulder playing on my real TI. I think I missed a few smart bombs (instead hitting hyperspace) during my 1 hour plus video because the tripod was in the best seat. I was sitting off to the side. I blame that on holding me back from 1,000,000. haha

     

    Well Misapf, it is time for me to pay up. Please send me your address and I will put your awesome prize in the mail.

     

    I also believe it is your turn to pick a game for July!

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    (I am over the deadline already 0.30am here), but gave it a try in classic99 with the PS3 type joysticks, it is difficult, need a normal joystick.

     

    I do not come higher than 12.500. (the 950 last time was on an Ipad Pro in a shopping center with JS99er in a browser window not ideal for gaming :-)

    I agree. I can't score nearly as well with my PS3 style joystick in emulation compared with real joystick on real TI.

     

    Your iPad post did give me inspiration to try out gaming on my iPad though! Hadn't tried JS99er before.

     

     

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    One question, though: That screenshot indicates that the game was not over. Did you play on emulation and pause the game to take the snapshot? I'd rather not drop the joystick at that moment! ;)

     

    I suppose you did the screenshot before the counter cycles, right? What was the end score?

     

    Yes the game was not over. I was playing on a real TI-99/4a with F18A and a Slik Stik joystick. I grabbed my cell phone with one hand and clicked off several pictures. Since the score blinks, most of the time I got a blank score. That pic caught the score.

     

    My end score on that game was just over 1million. The waves keep incrementing, but the score starts over at zero.

     

    As for a new video clip...I could do that. it would be quite long though! We do have two weeks remaining in the month, I may give that a try.

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    Did you know?

     

    Competitive scoring for Defender first began when Mario Suarez from Atlantic City played Defender for over 21 and half hours in 1982 at the Claridge Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. The game later became the focus of the first Twin Galaxies video game contest in which players in 32 cities simultaneously competed on the weekend of April 3–4, 1982. Rick Smith won the contest with a score of 33,013,200 which took 38 hours.

     

    Has to make you wonder how the basic necessities were taken care of during that 38 hours.....

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    Awesome scores! Breaking 100k!

     

    Did you know?

     

    Atarisoft was a brand name used by Atari, Inc in 1983 and 1984 to market video games they published for home systems made by their competitors. Each platform had a specific color attributed by Atarisoft for its game packages. For example, video games sold for the Commodore 64 came up in green packages, games for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A in yellow, games for the IBM PC in blue, and so on. Despite being in existence for less than two years, Atarisoft had a huge video game library with dozens of game versions being released for various home computers and consoles. Almost all of the Atarisoft titles were produced by third-party software companies, as Atari only developed for their own systems.

     

     

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    Did you know?

     

    Defender eventually became Williams' best selling arcade game, with over 55,000 units sold worldwide. By 2004, the game was a popular collector's item; the upright cabinets were common, while the cocktail models were more rare. Since its release, it has become one of the highest grossing arcade games ever, earning over US$1 billion

     

     

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