Season 8 ~ Week 2 ~ Cosmic Ark

[Season 8 ~ Week 2 ~ Cosmic Ark]

Game 1 - 10,280
Game 5 - 464

 

A fun game, I will definitely put more time into it throughout the week

 

EDIT: Didn't notice but I guess the screenshots took my blank second monitor as well

 

[cleaning carts?]

Serious question: how does one end up with a cart that is dirty enough on the inside that it needs to be opened for cleaning, but has a label that's worth protecting?

the opening them up part is mainly just curiosity as well as for some of my cheaper games that I still don't want to damage. Something I'd like to do is start a sort of catalog of different games boards, but I'd need to be able to open the shells for that.

[cleaning carts?]

so, is there any good ways to open and clean a cart that doesn't damage the label or the cart? I can't find a good way to and just about every video I watch they mutilate the cart to get inside.

[argument on barnstorming records.]

The score isnt out of the realm of impossibility. According to this reddit thread, at least two other humans and a TAS have achieved faster times.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/8hta22/new_developments_on_barnstorming_on_atari_2600_we/

 

Additionally, a barn counting glitch (not exploited in the video), makes it possible to achieve times in the sub 16 second range.

that post is about the novice difficulty though, this score is for expert mode (unless I missed part of the post talking about expert mode) and the barn counting glitch has its own leaderboard for speedrun.com

[Season 8 ~ Week 1 ~ Dragonfire]

Being to new to this, I am just Amazed that someone could score 122K, or even the 33k score on an original Atari System.

 

What does NTSC stand For? for us non-techies? Or even PAL??

NTSC is the sort of generic version of the game, north american is what I like to use to describe it, and PAL is more European, but there are places aside from that that use the different versions of the games.

[argument on barnstorming records.]

So, I moderate the barnstorming page on speedrun.com and recently we had a new player come out and take 3 records quickly, one of which he keeps improving. I personally see nothing wrong with the scores, but another member is claiming they may be too good to be true, so I figured I'd come and ask the atari experts here. I'll leave a link to the run, which is on the expert/A difficulty of game 1 with a score of 33.22

 

[Season 8 ~ Week 1 ~ Dragonfire]

my new score 6,880 This game is very difficult to me, but my goal was to beat the white dragon before the end of the week, and on my final score I got that, so I will most likely be done for the week

[Season 8 ~ Week 1 ~ Dragonfire]

Are you telling that I am a cheater? Is there any money prize to win the Atari 2600 HSC, or with what end I am supposed to cheat, or are you telling that the score of 225740 obtained in season 3 by Botbird is false.

Season 3 scores

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229453-season-3-week-28-the-new-hsc-dragonfire/?hl=+dragonfire

I think it was just a joke, haha

[Red Sea Crossing copy sold for almost $4,000]

Damn... that's a lot of money for a 2600 game...

considering the rarity of the game, that's cheap. it would have sold for much more if the authenticity had of been better.

[Season 8 ~ Week 1 ~ Dragonfire]

Hello again everyone Happy to be back for another season!

Starting it off with a measly 3,830 points, not a game I knew much about but my goal before the end of the week is to beat the white dragon (though it may not happen)

[Red Sea Crossing copy sold for almost $4,000]

stumbled upon this today, an auction that ended the other day for the famed red sea crossing. Not sure if it is a legit copy of the game, but interesting none the less.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VERY-RARE-1983-RED-SEA-CROSSING-Inspirational-Video-Concepts-Game-by-Steve-Stack-/302903071836?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137

[Sword Quest reboot?]

there was one point where I was going to design a contest like this, have a series of games with riddles leading to different goals, send the completed goal you get the next riddle. But I never ended up actually making it.

[What happens after Generation Atari?]

I feel like pointing out that the Atari 2600 is hands down my favorite console to collect games for and it will most likely stay that way. I have 3 consoles and over 150 games for the system. I am also 19 years old.

Basically just a way of saying that some of the younger generations will still learn to love and enjoy the 2600

[How much is too much?]

I've been collecting atari 2600 for most of the summer now and with my minimal income I've amassed over 150 different games for it. My entire collection however, is about 24 different consoles with over 500 games and I still think my collection is too small, haha

[Hin Seng cart?]

so I found a cart with a label on it saying Hin Seng, not much info that I could find on it (aside from an old forum on this site) and I was wondering if it was a rare version to find and if there was any value to it, picture is included, game is Missile Command.

[Season 7 ~ Week 21 ~ Paddle Week 2]

Night Driver - 21

 

Bonus - SprintMaster!

 

[5200 HSC Season 11 Round 10 - Gorf]

900 points, one game I actually own but can't play

[Season 7 ~ Week 20 ~ Paddle Week 1]

5,515

for my EGG I'm going for a longshot here, but my submission will be the Easter Egg in Adventure!

(Since the actual egg is invisible, I'm posting a picture of the name)

 

[Season 7 ~ Week 19 ~ Homebrew 2]

970

might play it again I don't know. gotten pretty busy lately

[5200 HSC Season 11 Round 9 - Ratcatcher]

ratcatcher - 100

not my cup of tea.

[Season 7 ~ Week 18 ~ Homebrew 1]

Seawolf - 1,370
not really feeling this game

[5200 HSC Season 11 Round 8 - Pitfall!]

Pitfall - 1,427

[Guess the Games!]

with the new knowledge I'd like to throw another guess into the ring

Grand Prix (which was given)

Frogs n' Flies
Kaboom!

(I enjoy guessing games)

[Season 7 ~ Week 16/17 ~ Quickies!]

Quick step is the only one with screenshot to prove how terrible I am. I have played about 10 games of it and I understand how the scoring works, but I'm just plainly terrible at it. I can't even break 500 points in any of those attempts. so my score is a negative amount I guess. Might try again on the other games, but I am done with Quick Step.

Discus
1,047 + 972 + 918 + 940 = 3,877

Sky Jinks
2:06.70

Footbag

20,900

Quick Step

315 - 2182 = -1,867

[not for resale - Mouse Trap?]

so someone near me is selling this item, a not for resale version of the game Mouse Trap. I didn't even know there was not for resale games for the 2600.

EDIT: forgot to link the item.
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-old-video-games/city-of-halifax/rare-atari-game/1348800664?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true