Atari 2600 Relay Race

[Atari 2600 Relay Race]

I'm game!

awesome! They're doing all of the planning in the discord, plus talking starts and such

[Season 7 ~ Week 2 ~ Battlezone]

my only goal is to do better than last season, so hopefully I can do that with scores this bad.

Sit 'n Spin - 38,000

Normal Game - 43,000

[Atari 2600 Relay Race]

so, the speedrun community decided to do a race on March 24th (I know the thing says 26th but they changed it)
here are the goals for each game, they must be done in order back to back. anyone who wants to join is welcome to!

Discord link below
https://discord.gg/JaAXBKd

[Season 7 ~ Week 1 ~ Burgertime]

Can't see your score... Please repost bigger.

Thanks!

cant seem to get it to post bigger, score was an 11,900

[Season 7 ~ Week 1 ~ Burgertime]

[New Barnstorming game 1 World Record by Clay Karczewski]

My best time is 32.77. I thought that Todd Rogers got 32.67.

todd got a 32.74 which was the record for almost 15 years

but unlike dragster a bunch of people have gotten 32.74 and TAS is a 32.69

[New Barnstorming game 1 World Record by Clay Karczewski]

32.72 has been accomplished on real hardware seen here

[Season 7 ~ Week 1 ~ Burgertime]

New to high score club and the forums. Not the greatest score, but going ahead and getting my foot in the door at 18,450.

not the greatest! I wish I could break 10K, lol

[Season 7 ~ Week 1 ~ Burgertime]

 

Just put [ media ] then [ /media ] brackets around the YouTube link (without the spaces of course) and you can embed the video in your post. Nice shirt by the way!

thanks for the help Jin

[Season 7 ~ Week 1 ~ Burgertime]

Burgertime 8,900
link is to youtube video for the score, can't figure out how to directly link it.
also, I feel like now is as good a time as any to show off this shirt I have


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfdPQgpjy4

[Season 7 ~ Week 1 ~ Burgertime]

ooooohhhhh nooooooo..... I'm terrible at burgertime, lol

[SEASON 7 ~ NEW HSC ~ Requests/Start Date]

I'm curious as to who's using what hardware, & if game systems' Atari discs (PS2, XBOX, etc) are ok?

I use real hardware sometimes, but mostly emulate on Bizhawk

[I'm addicted]

no, we had another contest which was team based to pass the time between seasons, but season 7 will be basically the same as past seasons

[Pirate_se little score challenge]

Congrats to DarkQ Massacres and chavert.

just noticed this spelling of my name, lol

[Pirate_se little score challenge]

It is currently 11:51pm ET on Fri Dec 15.

ooooh, haha, I'm so dumb, sorry. I was looking at my clock past midnight here, so it was saying the 16th, but I didn't realize it was past midnight, so sorry about seeming rude

[Pirate_se little score challenge]

alright, but in the original post it says the evening of December 15th, it is the evening of Dec 16th now, so it did end yesterday. but oh well, just super hyped about the credit

[Pirate_se little score challenge]

forgot the contest ended, haha. any idea when prizes will be awarded?

[Pirate_se little score challenge]

So frustrating....

I was so confused. I thought you got 4, but 5 is the lowest score and I thought my life was a lie

[Pirate_se little score challenge]

Side note: If anybody wants SE on a physical cart, I give Al the OK to make a custom cart for them. Just don't make them to sell.

I was actually debating on getting it with the money if I win, haha

[What did you buy today?.........]

Picked up this nice lot today, all the M Network games in the front were 50 cents a piece and all together with the console and 2 boxed games $60

[SEASON 7 ~ NEW HSC ~ Requests/Start Date]

barnstorming, boing, fire fly (1 life challenge), seaquest, asteroids, mystique game week?

and the one I think I want to most would be a 10 rarity double week, pick some 10 rarity games and have them, odds are most people here haven't played them before.

[Rare 2600 Cart Census?]

There are plenty of people who enjoy movies and music made before they were born, so who's to say future generations won't also enjoy video games from before their time? I think video games are still far too new as an art/entertainment form to really know how they'll survive. I've definitely seen young kids enjoying Atari games and I think aficionados of the future will certainly appreciate them the same way music buffs covet old 78s.

 

That said, I think it would be interesting to know how many copies there are of some of the rarer games in relation to how many active collectors there are out there. Sure, there may be fewer than 10 copies of super rare carts like Birthday Mania or Video Life, but even some of the 9 rarity games, especially things like Quadrun and Q*Bert's Qubes that were put out by the big names, must have sold in the low thousands at the very least. Are there enough copies of Waterworld for all of us to have one, it's just a matter of tracking them down?

this can't be more true, I am a really new collector, my first console was a gamecube, but the 2600 is my favorite console to collect for. also, I wish there were enough waterworlds for everyone, it is one of my most wanted right now.

[Official*Video Game Box Protector* Cross Reference & Info Repository Thread]

any good cases for loose games? I don't care much for the boxes and collect loose normally. (still get boxes when I can though)

[Your Atari Christmas Wishlist?]

An ataribox preorder for a spot in line at bestbuy dec 23 2019 at 3am in -40 weather. And a timmies giftcard so I am not cold waiting.

I can agree with the timmies card, lol

[dragster attempts gone mad]

Well with todays advancements in joystick tech these new guys are cheating.

some of them were using original controllers, and even so it takes the same amount of skill and technique to do it