jefframsey

This game is difficult for me. The controls are pretty tough to get the hang of. Maybe I’ll get a better score later this week. Game 1/B/B: 518

I liked this game! The controls are a bit touchy but that may be my paddles. Game 1/B/B: 9540

Best score today. Frontline: Game 1/B/B 5700

Which thread is the one to post in? Front Line: Game 1/B/B Score 2600

Bowling Game 1/B/B: 226

My best score ever on this game! Kaboom is one that I play with my 12 year old quite often. Game 1/B/B: 1196

2 medals / 2000 points What a challenge this is to get the fewest points possible...

Blueprint: 1625 B/B never played this before. I think I can get better at it with time, but time is running out...

Not a big fan of Oink!, but really like Pressure Cooker! Not very good at either of them. Haven't tried the bonus game yet. Will submit that one later today.

That power LED is sweet! How did you do that one?

142,600 / Rack 13! Difficulty A/B Feels good to get better at this one. Still don't know how some of you are getting 7 digit scores. Are you using real Atari VCS hardware? Standard joystick, etc? Also, whoever wrote that poem deserves 5 bonus points.

Getting this game figured out a bit now... Score: 44000 / Rack 8 Game 1 / Difficulty AB

26600 / Rack 7 Game 1 / Difficulty BB

If it's not too late, I beat my old score again. I'm moving on to Solar Fox now... ?

I got a better high score tonight.

So far I got 4300. Still trying to best that. Those orange ones on stage two that move diagonal are fast! Fun game! I have an original cart of this. (This is my first entry ever. I think I get some bonus points for this, right?)

Follow-up: I played Pitfall II a bit more. It keeps crashing after 5-10 minutes into the game. At first the lower half of the screen shows scrambled looking graphics. Within a few minutes of this, the entire screen will black out and I can only reset the console to get out of it. I will post pics of this happening as soon as I get a chance.

Just when I though that this thread was slowing down... I am literally LOLing in my office right now! Too funny!

Now it all comes back... Those damn catalogs! I used to do the same thing. Circle something, write in the margins, and then leave that page open in the book on the table beside my mom's chair. What an ungrateful little greedy kid I was. And yes, that is how I got the games I wanted. But my mom would be the one who would buy a game that I didn't ask for, once it came down to $5-10. She'd just come home with it and say "For the price, let's try it. If it's no fun, we'll sell it at a yard sale." Not very often, but she did do this occasionally.

What'd be the fun in that? ? Exactly. Or even by NES-era standards.

Thanks for sharing. I'm far enough along now that I will just stick with the image that I got from @SS. I have reorganized that list quite a bit and I am going through and cleaning up file names/testing each ROM to make sure it will load and play on the UnoCart.

+1 I setup a new game for my daughter on her PS4 and it is like this. Spend an hour or more downloading updates, then start the game and spend another 30 min to an hour watching the cut scenes and opening credits. "If I wanted to watch a movie instead of playing this game I would do so."

This is true. I did read the manual to Superman. Without, that game would have been just flying around until I touched the kryptonite satellites (good name for a punk rock band) and then I would have just walked around aimlessly until I got bored. Star Raiders was a really personal one for me. My first home console was a 5200 and I had Star Raiders. I think maybe I had the manual at one point, but lost it before I ever read it. Needless to say, I hated that game for years, and spoke ill about it on occasion. It wasn't until I revisited it later on, found and read the manual, that I understood the game and enjoyed it.

I can totally see where I am being a revisionist, this review being 37 years later and all. I never played this game in 1983, or at least I don’t remember playing it. (I would have been 5.) And yes, it’s easy to say RTFM now, with all of the vast and complex places computers and computer games have taken us since then. In the 37 years that have passed, there have been several great games for other systems that would be nearly impossible to enjoy without reading the manual. (Star Raiders on 5200 was one for me personally.) In-game or on-screen instructions have since changed that but there were lots of them. The revisionist comment that you made really drives home my point: I think ET was as much of a case of being ahead of its time conceptually, than it being a rushed game or an unfinished game. In 1983, you could probably play 95% or more of the VCS games without reading anything before hand. Also, there were not many games at that time that tried to pull off a 3D landscape with such a limiting system to do it with. 3D on the VCS platform would be crazy hard to do a good job implementing today, even with all of the bank swapping and everything else currently going on with the platform. (Falling into a pit as soon as you enter a screen is frustrating, but I quickly learned that I should enter the screen near the middle of the right or left edge so that I minimize the risk of this happening. YMMV.)

It might if I could find it and download it. Do you have a link?