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Tuesday at 02:53 AM

1 hour ago, wongojack said:

Hmmm . . . Mine looks just like the first 10 seconds of this video. I was playing from a flashcart on the Genesis because I also do not have a physical copy. I will try a few things.

Update - I think I found the rom you are using on Archive.org. It is labeled "Columns (USA, Europe, Brazil) (Beta)." Trying it now.

The one I found is also like that, showing "original" and "flash" instead of game 1 and 2. Do we want to be playing on the other rom that looks like it might be a beta version?

Let's be honest tho, I'll likely score low enough to not earn points, haha, but still, rules. lol

Sunday at 09:53 PM

It's been a while since I found a vintage commercial:

Hot dogs? Bowling balls? What??

Sunday at 09:47 PM

Never played. Something about how the screen scrolls kinda hurts my head ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sky Jaguar - 12,360

Sunday at 09:20 PM

Never been good at Zaxxon, so not surprised here. Good music tho.

Zaxxon II: Electric Boogaloo - 8,800

Sunday at 02:44 PM

Didn't work for me. I found that turning off safe browsing in chrome works (tho I don't want to do that). Looks like for the time being, it'll mean going into my dl list and selecting "keep dangerous file" 🙄

Sunday at 01:44 AM

Three really good games!

Juno First - 47,050

I didn’t know this was a port. Lots of fun, very smooth controls.

Read the manual and learned what hyperspace was (enemies don’t fire). Manual: https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/manuals/vcs/juno_first.pdf

Doggone It! - 21,841

A bit under my pb of 35k, but I’ll be back. Love this game!

Meooow! 2 - 10,970

Fun! At first I was just going back and forth like a dummy and thinking how it should’ve been a paddle game, then I read the manual…

and learned what the heck to do. My score jumped significantly haha. Very cute and frantic. That freeze time feature is very necessary!

All in all, a great batch of homebrews. Thanks all!

April 12

This is a GOOD GAME.

Turmoil - 64,780

I can’t think of anything bad.

btw, after you play, just watch the demo. Thing’s a beast.

April 12

10 hours ago, gbag said:

76,600 for gbag

Sir, are you gaming instead of studying?

April 12

Yay! Excited to see Doggone It back in the HSC! I had a lot of fun playing it before, and I was honored to be gifted a copy. I'm looking forward to it and the other homebrews

April 8

I’m not so good at dodging these big ol jets, and it only gets harder on the 3D stage…

Thunder Blade - 98,000

And you can guess what I played as a bonus…

”Get Ready!”

After Burner - 211,200

New high score! (At least that I have recorded.) Still seems pretty low. Fun game, can make me a bit dizzy haha.

April 8

I just realized my Red Sea Crossing score is very hard to see... not great anyway, perhaps I'll get a better score tonight.

April 8

Small improvements…

RSC - 13,200

Crossbow - 38,850

Got to play this with the light gun on the XEGS- best gun game on Atari that I've played!

March 31

Cross Force 1b - 820

Dodging bullets at the top keeps getting me. Neat concept, I’m just not so good at it.

Cross Bow 3b - 29,550

I love light gun games, so this would’ve been awesome if they would’ve allowed it to use the XE gun… and I just learned that this came out for 7800 and XEGS with light gun support, so I’m definitely gonna check that out. Hopefully it works better than the other ones I’ve played.

*edit* Switched over to a Genesis controller to nab that score btw. Moving a target is clunky already. I found it really difficult with a joystick.

Red Sea Crossing 1b - 12,700 (127 lol)

Starts off pretty simple and boring and then you start to die and it’s still pretty simple and boring, just with the annoyance of dying when you expect to just breeze through it. An appropriate game for Passover too lol.

March 31

38 minutes ago, Keir said:

Some of the obstacles in Red Sea Crossing really puzzle me. For example, in this screenshot the giant snake is obvious but what are the 2 lumps on the bottom supposed to be?

Lol right? According to this unofficial manual, they're sea monsters...

https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/manuals/vcs/red_sea_crossing_fan-based.pdf

Also, interestingly, the last two digits are your lives, so technically the scores are a lot lower in this game than how they appear. But since that's ridiculous and confusing, let's all pretend we're scoring in the 10s of thousands

March 24

^ Nice find on Star Tropics! Great game. I grew up with Monster Party & Kickle Cubicle. MP is cool but hard, and my copy never worked with Game Genie (apparently a known issue), but I gotta try it out again on my Everdrive, ha. KC is a lot of fun that I beat bitd and still holds up.

March 24

Btw @Dashopepper sweet shelf. You got a nice lookin game room there.

March 24

When we last played this in Sept ‘22, I managed to score 11k. This time, I got 5,700. I didn’t hit pause fast enough to get a photo. Seriously, why bother having a score if they’re not gonna put it on the title screen? You’ll have to take my word for it that I got such a low score. Me and this game just do not click.

Same for Rambo III, tho I did manage to beat my pb by 100 points haha. Easily my least favorite phaser game and my least favorite Sly sms game I have (Rocky’s no Punch-Out, but it does have those sweet training stages).

Rambo: FB pt II - 5,700

Rambo III - 2,500

March 24

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to play until tonight, but I’m glad I did. First try before reading the manual was 2,700. Then after was 11k. 3rd game is my current high, which I’m happy about. Good game!!

27,760

March 22

I got that bundle when I was a kid! (It's actually sitting next to my couch right now hahaha.) I love those inserts and all the details. I would always want the tv tuner and battery pack (so I could fill the empty spaces in the case, hahaha). It wasn't until the mid 2000s that I finally scored a tuner for cheap at a con. Wasn't long before it became useless with the switch to digital, lol. But since it essentially makes the GG a monitor, I was able to do some fancy hookup work and play NES on it. I always loved the master system converter. It was such an easy sell to my mom, "It allows me to play all the other games I already have!" (But on a smaller screen on road trips!)

March 10

I just cannot get the hang of this game.

The Ninja - 3,750

I dig Bruce Lee, and I like collecting the lanterns to unlock areas. The slow falling on the other hand makes the platforming and dodging projectiles unnecessarily cumbersome and holds it back from being as good as it could be imo.

March 10

Threshold 3b - 6,920

Jawbreaker - 11,170

River Patrol - 3,050

I’d rather play Tiger handhelds...

Ironically, I have a decent collection of those and some I rather dig. Anyway, these I do not

One nice thing I will say- I like the tooth brushing animation in Jawbreaker 🪥

March 9

So I’m playing Threshold for the first time, and I notice that I don’t see my score. I think, oh, the score must pop up at the end, interesting. And then…

I’m pressing the button, moving the joystick, flipping switches…nothing. Hmm. Let me turn on my little Sharp crt…

Oh! What is that tiny sliver of black on the top left? I check others’ screenshots…yup, that’s my score. Great, both of my crts don’t make the threshold. I lost the remote to the Sharp, can’t access the menu, and don’t think that’ll make a difference anyway. And I’m not gonna mess around with the vertical hold on my Zenith. I don’t wanna emulate this…one last test- the Samsung DLP that I also have hooked up in my game room (yet rarely use). Bc I love experimenting with hookups, I have cables running between everything so I can just pop it on and…

There we go! Jeeeeez. So you’re telling me, there were likely people buying this game when it came out who were unable to see their score? I am using a Harmony cart for it tho, so perhaps something is different with the file. If anyone is using an original cart on a crt, I’m curious what your experience has been.

Anyway, I’m gonna give it another go now, tho I am not a fan. The enemies are so erratic, I miss more than I hit 🙄 I will continue to play on my Zenith; there’s the slightest lag on the dlp *grumble* #CRTElitist

February 29

Got a few final games in today. No new score, but I did tie myself.

This game manages to make each hit satisfying. I like the quick string I can get in the beginning, any night hit is awesome, then there’s a certain satisfaction when your radar is out and you’re sliding in the snow and bam, success.

I’ve found that once you get to 36 tanks, the difficulty ramps up. I get a false sense of security with my reserve tanks, lol.