Intelligentleman

Take a look at the fourth bullet point... What time trial clock?

3:30, Red Car, Original hardware

Thanks man! I've probably been over doing it on some of my turns, based on what you described above.

Damn! That's a hell of a first attempt. I can't get past 3:40. Got any tips? 🤷

Nice! If I can get under 3:30, I'll be pretty happy with that.

Mode 7 like in F Zero for SNES?

I was going to ask you about that. Good to know!

Coleco makes me angry. Why is Intellivision's Donkey Kong so "meh?" Sorry to get off topic! Good luck to the participants!

Experimented with blue car for a few minutes. I actually kinda like it. It's easy to powerslide which is fun, but also easy to overdo it.

Thanks. I even tried a couple attempts with green because it has better acceleration, but I think red is my favorite right now...

3:40, red car, original hardware:

Wow. That makes sense though. I remember back in the SNES and N64 days, gamers liked it when games came on larger carts because it was usually an indication that there was some cool stuff going on graphically. Regarding the coding techniques, are you saying that we can do better BASIC coding today than back then?

Yeah on my high score run, I started noticing that I'd have missiles coming at me from various simultaneous altitudes, making it really tough to dive / climb without hitting one of them. I'll have to experiment with your approach next time!

How are games like this possible? How come they look so much more impressive than the majority of the original, 79-83 games?

I kinda like how Space Hawk gives you a score screen when you reach certain thresholds.

Is coarse scrolling when the movement is more jerky? Kinda like Mazatron?

My main strategy is to spend most of my time at max altitude, only dropping down to dodge the occasional missiles. Until the train tracks! Then I dive up and down repeatedly while bombing the ever loving bejeezus out of the tracks. Each segment is worth 100 points, I think. Then when you get to the part with the train engines you need to make a point to hit them because they're a pretty high value target. You end up with a lower point to hit ratio this way, but I always go by the end total score anyway.

The first time I got blasted on my runway I was furious because I didn't even know it was possible

Alright. Drinking beer with this game is not helpful

I noticed that when I play Utopia you can actually navigate the boat around the numbers at the bottom...

I've always wondered. Some games will show you while you play, but many won't. What gives? Is that a design choice or a hardware limitation?

Of course you had to get one second better than my time 😂

I agree about the machine guns. When you get into a good rhythm with the enemy fighters it's fun to switch styles and do some dog fighting.

Challenge accepted

Alright. Finally under 4. Course one. Red car. Original hardware.