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I think the major divide is between killing all the enemies vs collecting all the things.

I remember Bubble Bobble existing from my earliest gaming memories, but I didn't really start to love it until a few years ago. For some reason this style of game has become among my favorites. The point about simultaneous two-player play is a great one.

Lode Runner isn't one of these; but its progenitor Space Panic is: And its direct predecessor Heiankyo Alien is too: Maybe Heiankyo Alien is the earliest non-shooter game where you have to eliminate all of the enemies? After all it predates Pac-Man.

Congratulations to @agradeneu for the platinum medal in Pac-Land, to @ZeroPage Homebrew James for the Virus Mode of Eggsavier, and unfortunately to myself on the normal mode. Thanks to everyone for participating! I am working on the new tracking spreadsheets and should have the leaderboards updated this month.

My calibration scores: Have not won yet: 26 goals: 32253 in Loopz.

I personally like Jimmy Connors and Power Factor, even if I think they could be a lot better. Power Factor in particular has the germ of an awesome game. Just dialing down the missiles shooting at you from offscreen would have changed it much for the better. I even kind of like Gordo and Kung Food... speaking of which I need to respond to @jeremiahjt's challenge on Antstream...

2024 HSC rules It's May Day and that means it's time for hockey! Okay, that doesn't make sense anywhere in the northern hemisphere, but go tell that to the National Hockey League, which is in the first round of the 2023/2024 playoffs. In honor of that questionable tournament, we'll be playing the Lynx's sole hockey game, blandly titled Hockey. In keeping with the spirit of the high score challenge, we will be playing the arcade-y shootout mode, but we'll have a couple bonus points for the rest of the game. Quick digression: The original goal of Lawrence Siegel in commissioning the game in 1990 was to license NHL all-star "Super" Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Not because he cared about the talented Quebecois player, but because he wanted to call it "Super Mario Hockey" to, in his words, "f*** Nintendo in the ass." Charming. Once the lawyers told him it was not a battle Atari Corp could win, he lost interest in licensing Mr. Lemieux, but the game got made anyway. However, his dream was partially realized: Sega commissioned a Genesis/Mega Drive port of the game (which actually came out first), which was indeed called Mario Lemieux Hockey: For our indie/homebrew game track, we'll be playing fantastic puzzler Loopz, created by Audiogenic and ported to Lynx by Hand Made Software. It was officially announced for release by @Songbird Productions in June 2004, so we'll be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the game's official release as well! This game is available on the Evercade, although unfortunately due to Atari licensing issues the cartridge is now out of print and has gotten pretty pricey. Not only is this a really fantastic, addictive game, but it also has some of the best music on Lynx. Round Over: Saturday, June 1, 12:00am International Date Line West Hockey Manual / instructions / discussion: Manual (some of the controls are not obvious so make sure to read it!) Settings - One player Shootout. Pick your team and your opponent. HSC Record: Never played before! Description: The goal is not to win - that's easy. (Well, not that easy.) Instead, the goal is to keep the deadlock alive as long as possible. Every time you score a goal, let the computer score a goal in response. Try to score and allow as many goals as possible to keep the drama alive! Each round both sides get five pucks. That's a maximum of ten goals per round. Your final score will be your goal count plus the computer's goal count. To reduce frustration, you don't have to win. Medal Thresholds: Platinum Medal: Score the most goals! Gold Medal: 24 goals Silver Medal: 14 goals Bronze Medal: 9 goals Bonus challenge 1: Win a regular game for 1 bonus ranking point! Bonus challenge 2: Win a fight for 1 bonus ranking point! Scores: 1. Your name here! 2. Your name here! 3. Your name here! 4. Your name here! 5. Your name here! Loopz Manual / instructions / discussion: GameFaqs faq on the NES version (which is mostly the same) Buy physical: https://songbird-productions.com/product/loopz-lynx/ or play it on the Evercade Lynx Collection 1: https://evercade.co.uk/cartridges/atari-lynx-collection-1-cartridge/ For the purposes of inclusivity, the original B&C ComputerVisions PCB release is also fair game - any changes didn't affect the gameplay substantially. Settings: Chain Loopz, game level 3. All other settings are up to you! HSC Record: First year! Description: Connect the loopz to score. The longer the loop, the better the score! You cannot place a tile with a connector touching the edge of the playfield. The Pac-Man or eraser thingie deletes pieces. You have to act fast - there's no time to lose! If you're struggling at speed 3, practice at lower difficulties first. Medal Thresholds: Platinum Medal: Score the most points! Gold Medal: Score 20000 points! Silver Medal: Score 10000 points! Bronze Medal: Score 5000 points! Scores: 1. Your name here! 2. Your name here! 3. Your name here! 4. Your name here! 5. Your name here! Current season point standings: Name Total Total Retail Total Indie Any corrections please post. Please put your score in text in your post please to make my life a little easier. Thanks for joining us

Awesome playing Tanya and James! Less than an hour to go!

It ends in about eight hours.

This was at a retro game convention. The guy said he bought it in Japan as junk and fixed it up, but he didn't say more.

Yep, my thoughts exactly. One idea somebody offered on Facebook was that the Alpha could be a dock for the EXP with controller ports. That would be really neat, but I am not sure if the USB port of the EXP is hooked up to data at all.

Great to see you @MichaG! Thanks for the scores! That's an amazing score on egg mode - I found egg mode much harder than virus mode since I habitually moved out of the way before the egg officially counted as caught. Quick last minute tips on Pac-Land: - double tap to run, and run everywhere! - Push the second (?) fire hydrant for a hardhat that will protect you from ghost bombs and even earn you points for getting hit. - ghostbombs count as ghosts when you get a power pill. - try to move left and right around powerpills to get a good crowd inbound before picking up the powerpill and eating them all - when jumping off springboards make sure you're at top speed and then tap tap tap tap to the right to keep going as far as you can. There aren't any really hairy jumps until the fourth loop. - when you need to land on islands stop tapping sooner than you expect to need to!

My guess is that the Alpha is either a tabletop mini arcade or a slimmed-down VS with a single cart slot, two controller ports only, and possibly no downloadable games. A SuperPocket TV, if you will. I am sure they realize that releasing something better than what they just released will make people unhappy. Ordered the new carts and the official tate grip from Songbird! I may get an EXP-R later if they fixed the sound issues. I love my existing 3D printed tate grip from Pernstar Motorsports but I am interested in trying the official one.

Great to see you back @Mr_Horizon!

Soooooo yeah. A lot of catching up around these parts. Apple iOS: Galaxy Mix: Planet Watermelon - 89 min Samarost - 18 min Samarost 2 - 73 min Samarost 3 - 13 min Finished the first two Samarost games and started the third. Suika Game - 11 min Atari Lynx: Hockey - 90 min Played several games and a lot of the fighting and shoot out minigames. Coleco Colecovision: Mecha 8 - 8 min Commodore 64: Anarchy - 10 min Boulder Dash - 5 min Deliverance: Stormlord II - 5 min Exolon - 10 min I don't know how to do this. I just die. Heavy Metal Paradroid - 12 min Netherworld - 10 min Street Sports Soccer - 5 min Summer Games II - 10 min All kayaking Super Cycle - 17 min Commodore Amiga: ATR - 10 min Qwak! - 55 min Dedicated Consoles: Color TV-Game Block Kuzushi - 12 min Very fun with impressive sounds. Fairchild Channel F: Videocart 28: Tetris - 10 min As part of a tribute to Jerry Lawson. GCE Vectrex: Armor Attack - 15 min Scramble - 20 min Nintendo 64: Glover (Evercade Edition) - 25 min While this is a custom built rom for Evercade, I have confirmed with the Evercade people that it is an N64 rom. Nintendo Entertainment System: Bad Street Brawler - 8 min Log Jammers - 45 min Beat it with a human. Mermaids of Atlantis - 20 min Orange Island (WIP) - 8 min Target: Renegade - 10 min Ufouria: The Saga - 75 min Nintendo Game Boy: The Fidgetts - 54 min Pri Pri: Primitive Princess - 35 min Nintendo Game Boy Advance: Starsky & Hutch - 10 min Star X - 10 min Super Bubble Pop - 543 min Nintendo Game Boy Color: Blaster Master: Enemy Below - 22 min Nintendo Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Daze Before Christmas - 12 min Sküljagger: Revolt of the Westicans - 10 min Street Racer - 10 min Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel - 20 min Nintendo Switch: AI: The Somnium Files - 25 min Cosmic Express - 30 min Logiart Grimoire - 10 min Lunar Lander Beyond - 120 min Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin - 30 min Tetris 99 - 10 min Sega Genesis: Aero the Acro-Bat 2 - 10 min Risky Woods - 16 min Zero Tolerance Underground - 20 min Sony PlayStation: Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors - 20 min SNK Neo Geo: Last Resort - 25 min