Jasonhrb

Really loving the choices this week. Dark cavern is another one that I had never heard of before the HSC, but that I really like (I Can't help thinking that a 16k version with multiple caverns would have been awesome). The strategy side of it is great fun, even though I am not much good at it yet. As for Stack game, what a work of genius in 1k!. Games don't come much simpler than this, but it just fits together beautifully. The colour scheme Even manages to feel calming as you play, and I reckon this would have been a smash if it had been released early in the systems lifecycle

A bit of improvement at Empire Strikes Back. Think I am done with this one (or at least this version) now. It's just too hard to be fun

An improvement at Atlantis. I think this is as good as it will get from me. As an aside, I have got more into this one as the week has gone on. Although I know that this is a favourite of many, I never played Atlantis as a kid, so there is no nostalgia attached to this one for me. And at first, I struggled to get what all the enthusiasm for this one was about. But as I played it more, I got into it as the kind of simple, fast paced game that the 2600 did so well. I can certainly see why it's a favourite of people who played it when it first came out

More improvement. Have been trying to crack 100k but not quite there yet

As for Empire Strikes Back, that is just bonkers hard. I have had a good go at it, but feel any success I get is more luck than judgement !. I've posted a score, but think you need to be a far better player than me to actually enjoy that variation. I love the game as a whole, but this version is just tooooo hard

Well this week is a toughie. Frogger was probably my favourite of the cartridges I owned as a kid, but this version is really hard. I think I will struggle to get to 5,000, so am posting my best effort so far. I love Frogger, so might come back to this later on to try and get my last bonus point

Really sorry to hear that Roger. We've never met obviously, but this place has been a really friendly community in the short time I have been involved, and it's sad to hear about a member of that having a tough time. Hopefully the doctors get to the bottom of things soon, and you get back to your best soon

Improvement at Atlantis

A starter for Atlantis

Another tiny improvement in no escape

Tiny improvement at No Escape

I am going to try and claim three points for this shot of solaris. The three are the (non earth) planet surface, the ringed moon in the picture, and the stars

I must admit to struggling with Star Voyager. Have got to 4 chevrons, but suspect that is as good as it will get ☹️🤠

Wow, we might have found a game I'm not rubbish at 😆

A modest improvement on both the crystal challenge and overall score

Thanks for adding this one. It's one of those games that leaves me in awe of the programmers and how they manage to create such a fun game with so little computing power. The crystal challenge was a great addition too, and I really enjoyed trying to crack that. As for scores, I think I managed to do the three crystal challenge (please let me know if I haven't) so have included photos for that and my high score

Thanks for setting up another weeks challenge. I found strategy x strangely addictive, but don't think I'll be playing Pooyan again. I also can't help thinking that the programmers could have got both of these games feeling closer to the arcade versions, even with the 2600s limitations.

Bit of an improvement on Millipede, but still nowhere near the top scorers

Loved Millipede. Amazing how entertaining such a simple game can be even now. DK junior not quite my thing, but I'm loving the way the high score club gets me playing some of these different games

I never even knew this game existed before the challenge . . .it was surprisingly fun, but 8,000 isn't much of a score

I'm new to this, and this is my first post on the forum. I had Bezerk in my small 2600 collection as a kid, but never really got into it. This challenge has given me a new appreciation of the game. I'm still not very good at it though !