darthkur Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 (edited) You are in the cockpit of your spaceship flying through outer space battling wave after wave of deadly enemies. Stranded astronauts tumble through space, and you can rescue them to score additional points or ignore them and just try continuing to survive. Groups of enemies can attack from the front or the rear, and it is not unusual to have an entire squadron of enemies on the screen at once, all firing deadly missiles at you or trying to collide with your ship. Shoot them all and get big bonuses. Will you make it through armageddon to paradise or face a glorious demise in battle? Emulators are fine as is whatever controller you feel the most comfortable with. Screenshots are great but not mandatory. Please do not use any cheat/hack options. These include auto-fire, unlimited lives, invincibility, etc. Also, no continues. Only games begun at the beginning count. Settings: Level 1-1 (Default) Link to the ROM file: http://www.atariage....oms/Blaster.zip Contest ends on: 4-26-10 at 1:00am EST. Final High Scores: 1st: DensB68 - 383,300 +11 2nd: atariron82 - 232,700 +10 3rd: Divya16 - 169,300 +9 4th: roadrunner - 147,900 +8 5th: atariksi - 128,400 +7 6th: thursday83 - 111,000 +6 7th: Cafeman - 86,800 +5 8th: MIKE5200 - 82,400 +4 Current Standings: 1st: atariron82 (29) 2nd: roadrunner (25) (1) 3rd: DensB68 (23) (1) 4th: atariksi (16) 4th: Cafeman (16) 4th: Divya16 (16) 5th: NoahsMyBro (13) 6th: CV Gus (11) (1) 7th: zylon (5) Numbers in RED are accumulated points. Numbers in BLUE are number of rounds won. Link to the official manual: Blaster info Edited April 26, 2010 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 I'll start things off with 147,900 What a fun game. Good luck everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thursday83 Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 111,000. He's right, it is a fun game. That's what amazes me about the 5200, that like 95% of its games are fun to play regardless of any other detriments or attributes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKE5200 Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Blaster Blaster...What a cool game for the Atari 5200! 824,00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariron82 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 This Game is a Blast! Just imagine if it was released in 1983 when it was supposed to... 148,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariksi Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 This Game is a Blast! Just imagine if it was released in 1983 when it was supposed to... 148,000 Imagine what score you would get if you imagined the highest scorer had 1 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariron82 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 This Game is a Blast! Just imagine if it was released in 1983 when it was supposed to... 148,000 Imagine what score you would get if you imagined the highest scorer had 1 million. I could imagine my score being expressed this way: 1480,00 --which might be ambiguously construed as 1.48 million?! I might also imagine that any high scorer with 1 million would have reached paradise by then...and in any case better pony up with a bloomin' pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariron82 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Blasting ahead a little further: 232,700(level 5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 86,800. Awesome game that I never really tried before. Might have time to try it one more time before midnight tonight.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 86,800. Awesome game that I never really tried before. Might have time to try it one more time before midnight tonight.. There's still another week to go so you've got plenty of time to have at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 86,800. Awesome game that I never really tried before. Might have time to try it one more time before midnight tonight.. There's still another week to go so you've got plenty of time to have at it. 56000. Is there a way to rebuild the energy? I just kept shooting everything away-- don't know if there's anything good there that you're not supposed to shoot. A bit cluttered I would say. Landscape is a much cleaner 3D game-- don't think that was ported to A5200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 86,800. Awesome game that I never really tried before. Might have time to try it one more time before midnight tonight.. There's still another week to go so you've got plenty of time to have at it. 56000. Is there a way to rebuild the energy? I just kept shooting everything away-- don't know if there's anything good there that you're not supposed to shoot. A bit cluttered I would say. Landscape is a much cleaner 3D game-- don't think that was ported to A5200. Figured out some stuff just by playing around. There's some "E"s that you don't shoot that give you a barrage of more Es. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 I still can't get to 90K so I'm still at B+ unless there's a curve in the grading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I still can't get to 90K so I'm still at B+ unless there's a curve in the grading. Okay, I'm past 90K and 100K as well. Just not used to down making things go up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DensB68 Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 383,300, Probably the best I can do before the deadline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 383,300, Probably the best I can do before the deadline. I'm trying to finish in top 3 here after all the time I spent with this "messy" game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariksi Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 383,300, Probably the best I can do before the deadline. I'm trying to finish in top 3 here after all the time I spent with this "messy" game. Okay, you probably will as my cart doesn't work. I just burned a EPROM and gave it a few goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Has anybody gotten past level 8? That was the highest I got when I played this a year ago. Oh and here is the manual Raven1280 and I made with some great artwork by Atariboy2600. 5200 Blaster manual Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariksi Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Has anybody gotten past level 8? That was the highest I got when I played this a year ago. Oh and here is the manual Raven1280 and I made with some great artwork by Atariboy2600. 5200 Blaster manual Allan You should have posted your score. I got to level 5 I think; I also don't like moving down to go up-- I kept missing those energy fields-- "E"s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted April 26, 2010 Author Share Posted April 26, 2010 That's it for this round. Congratulations to DensB68 for taking first place. I hope everyone had fun with Blaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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