karokoenig Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 (edited) "A roughly 3 month off season is kinda long." (roadrunner) Damn right. Stop this madness! Let's play some Atari. Announcing the Between-Season Tournament. Now with a REAL PRIZE! The Game: Feeling blue, guys? We're going to play SMURF - Rescue in Gargamel's Castle. Or, as I like to call it "Curse of the Azure Booty". The Trophy: The winner of this little tournament will be awarded with a cartridge of "Dschungel Boy", sent to you by yours truly. For those of you in NTSC land, it's a Pitfall clone distributed by Quelle, sold in english-speaking parts of PAL land as "Tom Boy". A simplified clone. And it's bad. And easy. And lame. And it has a really awful Mowgli impersonator on the cover "art". And it's not very rare at all. Or valuable, for that matter. In fact, I bought it last week for 80 cents on a flea market after seeing it sit on that particular seller's table for several weeks. I already have a copy, and the game sucks, so I passed it again and again. But slowly, compassion rose in the back of my head. That poor cart was loved by no one, doomed to rot away, neglected and shivering in the cold flea market air. It needs a new home. A warm and loving home. And you can be the one giving it to poor Jungle Boy. The rules: Tournament will start on Tuesday, Dec 2 and scores will be accepted until Saturday, Dec 20, 20.00 CET. Plenty of time, so take it easy and enjoy. We will skip the overly dandy easy levels and start at Skill level 3, one player. Difficulty switches set to "B", just in case it matters. I will probably post scores as well, but out of contest. I just like playing this game. Good luck to everyone. Have fun. And most importantly… …Smurf be nimble! Smurf be quick! Standings: 1. Northcoastgamer: 171600 2. KaeruYojimbo: 109800 3. Lid: 96800 4. Oyamafamily: 95800 5. Jason_Atari: 31900 6. Wickeycolumbus: 31200 7. darthkur: 30600 8. CaptainClassic: 27600 9. Gorfy: 23700 10. Nikon: 16300 11. Spacey Invader: 15000 12. Roadrunner: 13800 13. LarcenTyler: 10300 (Out of contest: karokoenig: 101,500) Edited December 20, 2014 by karokoenig 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Cool! Smurf was the first game I loved. My Atari history started with Missile Command - packed in game. A little bit after Space Invaders and then Megamania. As a boy of 4-5 years old, I feared the Bomb in Missile Command, the final fast pace, tension and the inevitable death of Space Invaders. Megamania was another shooting, black game, who am I... When I got Smurf, I recognized the character, I loved the music and the fact I was the hero saving smurfette. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted November 29, 2014 Author Share Posted November 29, 2014 Smurf was also one of my favourite games when I was a kid. And I still find it graphically impressive. Sound's pretty elaborate as well, though slightly on the annoying side. That's why I chose it for this little competition. Also, it's been a while since we played it in the HSC. 2 years, in fact, as part of cartoon week. So I thought: why not give it a little more love? And Gorfy, if you read this: you surely have a better performance in you that what you showed 2 years ago :-). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Starfire Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I'm in! Great little game this one, thanks for setting this up buddy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousUserName Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I'm game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted November 29, 2014 Author Share Posted November 29, 2014 Welcome Anonymous, and welcome BSA. Looking forward to your scores. Now go practice :-). Gorfy, Lid - you wanna spread the word? Get the usual suspects here? Jake, NCG, Baz, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Gorfy, Lid - you wanna spread the word? Get the usual suspects here? Jake, NCG, Baz, etc? PM's sent out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 is the rom available, I have to set up my 2600 everything is a mess and even though I have stella on pc most of my homebrews and 2600 games are on sd no reader on desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 is the rom available Sure is: http://atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=444 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I will work on getting my 2600 back up so hopefully I can play 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 10,300 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Sure is: http://atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=444 Pardon my absolute ignorance, but what emulator should I use? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Pardon my absolute ignorance, but what emulator should I use? Stella is the most advanced, our 'default emulator', better choice. Javatari is an interesting and recent option. Welcome. Atarimania is your great source of roms, ads and other infos. Get your roms. Edited December 1, 2014 by LidLikesIntellivision 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 This level 3 business is going to kill me. First try....3,200 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I just noticed that the contest is supposed to start "Tuesday, December 4th". Today is Tuesday, but it is Dec. 2nd. Karo, does the contest start today or on Thursday? I'd hate to have my monumental score disqualified Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 I just noticed that the contest is supposed to start "Tuesday, December 4th". Today is Tuesday, but it is Dec. 2nd. Karo, does the contest start today or on Thursday? I'd hate to have my monumental score disqualified Oopsy Daisy. Thanks for the pointer. Tournament has started. Show me your scores. And your monumental score does count While we're at it... I was thinking of evening out the chances a little for everyone. Back when I still played Pool Billard, we called it "Handicap Tournament". Better players had to give worse players a headstart. I dunno - something like 2 frames in a best of 11 9-Ball game. Translated to this occasion, I could imagine using last season's final standing to determine handicaps. Not much - something like the top 5 ranking players starting with zero points, the next 5 getting +5000 and so on. That isn't much when I look at last time Smurf was played in the HSC, but it gives the occasional player a slightly better chance to be competetive against the top predators. I'm aware that it's not the best of styles to change the rules after the competition has started. So I'm asking you guys: Would you like to have this handicap feature or should we run as originally intended? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Cool 5,200 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I hope this isn't a private party (I haven't done any HSC stuff in, wow, 10 years). 20,200 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 (edited) I hope this isn't a private party (I haven't done any HSC stuff in, wow, 10 years). 20,200 Welcome back then. Of course it isn't a private party. Everyone on AA is free to join. My first (out-of-contest) score: 35,100. Edited December 2, 2014 by karokoenig 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Atari Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 1st attempt: 12,700 The eagle on the 2nd level is killer! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorfy Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I'm aware that it's not the best of styles to change the rules after the competition has started. So I'm asking you guys: Would you like to have this handicap feature or should we run as originally intended? I don't really have a strong preference either way. I guess I would suggest not bothering with determining handicaps because of the extra work it would entail. But if you're gonna give me a handicap, make it really big 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Up to 27,800 this morning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 16,300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 (edited) 62,400 Hmm... If 999,900 is the maximum score, I guess it's possible more than one player rolls the game. This is my first try. Curiosity: This is a new homebrew game for Intellivision inspired by Smurf. In fact, if smurf wasn't copy righted, it would be the Intellivision smurf version. Edited December 3, 2014 by LidLikesIntellivision 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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