+therealbountybob Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 (edited) OK let's see what we have for the round 2 poll Will your favourite game be thrown under the bus or be the bus? The first round closes 31st Jan - if you missed it just post a late score We'll start of with the two runner up games from Poll #1... Rainbow Walker Faily easy in the scheme of things, fun Q*Bert style hopping on the scrolling rainbow changing the squares' colours, complete each vertical row to lock it in. Download XEX, Atarimania Info Millipede A real 10/10 superbly addictive and intense Centepede and then some. Fandal has a version with the PAL glitches fixed. Play 1984 version with title screen animations. Download XEX (PAL fixed), Atarimania Info Canyon Climber Long time not played in the HSC. A decent platformer but a limited number of screens and the randomish deaths can be a pain! Might need a bonus game to keep this one company. Download XEX, Atarimania Info Qix (A8 version) Another 10/10, perhaps the perfect game. Many of the A8 versions seem to have a few glitches probably down to the lingering copy protection but I think there is a working ATR out there. If not we can get this fixed I'm sure! Download XEX, Atarimania Info Preppie II Plod around the vertically scrolling maze colouring in all the background. Nice game, great music, easy to start with but growing intensity. I can't remember if that door glitch feature has been fixed Download XEX, Atarimania Info Edited January 25, 2018 by therealbountybob links fixed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I have many happy memories of playing Millipede in the early 1990's after breakfast, but before work, using a VCS trak-ball in joystick mode. That's the way to play this game! My son was an infant and getting some time to myself after having stayed up for what felt like half the night with crying kiddo. I had my Atari 800XL setup on my kitchen table and playing Millipede in the morning was just a great way to start the day! Alas, I might have voted for Qix (it's one of my favorite games) but the Atari 5200 "port" to the 8-bit computer by Glenn "The 5200 Man" is so much better than Atari's own clunky and slow cartridge. Surely that is the one that the HSC should play? All of these games are pretty good; I'd play any of 'em (and be terrible at each of them)! Adam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 The Atarimania link to Qix is wrong by the way, it points to Millipede as well. I'm all for substituting a clunky, glitchy version with a better working port/homebrew if Qix would get enough votes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 Links fixed thanks We've played both Qixes several times - for me Qix A8 is an equally good game as the 5200 port Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 By the way, will this be a particularly short round running for only 11 days between February 1 - 11 before we move onto Olympic events? It probably doesn't matter that much if it is a 11 or 14 day round, since all five are old time favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 By the way, will this be a particularly short round running for only 11 days between February 1 - 11 before we move onto Olympic events? It probably doesn't matter that much if it is a 11 or 14 day round, since all five are old time favorites. Round 2 will be 2 weeks then we'll have a longer round 3 putting us back on the Sunday to Sunday schedule 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) Posted to wrong thread! Edited January 29, 2018 by McKong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Can i change my vote to anything other than Qix?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dope Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Same here. I would like to remove my Qix vote and change it to anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Generally it would be nice if those participating in the poll also participated in playing the round, at least those who voted for the winning game. Otherwise those of us playing in the HSC might get "shafted" by votes from passers-by. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Generally it would be nice if those participating in the poll also participated in playing the round, at least those who voted for the winning game. Otherwise those of us playing in the HSC might get "shafted" by votes from passers-by. I totally concur with this ^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Play them all :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 (edited) Doh! Edited January 30, 2018 by RedThunder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 I figure if people are at leas t voting they have a chance of playing, c'mon it's fun. Sorry vote's can't be changed without restarting the poll but if it's tied I'll bear in mind any comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) Looks like Qix was played in HSC 6, 8,10 and 13. If you "mentally" remove the 2 requests to change their vote, that would tie it with Rainbow Walker and Millipede...but I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to set that precedent. TBH, while it's a good game, Qix is not my cup o' tea. But I'll play a game or two. Otherwise, I'll wait to see what the next round has in store. Edited January 31, 2018 by Deteacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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