toiletunes Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) Welcome to the 2020/2021 High Score Club! There will be 14 rounds, lasting 20 days each. The season will end in June, 2021. Round 1 final points: 13 - Dr Moocowz 10 - roadrunner 9 - slx 8 - jeremiahjt 7 - BydoEmpire 6 - Toiletunes 5 - NIKON 3 - jblenkle 3 - OyamaFamily Choplifter scores: Dr Moocowz - 64 ! roadrunner - 63 jeremiahjt - 57 slx - 57 BydoEmpire - 49 Toiletunes - 45 NIKON - 30 jblenkle - 26 OyamaFamily - 24 Bonus: Get to the choppah! Post a screenshot from any 2600 game with a helicopter for one bonus point. Don't use a game someone else posted (no duplicates). Choppah bonus: BydoEmpire - River Raid Dr Moocowz - Commando Raid NIKON - Chopper Command OyamaFamily - Rampage roadrunner - Time Pilot slx - Superman Toiletunes - Air Raid ROUND ENDS OCTOBER 11 Edited November 12, 2020 by toiletunes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Game info here https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-7800/choplifter Review here https://www.freezenet.ca/review-choplifter-atari-7800/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Fantastic, thanks for getting this going again! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Hard to get a pic of score so i recorded a video of end of gameplay 1.6 MB size attachment 63 people saved Choplifter Recording.mp4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Choplifter - 26 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 Bonus - Air Raid (I'm pretty sure that's a helicopter on the left) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMooCowz Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Bonus: Commando Raid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Never very good at, nor particularly liked Choplifter, but even so it's fun to go back and play a game I hadn't touched in a long time. It's actually more fun than I remember. 40 points? Not sure about scoring. Need to get on the bonus round, though. Every time I come back here the game I was going to play gets used. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 I'm going to give River Raid a few shots for my bonus round, but for now just a few minutes in a slow, choppy online emulator to get on the board. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 (edited) My first try to get a bit more 7800 playtime through the highscore club was hampered by my finding out that my Choplifter cart does not work on either of my 7800s. All other carts I tried work flawlessly. Contacts look pristine and rubbing them with alcohol left barely a trace on the Q-tip. I am now pondering whether I should try opening it up and looking for bad solder joints. Maybe it's an NTSC cart but the last one I had showed a more or less normal pictures, just without colors, while this one shows a few flashes at best (not even real static). So I fired up OpenEmu and managed a measly 25 lives saved. I have never played 7800 Choplifter before but played a lot of the (older) Atari 800 Broderbund Choplifter (as it was one of only a handful of games I owned) and found it much easier (at least on a PAL machine) to get a perfect score. It's much harder to hit a tank on the 7800 as the heli is a lot more fidgety to maneuver and the fighters are so deadly only a very quick reaction will save you when they appear as you load hostages. Wow to a score of 63! After a few attempts trying out some old tactics modified for the 7800, a more reasonable 57: And here's a screenshot of the helicopter in Superman: Edited September 26, 2020 by slx added score, helicopter screenshot 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 (edited) 29 for me. I could have had 30, but I got greedy and went to the fourth embassy instead of taking back my lone passenger. Edit: Improved my score to 57. Edited September 27, 2020 by jeremiahjt Score update 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Bonus Time Pilot 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMooCowz Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Perfect score: 64. I used to play this a lot as a kid. :) Unofficial bonus: I also played it so that all 64 hostages were defeated :) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Slightly better: 49. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 Scores updated 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Bonus: 2600 Rampage 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Choplifter 24 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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