Season 10 ~ Week 21 ~ Astroblast

[Vocelli]

Week 21

Paddle Game

Astroblast

 

 

 

 

CLARIFICATION: No use of CHEATS, emulation advantages, bugs, cart frying or other variables that gives you an unfair advantage in this HSC. Please assume you have to follow the game difficulty and mode for the playing week/s. There cannot be any game enhancements or favorite settings to play in the 2600 HSC, unless you are given authorization to do so by your humble yet strict MODERATOR! Vocelli

 

Astroblast

Released By:  MNetwork

Left Difficulty: A or B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1 

OF NOTE: You may also use a Joystick as well

 

Post your scores right here in this thread, and we will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone else.

The deadline for posting scores is Midnight (EST) the evening of Oct 4, 2020

 

 

Bonus:

More Paddle FUN!

Street Racer (Game 7 B/B ~ Slalom) by Atari

Play Street Racer Game 7. You are racing against the very skilled computer!

You are on the RIGHT side. The BIGGEST MARGIN OF VICTORY vs the Skilled Computer gets the big Bonus!

The only qualification is that you MUST score 99 to qualify for the bonus.

5 Bonus Points = 1^st Place ~ Biggest Margin of Victory

4 Bonus Points = 2–5th Place

3 Bonus Points = 6-10^th Place

2 Bonus Points = 11-20 Place

Just score 99 and get 1 Bonus point

So Race fast! You are trying to get the Biggest Margin of Victory!

 

 

Astroblast Scores

(Rollage at 950,000)

 

425805 - McCallister (+50)

254540 - AtariSphinx (+49)

221900 - SkippyBCoyote (+48)

182465 - ZilchSr (+47)

139610 - Vocelli (+46)

137710 - CentipedeFan (+45)

  95410 - JasonAtari (+44)

  88645 - GBAG (+43)

  67715 - Cwieland (+42)

  54840 - TheActivisionary (+41)

  54815 - OyamaFamily (+40)

  33135 - TRB_MetroidTeam (+39)

  32295 - Keilbaca (+38)

  30485 - MoisesTuseto (+37)

  27375 - Deteacher (+36)

  26485 - LaurenTyler (+35)

  24845 - AGB (+34)

  24820 - RogerPoco (+33)

  22475 - AtariWarlord (+32)

  21280 - Nads (+31)

  20595 - 5x7 (+30)

  20480 - ToileTunes (+29)

  20330 - IsaiahAustin (+28)

  20040 - Evandro (+27)

  12030 - Atari_Warlord (+26)

  10805 - ClassicGamer (+25)

    5735 - Atarian7  (+24)

    4940 - Mchetzel (+23)

    3625 - DrMooCowz (+22)

    3475 - CapitamClassic (+21)

    2080 - RedMiller (+20)

    1615 - RoadRunner (+19)

    1600 - FakeCortex (+18)

      330 - RGC (+17)

      110 - JBlenkle (+16)

 

 

 

Street Racer (Game 7 B/B) Bonus

 

77 - CentipedeFan (+5)

77 - MisterVCS (+5)

 

76 - RogerPoco (+4)

76 - AtariSphinx (+4)

75 - JasonAtari (+4)

 

74 - TheActivisionary (+3)

73 - GBAG (+3)

73 - ZilchSr (+3)

73 - McCallister (+3)

71 - Cwieland (+3)

 

68 - DrMooCowz (+2)

68 - MoisesTuseto (+2)

68 - Deteacher (+2)

68 - Vocelli (+2)

68 - Mchetzel (+2)

67 - LaurenTyler (+2)

67 - PatLarocque (+2)

66 - IsaiahAustin (+2)

66 - Evandro (+2)

65 - CapitanClassic (+2)

 

64 - SkippyBCoyote (+1)

64 - AGB (+1)

63 - Atari_Warlord (+1)

63 - OyamaFamily (+1)

62 - 5x7 (+1)

62 - FakeCortex (+1)

 

 

 

 

 

Overall Standings

 Remember the TOP 32 will Qualify for the Bracket Challenge at the end of the season!

We are nearing the end of Season 10

 

1143	ZilchSr
958	OyamaFamily
945	Nads
942	GBAG
933	McCallister
926	Deteacher
918	RogerPoco
910	Vocelli
901	SkippyBCoyote
887	PatLarocque
861	JasonAtari
859	Evandro
833	TheActivisionary
830	Capitain Classic
817	JacobZu7Zu7
792	TRB_MetroidTeam
782	Keilbaca
747	MoisesTuseto
694	Dr Moocowz
692	CwieLand
674	FakeCortex
659	AtariWarlord
636	IsaiahAustin
621	LaurenTyler
505	Atarian7
488	AGB
473	5x7
467	Mchetzel
463	ClassicGamer
432	Atari_Warlord
431	RedMiller
427	MisterVCS
403	AtariSphinx
377	SBAZ
369	Roadrunner
353	RGC
320	AtariPacmanFan
315	Gtype
281	Scrabbler
224	RetroBreakout
220	Nester
211	Toiletunes
199	Jaden
194	Lord Innit
182	Jblenkle
132	NovaStar
131	RetroRob
127	Gorfy
115	AlNafuur
113	MangiaBoy
110	AustinBlair
91	AlasdairCampbell
89	Troff
85	BugCatcher
82	Tman03
75	JetSet
61	Magmavision2k
55	CentipedeFan
50	Cafeman
47	KianSurfs
44	ClassicGMR
42	AtariPerson23
40	MrBubble
39	KaeruY
34	WickeyColumbus
21	HankReardon
18	PlayerOne
18	Spriggy
18	TwentySixHundred
18	ZeroPageHomebrewJames
15	MikeBloke
12	DarQMassacres
12	ZeroPageHomebrewTanya
11	DarthCloud
5	AsteroidZ
2	AtariUCLA24
2	CaptainKiwi
2	PjeDivision

 

 

Season 10 will have:

~ Beat the leader week 1 and double points

~ Beat the leader week 2 and double points

This Season will last 23 weeks and have 25+ Games

The TOP 32 will qualify for the Medal Bracket Challenge which will include a special Paper Medal Bracket Knockout Tourney.

Edited October 6, 2020 by Vocelli

[Rogerpoco]

Street Racer Game 7-99, 62(?)point margin?

Just noticed the "point difference" in the bonus, that will make this interesting, NICE!!! I thought it was "one and done".

Looking forward to Astroblast, for sure-The bonuses have been kind to me, this one was a piece of cake and I knew it, but last week's really was a bit of luck, "perfect" came pretty quick.

I know this game tho, so it wasn't a big ordeal.

Haha, I have the "maxout" on this listed elsewhere-at the time, I don't think I realized it was "Skiing".

 

Edited September 24, 2020 by Rogerpoco

[+Atari_Warlord]

Astroblast = 2,545

 

Thought I was doing well until the suicide guys showed up and started wiping me out.

 

Speedway II = 99-36 = 63

 

This has a special place in my heart as I bought it with the system so I could use the paddles.  Target Fun and this were my first two games.

 

 

[fakecortex]

31 minutes ago, Rogerpoco said:

Street Racer Game 7-99, 62(?)point margin?

You did that math just fine Rog! hahaha

[Lauren Tyler]

Astroblast: 5,060 (Between me and thee, when I first played this game, the loud noise always scared me.  I remember when the game ended I was always happy to have a little peace and quiet! If only I'd known about volume controls!)

Street Racer - Game 7: 99-32=67 (For Three Stooges fans like myself, the number 67 has a special meaning.)

[Isaiah Austin]

Astroblast: 20330

 

 

Street Racer: 66

 

[Rogerpoco]

Street Racer, Game 7-29-99, 70 pt difference(?).

 

 

 

 

[DrMooCowz]

Astroblast: 3625

Street Racer: 99-31=68

Bonus Bonus: This Atari I'm using likes to randomly get a crappy picture, fuzzy, and black & white. So, that made these more of a challenge.  

 

[Rogerpoco]

Street Racer Game 7-27-99/Diff 72(?)

Small improvement.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Woohoo! More paddle games!  I'm starting off this round right with a new personal best high score in Astroblast, though I only beat my previous high score by a couple thousand points since everything always goes to heck for me in this game when the speed picks up at 50,000 points. Still, I'm happy to have beaten my previous high score since that's always my goal in any round of the HSC. Street Racer was pretty fun too and not bad at all for a super early 2600 game, I might revisit it again later in the week to see if I can improve my score.

 

 

Astroblast (Game 1, A/B Difficulty): 57,465

 

Street Racer (Game 7, B/B Difficulty): 99 - 35 = 64

 

 

 

 

[AtariWarlord]

Astroblast 6,625. 12,030. Did you really think I was going to settle for my lowly four-digit score when some of you maniacs are already scoring so high? Not tonight Uncle Fritz -- not tonight.

 

Edited September 25, 2020 by AtariWarlord
I refuse to suck.

[Moisés Tuseto]

Bônus 68

[Moisés Tuseto]

astroblast 30485

[Rogerpoco]

Astroblast-24,820.

Tough game, fun.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Brain owie ?

 

 

Astroblast (Game 1, A/B Difficulty): 221,900

 

[fakecortex]

Wooo just got 99 on Street Slalom. I like that there’s a lot of variations on this cart. Another game that will play great head-to-head. Anyone got any hot tips for this one? My trusted book only says it’s fun, hahaha. To get those scores, I’m guessing you all just hold down the gas and hang on for dear life. 

 

Street Racer game 7: 99-38 (61pt lead)

 

Unfortunately, I do not have Astroblast, and playing on emu with a PS3 controller is just not cutting it. It looks like a lot of fun, but paddle required. It’s controlling so poorly for me, I may end up with participation points ? I’ll try a bit more before my first post. 

[CentipedeFan]

39945

 

I had this as a kid and never knew you could play it with paddles.

[Lauren Tyler]

First time I've ever made it into 5-digit territory: 21,380!

Biggest piece of advice I can give: Don't try to shoot everything.  You will lose points, it's only inevitable.  Just do your best to shoot what you can.  Your biggest priorities, though, should be the spinners.  If you see one, shoot it or prepare to forfeit a life (and points!)

 

Also, be careful of shooting objects that are close to your base.  A meteor that is too close to your base when you shoot it could break in two and still crush you.

 

Most of all, the best thing to do is just hold down the button to shoot first and ask questions later!

[Deteacher]

I'll start with the bonus: 99-37=62!

[agb]

Astroblast 23,465

 

[agb]

Level 7. BB. 99-10. Seems too high. Did I mess up at all?  

[fakecortex]

44 minutes ago, agb said:

Level 7. BB. 99-10. Seems too high. Did I mess up at all?  

Uuuuh, that seems impossible. Sure you were on the right game? There’s a two player version of slalom...

 

Oh, also, I know that difficulty A takes away a point when you crash (but then it seems to give it right back when you continue past the gap?) so maybe that was actually switched on and it affected the cpu the same way, keeping it incredibly low?

Edited September 26, 2020 by fakecortex
Confirmed settings in manual.

[Deteacher]

Astroblast:  5,090!

 

Street Racer:  99-31=68!

[Rogerpoco]

2 hours ago, fakecortex said:

Uuuuh, that seems impossible. Sure you were on the right game? There’s a two player version of slalom...

 

Oh, also, I know that difficulty A takes away a point when you crash (but then it seems to give it right back when you continue past the gap?) so maybe that was actually switched on and it affected the cpu the same way, keeping it incredibly low?

Y'know, my assumption was to play BB(and I did), but it doesn't actually say that(yet), so I guess that's a moderator call-"as it stands", if the diff switch was the "why", then the rules don't disallow that.

*Edit*

I've gotten "27" several times now, usually on the throttle most of the time, with only a crash or two-10 DOES seem a tad low, but I'm not one to say anything is impossible, I've seen Impossible done too many times.

 

*Second Edit*

OK, I've played it on A/B now a few times(A/A makes the gap a tad smaller I think, and sucks...), and am down to 99-5.

JUST my opinion, but I think A/B mebbe should be allowed, is "same rules" if everyone can use them, and i think someone might be able to get a "1" or "2", that would be neat to see...

Edited September 26, 2020 by Rogerpoco

[AtariWarlord]

Astroblast 21,595.