2020/2021 HSC Round 4 Crossbow

[toiletunes]

Round 4: Crossbow

Settings: joystick or light gun

 

HSC Record: Liduario- 2,315,500

 

Round ends: December 9

 

HSC Points as of round 3:

25 - Dr Moocowz

24 - toiletunes

22 - roadrunner

21 - oyamafamily

20 - NIKON

18 - BydoEmpire

18 - jeremiahjt

9 - slx

7 - Namco Player

3 - jblenkle

 

Bonus: Battle of the controllers! When you post a score, specify if you used a light gun, a joystick (including keyboard for emulation), or emulation with mouse/touchpad. At the end of the round, I will add the scores together by controller type- if your controller has the highest combined points, you'll get +1 Bonus Point!

 

Crossbow Scores:

 

2,560,000 - oyamafamily (mouse/touchpad) 10 + 2 + 1

771,500 - NIKON (mouse/touchpad) 9 + 1

674,500 - jeremiahjt (joystick) 8

572,522 - BydoEmpire (joystick) 7 

558,500 - roadrunner (mouse/touchpad) 6 + 1

517,500 - toiletunes (joystick) 5

351,000 - Rick Dangerous (joystick) 4

186,000 - Dr Moocowz (light gun) 3

20,500 - jblenkle (20,500) 2

 

Bonus totals-

mouse/touchpad = 3,890,000

joystick = 2,136,000

light gun = 186,000

 

HSC Points as of round 4:

34 - oyamafamily

30 - NIKON

29 - toiletunes

29 - roadrunner

28 - Dr Moocowz
26 - jeremiahjt

25 - BydoEmpire

9 - slx

7 - Namco Player

5 - jblenkle

4 - Rick Dangerous

 

Edited January 4 by toiletunes

[BydoEmpire]

Awesome, I love Crossbow!  I've never beaten it, but it's one of those games that's fun even though I suck at it.

[Dr Moocowz]

Cool! I think I actually have a lightgun and curious to give it a real try!

[oyamafamily]

Crossbow  1,211,000

(Of note: using ProSystem Emulator version 1.3g, which supports LIGHT GUN. See more infos about 1.3g!)

 

[oyamafamily]

For those who need tips for 7800 Crossbow, here is the map!

[+Mitch]

I remember when my niece and I made that map years ago.

 

Mitch

[oyamafamily]

Crossbow new attempt  2,077,500

 

Performed on November 21st, 2020

Timeline:

00:00 - My username on a piece of paper, and Prosystem Emulator ready to open a 7800 game

00:08 - Crossbow startup, controller set to Light Gun and mouse evidence

08:18 - Start of successful run

30:00 - End of run and final score shown - 2,077,500 points

Edited November 22, 2020 by oyamafamily

[roadrunner]

558,500

Light gun

The path i take is Green, Blue, Blue, Red

 

[NIKON]

771500

[BydoEmpire]

Uh oh, I think I sold my XE gun when I sold my XEGS collection a year or two ago.  I thought I had another one, but apparently not... I do think Crossbow plays surprisingly well with a stick, so still one of my favorite 7800 games.  Getting warmed up...

Stick: 290,000

[BydoEmpire]

Beat the boss for the first time ever!

Controller: 572,500

 

[+jeremiahjt]

608,000 with a Europad and 500,500 with an XG-1.  I do not know what it is, but I cannot play the Desert level with the light gun.  The area in that level that I can fire is so small that to get through requires more luck than skill..

 

I wish I would have known this was the current game because I have been playing Crossbow the last few days and had better scores then, but I should be able to get a few more rounds in.

 

Slight improvement with the Europad to 674,500.

Edited November 28, 2020 by jeremiahjt

[roadrunner]

Game info here

https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-7800/crossbow

Review here

https://www.freezenet.ca/review-crossbow-atari-7800/

[oyamafamily]

Crossbow new attempt  2,560,000

 

 

Performed on November 29th, 2020

Timeline:

00:00 - My username on a piece of paper

00:08 - Crossbow startup, Light Gun setting and mouse evidence

00:56 - Start of run

28:30 - End of run and final score shown

Edited November 29, 2020 by oyamafamily

[BydoEmpire]

I want to make sure this doesn't come across negatively in the context of a written forum post, so let me say right up front: oyamafamily is a great player and a great community member.  His scores are amazing and should totally count.  Still, it doesn't seem right to categorize it as either Joystick or Light Gun for the bonus point, though.  Playing with a mouse is pretty different.  Nothing was stated in the rules starting this round, so to me it's up to toiletunes to decide whether it should count.  Better to discuss now before the end of the round, and maybe it's something to figure out next time around.

[toiletunes]

I will update the bonus point tonight, to include mouse as a third option. Thanks for the insight.

[roadrunner]

The emu i used when i selected gun i was able to use my pc touch pad.
That's what i used.
 

[+jeremiahjt]

I think both of my scores should count since no one else has done an actual light gun score except for me. 

[toiletunes]

8 minutes ago, jeremiahjt said:

I think both of my scores should count since no one else has done an actual light gun score except for me. 

 

Sorry, for this round it's one or the other- but, that does give me a fun idea for a future round...

[BydoEmpire]

7 hours ago, jeremiahjt said:

I think both of my scores should count since no one else has done an actual light gun score except for me. 

If I get a chance in the next couple of days I'm going to keep digging around to see if I can find that light gun I thought I had.

[toiletunes]

Joystick, 517,500

Light gun, 76,500

 

 

[NamcoPlayer]

I never submitted a score for Crossbow, your leaderboard is wrong with me in the leaderboard though I didn't submit a score for that game. 

[NamcoPlayer]

Oh, I forgot to read it and it turns out the points for the rounds of AA HSC. My bad.

[Dr Moocowz]

186000 light gun

 

My light gun is horribly inaccurate that mostly shoots lower than where I aim, or consistently to the right.

 

[jblenkle]

Crossbow - 20,500 (Joystick)

I really suck at this game