Vocelli #1 Posted February 3 (edited) Week 1 Venture (40th Anniversary Game) Berzerk (Game 9) 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 Venture (Game 1) Released By: Atari and Coleco Left Difficulty: B Right Difficulty: B Game Mode: Game 1 Berzerk (Game 9) Released By: Atari Left Difficulty: B Right Difficulty: B Game Mode: Game 9 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 Feb 14, 2021 Bonus: Beat Your Final Ranking from Season 10! Finish the same or higher than your Season 10 Final ‘End of Season’ Ranking with your Venture (Week 1) Score: Get 5 Bonus Points! Or Took a season off (Or more than 1 season) and you do not have a Season 10 Final End of Season Rank… Post a score on Venture: Get 10 bonus points! Or ALL NEW members to the HSC (That means you have NEVER played in any season of the Atari 2600HSC) and post a score on Venture: Get 25 Bonus Points Venture (Game 1) Scores 34400 - Kermit (+50) (+25) 21800 - ZlichSr (+49) 21100 - Mchetzel (+48) (+5) 21100 - SkippyBCoyote (+48) (+5) 19900 - McCallister (+46) 19600 - IsaiahAustin (+45) (+5) 17200 - RogerPoco (+44) (+5) 15900 - AtariSphinx (+43) (+5) 13500 - TheActivisionary (+42) (+5) 13100 - OyamaFamily (+41) 12300 - GType (+40) (+5) 12100 - Cwieland (+39) 11800 - ToileTunes (+38) (+5) 11700 - DrMooCowz (+37) (+5) 11400 - JasonAtari (+36) 11100 - MoisesTuseto (+35) (+5) 11100 - Evandro (+35) 10900 - JacobZu7Zu7 (+33) (+5) 10700 - Vocelli (+32) 10600 - Deteacher (+31) 10600 - Keilbaca (+31) 10400 - Nester (+29) (+5) 9700 - Nebulus (+28) (+25) 9600 - GBAG (+27) 8800 - HankRearden (+26) (+5) 8000 - JasonHRB (+25) (+25) 7300 - CapitanClassic (+24) 6600 - ClassicGamer (+23) 6500 - Atari_Warlord (+22) (+5) 6500 - 5x7 (+22) 6100 - RoadRunner (+20) (+5) 6100 - LaurenTyler (+19) 6100 - RetroBreakout (+19) (+5) 6000 - AtariWarlord (+17) 5700 - JeremiahK (+16) (+10) 5500 - MangiaBoy (+15) (+5) 5100 - RaymanC (+14) (+25) 4400 - FakeCortex (+13) 4000 - RedMiller (+12) 3700 - LordInnit (+11) (+5) 2700 - PixelStuff (+10) (+25) 2200 - DomBradley (+9) (+25) 2000 - RGC (+8) 1800 - AGB (+7) 1700 - JBlenkle (+6) 1000 - Atarian7 (+5) 800 - SneakyTurtleEgg (+4) (+10) Berzerk (Game 9) Scores 44380 - ZilchSr (+50) 22300 - Deteacher (+49) 17740 - JasonAtari (+48) 13930 - RaymanC (+47) 12860 - Keilbaca (+46) 12770 - Kermit (+45) 11990 - GBAG (+44) 11640 - HankReardon (+43) 10590 - AtariSphinx (+42) 10390 - McCallister (+41) 10000 - OyamaFamily (+40) 9890 - Vocelli (+39) 7510 - ToileTunes (+38) 7260 - IsaiahAustin (+37) 7220 - Karokoenig (+36) 6760 - AtariWarlord (+35) 6350 - RogerPoco (+34) 6200 - SkippyBCoyote (+33) 6130 - JeremiahK (+32) 6050 - JasonHRB (+31) 6020 - LaurenTyler (+30) 5830 - Cwieland (+29) 5720 - DomBradley (+28) 5700 - TheActivisionary (+27) 5500 - 5x7 (+26) 5490 - SneakyTurtleEgg (+25) 5480 - RetroBreakout (+24) 5370 - Nebulus (+23) 5340 - JacobZu7Zu7 (+22) 5230 - LordInnit (+21) 5200 - ClassicGamer (+20) 5090 - MoisesTuseto (+19) 4760 - GType (+18) 4680 - Nester (+17) 4560 - DrMooCowz (+16) 4470 - RoadRunner (+15) 4410 - SpaceyInvader (+14) 4380 - CapitanClassic (+13) 4270 - Mchetzel (+12) 4070 - RGC (+11) 3730 - FakeCortex (+10) 3610 - Atarian7 (+9) 3600 - Evandro (+8) 3570 - RedMiller (+7) 3290 - PixelStuff (+6) 3140 - Atari_Warlord (+5) 3100 - AGB (+4) 3020 - JBlenkle (+3) 2790 - MangiaBoy (+2) OF NOTE FOR NEW PLAYERS Scoring will be as follows for The NEW HSC SEASON 11: 50 Points for 1st Place each week 49 Points for 2nd 48 fPoints or 3rd and so forth. This scoring system will allow players who join later to score more points later in the season and qualify for the Bracket Challenge. The last 2 weeks of the Season will be double Points! Scores will be updated Daily (unless I am out of town). Please check and double check your scores! Please let me know if I double post or make an error. The Overall Rankings will be Posted Every Tuesday or Wednesday. A new Game will be Posted Every Thursday or Friday unless it is a 2 week special game/games. This will give you several games to play every weekend! Season 11 will have: ~ Arcade Games ~ Imagic Weeks ~ Gold Medal winner pick from ZilchSr ~ Silver Medal winner pick from JasonAtari ~ Bronze Medal winner pick from IsaiahAustin ~ Paper Medal winner pick from OyamaFamily ~ Several Request weeks or Special Weeks ~ HomeBrew Weeks ~ Paddle Weeks ~ Quickies ~ Beat the leader weeks This Season will last about 24 weeks and have 28+ Games. The Season should end at the end of July. The TOP 32 will qualify for the Medal Bracket Challenge which will include a special Paper Medal Bracket Knockout Tourney. Edited February 23 by Vocelli 8 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vocelli #2 Posted February 3 (edited) WELCOME! I am sure it is Feb 4 somewhere... So lets get STARTED! This season we will have a few games that we always seem to circle back to. We will have some cool Imagic games. We have picks by last years winners! We have many games that have NOT been played in while or never have been played. AND we have 3 GREAT homebrew games that the Creators themselves have given me permission to use for our Homebrew weeks! These Homebrew games have NEVER been played in the HSC and will be a big treat for us and will allow the Creators to play/chime-in with tips and tricks! Overall, I think of it as a 'Mix Tape' of games. I used to make 'Mix Tapes' on cassettes and give them to my friends way back in the 1970's and 80's. There would be some familiar songs and some songs they never heard of. I think the 2600 HSC is exactly like that! So, I present to you... Season 11 Atari 2600 High Score Club! Good Luck and start posting! Edited February 3 by Vocelli 7 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CapitanClassic #3 Posted February 3 Indeed, It has been Feb 4 in UTC+14 for 10+ hours since your post. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogerpoco #4 Posted February 3 Woo-Hoo, lets start with a couple games I completely suck at!!! Ah, well-it'll be fun. Good Luck Everyone!!! 5 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Isaiah Austin #5 Posted February 3 Venture: 7800 Berzerk: 4470 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
karokoenig #6 Posted February 4 (edited) Berzerk 9BB: 7,220 Yeah, it's me. It's been a while. But since recently, we slightly refurnished our "new" living room, I had room for a CRT TV and two consoles. Also, my 6-year-old enjoys some old-school videogaming with dad in the current lockdown. With the wife's blessing even. What has the world come to...? Anyway, it's a win-win situation, I'd say. Expect me to chime in here every now and then. I doubt I will be able to play regularly, though. Time is a very very precious resource for me these days. We'll see. Still, it's great to be back - sort of. Edited February 4 by karokoenig 8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lauren Tyler #7 Posted February 4 Played a couple of games before work this morning. When I'm more awake and more warmed up I play a LOT better! Venture: 3,000 Berzerk: 4,390 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogerpoco #8 Posted February 4 6,350 on the Berzerk-a 1K improvement on my PB so far. Not a fan of the game, but it is fun trying to do "just a little better". 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogerpoco #9 Posted February 4 (edited) Hey, guess what I am doing? Nothing, really. At all. Not sure I can do better on the Berzerk, and have both of my copies of Venture out. I just don't want to play it, lol. Felt the same about Berzerk, actually had a fun couple days, but... God, I hate Venture... Edited February 4 by Rogerpoco 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deteacher #10 Posted February 4 Berzerk: 5,360! I forgot about the "super robots" that will absorb 1 shot. 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogerpoco #11 Posted February 4 (edited) Ventured my way to almost 10K! 9,800 Still not a fan, but it's a "game", I've definitely played worse. Edited February 4 by Rogerpoco 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deteacher #12 Posted February 5 9,850! So close to 10K! 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr Moocowz #13 Posted February 5 Venture: 11700 Berzerk: 4560 Venture commentary: I REALLY dislike that you can't get points from shooting stuff until after you collect the item in the room. Berzerk commentary: Ok... bear with me here and I promise this is probably funny to you! So, I've always pronounced the game as "buh-zerk" and never gave much thought ever to writing the word out in any other aspect of my life. With that in mind, I could've sworn it's normally spelled "Bezerk" based on how I say it. Trying to find the rom in Stella with no results for "bez" was like "huh... how do I not have this?", only to find out the game is called Berzerk. Then as I typed out Berzerk here at the start of my post, I noticed the underline indicating I have a spelling error! Then I'm like "well... is the word actually spelled 'bezerk' on how I've always pronounced it!?". Then I google/dictionary it to find out the REAL spelling of the actual word is "berserk" !? !? !? I listened to it pronounced several times. It's going to take me a LONG time to correct this with my speech and spelling out the real word when it comes up! So, damn you whoever came up with this game name 40 years ago and taught me wrong all of these years! Other commentary: I'm going to try to personally track the "Two favorites, two surprises, two hates" thing this season as I go along. Venture is currently on my hate list. Berzerk is on the favorites... for now (won't be tough to knock it off). 4 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rogerpoco #14 Posted February 5 Venture-10,800 Small improvement. I really feel like I can do MUCH better, but I dunno. Seems simple, and isn't. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtariSphinx #15 Posted February 5 Berzerk (9 B/B): 4,780 Excited to start the season! 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtariSphinx #16 Posted February 5 Venture (1 B/B): 13,500 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[email protected] #17 Posted February 5 Berzerk: 4880 New to the forum, looking forward to venturing more into the world of the 2600! 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
G-type #19 Posted February 5 I'm a little rusty. Gotta get my Atari legs back! 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deteacher #21 Posted February 5 Major improvement on Berzerk: 18,120! 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deteacher #22 Posted February 6 Venture: 6,100 Berzerk: 19,810 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kermit73 #23 Posted February 6 (edited) Venture: 21600 Edited February 6 by kermit73 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Rearden #24 Posted February 6 Berserk 9BB - 8,450 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZilchSr #25 Posted February 6 (edited) Berzerk - Game 9 X/X - 26,190 Edited February 6 by ZilchSr 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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