Gury Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 13540 I am done with this game. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdh Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 53620. Last one for me too, quite a sluggish and frustrating port, but there is a classic in there somewhere. (First screen best score - 3990) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 The first time I have ever played DigDug! 9060 will play more hopefully but just wanted to get a score in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 This game is maddening! My scores are very low. I'll have a good few hours to improve tonight but the collision detection seems off, I always die when I think I shouldn't... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 70800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STARBUG Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 64,590 NTSC I didn't manage to get a chance to play this weekend, but I got a few scores in the 60k region last weekend, I think this was the best of them I definitely prefer the 83 version I played as a kid, I'm pretty sure the gameplay was a lot easier, enemies are frustratingly difficult the kill/stun in this version. Fun challenge for sure though 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdh Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 5 hours ago, STARBUG said: enemies are frustratingly difficult the kill/stun in this version I setup my 1200xl yesterday and took the opportunity to play on NTSC for a while, the kill/stun is a little more frustrating than the PAL version. Maybe the speed increase is making it feel like this, I don't know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 life 6120 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Last-minute try: 12.860 (PAL emulated on Atari800MacX) atari068.tiff 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) Congratulations to tompateus for the convincing win at Dig-Dug with Deteacher in runner up spot and picking up the NTSC bonus point. Didn't have much time to play this in the 2nd week but will have another play when we do a season catch-up later on. OK Let's start up Round 6... DIG-DUG "WIDE" 1st tompateus 152,780 12pts 2nd Deteacher 97,100 11pts+1pt # 3rd therealbountybob 73,670 10pts 4th RedThunder 71,960 9pts 5th McKong 70,800 9pts 6th Starbug 64,590 9pts 7th Mr Trust 53,840 9pts 8th jdh 53,620 8pts 9th NamcoPlayer 51,730 8pts 10th orpheuswaking 47,980 8pts 11th doctorclu 46,080 8pts 12th AtariSphinx 40,520 7pts 13th Caco 37,810 7pts 14th Sikor 35,670 7pts 15th graywest 29,940 6pts 16th 8BIT 1337 29,580 6pts 17th oo7 * 27,620 6pts 18th Sleepy 27,420 5pts 19th Mister-VCS 26,980 5pts 20th pusakat 22,190 5pts 21st jblenkle 18,040 4pts 22nd chevymad 15,340 4pts 23rd Gury 13,540 4pts 24th mimo 13,390 3pts 25th slx 12,860 3pts 26th carlsson 9,170 3pts 27th spookt 9,060 2pts 28th 8bitguy1 8,340 2pts 29th Piotrus (Sikor Jr) 2,080 2pts 30th Alicja (Caco Jr) 2,000 2pts # Top NTSC score bonus point Edited April 13, 2021 by therealbountybob Late scores added 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STARBUG Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 5 hours ago, jdh said: I setup my 1200xl yesterday and took the opportunity to play on NTSC for a while, the kill/stun is a little more frustrating than the PAL version. Maybe the speed increase is making it feel like this, I don't know. That's a possibility I hadn't considered. I played Pal as a kid, maybe it's the NTSC factor that's the issue, should have got myself a Pal machine, but I found an 800xl for sale in Venezuela a few years ago in such good condition with lots of extras, I couldn't pass it up. Might consider doing a trade at some stage if the offer comes up. I find Boulderdash so hard to play on it too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 29,480 Still got till 10:30 ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) 71,960 Arse, void score missed the deadline. Last go. As said before its does get better.... still no Lode Runner though Good round as always, still not enough time to play ? Film now.. looks heavy. The GF needs to watch for her art studies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri_ySVeF4L0 See you in the next round. RT Edited March 28, 2021 by RedThunder 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 22 hours ago, RedThunder said: 71,960 Arse, void score missed the deadline. Last go. As said before its does get better.... still no Lode Runner though Good round as always, still not enough time to play ? Film now.. looks heavy. The GF needs to watch for her art studies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri_ySVeF4L0 See you in the next round. RT No problem RT, table updated (above) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/29/2021 at 6:27 PM, therealbountybob said: No problem RT, table updated (above) I did get a slightly higher score, but that will muck the tables right up. Leave it as it is. I did'nt expect a table tweak in the first place. Next Galaxian. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 3/15/2021 at 6:25 AM, carlsson said: Update to what I posted above: If Altirra is to trust (I suppose it is accurate, but one never can be sure enough), I found the following: Dig Dug 1982: Boots OK on Atari 400/800 with 16K RAM or more. With 8K, the graphics are horribly corrupted, flicker badly and the game is unplayable. Dig Dug 1983: Boots OK on Atari 400/800 with 16K RAM or more. With 8K, it doesn't even get to the title screen. It means that not even the first version of Dig Dug would run on an original 8K machine, though it would start with corrupted graphics. I don't know if it ever was intended to work. I saw a reference to that the source code to the 1982 version was posted here on AtariAge so unlike the case of Frogger, the sources probably never were lost. Perhaps it was a matter of outsourcing the first version, and Atari only had limited rights to republish it so they just as well begun to reissue the 5200 version for A8, in particular if it was considered more accurate? Interesting! Never new there were 2 versions of Dig dug on A8. I am not sure which one I had as a kid. Will have to play the other one (have not played either since I was a kid). I really like knowing the history of things including video games so this is great to learn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Dig Dug (wide, default level): 40,520 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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