Season 11 ~ Week 11 and 12 ~ A Trip to the Jungle!

[Vocelli]

Week 11/12

A Trip to the Jungle

Congo Bongo

 

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

 

Jungle Hunt

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Congo Bongo

Released By:  Sega

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1

 

 

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

Released By: Activision

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1

 

 

 

 Jungle Hunt

Released By: Atari

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1

 

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 May 2, 2021

 

 

Congo Bongo

 

ROLLAGE!!! - ZilchSr (+50)

327220 - MrTrust (+49)

157360 - Kermit (+48)

125190 - Maloff (+47)

116640 - Nads (+46)

  98900 - GBAG (+45)

  88560 - AtariSphinx (+44)

  79120 - SBAZ (+43)

  61310 - RetroBreakout (+42)

  56410 - ToileTunes (+41)

  55700 - JasonHRB (+40)

  46660 - DomBradley (+39)

  46380 - IsaiahAustin (+38)

  46350 - Evandro (+37)

  46250 - MoisesTuseto (+36)

  46220 - LaurenTyler (+35)

  44920 - Atarian7 (+34)

  38280 - RoadRunner (+33)

  38200 - RogerPoco (+32)

  37380 - JasonAtari (+31)

  36960 - Vocelli (+30)

  31450 - Nester (+29)

  31020 - TheActivisionary (+28)

  30710 - GType (+27)

  24750 - JBlenkle (+26)

  23990 - DrMooCowz (+25)

  17840 - FakeCortex (+24)

  17220 - MangiaBoy (+23)

  17180 - Mchetzel (+22)

  16360 - RaymanC (+21)

  16080 - 5x7 (+20)

    8420 - JacobZu7Zu7 (+19)

    6640 - RGC (+18)

    6190 - OyamaFamily (+17)

    5460 - Atari_Warlord (+16)

    3930 - AGB (+15)

    3170 - ClassicGamer (+14)

 

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

 

199000 - ZilchSr (+50)

199000 - IsaiahAustin (+50)

199000 - Nads (+50)

199000 - RogerPoco (+50)

199000 - FakeCortex (+50)

199000 - ToileTunes (+50)

199000 - Atarian7 (+50)

199000 - JasonAtari (+50)

199000 - DomBradley (+50)

199000 - AtariSpinx (+50)

199000 - Atari_Warlord (+50)

195801 - LaurenTyler (+39)

192389 - GBAG (+38)

187686 - OyamaFamily (+37)

180514 - MtTrust (+36)

175073 - Evandro (+35)

172041 - RetroBreakout (+34)

167850 - Kermit (+33)

161474 - JasonHRB (+32)

153551 - TheActivisionary (+31)

149392 - JBlenkle (+30)

138033 - RaymanC (+29)

136919 - Nester (+28)

131196 - ClassicGamer (+27)

123466 - Mchetzel (+26)

  98800 - RoadRunner (+25)

  81486 - JacobZu7Zu7 (+24)

  80201 - Vocelli (+23)

  71450 - MoisesTuseto (+22)

  65827 - DrMooCowz (+21)

  64946 - SBAZ (+20)

  59483 - 5x7 (+19)

  57012 - RGC (+18)

  43990 - AGB (+17)

  43700 - Maloff (+16)

  39978 - GType (+15)

  

    

Jungle Hunt

 

55720 - GBAG (+50)

53950 - RogerPoco (+49)

51130 - AtariSphinx (+48)

51110 - MrTrust (+47)

44420 - Evandro (+46)

41950 - Kermit (+45)

39410 - JacobZu7Zu7 (+44)

38310 - ToileTunes (+43)

38280 - JasonHRB (+42)

37970 - IsaiahAustin (+41)

37160 - RetroBreakout (+40)

36980 - ZilchSr (+39)

36820 - Maloff (+38)

35520 - OyamaFamily (+37)

33500 - DomBradley (+36)

31990 - 5x7 (+35)

24370 - GType (+34)

23740 - Karokoenig (+33)

23540 - ClassicGamer (+32)

23290 - FakeCortex (+31)

22310 - LaurenTyler (+30)

21700 - RGC (+29)

21320 - MoisesTuseto (+28)

20510 - Mchetzel (+27)

20230 - RaymanC (+26)

19260 - RoadRunner (+25)

18440 - JasonAtari (+24)

18380 - Vocelli (+23)

17650 - Nester (+22)

17470 - DrMooCowz (+21)

16800 - SBAZ (+20)

14590 - TheActivisionary (+19)

  6800 - ManiaBoy (+18)

  6800 - Atari_Warlord (+17)

  6700 - Atarian7 (+16)

  5400 - AGB (+15)

  3550 - JBlenkle (+14)

 

Overall Standings

 Remember the Top 32 will qualify for the Bracket Challenge at the end of the season!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

692	Kermit
639	ZilchSr
607	AtariSphinx
547	GBAG
546	JasonHRB
512	RogerPoco
507	Vocelli
466	Evandro
465	Toiletunes
460	JasonAtari
453	OyamaFamily
445	RaymanC
436	Dr Moocowz
422	IsaiahAustin
420	JacobZu7Zu7
412	TheActivisionary
403	CwieLand
390	Keilbaca
388	GType
374	Mchetzel
373	Maloff
364	DomBradley
358	MoisesTuseto
348	LaurenTyler
341	RetroBreakout
335	FakeCortex
329	McCallister
325	5x7
275	RGC
270	MrTrust
245	AGB
243	Atari_Warlord
243	ClassicGamer
237	Nebulus
232	SpaceyInvader
216	HankReardon
215	AtariWarlord
209	Nester
171	Capitain Classic
171	SneakyTurtleEgg
161	Atarian7
144	Roadrunner
105	Jblenkle
105	Nads
96	RedMiller
86	SkippyBCoyote
80	Deteacher
78	JeremiahK
76	Karokoenig
68	MangiaBoy
58	CaptainKiwi
55	PixelStuff
55	SBAZ
37	Lord Innit
31	NamcoPlayer

 

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Season 11 will have:

~ 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 will 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 May 4, 2021 by Vocelli

[Vocelli]

Time to Start Traveling again! Let's take a 2 week trip to the jungle!!!

[Rogerpoco]

Crap...

I've put off Pitfall 2 for a long time. I knew I'd play it someday.

I don't have high expectations for myself(the reason I've put it off..), but we'll see how it goes...

[Rogerpoco]

I'll set out exploring first, I suppose...

Jungle Hunt-53,950!!!

Holy Crap, me!!!

I know this isn't "amazing", but it isn't suck either-sat down to beat my PB, a hard-earned day's work 21,040, and dang if I didn't!!!

I really remember before not/barely being able to even clear the second vines, they just take patience.

No real strategy help here, I'm not that good-try to make it thru the vines as quickly as possible, if you want, avoid the Gators altogether(I try to kill as many as I can in the first level tho).

On the first level of Rolling Stones(Tm)(lol), press forward constantly-jump the little rocks about as soon as they come on screen, you'll clear them-as soon as a big rock comes out, drop back a few steps and duck, you'll get the timing pretty quick.

Second level of rocks, just press forward and jump, I think I cleared all the rocks, even the big ones, jumping as soon as I saw them(it's a tad faster).

One got me on the third level(a big rock), but it could have been human error(vid will upload elsewhere, mebbe I'll notice).

Jump the Warrior dude about as soon as he jumps towards you, that's really one of the easier parts of the game.

Anyway, OK, I don't see me trying to improve this unless I miraculously figure out the 199,900 on Pitfall 2(I mean, my Friends have shown me, gladly, but seeing and doing ain't the same...), but doubling my PB was/is very unexpected, I'll take it!!!

 

 

 

 

[Rogerpoco]

Evidently, I'm all alone out here in the Wilderness right now...

Congo Bongo-38,200

My, my!

Haha, I swear, I just wanted to "get these out of the way", knowing how much time I am going to have to invest in Pitfall 2, did NOT expect to come up with satisfactory scores on both so quickly, but by gosh I'll take it!!!

My Congo Bongo cart came from ZilchSr a while back, a gift, as did my Star Trek from last week, super proud/appreciative to have both-the Star Trek LOOKS awesome, and is an awesome game. The Congo Bongo... Well, it LOOKS pretty awesome, but this game...

I'm very not good at subjectivity towards "bad" games, but this may be the worst programmed game of all time, I think shovelware producers cared more about their product than Sega did about this one, unfortunately...

 

[fakecortex]

OoOoOoh, excited to take this trip ?

 

But first, commercial time!

 

 

Not Atari footage, but an oddball funny commercial

 

 

 

[toiletunes]

Do you know where you are? You're in the Jungle, baby!

 

 

[ZilchSr]

Congo Bongo - 151,800. First time playing this game. Looking to roll it before the end of next week if @kermit73doesn't beat me to it ?

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by ZilchSr

[Rogerpoco]

7 hours ago, ZilchSr said:

Congo Bongo - 151,800. First time playing this game. Looking to roll it before the end of next week if @kermit73doesn't beat me to it ?

 

Did I not just get done saying I had a satisfactory score?

*Poof*, now it's a stinky score.

Darn You!

 

 

[ZilchSr]

Nooooo .. your score is indeed a great score. I just got lucky ?

[Lauren Tyler]

Looks like we're doing the jungle boogie.  I'll play Pitfall 2 when I have more time (I have to go to work soon.)

 

Congo Bongo: 5,660 (The perspective on the second stage throws me off.)

 

Jungle Hunt: 22,310 (I'm sure I can do better once I'm more warmed up.)

[Rogerpoco]

Curious, as to the scoring on Pitfall 2-keeping in mind, I'm 1/2 outright idiot, I may be remembering this wrong, I'm sure someone will chime in, and I probably should have tried to play the game to check my memory, but...no.

Anyway.

I *think* you actually have to beat the game to achieve a score?

 

Like, I think if you "die", you go back to the last checkpoint, so if one can't figure out how to finish the game, they never actually get a score.

 

So is completing the game a requisite, or can folks sub their "highest achieved total", if that makes sense?

 

I *hope* it's a moot point for me, but again, I have "Patch Scores" on every Activision game I feel I am capable of, and it's MOST of them.

But I've never completed this game, haha, not even sure I can.

 

You also got me and ToiletTunes in the wrong order on Congo Bongo, NBD, I'm sure you'd have noticed it eventually.

[ZilchSr]

2 hours ago, Rogerpoco said:

Curious, as to the scoring on Pitfall 2-keeping in mind, I'm 1/2 outright idiot, I may be remembering this wrong, I'm sure someone will chime in, and I probably should have tried to play the game to check my memory, but...no.

Anyway.

I *think* you actually have to beat the game to achieve a score?

 

Like, I think if you "die", you go back to the last checkpoint, so if one can't figure out how to finish the game, they never actually get a score.

 

So is completing the game a requisite, or can folks sub their "highest achieved total", if that makes sense?

 

I *hope* it's a moot point for me, but again, I have "Patch Scores" on every Activision game I feel I am capable of, and it's MOST of them.

But I've never completed this game, haha, not even sure I can.

 

You also got me and ToiletTunes in the wrong order on Congo Bongo, NBD, I'm sure you'd have noticed it eventually.

You start out with 4,000 points. You gain 5,000 for gold bars, and 10K,15K,20K for the rat, Quickclaw, the girl, and the Raja Diamond. You lose points when you get hit commensurate with how far you are away from your last rally point (crosses). It is always possible, however, to get down to zero points if you keep getting hit and run out of gold bars and special items to get. With that being said, you'll always end up with at least 10,000 if Quickclaw is the last thing you grab, because the game ends once you grab him and he gives you 10,000. Beating the game is not hard at all. Just keep going until you get all four special items.

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by ZilchSr

[ZilchSr]

Pitfall II - 199000

[Rogerpoco]

54 minutes ago, ZilchSr said:

Beating the game is not hard at all.

 

Bite me.

Just finished watching your vid, strokes and folks I guess, but remembering where to go, and the skill to avoid the bats/buzzards...

GOATS eat what they want, when they want, can digest any darned thing, I think you might be overlooking that.

?

[Isaiah Austin]

Congo Bongo: 46380

 

 

Pitfall II: 199000

 

 

Jungle Hunt: 37970

 

[gbag]

Congo bongo 53,950

jungle hunt 51,140

I really like these games...Inthink Congo bongo is a revelation for Atari 2600 hardware and jh is just a charming little game...the big boulders get me every time

[fakecortex]

Congo Bongo does stuff with 3 dimensions that gets me all twisted on this system. And did I just set that gorilla on fire?! I also keep thinking if that commercial- hey, stop monkeying around ?

 

Congo Bongo - 17,840

 

Lining up those alligator kills in Jungle Hunt gives me trouble on every system I play this on. Can’t seem to jump the cannibal yet. This one on Atari 8bit computers is *chef’s kiss*

 

Jungle Hunt - 6,300

 

Oh man, Pitfall II is competing with Circus Convoy this week for my time. Submitting a score to get on the board and to follow up on Rog’s comment- will a score only count if we finish the game, or can we snap a pic whenever we want? Obviously, if you’re not finishing, you’re not gonna score too high, but just curious if this is legit. 

 

Pitfall II - 48,580

[classicgamer_27330]

[classicgamer_27330]

[ZilchSr]

2 hours ago, fakecortex said:

Submitting a score to get on the board and to follow up on Rog’s comment- will a score only count if we finish the game, or can we snap a pic whenever we want? Obviously, if you’re not finishing, you’re not gonna score too high, but just curious if this is legit. 

 

Pitfall II - 48,580

 

If it were to be put up for a vote, I have no problem with "peak score" being the score to submit.

[Lauren Tyler]

Better score for Congo Bongo: 25,220.

[Rogerpoco]

Pitfall 2-166565!!!

Holy Smokes, I beat Pitfall 2, finally earned one of my few "elusive" patches, haha, friggin YAY!!!

Thanks for the help, Garrett, and I suppose you are right, after enough time it's NOT terribly hard to beat, but some of the stuff really requires some finesse, the frogs and buzzards are tough to figure out, and the bats are kinda tough even when you DO figure them out.

Almost certain I'll try to do this a bit better, not sure "perfect" is on my horizon, if I do it'll prolly obligate me, in my mind, to do it on Pitfall!(1) as well, and I just don't wanna.

 

[Jasonhrb]

10 hours ago, ZilchSr said:

If it were to be put up for a vote, I have no problem with "peak score" being the score to submit.

For what it's worth as a relative newbie, I'd agree with this. We have a lot of players at different levels, and insisting on people finishing the game could make submitting a score inaccessible for many. I'd personally much rather have as wide a participation on the scoreboard as possible, rather than taking a "purist" approach and effectively locking people out

[Jasonhrb]

And here's an actual score for pitfall 2. I'd completed the game before, but this is an improvement on my previous best.

 

I'll see if I can improve further over the next couple of weeks (this one is a real favourite of mine so I will definitely be playing again), but I suspect perfection is likely to be beyond me ?