roadrunner Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) This round we play the arcade classic Asteroids Deluxe Last played here at the Arcade MAME HSC in 2013 Pilot a spaceship equipped with shields and auto-fire as you blast through level after level of rotating asteroids. UFOs and multi-segmented Killer Satellites take chase, searching for an opportunity to destroy your ship. Game Information: Game Name: Asteroids Deluxe Manufactured By: Atari/1980 Settings - Dipswitches: Starting lives: 3 (dipswitch 3-5) Difficulty: Hard (which is actually 'easy.') 4 large asteroids in rack 1. ROMset: astdelux.zip http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/55373/mame103/Asteroids-Deluxe-rev-2.html Deadline to post scores is November 28th 2021 at 12PM EST NO UFO Hunting - PLEASE DON'T ABUSE BUGS IN THE GAMES! Many Atari games have loopholes that allow you to easily get huge amounts of points without much work (An example of such "Point Scumming": in Asteroids, you can eliminate all but one small asteroid, and then "hunt" UFO's without the level ending), or finish the game while skipping a lot of the actual content (For example, using the X-Ray cheat in Superman to prevent the bridge from exploding). Not only do these result in somewhat bogus high scores, but it ruins the fun and challenge of the game in the process. EVERYONE PLEASE NOTE - MAME has screwed up the DIP switch settings for this game in some or all of the MAME versions so that HARD is actually easy and EASY is hard. You can tell which you are playing by the amount of rocks that spawn at the start of the first level, 4 rocks = EASY, 6 rocks = HARD. I assume we'll be playing on EASY so everyone make sure you have four rocks on the first level. (or you'll get you're butt handed to you pretty quick. Final high scores - Cynicaster 28,150 +11 points +3 points for winning round SoundGammon 19,980 +10 points Zoyous 17,190 +9 points AtariWarlord 13,580 +8 points Krytol 11,030 +7 points Floyd Turbo 9,460 +6 points jblenkle 9,100 +5 points roadrunner 7,360 +4 points Hero2millions 4,890 +3 points evan04 2,750 +2 points Current season standings - see screenshot attached, thanks to Floyd Turbo Link to game info, trivia and manual scans here - https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6939 Any corrections please post. Edited November 28, 2021 by roadrunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 7,360 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Asteroids Deluxe - 7,830 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan04 Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 2,750 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytol Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 11,030 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoundGammon Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 19,980 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 End Date??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 Asteroids Deluxe - 9,100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, jblenkle said: End Date??? Thanks, i missed that Updated first post Scores updated Edited November 18, 2021 by roadrunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 28,150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 11,950. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Updated standings. Sorry its a little late. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 9,460 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 Scores updated, thanks to Floyd Turbo for the updated standings Good turnout for this game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Haha, Floyd - who has top score on your machine? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero2millions Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 4,890 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 13,580. Happy Turkey Day to all you Yanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoyous Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 17190 I love this game! I feel like I'm just starting to scratch the surface. Sometimes I can start to get in the zone and the controls feel very fluid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 28, 2021 Author Share Posted November 28, 2021 Scores updated This round is over, congrats to Cynicaster Next round coming up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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