Vocelli Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) Week 23 Beat The Leaders Reactor 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 Reactor Released By: Parker Brothers 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 April 17, 2022 BONUS: BEAT THE LEADERS! For Players who are NOT in the Top 16 (17th Place and lower) (Standings after the Paddle Week 2) Get +10 Bonus Points for finishing in the Top 16 this week! Get +5 More for finishing Top 8! +15 Bonus Points Total Possible For Players in the Top 16 (Standings after the Paddle Week 2) Get +10 Bonus Points for finishing Top 4 this week Get an extra +5 for finishing FIRST +15 Bonus Points Total Possible Reactor Scores (Double Points This Week ~ 100pts for 1st, 98 for 2nd and so forth) ROLLAGE AT 390,000+ ROLLAGE - Kermit (+100) (+15) 306659 - Nads (+98) (+10) 98222 - JasonHRB (+96) (+10) 97448 - SkippyBCoyote (+94) (+10) 88799 - JasonAtari (+92) 78464 - AtariSphinx (+90) 67712 - Absalon (+88) 66643 - Keilbaca (+86) (+15) 63201 - Vocelli (+84) 59174 - JGKspsx (+82) 54835 - maloff (+80) 52738 - OyamaFamily (+78) 44048 - DomBradley (+76) 34528 - Evandro (+74) 33736 - TheActivisionary (+72) (+10) 26237 - Atarian7 (+70) 25520 - GBAG (+68) 19930 - DrMooCowz (+66) 19569 - Fakecortex (+64) 18531 - ClassicGamer (+62) 17551 - MoisesTuseto (+60) 17390 - AGB (+58) 13692 - RGC (+56) 11988 - Krytol (+54) 8513 - LaurenTyler (+52) 7191 - MarkGriff (+50) 5909 - Atari_Warlord (+48) 5284 - Mchetzel (+46) Overall Standings Possible Major League Competitors 1098 Kermit 1048 AtariSphinx 1042 JasonHRB 1024 SkippyBCoyote 966 Nads 944 MarkGriff 931 Evandro 900 Absalon 892 JGKspsx 883 Dr Moocowz 881 OyamaFamily 877 JasonAtari 858 Vocelli 800 DomBradley 761 Atarian7 752 Maloff Possible Minor League Competitors 721 Keilbaca 718 FakeCortex 713 LaurenTyler 695 Atari_Warlord 690 TheActivisionary 688 McCallister 616 Mchetzel 573 MoisesTuseto 570 GBAG 519 AGB 507 Deteacher 448 RGC 435 RaymanC 414 Roadrunner 397 CrazyClimber 367 ClassicGamer The Rest of the Competitors 326 RetroBreakout 275 Krytol 221 CTelkin 210 Ed 174 DataFry 171 Lord Innit 141 JoeBradley 118 Diamonds 114 ZeroPageHomebrewJames 97 GType 89 Atariwarlord 86 JacobZu7Zu7 78 ArmscarCoder 77 Jblenkle 76 ZeroPageHomebrewTanya 70 AlNafuur 70 ThomasJentsch 50 Sramirez 48 Nester 41 ZilchSr 38 IsaiahAustin 38 RockPile 29 DevWebci 21 BetwixtThieves 19 ZeroPageHomebewDarcy 3 Capitain Classic Season 12 will have: ~ THE LAST WEEK Beat the leader week The TOP 32 will qualify for the Medal Bracket Challenge. Edited April 18, 2022 by Vocelli 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nads Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 First cab off the rank ? Interesting game, I'm still not 100% sure what to do, surviving seems a good start Reactor 1BB : 25,388 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vocelli Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 Basically, it is like bumper cars. Bump into dots so they collide with the sides (thus eventually destroying them) while you avoid touching the sides (destroys you). Use a 'decoy' to get dots away from you. Not sure how scoring points goes. I think you get more points if you gather the dots in the capture chambers. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absalon Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Never played this before but I like it. My first score: 36419 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Reactor = 5,909 This game is actually kind of fun. Is the Trackball Version fair game? Not that I have the time to find my trackballs. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit73 Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 6 hours ago, Vocelli said: Not sure how scoring points goes. I think you get more points if you gather the dots in the capture chambers. The manual indicates you get 200 points for smashing any particle that splits into two smaller particles and 50 points for smashing the particles small enough to be destroyed in one hit. Each control rod along the left and right wall is worth 50 points. If you get particles in the bonus chambers, each bounce is worth 10-15 points. These bonus points are added to your score after you die unless you've accumulated more bounces than the bonus counter can track, at which point it adds the points to your score right away. Any decoys left at the end of the game earn 500 points. The manual does not explain how you can end up with scores that are not multiples of 5. I may try to spend some time with video this week to figure out where the manual and reality differ in terms of scoring. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Reactor 17,810 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) Reactor 25,826 Edited April 8, 2022 by oyamafamily 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Reactor (1 B/B): 31,799 Never played this one before. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 4042 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakecortex Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Neat game, don’t think I’ve played one quite like it. Use your spider to bounce macaroons into an electric fence. Interesting. Reactor - 19,569 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit73 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Reactor: 399145 With more consistency, I could probably roll the score at 1M, but I'm not sure I'll want to play the ~6 hours required. I'm not a fan of marathons and it took 2.5 hours to fall just short of 400k. My game photo shows an Easter Egg. The letters "CH" shown below the score are the programmer's initials (Charlie Heath). They appear at the end of the game if you score 200k or more. @Vocelli You may want consider setting rollage for this game at 200k. Once you make it past the fourth series of boards (the vortex with invisible walls), the game repeats these levels and does not increase in difficulty. To score 200k requires completing these boards a few times and will typically take 60-90 minutes. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jasonhrb Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 What a clever game this is. It made no sense to me at all at first, but once the game mechanics are understood, the whole thing is surprisingly intuitive. The action ramps up nicely, and it gets frantic quite quickly. The changing reactor layout adds more challenge. and the whole "destroy the enemies but it's not a shooter" vibe is one I really like. Yet another example (there are many in the 2600 catalogue, and we've played loads this season) of a game that is simply better than it has any right to be given the technical specs of the hardware and memory used. My only (minor) gripe is that the colours are a bit drab. Parker Brothers seemed to do this a lot (popeye is another example), and it's a shame inho. Still an absolute blast of a game. Anyway, time for me to shut up and provide a score ? Oh, and a quick P.S for @kermit73 (and anyone else who's interested). The reason you can get a score that isn't a multiple of 5, is that you seem to get points every time that you "bump" a particle without actually destroying it. This part of the score goes up 1 point at a time 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vocelli Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 @kermit73 We will make rollage , so your effort/time was not wasted, at 390K . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 I really like this game, and my recollection is that it is critically reviled. Glad to see others are finding it fun. A trackball hack seems AMAZING, I will have to look for that (and find my Cx22). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMooCowz Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 I'm not sure about this one, even after reading comments and the manual. 19930 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 8,513 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit73 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 7 hours ago, Jasonhrb said: My only (minor) gripe is that the colours are a bit drab. Parker Brothers seemed to do this a lot (popeye is another example), and it's a shame inho. Still an absolute blast of a game. I tend to agree. Parker Brothers graphics could use some improvement, but I give them very high marks on their sounds. They did particularly well getting the music in Popeye, Frogger, Gyruss, and even Reactor to sound right. 7 hours ago, Jasonhrb said: Oh, and a quick P.S for @kermit73 (and anyone else who's interested). The reason you can get a score that isn't a multiple of 5, is that you seem to get points every time that you "bump" a particle without actually destroying it. This part of the score goes up 1 point at a time Yep - I discovered this while playing and didn't mention it in my previous post. I don't think this scoring is mentioned anywhere in the manual. It also seems like the bounces in the bonus chamber are 15 points until you max out the counter. After you die, it seems to run up the score in 15-point increments, but after maxing out the counter, it gives you 10-points each bounce right away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Cool pick! Reactor is one of those weirdly abstract artsy games that I don't think anyone could have thought up outside of it's time and place in the early 80's, but it's a lotta fun once you get the hang of it Reactor (Game 1, B/B Difficulty): 91,073 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 On 4/8/2022 at 2:28 PM, Atari_Warlord said: Is the Trackball Version fair game? I'm guessing not because using an analog trackball would probably provide you with a distinct advantage over other players in the control department, but I'd like to hear from @Vocelli on this one too since I'd never pass up an opportunity to break out the old CX-80 Trak-Ball! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vocelli Posted April 11, 2022 Author Share Posted April 11, 2022 6 hours ago, Skippy B. Coyote said: I'm guessing not because using an analog trackball would probably provide you with a distinct advantage over other players in the control department, but I'd like to hear from @Vocelli on this one too since I'd never pass up an opportunity to break out the old CX-80 Trak-Ball! Yes, you can use the trackball. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nads Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Okay, Ive worked this one out ? although the invisible walls are challenging To echo @kermit73 comments definitely a marathon-able game but it would take a lot of stamina and patience. Reactor 1BB : 117,785 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytol Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 11,988 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 First score: 7987 Edit: slight improvement - 12661 OK, this is probably it for tonight: 14881 EDIT: I lied. If mouse/trackball hacks are allowed, here is my final final score of the night: 23486 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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