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Okay, I figured it out! Very broken game and I felt I could keep going forever. I also didn't realize you wouldn't drop into play after a few seconds like the arcade version. 478,800.

NEW V61 Review!

Double review on some excellent V61 products I got recently. Sealed Desert Falcon and the Gripstick controller, perfect combo.

Maybe I ought to pick this up for the 2600.

For me classic gaming has been about giving a home to games and consoles no one wants any more; a chance to see what's out there costing very little or nothing at all. It was also making huge mistakes without realizing it like just handing someone all of your dupes without getting anything for them in return. I've discovered games I either couldn't find or couldn't afford in new condition. For a while almost every yard sale during the late 1980's to mid 1990's almost always had a 2600 collection up for grabs. For a price between $5 to $10 one could grab a 2600 with controllers and at least 15 games. You could also sometimes talk the seller down a bit on price, too, and using any visual flaws to your advantage. I remember asking Mom one Saturday if we were the only people on the planet that had a 5200? Because I never found those but looking in the backseat of the car from one day's worth of yard sale hunting turned out about five or six 2600 setups with lots of games. Well over $500 in 1980's merchandise for about $40 - $50 total. I was stunned. Once we would get home I'd take the machines apart, give the plastics a bath, remove the tarnish off the switches, and test all the games on the motherboards, essentially killing two birds. What worked I would hang on to, broken units I held on to for parts. After having 10 units and lots of games my room got crowded and I had to thin out the 2600s. My NES, 7800, and SMS had there spaces but the 2600s were growing out of control. If I was smart I would have asked my grandmother if I could keep most of it at her house. I would have lived there anyway. If I'd only known, right? I did get a demographic of what Atari games were popular in my area. Pac-Man and Combat were with every 2600 I ever found. ET was almost always present along with Defender and Space Invaders. Pitfall! was favored by a few. Oddities included Dig Dug, Moon Patrol, Enduro, and Donkey Kong. Those I found once or twice. My first thought into collecting classic games again was they were old so I can get some games cheap. Yea. I never thought of these old games going for high prices. Even some resellers still around are asking high prices. I'm not complaining but just stunned how games no one could sell for $1 is now selling for $100. Unreal. I enjoy what I have but understand that the classic gaming market is starting to dry up.

986,200 at level 11. I was pretty close but a little too worried about capturing the rollover.

Hey everyone. I just rolled the score past 1,000,000 points. A video is provided below showing the score roll over. It's a few seconds long, but you can see the score roll and it's the best I could do playing the game with one hand and holding my cellphone in the other, trying to capture the score roll over. I've also put up a picture I took of my game at 925,800 points while I was still playing. Yes, I'm getting Slipice. No, he is not unlimited. He runs out after a while, so you can't go on forever collecting infinity Slipice. Fireballs still kill you, enemies still eat you alive, you're still going to make mistakes and die and the game is still relentless and you still have to be good to get a good score. There are other things going on at the same time that are like different ingredients baked into the "cake" that has become my strategy. I'm going to stick with this score for now. You'll see in the video I had more than six lives built up and I could've kept playing another 30 mins, but I turned the game off after I captured the score rolling over. I feel like I've played enough for tonight and I still have things I need to wrap up before bed. I'd also rather have one of you beat this score. It can be done and I know all of you guys have the skill to put all of the puzzle pieces together. High Score: 1,000,200