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WOW you guys didn't waste one minute jumping in this!

This is a MONTH LONG Squad Challenge! You have through July 31st to post your High Score! Take the extra time to enjoy the game!

Asteroids Atari 7800 Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: STANDARD PLAY, ADVANCED Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST July 31, 2023 Nominated by @Atari 5200 Guy Objective Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between July 1st through July 31st, 2023. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor! Eligibility Anyone can join in. All players are welcome! Play Rules Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback / Mini console, officially released compilation, or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following all rules and game settings defined in the challenge. Choosing between real hardware or emulation, and choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds, updated and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level Standard Play, Advanced Difficulty. This provides for one player playing a regular game of 7800 Asteroids at a moderately advanced difficulty setting appropriate to challenge an adult player without frustration. Fair Play Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other dishonest advantage. Everybody hates a cheater. More To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: Message Welcome to our 147th Squad Challenge! This month we're playing Asteroids for the Atari 7800! Special thanks to @Atari 5200 Guy for nominating this game! ROM and PDF Instruction Booklet is attached below. Good luck! Asteroids.a78 Asteroids.pdf

Congratulations Socrates63! Congratulations to @socrates63 his big Squad Challenge win!! Socrates takes the top spot in our Final Standings with an outstanding score of 154,110 points. Awesome! "The Mayor" @greenween posted an incredible score early on in the challenge, taking 2nd Place in our Final Standings with his wild score of 86,540 points. The Legendary @Marco1019 takes 3rd Place in our Final Standings with his incredible score of 47,030 points, just narrowly beating out "The Don" @RickR who takes 4th Place with 45,140 points. @Atari 5200 Guy scored 37,370 to take 5th Place! We welcome a new member to the Forums and to High Score Squad with @Smell Dawg joining us with 19,730 points. Welcome, Smell Dawg! @TrekMD rounds things out in our 7th spot, with a well-earned 14,070 points. As always I'd like to encourage @socrates63 to post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Socrates63 for his BIG WIN, and I want to thank @greenween for nominating this game! Also, Be sure to join Club VCS this month to participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges for the new Atari VCS! NOTE: Our next Squad Challenge will be Asteroids on Atari 7800. Be there!

Thanks for clearing this up @Video 61! I had a feeling these were the ones 😀 @lucca777 Jack Tramiel, Commodore founder who acquired Atari from Warner Communications in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tramiel @lucca777 These were counterfeit items, which were often seized at ports of entry into the United States, and then sent to the person or company that owned the rights to that item to dispose of. (Which was Atari in many cases of counterfeit video games during that time.) Jack Tramiel chose not to destroy the counterfeit games but to send them to official Atari distributors including Lance at @Video 61. I had never heard this story until @Video 61 shared this with me fairly recently.

@Video 61 Did you get some of these that had been confiscated by customs off of a ship and sent to Jack?

Wordpress became far less secure than it was nine years ago when I created this iteration of the site. I will be rebuilding it within the secure platform that the forums offers, using the content from the main site. That requires a great deal of time which I haven't had much of this year, but it will be worked out.

I've really enjoyed those Champs Games releases. Great video!

Your memories of this would be an excellent topic for us to dive into in a Lance's Laboratory blog entry 🙂

@peteym5 @DegasElite Here's a fine selection of epic adventurous headwear:

Brown pixels in the style of an Indiana Jones hat would be pretty cool. Without actually making him Indiana Jones.

This is probably my favorite game specifically for the Atari XE! Although it may take a back seat to Rescue on Fractalus. Great game! I need to get it booted up and play it a bit to refresh my memory and then I could be of more help!

Can you give him an Indiana Jones hat?

I realize TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine has grown expensive, but getting set up with a decent TurboGrafx-16 system is well worth it, and investing in a Turbo EverDrive is a wise idea. If you need help with that PM me and I will be as helpful as I can. @MaximumRD helped me get set up with everything I needed for the EverDrive a few years ago and I am happy to share that knowledge. I've had a TurboDuo and TurboExpress for decades. I absolutely love them. The Analogue Duo may be worth considering as well, if you are looking to dive into the world of TurboGrafx-16: https://www.analogue.co/duo

TurboGrafx-16 hands down.

I agree. If Atari is going to do this, my hope and wish would be to see them re-assemble some of old Atari's assets along with IPs they should've had - try to get back Battlezone, some of the "Atari Games" titles that Midway had such as RoadBlasters, S.T.U.N. Runner, Marble Madness and Paperboy, and whatever Epyx had that would've been on Lynx.

Atari recently acquired the rights to the Bubsy franchise along with 100 other games. Does this seem like exciting news to you? What might this indicate about Atari's direction in the future?

Haha the bold signifies forums with unread posts. If you look at a smaller forum where you've read everything, you'll see that it's not bold. I think it's doing that because it's a link to Club VCS and can't correlate unread posts in the club to the Forum category acting as a link. I didn't even catch that until you pointed it out.

Done deal. I hope all VCS enthusiasts feel welcome here 😀 Here you go:

This is a MONTH LONG Squad Challenge! You have through June 30th to post your High Score! Take the extra time to enjoy the game!

Vanguard Atari 2600 Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: NONE Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST June 30, 2023 Nominated by @greenween Objective Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between June 1st through June 30th, 2023. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor! Eligibility Anyone can join in. All players are welcome! Play Rules Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback / Mini console, officially released compilation, or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following all rules and game settings defined in the challenge. Choosing between real hardware or emulation, and choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds, updated and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level There are no difficulty levels to select from in Vanguard. Difficulty Switches control the way the spaceship fires, and may be configured to Player's Choice. Please refer to Page 9 of the Vanguard Instruction Manual for more information on using Difficulty Switches to confute the way your spaceship fires. All configurations are acceptable for this Squad Challenge. Fair Play Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other dishonest advantage. Everybody hates a cheater. More To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: Message Welcome to our 146th Squad Challenge! This month we're playing Vanguard for the Atari 2600! Special thanks to longtime Atari I/O "Mayor" @greenween for nominating this incredible game! ROM and PDF Instruction Booklet is attached below. Good luck! Vanguard.pdf Vanguard.bin

Congratulations Onidensetsu! Congratulations to @OniDensetsu his big Squad Challenge win!! Onidensetsu won the A8 challenge of our Double Feature, and our very first Atari 8-Bit Squad Challenge! Onidensetsu takes the top spot in our Final Standings with an impressive score of 51,040 points. Awesome! "The Don" @RickR was hot on Onidensetsu's tail, narrowly taking 2nd Place in our Final Standings with his wild score of 49,940 points. @Sabertooth - who did an incredible job of coordinating the Club VCS side of our Double Feature - takes 3rd Place in our Final Standings with an incredible score of 44,020 points. @TrekMD fought to take 4th, with an impressive score of 35,650 points, and @RETRO DESTRUCTO rounds things out in our 5th spot, with a well-earned 16,840 points. Congratulations once again to Onidensetsu for his BIG WIN, and I want to thank @Sabertooth for nominating this game! He is doing yeoman's work continuously hosting wonderful Squad Challenges and other fun events in our new Club VCS! Be sure to join Club VCS this month to participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges for the new Atari VCS! NOTE: Our next Squad Challenge will be Vanguard for the Atari 2600, nominated by Greenween!

That's great news @Marco1019, letttssss goooooooo!