Justin

Congratulations RickR and Marco1019! Congratulations to @RickR on another RUNAWAY victory with Berzerk Enhanced Ediiton, and his THIRD win in a row! - and also CONGRATULATIONS to @Marco1019 on a definitive win with the original Berzerk for Atari 2600! "The Don" RickR takes the top spot in our Final Standings for Berzerk Enhanced Edition with an outstanding score of 32,300 points. Well done, Rick! Our runner up winner for Berzerk Enhanced Edition is @Smell Dawg who takes 2nd Place with an impressive score of 5,950 points. @TrekMD @Justin and @Sabertooth also joined in our Berzerk Enhanced Squad Challenge. Twitch King @Marco1019 takes the top spot in our Final Standings for the original Atari 2600 version of Berzerk with an astounding score of 111,810 points! INCREDIBLE! Our runner up winner for Original Berzerk is "The Mayor" @greenween with a hard-fought 30,160 points. @RickR @Atari 5200 Guy and @Justin also took part in our Berzerk Original Squad Challenge. Best Attempt Award goes to @Atari 5200 Guy who tried his best to participate in our Berzerk Enhanced Challenge, despite being sent a bum cart and going through a very difficult month. It means a lot that you’re still with us and that you tried to join in. You have lots of friends here who care about you. As always I'd like to encourage @RickR and @Marco1019 to post their high scores on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Rick for his BIG WIN. 👉 Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge, CAVERNS OF MARS: RECHARGED on the Atari VCS! 👉 @RickR is hosting a Club Evercade Let's Play this month for IREM Arcade #1! Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for Midnight Magic on Atari 2600. Be there!

Midnight Magic Atari 2600 Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: DIFFICULTY A Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST February 29, 2024 Nominated by @Atari 5200 Guy @TrekMD and @Justin 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 February 1st through February 29th, 2024. 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, FPGA 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, save states and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level DIFFICULTY A. We will be playing Midnight Magic on DIFFICULTY A Expert Mode. 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 unfair 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 155th Squad Challenge! 2024 is off to a great start, and we're continuing with what's widely regarded as the best Pinball game for the Atari 2600, Midnight Magic! PDF Instructions are included below. Enjoy! Midnight Magic.pdf

I hope everybody had fun this month!

My High Score for Berzerk (Original): 2,480

My High Score for Berzerk Enhanced Edition: 4,310

Those are great ideas @RickR! I was trying to do that with TurboGrafx and Duo games a few years ago. It’s not easy to build an audience, but very fun to play games and film videos.

B I N G O 🎯 I hope you fight it.

I would rather see standard videos. If you had to go live, streaming on weeknights would be preferred.

Reminds me of when I added the Forums to Atari I/O

I had done that two years ago when you made us aware of Lvl Up. I hope those scores are still there. Lvl Up will have rescued my scores. Hopefully more people will come over to Lvl Up from HighScore.com now that it's gone. Is anything going on with Twin Galaxies anymore?

@Marco1019 That's extremely disappointing. I had some excellent world record high scores over there. I hope the same won't happen at lvlupscore.com

Good stuff. Waiting on 7800 Crystal Castles

I’m still unsure how to play this or how score is kept. I imagine it’s a lot like Dom Jot.

There's room in everyone's Atari I/O Profile to add your Nintendo Friend Code, Playstation Network ID and Xbox Live ID

For Nintendo Switch you need your Nintendo Friend Code

If this is on Evercade Atari must have rights to put this game out. I'd love to see an Atari 7800 version of this game, playable on the Atari 2600+

I always enjoyed the arcade version of Lunar Lander. It's early but I love the physics. Gravitar, and Thrust+ Platinum from @thrust26 are two favorites. Although Lunar Lander: Beyond has a bit too much of that "flash game" look to it, I really like the added elements shown in the video. Having to "hack" the exit was a cool touch, plus having missions to accomplish and things to do other than landing and refueling is really nice. I feel like this would've made the perfect Lynx game. With any luck, one day maybe it will. I haven't played this game on Steam but I hope to give it a thumbs up if and when it's released on the VCS. I'd be thrilled to see more coming out for the Atari VCS. I worry that 18 months from now things will become dry for the VCS, with Atari's attention focused on the 2600+ and other offerings. Hopefully that won't be the case and the VCS will live a long life with lots of cool games to come.

Sounds like he has a monkey on his back When you’re hopped up on Donk it’s like there’s nobody else alive but you.

Lancia Delta HF Integrale (Italy, 1979-1994)

Yes you should

People love to say “fAiLeD cOnSoLe”. It’s like a meme at this point. NEC briefly made this variant of the PC Engine for the Japanese market and released 5 SuperGrafx games before moving on to the Super CD and Arcade CD which was better technology. They chose a different path. This was fairly common for products at that time to be released in Japan first, almost like a test market. SuperGrafx added an additional GPU that put another layer of graphics into PC Engine games. All but one SuperGrafx games were also PC Engine compatible. I’ve played the SuperGrafx games, they’re cool but I love the Super CD and Arcade CD much better. Of the few decisions NEC got right, the Super CD was a big one.

I actually don't recognize this. Looks Brazilian.

You could make that case for the 2600 as well. We're in a different age now and a different market. The 2600+ and this new 400 mini are not competing as industry leaders the way PS5, Xbox and Switch are today. That's also why I thought it would be far more economical for Atari to roll their modern support for the 5200 format into a new A8+ product.