Justin

Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros 3, or Super Mario World? What’s your favorite Super Mario sequel and WHY?

Still on that grind. B R U T A L! My New High Score: 18,770

We're awarding the Activision Megamaniacs Badge as an achievement for all players who score a patch-worthy score of 45,000+ Points in our Megamania Squad Challenge through January 14th! Good luck!

Nothing patch-worthy. Hopefully soon! My New High Score: 15,050

Haven't been able to find a working copy of Megamania but wanted to join you guys in this Squad Challenge. I'm going to be playing Megamana on Virtual Atari which you can play here if you'd like: http://www.virtualatari.org/soft.php?soft=Megamania This is my first time playing Megamania in a long time. I forgot how simple and fun this game is! Here's to hoping my score improves from here My High Score: 10,460

Welcome to the Forums @Csolo it's great to have you join us! I hope you enjoy the Squad Challenge, and if you need anything I'm always here to help

@Kid A Hi Vince, @Video 61 has them brand new available on his site for $9. I'm sure he'd be happy to help you out ☑️ http://www.atarisales.com/2600new.html

Would love to have you join in next year @socrates63 let's plan on it ❄️

@nosweargamer has an excellent overview of Megamania for the Atari 2600. It's a great place to start if you're new to the game!

Let's get the word out about this High Score Squad Challenge! The more people participating the more fun the challenge! Spread the word and invite friends to play!

Megamania Atari 2600 Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Game 1, Difficulty B Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST January 14, 2022 Nominated by: @Sabertooth 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 January 1st through January 14th, 2022. 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, 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 and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level We are playing Megamania on Game 1, Difficulty B which provides for Guided Missiles traveling at high speed. 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 115th Squad Challenge!!! For this challenge we're playing Activision's MEGAMANIA designed by Steve Cartwright and released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. Special thanks to @Sabertooth for nominating this game for High Score Squad! Megamania is a space nightmare where you are attacked by wave after wave of space objects like hamburgers, cookies, bugs and diamonds, bow ties, space dice and radial tires. It plays a little like Space Invaders, using the Joystick to move left to right and firing missiles. Your missiles move and are guided by your joystick. ROM and PDF Instruction Manual are provided below. I hope you all have fun, and good luck to everybody participating. Can you become a MEGAMANIAC?! Megamania.a26 Megamania.pdf

Congratulations Radio Poultry! Congratulations to @RadioPoultry on becoming a TWO-TIME F-ZERO Squad Champion! Radio Poultry was previously Champion two years ago in our 2019 F-ZERO Christmas Challenge, and reclaims his title with his victory this year! Congratulations on a triumphant win! @RadioPoultry takes the top spot in the Final Standings with an outstanding time of 2' 02" 40. Our other legendary F-ZERO High Score Squad champ @Kid A returned to Mute City this year with an INCREDIBLE showing, nearly TIEING for 1st Place, having missed the mark by a mere seven milliseconds to take 2nd Place in our Final Standings with a time of 2' 02" 47. Hotshot @HDN secures his place in the Final Standings, taking 3rd with a terrific time of 2' 04" 70. I came in 4th Place with a time of 2' 10" 79. @Atari 5200 Guy came in 5th Place with a time of 2' 12" 47, @RickR takes 6th with 2' 13" 66, @greenween takes 7th with 2' 17" 67, and @Gianna gave it her all with a time of 2' 24" 19. Congratulations once again to Squad Legend @RadioPoultry for his victory, and a big congratulations to everyone on their amazing runs! Here's to everyone who gave it their all to shave off every last millisecond from their time. I hope everybody had fun with this game over the holiday season, and we'll see you back here on the F-ZERO track this time next year! NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge is Megamania for the Atari 2600! Be there!

So what car did everybody race with? I used the Blue Falcon

I wait for the 3rd beep then hit the gas. Works every time.

My New Score: 2'10"79 Played on real hardware using a Nintendo Super Famicom, Cartridge and SNES Controller

I always thought the name "LYNX" looked a lot like "EPYX"

My New High Score: 2'11"43 Played on Nintendo Switch Online

My High Score: 2'15"17 @Gianna and I are both still working on our scores and shaving milliseconds off of our time. Good luck to everybody!

Who’s still reading / subscribing to magazines? I just gave an annual subscription to a print magazine to a family friend for Christmas, which was greatly appreciated. I also received a subscription to DuPont Registry, which I used to subscribe to in the mid 1990s and very much look forward to. I wish they would bring back Nintendo Power. Yes we have the internet, we have Instagram, we have this very site, but whether it's Nintendo Power or the Sears Wish Book or the Atari 2600 Game Program Catalog - there's nothing quite like holding the printed materials in your hand and eagerly flipping through the pages wondering what you'll find next.

Conversations like these are at the core of why I created Atari I/O. Critically examining the history of Atari and the early gaming industry with an open mind and digesting what we find in an open, civil and cerebral conversation free of raw feelings and flame wars is sublime. Posting about homebrew development is fun but these discussions are what fascinate me. Here's to those who take the odds 🥃 The goal of this topic is not to tar and feather Jack Tramiel nor to laud him as a hero -- but rather to merely consider and discuss various perspectives of the man and his imprint on Atari's legacy. I'd like to open up more objective discussions such as this one in the future so we can examine history from a fresh perspective. This is the right group to do this with. I lived through the Jaguar like I lived through a tragedy. I was there in November 1993 with high hopes on day one. I brought home the first Jaguar in my state, invited all of my friends over to play. The Jaguar was the most advanced video game system, it was going to be a new 2600 all over again and history was going to repeat itself. I was unaware Rob Fulop and Howard Scott Warshaw were backing the 3DO. I lived as an underdog and fought to support the system beyond the point of being a lost cause. At that age it was traumatic and I still have the scars today. It's partially how I ended up here with these forums.