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58 minutes ago, RickR said:
31130 is my score.
You guys are getting wild right out of the gate with these scores! Things heated up fast!
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6 hours ago, RickR said:
@RadioPoultry, it looks like you could record your gameplay on VHS. I think that makes you the automatic winner.
I grew up with my Atari 7800 hooked up to one of these! It was a Samsung TV/VCR combo, and yes I recorded gameplay occasionally. I also had my TurboGrafx-16 and Genesis hooked up to it. Somewhere I still have those tapes, I'll have to find them.
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1 hour ago, kamakazi20012 said:
I'm in! You ought to do a 2600 Ms. Pac-Man Squad Challenge along side this one, too 😉
We celebrate National Pac-Man Day annually with a different Pac-Man game every year. There's only so many Pac-Man games to go through without repeating, so we're saving 2600 Ms. Pac-Man for another year
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@btbfilms76 has a special episode of 7800 Avenue premiering today coinciding with our Ms. Pac-Man Squad Challenge! BTB fires up the Atari 7800 and takes a look at Ms. Pac-Man, which you can watch here:
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Ms. Pac-Man
Atari 7800 ProSystem
Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: Cherry (Default)
Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST April 14th, 2020Objective
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 April 1st through April 14th, 2020. 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 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
Cherries. (Press Fire to Play) This is the default difficulty setting when you power on the system.
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.
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To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here:
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Welcome to our 76th Squad Challenge! We're celebrating National Pac-Man Day this month with a few rounds of Ms. Pac-Man on the Atari 7800! Ms. Pac-Man was one of the first titles released on the 7800 and a must-have for any Atari 7800 aficionado. We're still keeping things light and breezy as we deal with this Coronavirus situation and get back into the swing of things in the forums, so kick back, relax, and put on a nice easy game of 7800 Ms. Pac-Man. I hope you guys are ready for a new season of High Score Squad and good luck to everybody participating!
NOTE: Upcoming Squad Challenges will be simple and straightforward until the site issues are completely resolved. We'll dive deeper with some fun Squad Challenges this summer. Thanks for playing, and enjoy!
- RadioPoultry, RickR and greenween
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9 hours ago, RickR said:
This game is excellent, but it doesn't quite live up to Shark Shark. Mostly because it starts too slow. The real fun and points start to rack up only when your fish is bigger, and that takes a while.
It's really fun though, and thank you for doing this challenge! It's so awesome to try new games.So you're saying that if George Plimpton were to compare the Atari 2600 fish game with Intellivision® Shark! Shark!, he'd think you'd agree that Intellivision® Shark! Shark! plays like the real thing?
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Congratulations RickR!
Congratulations @RickR! What a fantastic score! I hope this was a fun challenge, we don't often get to play homebrew games in Squad Challenge, I think that's something we can do move of in the future. Shark! Shark! was always one of my favorite games on Intellivision and it was interesting to see a Shark! Shark! inspired homebrew hit the Atari 2600. A simple but fun concept. Thanks everyone for turning out to play a homebrew Squad Challenge. How do you think Go Fish! compares to other homebrew games on the Atari 2600? Does it live up to the fun of Shark! Shark! on the Intellivision?
@RickR posted an impressive score of 2,649 points! The legendary @TrekMD ranked 2nd on the leaderboard with 1,717 points, and @RadioPoultry was right behind him with 1,488 points. @chas10e rounds things out with a solid showing of 831 points. Congrats to RickR for his top ranking and to everyone who jumped in this squad challenge and shared a score! I'd like to encourage RickR to post his new high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on!
NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be a special challenge celebrating National Pac-Man Day. Be there!
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WINNER: Justin
Food Fight
Atari 7800
March 30, 2020
ROUND 1: @Justin
ROUND 2: @Atari Creep
ROUND 3: @JustinAtari Creep and I played Food Fight on the 7800 over the weekend. We completed the first two rounds, and then Atari Creep went live on his Instagram to finish the 3rd round. My recollection is his best score for the 3rd round beat me by a few thousand points. He wasn't able to save the stream though so we didn't have the record of the final round that we thought we would. Chris insists he didn't top my score and that I won the 3rd round so I'll take the Win only begrudgingly. We're gonna go for a rematch again pretty soon.
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Final day to get your scores in for this Squad Challenge! Good luck everybody! 🙌
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Better Call Saul is on AMC again tonight. Anyone else watching this show? It's the continuation/prequel to the Breaking Bad universe.
- GRay Defender and StormSurge
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WINNER: Justin
Xevious
Atari 7800
March 30, 2020
ROUND 1: @RadioPoultry
ROUND 2: @Justin
ROUND 3: @JustinRadioPoultry is a SERIOUS contender and this was a great game to play! He's a gentleman and a great guy to play against. The Atari 7800 really shines with Xevious as @kamakazi20012 was just saying, it feels like legit arcade action with a ton of stuff moving around the screen and zero slowdown. This match was particularly fun because Radio and I both got farther in Xevious than either of us ever had. Radio always posts incredible scores, when I sat down to play this morning I thought I was done for. I barely squeaked by, and RadioPoultry and I had a very close game. Hope to play again!
- RadioPoultry and RickR
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Funny you post this now @kamakazi20012 I've been thinking about NES Metroid all week! I think Samus may just need her own Atari I/O animated emoji.
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I had a lot of fun playing against you today. Looking forward to playing Xevious!
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Terrific to see leadership with programming here! Love this idea and what you're doing. Keep up the great work 🏆
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GREAT to see new episodes of 7800 Avenue! It's been a while. Best 7800 show out there bud!
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How often do you play Board Games? I love Board Games and feel like they were a big part of our lives growing up and were around on the same Saturday evenings as Atari 2600 was. The Coronavirus quarantine is going on right now (note to friends reading this in the future) and this feels like a great week for doing family fun stuff in the house. That got me thinking about Board Games, and then @Atari Creep did a Board Game livestream playing Battleship with his family.
That got me thinking that I'd love to do a Board Game Squad Challenge in the forums! It would be fun to try sometime. For example, we'd play Battleship either using our own boards at home, or using printable PDF printouts of Battleship boards that I could post in the Squad Challenge and we could print them out, cut out the little ships, and play them like Bingo cards. We'd play "long distance" in the same spirit that people used to play Chess by mail, sending each other moves in the mail and maybe only making a move or two a week. We could play a game of Battleship in the forums as a 15-day Squad Challenge.
I've also begun collecting Board Games, particularly vintage games that I find, or the new "Retro" series Board Games that they have at Target. Here's a few Board Games from what I've collected so far:
So how often do you play Board Games? Do you have some original games that you've always had growing up or have you bought new ones? What do you enjoy most? Do you play more often with family or friends?
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1 hour ago, RickR said:
Thanks guys, and I do apologize for running that extended version. I need to spend some time cleaning up my harmony cart "homebrews" directory. There's a lot of extra versions. But it's a daunting task. So many files.
Nothing to apologize for Rick. It happens. You were playing honestly and you had integrity when it mattered. That makes you numero uno in my book 🏆
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7 hours ago, kamakazi20012 said:
his was a lot of fun, Justin, and I hope we can do this again soon.
I had a lot of fun playing you today! We will definitely do this again soon!
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10 minutes ago, RadioPoultry said:
I downloaded the version I used from AtariAge because I was having trouble getting the ROM file as well. I didn't really think about there being different versions. Hopefully mine is the same, but I can try getting the file from here again some other way.
It's the same file as the one that would be downloaded on AA from the Go Fish! page.
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43 minutes ago, RickR said:
I just figured out why. Firefox won't download it! It thinks the file is infected (probably since the site is marked as infected). So I had a zero byte file. I've downloaded it using Chrome and am playing on Stella now. No worries, I don't mind removing my other score. I'll post another soon.
Not a problem! Glad to have you playing.
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23 minutes ago, RickR said:
The file that Justin posted in the original post does not work on my Harmony cart. But I found three versions of the same game already on my harmony. They are shown below. I chose the "extended" version, which I assume is newest based on the timestamp.
Should we disqualify my score? I can use the Justin bin file on Stella instead. Which file are you all using? The Justin version only shows 2 downloads.
I didn't realize that version wouldn't work with the Harmony cart. Let's do what we need to do to keep you in the game!
Squad Challenge - Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 7800)
in High Score Squad
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I love this version too! Some people really don't like it, but for me growing up I always thought it was as close to the arcade version as I had played. Glad you enjoyed it! I'm trying to rotate through all of the Pac-Man games every year for National Pac-Man Day without repeating too often. I'm glad you guys are enjoying this!