Justin

It looked great compared to the XE version.  There's some screenshots on my site: https://www.ataricompendium.com/game_library/easter_eggs/7800/78gato.html

This is a MONTH LONG Squad Challenge!
You have through December 31st to post your High Score!
Let's GET THE WORD OUT about this Challenge!
 
 

F-ZERO
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Controller: CONTROL PAD / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: Grand Prix > King League > Standard Class > Mute City III
Bonus Challenge: F-ZERO 99 on Nintendo Online!
Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST December 31, 2023
Nominated by @Justin 
 
 
Objective
Play for the best possible time 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 December 1st through December 31st, 2023. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the fastest time 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
Grand Prix > King League > Standard Class > Mute City III. This will be the 1st Circuit on King League, which will appear first when you begin your game. We are playing for the best overall time to complete the circuit at Mute City III. At the title screen select GRAND PRIX. Players may select any air car they wish. Next, select the League and class in which you wish to race. Players will select KING LEAGUE, then STANDARD CLASS. This will start you at Mute City III. We are only posting our scores for Mute City III. You do not have to play the rest of the courses. We are only playing for the best overall time to complete the circuit at Mute City III.
 

 
Bonus Challenge : : F-ZERO 99
We are holding a BONUS CHALLENGE this year! If you'd like to compete in our Bonus Challenge, we will be playing the first round of F-ZERO 99 on Nintendo Online! Play one round and post your best score! Line up with 98 other F-ZERO machines and race to the finish in this thrilling take on the original Super NES game. Keep an eye on your power meter as you boost and bash, because speed is just as important as survival. Defend yourself with a Spin Attack and collect Super Sparks to breeze past the competition on the elevated Skyway. The F-ZERO 99 game is available only to active Nintendo Switch Online members.
 
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 152nd Squad Challenge! This year we're celebrating the holidays and bringing in the new year with a visit back to one of F-ZERO's most challenging courses, Mute City III in F-ZERO on Super Nintendo, a true SNES classic! We are also holding a BONUS CHALLENGE for F-ZERO 99 on Nintendo Online. I have wonderful Christmas memories of F-ZERO, I received the game with my SNES when I was not expecting much of anything for Christmas. The game brought my family a lot of fun and joy that year, and I love playing F-ZERO around Christmas. For years it's become a bit of a Christmas tradition in my house to play F-ZERO and a few other SNES Classics during the Holidays, and now it's become a tradition every year in the forums too, something special I like to share with all of you. ☃️❄️🎄 F-ZERO is one of the iconic titles on Super Nintendo, and it served as a great demonstration of the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 graphics. F-ZERO was a predecessor to anti-gravity racing leagues such as Wip3out (and probably pod racing!). PDF F-ZERO Instruction Booklet is attached below. Good luck, racers!
 
 

 
F-ZERO.pdf

Congratulations RickR!
 
Congratulations to @RickR on an incredible victory! "The Don" RickR takes the top spot in our Final Standings with an outstanding score of 237,220 points on an insanely challenging game. Incredible! @socrates63 is coming in hot and takes 2nd Place in the standings with 175,573 points! @Smell Dawg puts in a good show and takes 3rd Place with 149,670 points! @Atari 5200 Guy put in the work and takes 4th Place with 85,159 points. @Sabertooth stepped away from kicking butt in Club VCS to join us for this Squad Challenge and takes 5th Place with 82,754 points. Rounding things out is the doctor in the house @TrekMD with 67,080 points in 6th Place.
As always I'd like to encourage @RickR to  post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Rick for his BIG WIN, and I want to thank Rick for nominating this game, as well as @Sabertooth for hosting this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge in Club VCS!
👉 Be sure to join Club VCS this month to participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges for the new Atari VCS!
COMING UP NEXT IN HIGH SCORE SQUAD: Join us for our 2023 F-ZERO Christmas Challenge. Be there!
 
 

 
 

 

F-ZERO
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Controller: CONTROL PAD / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: Grand Prix > King League > Standard Class > Mute City III
Bonus Challenge: F-ZERO 99 on Nintendo Online!
Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST December 31, 2023
Nominated by @Justin 
 
 
Objective
Play for the best possible time 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 December 1st through December 31st, 2023. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the fastest time 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
Grand Prix > King League > Standard Class > Mute City III. This will be the 1st Circuit on King League, which will appear first when you begin your game. We are playing for the best overall time to complete the circuit at Mute City III. At the title screen select GRAND PRIX. Players may select any air car they wish. Next, select the League and class in which you wish to race. Players will select KING LEAGUE, then STANDARD CLASS. This will start you at Mute City III. We are only posting our scores for Mute City III. You do not have to play the rest of the courses. We are only playing for the best overall time to complete the circuit at Mute City III.
 

 
Bonus Challenge : : F-ZERO 99
We are holding a BONUS CHALLENGE this year! If you'd like to compete in our Bonus Challenge, we will be playing the first round of F-ZERO 99 on Nintendo Online! Play one round and post your best score! Line up with 98 other F-ZERO machines and race to the finish in this thrilling take on the original Super NES game. Keep an eye on your power meter as you boost and bash, because speed is just as important as survival. Defend yourself with a Spin Attack and collect Super Sparks to breeze past the competition on the elevated Skyway. The F-ZERO 99 game is available only to active Nintendo Switch Online members.
 
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 152nd Squad Challenge! This year we're celebrating the holidays and bringing in the new year with a visit back to one of F-ZERO's most challenging courses, Mute City III in F-ZERO on Super Nintendo, a true SNES classic! We are also holding a BONUS CHALLENGE for F-ZERO 99 on Nintendo Online. I have wonderful Christmas memories of F-ZERO, I received the game with my SNES when I was not expecting much of anything for Christmas. The game brought my family a lot of fun and joy that year, and I love playing F-ZERO around Christmas. For years it's become a bit of a Christmas tradition in my house to play F-ZERO and a few other SNES Classics during the Holidays, and now it's become a tradition every year in the forums too, something special I like to share with all of you. ☃️❄️🎄 F-ZERO is one of the iconic titles on Super Nintendo, and it served as a great demonstration of the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 graphics. F-ZERO was a predecessor to anti-gravity racing leagues such as Wip3out (and probably pod racing!). PDF F-ZERO Instruction Booklet is attached below. Good luck, racers!
 
 

 
F-ZERO.pdf

Congratulations RickR!
 
Congratulations to @RickR on an incredible victory! "The Don" RickR takes the top spot in our Final Standings with an outstanding score of 237,220 points on an insanely challenging game. Incredible! @socrates63 is coming in hot and takes 2nd Place in the standings with 175,573 points! @Smell Dawg puts in a good show and takes 3rd Place with 149,670 points! @Atari 5200 Guy put in the work and takes 4th Place with 85,159 points. @Sabertooth stepped away from kicking butt in Club VCS to join us for this Squad Challenge and takes 5th Place with 82,754 points. Rounding things out is the doctor in the house @TrekMD with 67,080 points in 6th Place.
As always I'd like to encourage @RickR to  post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Rick for his BIG WIN, and I want to thank Rick for nominating this game, as well as @Sabertooth for hosting this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge in Club VCS!
👉 Be sure to join Club VCS this month to participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges for the new Atari VCS!
COMING UP NEXT IN HIGH SCORE SQUAD: Join us for our 2023 F-ZERO Christmas Challenge. Be there!
 
 

 
 

 

Congratulations RickR!
 
Congratulations to @RickR on an incredible victory! "The Don" RickR takes the top spot in our Final Standings with an outstanding score of 237,220 points on an insanely challenging game. Incredible! @socrates63 is coming in hot and takes 2nd Place in the standings with 175,573 points! @Smell Dawg puts in a good show and takes 3rd Place with 149,670 points! @Atari 5200 Guy put in the work and takes 4th Place with 85,159 points. @Sabertooth stepped away from kicking butt in Club VCS to join us for this Squad Challenge and takes 5th Place with 82,754 points. Rounding things out is the doctor in the house @TrekMD with 67,080 points in 6th Place.
As always I'd like to encourage @RickR to  post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Rick for his BIG WIN, and I want to thank Rick for nominating this game, as well as @Sabertooth for hosting this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge in Club VCS!
👉 Be sure to join Club VCS this month to participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges for the new Atari VCS!
COMING UP NEXT IN HIGH SCORE SQUAD: Join us for our 2023 F-ZERO Christmas Challenge. Be there!
 
 

 
 

 

I’ll be setting up in a few days.  I would like to try this.

Great scores @TrekMD and @RickR!
I've been playing Berzerk Recharged on the VCS the past couple of weeks and need to get back to some Yars fun.

Gah! I forgot to play. Great looking scores!

@D.joe -  You also get some buttons! I forgot that you hadn't won yet in the 4th series! 😉

Congratulations D.JOE!
 
Congratulations @D.joe, the winner of our TEMPEST 2000 Squad Challenge!
D.Joe fed his head to the web with a first place finish of 607,761! @Smell Dawg battled the rush of blasting flippers and demon heads to take second with 604,044.  @Sabertooth submitted to the hyperdelic Melt-O-Vision graphics to take third with 458,118.  @Mockduck navigated his way through the ultraviolent 64th Dimension for a fourth place score of 275,842.  And @RickR joined the 64-bit techno-rave with 36,111.
As the winner of this round @D.joe will receive 3 entries in the upcoming giveaway ! 
Everyone else will receive one entry!
I'd like to encourage @D.joe to post this high score on the Scoreboard so we can make sure this Challenge continues on!
Congratulations to D.Joe on a fantastic win and to everyone else who jumped in!  Jeff Minter's classic is a great way to celebrate the Jaguar's 30th on real hardware, emulation or Atari50!  I hope you enjoyed the ride!

NOTE: The JAGUAR 30th Celebration continues with MISSILE COMMAND 3D!

Participation trophy has my name all over it!  36,111 Tempest 2000 mode playing with a classic controller on VCS
 

For this special Jaguar 30th Anniversary Challenge we are allowing cross-platform play!  Play on your VCS, on a real Jaguar or BigPEmu!
 

Let's get the word out about this Special 30th Anniversary Recharged Squad Challenge!
The more people participating the more fun the challenge!
Spread the word and invite friends to play!

MISSILE COMMAND 3D
Atari VCS (2020)/ATARI JAGUAR
Controller: MODERN / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: VIRTUAL/NORMAL
Play on: Real Hardware/Emulation ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST DECEMBER 31, 2023
 
 
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 December 1st through December 31, 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
This is a Club VCS Exclusive Challenge. All Club VCS players are welcome!
 
Play Rules
For this special 30th Anniversary Round, we're allowing cross platform play. Have Missile Command 3D for the Jaguar?  Join in the fun!  Choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, save states, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.
 
Difficulty Level
We are playing MISSILE COMMAND 3D in VIRTUAL mode (Normal). Select Normal difficulty and play for the highest score possible!
 
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 twenty-second Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge!!! For this challenge we're continuing our celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Atari Jaguar by playing one of the platform's unsung heroes: MISSILE COMMAND 3D
A late release in the life of the Jaguar, Missile Command 3D is notable as the only game developed for the Jaguar's ill-fated Jaguar VR headset.  It is also right behind T2K as one of the best updated classic Atari games to hit the Jaguar. 
A true Jaguar exclusive, the game is hard to find and has become prohibitively expensive in the last several years.  With the release of Atari 50 Missile Command 3D is the more accessible than ever! 
We invite everyone to join in the month-long celebration, whether on Atari 50, original hardware or the excellent BigPEmu by Rich Whitehouse!
 
Club VCS Recharged Squad Contest
This game is the sixth title in our fourth Club VCS contest giveaway! Prize details were announced in the ClubVCS fanzine!
1)  All challenge participants will receive one (1) entry for each challenge in which they submit a valid score!
2) The top scorer of each challenge will receive two (2) additional entries - for a total of three (3) entries in a single challenge!
3) On Twitch or Youtube?  Stream or record and post your ClubVCS high score attempt for one (1) additional entry in each round.  You must post a public link to the video in the Challenge.
BUT ARE THERE BUTTONS? 
Yes! We've made another set of ClubVCS buttons to celebrate the games in this series. There will be two ways to get a button set.
1) Win a challenge.
2) Post a valid score to all challenges in the 6 game series.
Only one button set will be mailed per member during the series.
This contest is open to everybody, including Atari I/O Moderators, with a U.S. or Canada  mailing address. It's really easy, all you have to do is participate be a Club VCS member and participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges.
 

 

Release Date: November 17, 2023
Retail: $8.99
Developer(s): Orange Pixel
Publisher: Orange Pixel
Official Site
Synopsis :
Not just the looks of a classic game, also the gameplay of a classic platformer. This game is NOT EASY! you have an endless amount of lives, so you can quickly restart a level when you miss a jump, get hit by an enemy, get bitten by a plant, get hit by a spiky-ball, crushed by big statues, run onto spikes, get hit by a wasp, or any of the other many ways you’ll get stopped in your run.
BUT when you do complete a level, the rush you get will keep you coming back for more, and more, and more, and..
Unlock special temple levels by finding hidden keys, unlock a flip-mode by completing a level both within the time set, and also by collecting all the coins in a level.
Stardash is all about the gameplay thrown at you in awesome retro graphics and original chiptunes.

Welcome to the official topic for
Stardash
 

Release Date: December 1, 2023
Retail: $9.99
Developer(s): Gumbo Machine, LLC
Publisher: Gumbo Machine, LLC
Official Site
Synopsis :
Battle Rockets™ is a unique "SHMUP Fighter."
In Battle Rockets™, each player chooses a side–literally! Whether it be the directional pad and left analog, or the face buttons and right analog, both contestants are well- equipped for battle...any time and anywhere!   Challenge a friend to one of three multiplayer modes, or try your hand at our single-player offerings:
• Duel Shock - Lower your opponent's HP; if theirs is all depleted, you win!
• Short Fuse - Five rounds, five chances to get the first shot! Who will win the most rounds?
• Cash Grab - Collect all the coins you can, or just zap them out of your foe's pockets! Watch for that time limit, though!
• Challenges - Eight single-player minigames, designed to explore the Battle Rockets lore. Complete a Challenge, and you just might win a Trophy!

Welcome to the official topic for
Battle Rockets
 

Release Date: December 1, 2023
Retail: $4.99
Developer(s): 2ndBoss
Publisher: 2ndBoss
Official Site
Synopsis :
Help Milli to find Greg in this challenging platform game.
• More than 100 stages made by hand;
• Insane and rewarding challenges;
• Collect items;
• Some little secrets;
• A love story between a girl and her cat.

Welcome to the official topic for
Milli & Greg
 

The Atari Lynx may have a small library, but it's a good one 

@Video 61 can weigh in on this more than I can - and maybe this would be an excellent topic for one of his unique Blog posts - but according to Lance, EPYX had a great many more Lynx games already in development that would've cost Atari very little to bring to fruition, but Jack Tramiel pulled the plug. Incredibly unfortunate.

Why is the "5" key prone to breaking?