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

 

Quantum: Recharged
Atari VCS
Controller: MODERN / CLASSIC / MOUSE/ PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: Normal Game
Play on: Real Hardware ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST January 31, 2024
 
 
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 31, 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
This is a Club VCS Exclusive Challenge. All Club VCS players are welcome!
 
Play Rules
Games may be played on real Atari VCS hardware. 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 Quantum: Recharged in the "Arcade Mode". Move, dodge and loop your way to 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-third Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge!!! For this challenge we're playing Quantum: Recharged! Released in Summer 2023, Quantum: Recharged is a re-imagining of the obscure Atari arcade game Quantum (1982) by GCC's Betty Ryan. It's a deep-cut for the series and unique in terms of gameplay. 
Accelerate to make some distance between you and a stalking Neutron and use your dodge to avoid the Quarks' deadly laser attacks.
 
Club VCS Recharged Squad Contest
This game is the first title in our fifth Club VCS contest giveaway! Prize details will be announced shortly.   This time we're going a full 12 rounds with the winner announced in January 2025!
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.
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.
 

 

And there is more...hehe. A new FW beta release was given out yesterday to testers and from initial reports... it has nearly all of the 7800 homebrew now working including games with FM sound through the use of a Dragonfly cartridge. 
I will be able to confirm this for myself perhaps a little later on today... 😉
 

The 2600+ Casual Play series returns to Saturday morning with another 7800 game: Mario Bros.
I always thought it was wild that Atari released this port in 1988, presumably under the earlier (pre-NES) licensing agreement. It's a solid port and probably the best of the three Nintendo properties to make it to the 7800.
 

Atari 7800 Forever Podcast Tonight! Special Guest Host- Crossbow! 7:30PM EST
Funkmaster V and Silverback bring in the new year with a huge ass food fight- culinary cookout Christmas edition podcast o funk. What did we get? What did YOU get? Was it the clap? Jon knows how to get rid of that. And allegedly, Crossbow from Ivory Tower will join us to class up the joint a bit. CHAT WITH US! It's fun!!! #atari #atarivcs #foodfight
 

It was cool to see @CrossBow from Ivory Tower Collections join you live! Thanks for an awesome stream, hope everybody has a wonderful new year 💥

This is a really impressive port and showcases the capabilities of the 7800.

Gotta agree with that assessment.  It is one awesome game and one that can be played with dual sticks!  It gives the game an even truer arcade feel!

This is a really impressive port and showcases the capabilities of the 7800.

This is a really impressive port and showcases the capabilities of the 7800.

I was a little late with the fourth installment due to holiday travel and work commitments.  Here is the first 7800 game in the series: Robotron 2084!  I got into the 7800 later in life and adore all of the GCC developed launch titles, and Robotron is one of my absolute favorites. 
Played with the @RetroGameBoyz Robotron controller, which I was thrilled to find working as expected. 
 

We'd love to have you some time. I'll reach out around December 26th so I can get some ideas about what you would be interested discussing etc. 
 
Yeah sorry lol.  Same show different name essentially.  Again, Vinnie was the first to mention it to me I would've never done it otherwise!

Hey all, just a quick introduction for the channel, The Atari Network started back in July of 2023 as a channel dedicated solely to the Atari 7800.  It soon there after expanded to allow for more coverage on modern and classic Atari consoles and news.  In that time we've gained 1200 subscribers, nearly 8,000 hours of watch time and over 80,000 views! We have also hosted the Atari 7800 Forever Podcast for several months now which is the brainchild of Vinnie Vineyard aka Funkmaster V (Big N Funky Productions on YouTube) who started the atari7800forever.com website many years ago!
Unfortunately the last episode of the Atari 7800 Forever podcast is airing on December 29th at 7:30pm EST.  Which is very sad for both Vinnie and myself but good news!  The Atari Network Podcast starts 2 weeks later!  One vision I have for the new podcast is to allow for an occasional rotating slot for a 3rd or even 4th chair to get more opinions and points of view on the show.  Myself and Vinnie will still be on every week!  But despite our different personalities we share a lot of the same views and opinions. I think having other opinions represented on the channel is important for the wider community to feel they have a voice.
Our guests in the past have mostly been in an interview style format where we focus solely on them and give them a platform to talk about their achievements in the Atari community.  And we'll still do that but I also want to have guests who have insight on certain topics that we cover and want to engage in the conversation.  These topics and conversations could be about classic Atari consoles or games, certain eras of Atari, new releases like stuff on the VCS, 2600+ or the XP line of games and much more.
You don't have to be actively creative in the community, you don't have to be a developer or tech person, all you need is a willingness to talk and a passion about Atari.  I've been reaching out to people but I want to give others the same opportunity Vinnie gave me last June.  So if your interested in joining in on a few episodes a year all you have to do is send me a message.  From there we'll just chat a little bit and see where a good fit would be.  Then when a topic comes up in your wheel house you might be invited on.
Also this is a good opportunity for people to practice public speaking or attempt to overcome personal fears, or stuff like that.  I'm not delusional our reach is very small right now lol.  Active unique viewers for the live show right now is between 30-50 people (usually less than 20 at a time) and they get about 125-300 views after the fact.  So your not putting yourself out to a massive audience but we hope that will change soon!  If you have your own YouTube channel you can stream it to your audience too.  Your free to redistribute your appearances after the fact.  You can also promote any of your own projects on the show during the introduction or ending!
That's really it guys.  If your interested in appearing let me know.  Audio only is fine too for people who don't have cameras but video preferred.  And if you have your own podcast or show I'm very open in appearing and discussing on your show as long as I can promote my channel 😁 ok thanks guys hope you all have a great day and most importantly, Stay Classy Atari IO!
 

The third game in the 2600+ Casual series is Dig Dug. Another silver label release from the geniuses at GCC, this was in constant rotation in my childhood Coleco Gemini.
 

Episode 111 finished streaming about 40 minutes ago (from the timestamp of my post). Here's the clip from the end of the show in which I show off the printed version of the Club VCS magazine.
 

Another fanzine? They're just piling up everywhere! 🤣 Thanks for sharing! I will check it out & mention it in a future episode.

Another fanzine? They're just piling up everywhere! 🤣 Thanks for sharing! I will check it out & mention it in a future episode.

All copies are spoken for!  Thanks to everyone who supported this small print run.
To those who were unable to get a copy, I have started an interest list and will contact you if I do another run.  If it happens, this would coincide with the second issue.
If you missed out, you can still explore the totally free digital edition of the zine here:
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/daa37ce4a7.html
Thanks again!
 

To anyone who paid by 8:00 am this morning, your copy will be in the mail today.  The next batch will go out Monday.
Less than 10 copies left!  Thanks to all who bought a copy!

23460. This is tough!  I better read the manual. 

Missile Command 3D
Virtual/Normal
Played via Atari50 on Xbox

32,140 

This game looks a lot easier than it really is, ha - it's tough!!  Would have loved to play this in its intended VR environment.  
 
 

Wow ! It's been a long time since I played this gem