Control Issues

Played a bit so I'd have something for this one...  31883.

Played a bit so I'd have something for this one...  31883.

Pretty sure I just had one of my best games of Sonic ever...  got three out of four emeralds and all the way to the Spring Zone on one man.  Beat the second level boss (the one that drops fire on the two platforms) with no rings!
 
Anyway, my score for this challenge - 112950.  Wish I had take video.  I need to get a capture thing...
 
Played on Genesis model 2, game on the Genesis 6-Pak cart.

I had a busy weekend, so this was the only one of the three I was able to do. 
I know this might sound crazy, but I think Sonic 1 is underrated these days, especially compared to Sonic 2. 
Played on a Model 1 from 6-Pak, using a video capture device. And I too beat the 2nd boss with no rings, lol. I was nervous battling him!
130,060
 

I'm calling a handicap on this one!  lol... my 2600 has seen better days... and my TV is trying to go out...  may download it and try it via emulation... or on my Flashback portable...
 
Anyway, the moving shields are more annoying to me than the zigzag missiles.  I think I do better once they disappear.  Score is hard to read on here, but it was 3800.   (Also, bonus pizza pic!)
 
 

Yep... you got it on A...

Yeah... that was right after I switched on the system.  It was still on A from playing something else.  I switched to B before actually playing.  No way I would have gotten as far as I did if I had that fat ship.  lol

I'm calling a handicap on this one!  lol... my 2600 has seen better days... and my TV is trying to go out...  may download it and try it via emulation... or on my Flashback portable...
 
Anyway, the moving shields are more annoying to me than the zigzag missiles.  I think I do better once they disappear.  Score is hard to read on here, but it was 3800.   (Also, bonus pizza pic!)
 
 

It took some doing but the difficulty switch started working.  Not that it was much of an improvement.😂😂😂
1,635.
Oh, and I dug out my red box copy for this challenge. 

Yep... you got it on A...

Here's my first miserable single life run; 11,200.  Played on Sonic Jam for Sega Saturn. 
 

Too much pizza. 

Yeah... that was right after I switched on the system.  It was still on A from playing something else.  I switched to B before actually playing.  No way I would have gotten as far as I did if I had that fat ship.  lol

I'm calling a handicap on this one!  lol... my 2600 has seen better days... and my TV is trying to go out...  may download it and try it via emulation... or on my Flashback portable...
 
Anyway, the moving shields are more annoying to me than the zigzag missiles.  I think I do better once they disappear.  Score is hard to read on here, but it was 3800.   (Also, bonus pizza pic!)
 
 

Pizza pic adds 100 points to your score. 

I agree with you on the moving shields.  They get in the way.  But once you get to the level where the invaders start at the lowest level...you die very quickly. 
 
 

Oh and check to make sure your difficulty switch is on "B".  That wide ship on your pizza pic indicates it's on "A".
 
 

Yeah... that was right after I switched on the system.  It was still on A from playing something else.  I switched to B before actually playing.  No way I would have gotten as far as I did if I had that fat ship.  lol

I'm calling a handicap on this one!  lol... my 2600 has seen better days... and my TV is trying to go out...  may download it and try it via emulation... or on my Flashback portable...
 
Anyway, the moving shields are more annoying to me than the zigzag missiles.  I think I do better once they disappear.  Score is hard to read on here, but it was 3800.   (Also, bonus pizza pic!)
 
 

Here's a nice comparison between the two:
 

True Story, back in the day I rented from a store that had an amazing selection of games, I rented Tengen Tetris one day, loved it, a week later I returned to rent it again, I could not find it, I asked the clerk, he said pointed to the Nintendo Tetris, I was thrown off at first and said "Er, no, I don't think that is the one, the one I rented was not made by Nintendo". Long story short, he denied they had, OR EVER HAD any other version, even me clearly stating you DID because I rented it, he was trying (for some reason) to cover so hard "Are you sure it was HERE you rented it?", he absolutely would not budge on it, insisted they never had any other version so I just dropped it. Only years later, when I would come to read articles and info in magazines etc, would I learn the story of TENGEN TETRIS and TENGEN themselves, now I still do not know WHY exactly this occurred, maybe the clerk bought (or stole?) the TENGEN version because he had learned that TENGEN would have to pull sales? Maybe the store was ordered to PULL the game off their shelf? But in either of those cases WHY claim they NEVER had it in the first place? So whatever the reason I can only suspect wrong doing on the clerk or store managers part because of their behavior acting like they were never in possession of the game, like it was some highly illegal item like plutonium or something 😜. 
Anyways, carry on, was not my intention to disrupt this thread but all this talk about TETRIS, OFFICIAL, TENGEN etc, just brought back that silly memory that comes back whenever I hear the TENGEN name lol. FEEL FREE TO MOVE THIS to OFF TOPIC or perhaps WEIRD STORIES under CLASSIC GAMING or something.......CARRY ON GUYS. 😆😎🍻
 
 

I have it on the 6-Pak.  =)

I have it on the 6-Pak.  =)

The Tengen one should have been the original release.  I thought it was way better than what Nintendo did.  However, any console that got Tetris was a miracle considering the licensing issues during the time.  It's a wonder that anything got this game at all.

I'm assuming this is on the official licensed release, not the Tengen one?
Edit:  Heh... nm... just looked at the attachments... lol

This one I have.  Count me in!