MaliciousCarp

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Pole Position II
Atari 7800
Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: SEASIDE
Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST August 31, 2020
 
 
Objective
Play for the highest possible score racing the SEASIDE Track in Pole Position II on the Atari 7800. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between August 15th through August 31st, 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
Achieve high score to win Grand Prix Challenge. 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 racing on the SEASIDE Track in Pole Position II. Players will select SEASIDE at the title screen.
 
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 86th Squad Challenge, the 2020 Pole Position II Grand Prix! This will be our 3rd Annual Pole Position II Grand Prix Event! This year's Grand Prix challenge will run until August 31st, 2020 racing the SEASIDE Track for your best possible score! Pole Position is one of the most iconic arcade games released by Atari and was genre-defining for its time, setting a new standard of what racing gameplay could be like. Pole Position II was included as the pack-in title for the Atari 7800 and is often revered as the first game 7800 owners played on their new game system. For many of us 7800 gamers, Pole Position II was the first video game we ever owned! I have so many wonderful memories of playing Pole Position II at Chuck E. Cheese's with my family, shifting gears and whipping around corners with a cheese stick in my hand and a cup of root beer on the floor under my feet. It also became one of my favorite games to play at home and remains a wonderful memory on the Atari 7800. ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to our Qualifying Racers!! 
 
NOTE: Another great Squad Challenge is coming up soon! 
 
 

 
 

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Whoa!  I made second?  Well gee wiz.  That's cool.  I didn't think I made it that far.

Congratulations Everybody!
 
Congratulations everybody!! I hope it was fun for everyone to mix things up with an interesting SNES game. Star Fox has always fascinated me, the game felt like a glimpse at the future when it first came out, and a promise of big things to come. Yet it seems like Star Fox is one of Nintendo's least utilized mascots. I wonder why that is? I claimed the top spot in this Challenge, reaching the end of the game and knocking out Andross, the final boss, with 55,700 points. @kamakazi20012 knocked it out of the park and almost made it to the end, scoring 47,000 to take 2nd Place. Awesome! @RadioPoultry followed suit, claiming the 3rd Place spot with 36,400 points! @RickR scored very close to Radio Poultry reaching 34,800 points to take spot number 4. @MaliciousCarp joined the fight to defend Corneria, scoring 28,900 points and the 5th Place spot on our board. @Gianna is a Star Fox newbie and was very proud to make it through the challenging first level and defeat the boss to score 7,600 Points and a place on our Scoreboard. Welcome to our new friend @MaliciousCarp and congratulations to everyone who joined in this Squad Challenge and checked out one of Nintendo's coolest games of 1993! As always I always encourage others to do, I am going to share my high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on!
NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be our 2020 Pole Position II Grand Prix! Be there!
 
 

 
 

 
 

I was a total Sega Fanboy back in the day, so my Super Nintendo experience is pretty limited.  My first SNES was the Retron 3, which had terrible sound and couldn't play StarFox.  I eventually got a SNES model 2 and a SNES Classic Mini which both can play StarFox.  This should be an interesting one!
 
(I was originally going to make a joke about playing the original Star Fox on the 2600 and submitting a score for it, but I feel like I am too new here... Also, I really don't want to subject myself to a Mythicon game if I don't have to) 🙂 

wow - totally not my game.  I will keep going, but this is pretty much the best I have managed so far.
28,900

The theater that I worked for at the time actually got Godzilla 2000!  I was so excited to see a "real Godzilla move" (guy in a rubber suit Godzilla) in the theater!  that was a great experience and may be why I like 2000 more than I probably should.
For Godzilla '98 - I wish I could see how it would have done if it had been called anything other than Godzilla.  The part about the monster nesting and hatching 100's of eggs wouldn't have worked for Godzilla (in my opinion).  If it had been named like Iguanasaur or something - I think that it would have worked!

That is one reason why I liked Rampage so much!  It was nice to see something like that take place in the Midwest for once.  Usually giant monsters only attack New York, LA, or Washington DC.
 

I was digging through some of my old movie memorabilia and I found my Godzilla 1998 opening day promotional stuff.
I decided to watch the movie again and I feel like it really holds up as fun giant monster movie.  The problem is that it is a terrible Godzilla movie.  If they would have named the monster something different and not told everyone that the monster was the new Godzilla - it would have been much better received.  In later Godzilla movies they did occasionally refer to the monster as just 'zilla, but the damage was done (Zilla shows up for an 8 second cameo in Godzilla Final Wars).
The movie itself hit a lot of the same notes that Rampage did later on. (Which I also really enjoyed)
Anyways - rather than give a detailed review of the movie - I wanted to share my release day promotional "Reproduction film frame" because the idea is hilarious.  It looks nothing like a real film frame and has faded a lot, but it was a great little give away at the time 🙂 
I also found my TacoBell promotional CD-ROM and threw that into the mix.
Enjoy!
 

I liked the 1998 Godzilla some.  I liked the story up to the point where they found the nest.  I would not have tried to do what they did, instead I would have moved out of New York, period.  No way, no how, would I have stayed.  Have you guys ever noticed that in the movies almost everything bad that happens happens to New York City?  With the exception of TMNT.

I remember the hype. Perhaps too much hype. And yes, the monster was too different from how we all pictured Godzilla. I remember my buds and I renting Godzilla 2000 not too long after. It was like Japan said "We're sorry for that design. Here's a palette cleanser."
Still, it's a good popcorn flick. I wonder how the US would've reacted if it was the same movie, with the Godzilla from 2000 swapped out for the monster. (Or a CGI rendition of 2000)

I was digging through some of my old movie memorabilia and I found my Godzilla 1998 opening day promotional stuff.
I decided to watch the movie again and I feel like it really holds up as fun giant monster movie.  The problem is that it is a terrible Godzilla movie.  If they would have named the monster something different and not told everyone that the monster was the new Godzilla - it would have been much better received.  In later Godzilla movies they did occasionally refer to the monster as just 'zilla, but the damage was done (Zilla shows up for an 8 second cameo in Godzilla Final Wars).
The movie itself hit a lot of the same notes that Rampage did later on. (Which I also really enjoyed)
Anyways - rather than give a detailed review of the movie - I wanted to share my release day promotional "Reproduction film frame" because the idea is hilarious.  It looks nothing like a real film frame and has faded a lot, but it was a great little give away at the time 🙂 
I also found my TacoBell promotional CD-ROM and threw that into the mix.
Enjoy!
 

I was digging through some of my old movie memorabilia and I found my Godzilla 1998 opening day promotional stuff.
I decided to watch the movie again and I feel like it really holds up as fun giant monster movie.  The problem is that it is a terrible Godzilla movie.  If they would have named the monster something different and not told everyone that the monster was the new Godzilla - it would have been much better received.  In later Godzilla movies they did occasionally refer to the monster as just 'zilla, but the damage was done (Zilla shows up for an 8 second cameo in Godzilla Final Wars).
The movie itself hit a lot of the same notes that Rampage did later on. (Which I also really enjoyed)
Anyways - rather than give a detailed review of the movie - I wanted to share my release day promotional "Reproduction film frame" because the idea is hilarious.  It looks nothing like a real film frame and has faded a lot, but it was a great little give away at the time 🙂 
I also found my TacoBell promotional CD-ROM and threw that into the mix.
Enjoy!
 

I was digging through some of my old movie memorabilia and I found my Godzilla 1998 opening day promotional stuff.
I decided to watch the movie again and I feel like it really holds up as fun giant monster movie.  The problem is that it is a terrible Godzilla movie.  If they would have named the monster something different and not told everyone that the monster was the new Godzilla - it would have been much better received.  In later Godzilla movies they did occasionally refer to the monster as just 'zilla, but the damage was done (Zilla shows up for an 8 second cameo in Godzilla Final Wars).
The movie itself hit a lot of the same notes that Rampage did later on. (Which I also really enjoyed)
Anyways - rather than give a detailed review of the movie - I wanted to share my release day promotional "Reproduction film frame" because the idea is hilarious.  It looks nothing like a real film frame and has faded a lot, but it was a great little give away at the time 🙂 
I also found my TacoBell promotional CD-ROM and threw that into the mix.
Enjoy!
 

wow - totally not my game.  I will keep going, but this is pretty much the best I have managed so far.
28,900

I wanted to ask if anyone here has experience doing Super Nintendo emulation on a Windows PC.  I have the cartridge, and there is a SNES in my attic, but it's probably faster for me to set up an emulator.
 

Okay guys this is the score to beat. I beat Star Fox tonight and I did it on one life. I haven't played Star Fox in a few years, I don't consider myself a "Star Fox master" but I was in the mood to play this game and it's been a lot of fun. I've really enjoyed the past few Squad Challenges we've done. I hope you have too!
My Final Score: 55,700
At the end it also gave me an average score of 92%
 

Question: How do you see your score when the game ends? And does using a continue reset your score? 

I was fortunate enough to have a Genny and SNES.  I liked the few SNES games I had but I found more games I liked on the Genesis.  I also remember the debate in high school about which system had the better sound.  Most agreed with the SNES but then Streets of Rage 2 came out and the soundtrack to that game simply rocked.  
As for Star Fox on the Super NES...I agree that it felt like a Star Raiders game.  I beat the game a few times.  Star Fox is one of the shinning moments on the Super.  
@MaliciousCarp Hehe I was wondering if someone was going to pull that joke.  

I don't have the SNES StarFox but certainly do have the 2600 Star Fox.  I know what one doesn't count for this high score compo.  🙂

I was a total Sega Fanboy back in the day, so my Super Nintendo experience is pretty limited.  My first SNES was the Retron 3, which had terrible sound and couldn't play StarFox.  I eventually got a SNES model 2 and a SNES Classic Mini which both can play StarFox.  This should be an interesting one!
 
(I was originally going to make a joke about playing the original Star Fox on the 2600 and submitting a score for it, but I feel like I am too new here... Also, I really don't want to subject myself to a Mythicon game if I don't have to) 🙂 

I was a total Sega Fanboy back in the day, so my Super Nintendo experience is pretty limited.  My first SNES was the Retron 3, which had terrible sound and couldn't play StarFox.  I eventually got a SNES model 2 and a SNES Classic Mini which both can play StarFox.  This should be an interesting one!
 
(I was originally going to make a joke about playing the original Star Fox on the 2600 and submitting a score for it, but I feel like I am too new here... Also, I really don't want to subject myself to a Mythicon game if I don't have to) 🙂 

📺 Formally setting up my Sony Trinitron TV stand with my 8-Bit systems at the new house. Atari 2600/7800, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sega Master System are all here with room for an additional system or two. Lighting is controlled remotely using an LED light strip kit from Five Below. Game Systems connect to a 4-Channel Audio/Video RCA Switch using premium industrial-grade gold RCA cables. These are my original systems from growing up, running on my original Sony Trinitron and Sony TV Stand from the 1990s. Everything here I bought new. These things mean a lot to me and I try to keep them nice and enjoy them often.
Systems from the 16-Bit, 64-Bit, and modern era systems are set up in my credenza under the TV in the living room. They are all running on a modern HD flatscreen Trinitron. Those systems include TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine / TurboDuo, Atari Jaguar, Super Famicom/SNES, Sega Genesis, Neo-Geo and others are in the living room running on the modern flatscreen Trinitron.  Those systems can hold their own on a modern TV, but older 8-Bit systems come to life on the classic tube TVs they were designed for. Those scan lines burning through the warm phosphorescent glow of the TV screen, it's an experience.
I hope you like my setup and enjoy the photos!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For anyone running into trouble with Retron systems, remember it's okay to play Star Fox on an SNES Mini console, Nintendo Switch Online, any viable form of emulation, etc. All of those scores are able to be submitted to the Squad Challenge.

I was a total Sega Fanboy back in the day, so my Super Nintendo experience is pretty limited.  My first SNES was the Retron 3, which had terrible sound and couldn't play StarFox.  I eventually got a SNES model 2 and a SNES Classic Mini which both can play StarFox.  This should be an interesting one!
 
(I was originally going to make a joke about playing the original Star Fox on the 2600 and submitting a score for it, but I feel like I am too new here... Also, I really don't want to subject myself to a Mythicon game if I don't have to) 🙂