greenween

@nosweargamer has an excellent overview of Pole Position II for the Atari 2600. It's a great place to start if you're new to the game!
 
 

Thanks, @Justin , for your very kind words as I'm far from legendary. I believe we all would have scored much higher if we had a way to get Bentley into high gear lol.
 
There are two versions of Crystal Castles for the C64, one each by Atari and Thundervision. I find the Thundervision version to be the slightly better version but mileage may vary.
 
Congratulations to all of the gamers who keep the Atari.io Squad Challenge thriving! See you on the race track! 🏁

Congratulations Marco1019!
 
Congratulations to the legendary @Marco1019 on become our new Crystal Castles Arcade Squad Champion! This was a nice victory for Marco, and absolutely stellar scores all around! Crystal Castles is one of my favorite Atari titles, and one I enjoy most in the arcades. I had always hoped to see the Atari 7800 version released, but it's hard to beat the original arcade version, especially on the new VCS playing Atari Vault. I hope you all enjoyed revisiting Crystal Castles it in this challenge.
@Marco1019 takes the top spot in our Final Standings with a high score of 181,989 points. Way to go Marco! Coming in 2nd Place is the relentless and adventurous @Sabertooth, nabbing 2nd with his incredible score of 167,462 points. "The Mayor" @greenween had a tremendous showing, and was right on Sabertooth's toes just a few thousand points behind, posting his final score of 161,516 points to claim 3rd Place in our Final Standings. "The Don" @RickR fought hard and posted a highly respectable score of 158,046 to take 4th, and YouTube sensation @nosweargamer rounds things out with 61,823 points taking the 5th Place title. As always I'd like to encourage @Marco1019 to post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations again to the incredible @Marco1019 and a huge congratulations to all who joined us for a great Crystal Castles Squad Challenge. I hope everybody had fun!
NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge is the 2022 Pole Position II Grand Prix on Atari 7800. Be there!
 
 

 
 

 

I spent a bit of time on the 2600 version, not so much the Arcade version. I have it on PS2 Atari collection. Should be a fun one. 🙂

Tomorrow is my Friday and I have 3 days off! I'll be getting in on this for sure.

Playing on the PS4 with Atari Flashback Vol. 2  161,516

Looking forward to some arcade competition Justin!

Playing on the PS4 with Atari Flashback Vol. 2  161,516

I just caught the initials here GW! 🤣🤣🤣

Playing on the PS4 with Atari Flashback Vol. 2  161,516

Playing on the PS4 with Atari Flashback Vol. 2  161,516

Tomorrow is my Friday and I have 3 days off! I'll be getting in on this for sure.

Tomorrow is my Friday and I have 3 days off! I'll be getting in on this for sure.

I spent a bit of time on the 2600 version, not so much the Arcade version. I have it on PS2 Atari collection. Should be a fun one. 🙂

I might give this a go if I get the time since I really like this game but I never was very good at it so I doubt I will get anywhere near that 540k.

Wow.  I made it on time after all?  I hadn't played this game much since I bought it about a decade ago.  I put it in, made sure it worked, played a few rounds, back on shelf it went.  
Amazing scores by all!  This was a fun challenge. I'm only sorry I didn't get to join in on the last few challenges. Wasn't feeling well and when I got free time I took advantage by sleeping away my illness.  Any time I can join in on a challenge that I can use real hardware on I'm all for it.

Great job Atari 5200 Guy!! Sooo close!. This one was a lot of fun. I haven't spent any time on this game in 35 years. Gonna keep trying just for my own pride. LOL

Looking forward to some arcade competition Justin!

Great job Atari 5200 Guy!! Sooo close!. This one was a lot of fun. I haven't spent any time on this game in 35 years. Gonna keep trying just for my own pride. LOL

Great job Atari 5200 Guy!! Sooo close!. This one was a lot of fun. I haven't spent any time on this game in 35 years. Gonna keep trying just for my own pride. LOL

Great job Atari 5200 Guy!! Sooo close!. This one was a lot of fun. I haven't spent any time on this game in 35 years. Gonna keep trying just for my own pride. LOL

Congratulations Atari 5200 Guy!
 
Congratulations to the relentless @Atari 5200 Guy on become our new Activision Barnstorming Squad Champion! This was an incredible win for Atari 5200 Guy, and absolutely stellar scores shared by all! Barnstorming is an absolute Activision classic, and I hope you enjoyed playing it in this challenge. @Atari 5200 Guy takes 1st Place in our Final Standings having scored a time of 0:54:05, coming within five one-hundredths of a second of achieving that Activision Patch-worthy score! UGH, SO CLOSE!! If Atari 5200 Guy only had a little more time! I created a special badge image to be awarded just for this challenge and unfortunately it won't get to be used.... yet?! Let's hope we can run this game again in the future and award another Patchworthy score! Atari VCS prodigy @Sabertooth was hot on Atari 5200 Guy's tail, taking 2nd Place in our Final Standings with an excellent time of 0:54.95. "The Mayor" @greenween is back once again, joining us to take 3rd Place in our Final Standings with a time of 0:55.27. 4th Place goes to High Score Squad legend @nosweargamer with an excellent time of 0:55.35. "The Don" @RickR achieved a terrific time of 0:56.41 taking 5th Place, and @Dinobot711 joins us again with a time of 0:57.47, taking 6th Place. @Gianna gave it her all and rounds things out for us on the Final Standings with her respectable time of 1:05.86 to take 7th. As always I'd like to encourage @Atari 5200 Guy to post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations again to the incredible @Atari 5200 Guy, and a huge shoutout to all of the fantastic flying aces who joined us for a great Activision Squad Challenge. I hope everybody had fun!
NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge is a classic Arcade game that we'll play on MAME. Be there!
 
 

 
 

 

Getting close.

AAARRRGGHHHH!!!  Almost.

My last attempt. :55.27. 🙂