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Congratulations Scott Stilphen!
 
Congratulations @Scott Stilphen! Your Mario Bros. score took top placement in our Final Standings! I hope everybody enjoyed experiencing Mario Bros. on the Atari 2600. This version of the game plays slightly different from other versions mostly due to the 2600's limitations, but I think the game looks really good and is fun to play once you work out the different dynamic if you're used to the other versions. Racking up points can become a bit of a puzzle to put all of the pieces together to make your strategy work, and I think that's a lot of fun.
This is a second win in a row for Scott, congratulations to Scott for taking the top spot at the very end with a 1st Place score of 1,002,400 points! I took 2nd with 1,000,200 points, and @atarilbc had consistently good showings in this challenge and ended up placing 3rd with 986,200 points. @RickR, @greenween, @kamakazi20012, @Gianna, @Atari Creep, @RadioPoultry and @TrekMD all had great showings, and in general most all of our scores really improved from what they had been at the beginning of the challenge. Congratulations to everybody on an exciting run, and to everyone who joined in this Squad Challenge and shared a score! I'd like to encourage Scitt to post his new high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on!
NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be an Atari 7800 challenge. Be there!
 
 

 
 

 
 

Here  is my score 🙂 223,400

I was a big fan of The Grateful Dead when I was younger so I traveled a lot between '89-'95. So pretty much the entire south east and up to NY. Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin. Finally went to Colorado in 95 and have called it home ever since. Did move back to NC for a few years, but Colorado was calling. I hope to end up in Oregon or Washington in the next few years. 🙂

I was a big fan of The Grateful Dead when I was younger so I traveled a lot between '89-'95. So pretty much the entire south east and up to NY. Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin. Finally went to Colorado in 95 and have called it home ever since. Did move back to NC for a few years, but Colorado was calling. I hope to end up in Oregon or Washington in the next few years. 🙂

Aha!  655,900.  I'm with Greenween on this -- it got boring so I died on purpose. 
 

The @TrekMD theme song:
 
 

Hi everyone 🙂
Does anyone enjoy traveling? If so, where have you been? What's your favorite place to visit?
I have been to various different states, and have been to the Bahamas. I enjoy going to Nashville and taking road trips to Illinois (where I'm from) and love going to different museums in Chicago. I haven't been anywhere too exciting besides typical tourist spots (like Key West). I think it would be nice to visit Hawaii sometime!

Okay, I figured it out! Very broken game and I felt I could keep going forever. I also didn't realize you wouldn't drop into play after a few seconds like the arcade version.  478,800.

Okay, I figured it out! Very broken game and I felt I could keep going forever. I also didn't realize you wouldn't drop into play after a few seconds like the arcade version.  478,800.

Okay, I figured it out! Very broken game and I felt I could keep going forever. I also didn't realize you wouldn't drop into play after a few seconds like the arcade version.  478,800.

986,200 at level 11.  I was pretty close but a little too worried about capturing the rollover. 
 

Hey everyone. I just rolled the score past 1,000,000 points. A video is provided below showing the score roll over. It's a few seconds long, but you can see the score roll and it's the best I could do playing the game with one hand and holding my cellphone in the other, trying to capture the score roll over. I've also put up a picture I took of my game at 925,800 points while I was still playing.
Yes, I'm getting Slipice. No, he is not unlimited. He runs out after a while, so you can't go on forever collecting infinity Slipice. Fireballs still kill you, enemies still eat you alive, you're still going to make mistakes and die and the game is still relentless and you still have to be good to get a good score. There are other things going on at the same time that are like different ingredients baked into the "cake" that has become my strategy.
I'm going to stick with this score for now. You'll see in the video I had more than six lives built up and I could've kept playing another 30 mins, but I turned the game off after I captured the score rolling over. I feel like I've played enough for tonight and I still have things I need to wrap up before bed. I'd also rather have one of you beat this score. It can be done and I know all of you guys have the skill to put all of the puzzle pieces together.
High Score: 1,000,200
 
 
 
 
 

@atarilbc and @Justin….share your secrets!  :) 
 

107,200.  I'm done for today...my wrist is killing me.
 

Son of a diddly!  Too close.  97,800
 

I've moved around so many times there's a lot of boxes in the garage that haven't been touched since I moved into this house 5 years ago. While going through one of them I came across this Game Boy I didn't even remember having. It was in a black velcro case with a few cords, a few instruction manuals inside including Wheel of Fortune, an NBA game, and a couple other sports games. My grandparents, who have since passed, loved going to garage sales which is where the Game Boy came from. It doesn't seem to work any longer but it's still cool to have. Got it to work, it just needed a little help  🙂

89,400.  I'm going to aim for breaking 100k.
 

The scores in the one are insane!!! man, I am not sure if its encouraging or discouraging! LOL 
 
Just playing. Man you folks are great. Keep em coming.

Yep, it's like, WTF?!  You have no time to react!

365,300. 
 

High Score: 375,800

210,300. 
Something @Atari Creep said is in video resonated with me and I had an "aha moment."

I especially like when it spawns RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR FACE at the start of the level. 

That fireball gets ruthless! LOL

118,100