[Brand New! Head-2-Head Adventure online!]

The game is back up. I just tried it out. It almost feels like Adventure was made for this!

[Squad Challenge - Night Stalker (Intellivision)]

17,900.

Hope I wasn't sounding too negative... I am enjoying the game, I'm just not used to the controllers and how they function. I tried the two-controller method and it worked pretty well at first, but my controllers aren't in the best condition, and  i eventually found the odds that my guy would move and shoot erratically increased a lot. I went back to using one controller for this score.

[Squad Challenge - Night Stalker (Intellivision)]

16,200, using my Intellivision II. The controls really do leave a lot to be desired. My strategy is it shoot exclusively bats until just before I get 5,000, then I switch to only destroying the shooting enemy and the spider.

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

182,900. I know I'm getting better, but I still haven't been able this score of mine from a few days ago.

I was watching a video of the arcade game,  and I actually prefer the rendition of the music in the TG16 version! Only small weakness as a port is a bit of flicker in a few places.  Also, a high score table would have been nice. And maybe a difficulty select? Because it occurs to me--WHY IS THIS GAME SO HARD, MAKE IT STOP 😭

 

 

Fun though.  

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

On 4/24/2019 at 6:31 AM, RickR said:

I need help getting by the first boss.  Is it a matter of shooting him right in the center?  Does it require super-charged shots? 

 

I have indeed been using the super-charged shots here. If I time it correctly to hit when the mouth is open, it only takes two shots.

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

When I used to see the 4th stage (with all the pellets) in the arcade demo, it always reminded me of this Metroid II commercial:

 

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

132,300

That third level... I've only gotten past it once. That was by managing to keep my diagonal lasers from the previous level.

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

Can we submit a score that was achieved after the use of a continue, or is the intention that we start from the beginning each time?

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

103,100. Got to the third level this time!

Fun game, but it's so painful to lose all your amazing power-ups after losing a single life. Reminds me of the several days I spent with Abadox for NES. I managed to finish that one,  but only because of the unlimited continues.

[New (to me) Car]

1 hour ago, RickR said:

Hey look, I just got a new (to me) car too!  I'm very excited.  It's a 2013 Nissan Leaf.  Should be a fine car to get to and from work on a daily basis.

 

My dad bought a Leaf a few years ago and loves it. He installed a level 2 charger at his house to charge it more quickly.  I've driven it a little, and it is pretty great.  He always drives it in economy mode to get the most miles out of a charge. There's apparently a setting to just charge up the batteries to 80% so they last longer, which my dad normally uses.

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

They used to have this game at the roller skating rink in the town where I grew up, along with Snow Bros., Afterburner II, and Gauntlet. I only played it a couple times, though. I realized how quickly this game would eat up your quarters!

EDIT: Oh yeah,  they had Ms. Pac-man too. 

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

Ok, I found a method that works OK with the emulator I'm using (Ootake). When I lose my last ship, I quickly click on the emulator window, and that pauses everything (the run button only lets me pause at times when I can control the ship).

73,800

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

5 minutes ago, atarilbc said:

This happened to me.  I die (quickly) and then it plays a jingle and asks whether I want to continue.  I had no time to grab my phone and take a shot.  I'm playing via Mednafen.

I guess what I can do, aside from recording a video, is just pause the game when I have a satisfactorily high enough score and take a picture, then, if I get much farther, take another.

[Squad Challenge - R-TYPE (TurboGrafx-16)]

Is there a way to see my high score? I think I got 71,700, but as soon as I lost my last ship, I couldn't see my score anymore.

 

[Squad Challenge - Tax Avoiders (Atari 2600) Tax Day Challenge 2019 TODAY ONLY!]

$704,000

Long time since I played this one. I forgot most of the rules. Hardest part is telling pink from green. (Did I ever mention I'm color blind?)

[Squad Challenge - Pac-Man 8K Homebrew (Atari 2600)]

47,560. Blinky is really out for blood in this one. Amazing port!

[What Was Your Favorite Version Of Pac-Man Growing Up?]

Another Pac-Man-type game I used to play on Apple II was Jawbreaker. (Though I think I enjoyed Snack Attack more because it wasn't as hard, had multiple mazes [as far as I know, Jawbreaker only had one], and the characters had more personality.) The Atari 2600 version is quite different.

 

[What Was Your Favorite Version Of Pac-Man Growing Up?]

As a kid, I used to play (or watch my mom play) a clone of Pac-Man for Apple II called "Snack Attack". The version we had was a bit different from the video below. Ours was probably cracked and only had 2 mazes, and I think the character graphics may have been changed to look more like the actual Pac-Man.

 

[Squad Challenge - Buggy Boy (Atari ST)]

Improved my score a little more! 88,680.

I discovered a trick: if you gather flags while they are flashing, they add up to your next sequence of flags no matter what color they are. I've added up four flags in a row this way before the flashing ended. In theory,  you could really add up points this way.

[Squad Challenge - Buggy Boy (Atari ST)]

Here is my latest score. 84,820. I just barely edged past kamakazi20012.

[Squad Challenge - Buggy Boy (Atari ST)]

You can download the newest version of Hatari here:

https://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/2.2.1/

When you open Hatari, it will run without a floppy disk image present. Press F12 to open the Hatari main menu and click "floppy disks". To the right of Drive A, click "browse" and find the Buggy Boy disk image file. Go back to the main menu, select "reset machine", and click OK. The emulated ST will reset and after a few seconds Buggy Boy will finish loading up. Hatari disables joysticks by default, but you can enable them in the main menu (F12) under "Joysticks". For Buggy Boy, you'll want to select Jostick 0, so click the left arrow and switch "disabled" to either "use keyboard" or "use joystick". I'm using keyboard, myself. The default key assignments are the arrow keys for directions and right ctrl for fire, but you can redefine them if you want. Keep in mind you will lose all these settings when you close Hatari unless you save the configuration from the main menu.

[Squad Challenge - Buggy Boy (Atari ST)]

Got it running on an emulator (Hatari). There were one or two small annoyances. I can give the details of how I did it in a little while, in case anyone has trouble.

My score was 66,440. Neat game!

[Rocket League]

I bit the bullet and bought the game on Steam yesterday. I set the graphics settings to the lowest and it runs pretty smoothly.  It's pretty fun, though I'm still getting used to the controls. (The game doesn't like my old USB controller, so I'm using keyboard.) I actually started scoring a few goals today though!

[Rocket League]

Maybe I should give this game a try. It sounds like the system requirements aren't too high. (I really need a new video card.)

[Squad Challenge - Super Mario Land (Game Boy)]

Score: 198,500

Had to give it another try... Princess Daisy's not going to save herself, you know. (Though why doesn't she? That jet is sitting right there.)