Justin Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Space Invaders Atari 2600 Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Game 4, Difficulty B Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST June 23rd, 2019 OBJECTIVE: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between June 21st through June 23rd, 2019. Screen captures are not allowed as they are 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: Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following rules and game settings as delineated in the Squad Challenge. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Game 4, Difficulty B. This game setting provides for a Smaller Cannon, Moving Shields and Zigzagging Laser Bombs. FAIR PLAY: 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 no use of cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, Photoshop, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage is allowed. Everybody hates a cheater. MORE: To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: https://forums.atari.io/topic/1219-high-score-squad-how-to-play/ MESSAGE: Welcome to our 1st Annual Atari I/O Summer Pizza Party! 🍕🍺🕹️ To celebrate Summer we're playing some of the pillar games on our favorite game systems, all weekend long! It's okay if you don't set a new world record, we're just having fun together and sharing scores. You can pick and choose which Squad Challenges to participate in this weekend, you can partake in one and leave the rest, or participate in all of them! ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing! NOTE: Our regularly scheduled High Score Squad Challenge schedule will resume on July 1st with a game for Super Nintendo. Be there! Space Invaders.binSpace Invaders.pdf greenween 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 PIZZA PARTY!! Space Invaders are hungry! No wonder they keep trying to land. They want pizza! Justin and Atari Creep 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 5025. I'm playing on this bad boy 2600jr, which is new to me. Dang I love this game. You picked a good one. Those zig-zag bombs are dastardly! Atari Creep, Sabertooth, Justin and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) I can’t get past the first level. I’m having a difficult time with accuracy. I’ll miss & not being able to fire again until my first shot clears the board is killing me. 😔😔 (Playing on an original 4 switch) Edited June 21, 2019 by StormSurge Justin, mmaxfit, RickR and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Cool, cool! Atari Creep and Justin 1 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Hi! Long time no see! 😉 Atari Creep, StormSurge, RickR and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 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!) RickR, Justin, Atari Creep and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 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. Sabertooth, StormSurge, Justin and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Oh and check to make sure your difficulty switch is on "B". That wide ship on your pizza pic indicates it's on "A". Control Issues, Atari Creep and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 9 minutes ago, RickR said: 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 RickR, Justin and Atari Creep 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 I wonder if my difficulty switch is busted? The ship seems fat to me. 1430. Atari Creep, greenween and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Yep... you got it on A... Sabertooth and Atari Creep 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Too much pizza. Atari Creep and Control Issues 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 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. Control Issues, Justin, RickR and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 I apologize for the snowy picture. It's not my 2600's fault. My laptop interferes with my 2600 when I'm using it. I close the lid to shut it down when playing so the picture is better. It and the laptop share a circuit as there is no other place to plug in the 2600's adapter at the moment. But here's my first attempt. 5,555 points. Playing the game on real hardware with a 7800 Europad. Makes a difference. I prefer the joystick controllers but all of mine need rebuilt...again. Poor dome contacts again. The Europad is nice but there are just some games that feel better with the original joysticks. Sabertooth, Justin, RickR and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Improved my score a bit. 5,640. Stupid fuzz. GO AWAY! Sabertooth, Justin and RickR 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 9095 I think I could have gone longer, but I got distracted by the thought of what to do if the score rolls? Are we on the honor system? I've never filmed a video before for a game, but maybe that's the answer. greenween, StormSurge, Justin and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas10e Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 1,765 BITD I always played level 1 I think now because the selector switch on my unit was snapped off & I had to use a butter knife. great squad challenge will definatly play some more of this with wiggly bombs & sheilds 2 hours ago, kamakazi20012 said: Improved my score a bit. 5,640. Stupid fuzz. GO AWAY! space invaders in space with a star-field .... looks pretty cool IMO RickR, greenween, Justin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 11 hours ago, RickR said: Too much pizza. My thoughts exactly. Justin 1 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted June 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 3 hours ago, RickR said: I think I could have gone longer, but I got distracted by the thought of what to do if the score rolls? Are we on the honor system? I've never filmed a video before for a game, but maybe that's the answer. Honor system is fine! Uploading a video to YouTube is a cool idea! We're just having fun and I thought the difficulty settings would have been enough that we wouldn't surpass 10,000 points. greenween 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 OK, just a quick game but here is my score! StormSurge, Justin, Sabertooth and 2 others 5 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 3,350 on the 7800 with a 2600 joystick. RickR, Justin and StormSurge 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 Such an amazing game with the different variations. I just bought Spiderman for PS4 but almost 40 years later I'm still playing Space Invaders instead. LOL RickR, Justin and StormSurge 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 1510 <------ 🤨 Justin, StormSurge and RickR 3 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRay Defender Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 One of the greatest games ever, in my top 5. Justin, Atari Creep, RickR and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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