Justin Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 Go Fish! Atari 2600 Video Computer System Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Default Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST March 31st, 2020 Objective Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between March 15th through March 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 Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback 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 Default 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 75th Squad Challenge! We're keeping it nice and relaxing as we get back into the swing of things for a new season of High Score Squad with Go Fish on Atari 2600! Go Fish! is a 2005 homebrew game from Bob & Tommy Montgomery loosely based on the Intellivision game Shark! Shark! From the description on AA: "you are a wee fish and to survive you must eat other, smaller fish to grow. But watch out for the shark, as he's also on the hunt for food and you could be his next meal! Go Fish! features extensive, continuously-playing music (with an option to turn it off for those who'd rather do their fishing in quiet), as well as a two-player battle mode." NOTE: Upcoming Squad Challenges will be simple and straightforward until the site issues are completely resolved. We'll dive deeper with some fun Squad Challenges this summer. Thanks for playing, and enjoy! GoFish.bin RickR and RadioPoultry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas10e Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 273 I do happen to have the cart & manual game-play: "eat or be eaten" eat fish your size or smaller .... your fish will grow @ 5; 19; 55 & 132 on novice setting avoid jellyfish , electric eels & sharks I am going with this image thinking I had more than one life, hitting the button after death starts a new screen (new score) Justin and RadioPoultry 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 I just gave it a go but I'm out of practice. I'm going to play some more before I post a score. Justin 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioPoultry Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Score 937 I like the inertia when you move around, and how the music changes if you get far enough. Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Here's my first score. I'll play some more before the deadline to see if I can do better. Justin and RadioPoultry 2 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 2 hours ago, TrekMD said: Here's my first score. I'll play some more before the deadline to see if I can do better. Good luck! TrekMD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas10e Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 831 wow a shark came outta nowhere while I was trapped between 2 long fishes ... I was a pretty tasty treat for him I have been starting with the difficulty on "B" or beginner as a tiny fish .... I dunno what Default is on Stella but curious to know RadioPoultry and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 FYI Intellivision is releasing a modern variant of Shark! Shark! for the Amico, I saw it earlier this week in Intellivision's new gameplay trailer which @Atari Creep covered here: chas10e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 I just played some more and got a much better score. Justin, RadioPoultry and chas10e 2 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioPoultry Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 On 3/18/2020 at 2:29 PM, chas10e said: 831 wow a shark came outta nowhere while I was trapped between 2 long fishes ... I was a pretty tasty treat for him I have been starting with the difficulty on "B" or beginner as a tiny fish .... I dunno what Default is on Stella but curious to know To answer your question, it seems to be set to beginner by default. I definitely started as the tiniest fish. chas10e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 1368 is my score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) How do we turn off the music? Use the B/W switch to turn off the music! Edited March 22, 2020 by RickR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 24 minutes ago, RickR said: Use the B/W switch to turn off the music! THANK YOU!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 The higher score I got, I got with the sound completely off! LOL I've tried again, with the music on and can't do it. 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 19 minutes ago, TrekMD said: The higher score I got, I got with the sound completely off! LOL I've tried again, with the music on and can't do it. lol that's wild! Interesting psychology in gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas10e Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 On 3/21/2020 at 9:38 PM, RickR said: 1368 is my score. where did all them extra zero's come from ? ( I hope ya' don't need 'em :P ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 The file that Justin posted in the original post does not work on my Harmony cart. But I found three versions of the same game already on my harmony. They are shown below. I chose the "extended" version, which I assume is newest based on the timestamp. Should we disqualify my score? I can use the Justin bin file on Stella instead. Which file are you all using? The Justin version only shows 2 downloads. Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 I think I downloaded the version here. With all the craziness, I can't remember! LOL 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 23 minutes ago, RickR said: The file that Justin posted in the original post does not work on my Harmony cart. But I found three versions of the same game already on my harmony. They are shown below. I chose the "extended" version, which I assume is newest based on the timestamp. Should we disqualify my score? I can use the Justin bin file on Stella instead. Which file are you all using? The Justin version only shows 2 downloads. I didn't realize that version wouldn't work with the Harmony cart. Let's do what we need to do to keep you in the game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 I just figured out why. Firefox won't download it! It thinks the file is infected (probably since the site is marked as infected). So I had a zero byte file. I've downloaded it using Chrome and am playing on Stella now. No worries, I don't mind removing my other score. I'll post another soon. Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 1600 with the version in the first post. Sorry for causing any confusion. Justin and TrekMD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 43 minutes ago, RickR said: I just figured out why. Firefox won't download it! It thinks the file is infected (probably since the site is marked as infected). So I had a zero byte file. I've downloaded it using Chrome and am playing on Stella now. No worries, I don't mind removing my other score. I'll post another soon. Not a problem! Glad to have you playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioPoultry Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 I downloaded the version I used from AtariAge because I was having trouble getting the ROM file as well. I didn't really think about there being different versions. Hopefully mine is the same, but I can try getting the file from here again some other way. Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioPoultry Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 Anyways, here's the last score I got with my copy from AtariAge: 1488 RickR and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, RadioPoultry said: I downloaded the version I used from AtariAge because I was having trouble getting the ROM file as well. I didn't really think about there being different versions. Hopefully mine is the same, but I can try getting the file from here again some other way. It's the same file as the one that would be downloaded on AA from the Go Fish! page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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