Sabertooth Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 (edited) Yoomp! ATARI VCS/ATARI 8-BIT/ATARI 400 MINI Controller: MODERN CONTROLLER / CLASSIC CONTROLLER / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Normal/Level 1 Start Play on: Real Hardware/Emulation is OK ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST APRIL 30, 2024 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 April 1 through April 30, 2024. 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 This is a Club VCS Exclusive Challenge. All Club VCS players are welcome! Play Rules This is a special cross-platform challenge. Games may be played on real hardware or using emulation. 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 We are playing YOOMP for the Atari 8-bit computers! Start the game at Level 1 and play until game over for the highest score possible! 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 26th Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge!!! For this challenge, we're celebrating the release of the ATARI 400 MINI by playing the Atari 8-bit game YOOMP! Play on the VCS via Atari 50, on real Atari 8-bit hardware, on the 400 MINI, or using your A8 emulator of choice! Yoomp! is the winner of the 2007 ABBUC software competition. Like a combination of Trailblazer and an often-seen demoscene effect, you fall down a tube, landing on each square progressively in a rhythmic manner. Landing on certain tiles will have certain effects, such as making the screen quake, decreasing the brightness or forcing you to jump. Navigating the tube itself is a matter of planning ahead and compensating for your limited movement capabilities. This game is freeware and can be downloaded on the Yoomp website. Start at LEVEL ONE and take the game as far as you can for the high score! Club VCS Recharged Squad Contest This game is the fourth title in our fifth Club VCS contest giveaway! Prize details will be announced shortly. This time we're going a full 12 rounds with the winner announced in January 2025! 1) All challenge participants will receive one (1) entry for each challenge in which they submit a valid score! 2) The top scorer of each challenge will receive two (2) additional entries - for a total of three (3) entries in a single challenge! 3) On Twitch or Youtube? Stream or record and post your ClubVCS high score attempt for one (1) additional entry in each round. You must post a public link to the video in the Challenge. This contest is open to everybody, including Atari I/O Moderators, with a U.S. or Canada mailing address. It's really easy, all you have to do is participate be a Club VCS member and participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges. Edited April 2 by Sabertooth DegasElite, RickR, Justin and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 2 Author Report Share Posted April 2 Let's get the word out about this Recharged Squad Challenge! The more people participating the more fun the challenge! Spread the word and invite friends to play! Justin, DegasElite, socrates63 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates63 Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 738 🥇 FIRST place!! for now 😂 DegasElite, Marco1019, RickR and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 lol way to go @socrates63 I'm rooting for you! socrates63, DegasElite and Sabertooth 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 I am trying to decide whether to play on Atari 50 on VCS or load the ATR file on real hardware. There's only one right answer for me....BOTH! I'll let you know which one I like better. 🙂 Also going to see if Pengo is already loaded on my modded PS1 Classic. Scores will be posted soon.... socrates63, Sabertooth, Justin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockduck Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 First attempt after a few practice runs to get used to the game: 2817. Game is hard. Wow, those graphics are...not great. 🙂 I will submit a better score and screenshot soon. Justin, socrates63, RickR and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockduck Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 Ok: 3183 Marco1019, Sabertooth, RickR and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted April 13 Report Share Posted April 13 811. This is an awesome game. Playing on VCS Atari 50 Marco1019, Sabertooth and socrates63 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 15 Author Report Share Posted April 15 4,042 on the 400 MINI with a CXSTICK. socrates63 and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 15 Author Report Share Posted April 15 One of the things I appreciate about the game is that you can access up to your last unlocked level to figure out problem points before making your next high score run. Level 5 was really giving me a hard time at first. Now it's Level 7. Justin, RickR and socrates63 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 15 Author Report Share Posted April 15 Also, ICYMI, the Series V Giveaway announcement posted earlier today. Since this is a 12 month challenge, I wanted to do something special. RickR, Justin and socrates63 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 15 Author Report Share Posted April 15 4527. A slight improvement. I am still hung up on Level 7. I find the graphics to be a bit less garish with the background off and the CRT filters on. RickR, socrates63 and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 15 Author Report Share Posted April 15 Does anyone else hear "Yoomp! There it is!" in the style of "Whoomp..." when playing this? Or is that a me thing?! Justin and socrates63 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.joe Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 On 4/15/2024 at 1:13 PM, Sabertooth said: Does anyone else hear "Yoomp! There it is!" in the style of "Whoomp..." when playing this? Or is that a me thing?! Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.joe Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.joe Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Back in the game! Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.joe Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 This is on antstream! Xbox controller Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.joe Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted April 17 Author Report Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, D.joe said: Back in the game! Welcome back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 (edited) 1044. I'm playing on real hardware this time, and I like this better. I need to spend more time with this game! Edited April 27 by RickR Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockduck Posted May 1 Report Share Posted May 1 Final best score is 3411 Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted May 2 Author Report Share Posted May 2 (edited) Congratulations D.JOE! Congratulations @D.joe! He takes the win in our Yoomp! Recharged Squad Challenge! D.joe made a triumphant return to the scoreboard, placing first with 6,443! @Sabertooth bounded his way to second with 4,527. @Mockduck takes the bronze with 3,411. @RickR showed us how to Yoomp on real hardware with 1,044. Finally, our early leader @socrates63 rounds out this month's challenge with 738. As the winner of this round @D.joe will receive three entries! @Mockduck receives one entry, plus a bonus entry for sharing his attempt on YouTube! That's two (2) entries total! Everyone else will receive one entry! I'd like to encourage @D.joe to post this high score on the Scoreboard so we can make sure this Challenge continues on! I hope you all enjoyed this cross-platform challenge to celebrate the release of the 400 MINI. Whether you played on the 400 MINI, VCS, real hardware, or platform of your choosing, we hope you had had fun with Yoomp! Yoomp, there it is! NOTE: Series Five of the Recharged Squad Challenge continues with a modern arcade throwback from one of our favorite devs! Be There! Edited May 2 by Sabertooth RickR and socrates63 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates63 Posted May 6 Report Share Posted May 6 Early leader -- I like the sound of that 😆 Congrats, all! Sabertooth and RickR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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